Juliette briefly bit her lip and glared in displeasure when Sanguine had the nerve to describe the queen as “duplicitous” in public. Granted, Juli did not like or particularly trust Lyssa—but the idea that some mercenary had the nerve to say such a thing in the middle of an official function was unacceptable. Hopefully, word of it would get back to the queen from one of the many nobles who had heard him. Juli would not report it herself, however—her disapproval would probably cause the queen to disagree out of pure spite.<em>Maybe that’s paranoid. Then again, maybe it isn’t.</em>Juli still could hardly believe that the queen had chewed her out for something so common sense as restraining a damn assassin before bringing him to the throne room.<br/><br/>The princess had had more than enough talk of politics today, and was certainly not interested in Sanguine trying to weasel more money out of Prince Henrik.<em>Give him a single piece of copper or a hundred pounds of gold—there’s no reason to think he’ll stay bought either way.</em>Of course, Henrik had not heard San’s bargaining with the queen in the throne room and probably did not know better. Regardless, Juli was content to nod in agreement to Olivia's words about the peace summit but otherwise remain silent and observe.