Chapter 120

Mark and Christine kept emptying their glasses as though it were some kind of contest.

Adele watched them anxiously, afraid something might happen at any moment, when Zimmer came over to her.

"We've prepared a room. Please go up with the children and rest. Once the drinking is over, we'll come to fetch you."

"They already look like they've had far too much. Could you stop them, please?"

Adele asked, but Zimmer only answered in a businesslike tone.

"How could I presume to interrupt His Majesty's amusement?"

With that, Adele and the others found themselves all but herded out of the small banquet hall. Even Viscount Bonita, who had passed out drunk, was carried out on a servant's back.

Only Christine and Mark remained inside.

Adele glanced back at them, worried, and beside her Mia murmured the same thing.

"Will they be all right?"

"They'll be fine."

That was all…