"Net! Ostanovit' yeye!"
"Kto ona...poluchit' yeye! Kto to poluchit' yeye!"
Someone grabbed my arm and yanked me to the ground. Guards and officers rushed past me to the Czar, and over everything I could hear Matthias's muffled cry.
"Adelia! Adelia!"
He ran towrads me, but the officers held him back.
"Adelia! Why didn't you tell me! Adelia!"
I felt my world crumbling. The secret I had kept for so long, the secret I had nearly forgotten myself, was out. Yes, I was the heir to the throne. Yes, I was Adelia Yakovlev, the Czar's missing daughter.
"Tikho! Let her speak!"
The room silenced and I came, once again, face to face with my father.
"I will crush you. I will destroy the throne."
