“Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian.""You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa?”

“Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—"Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?"Kirova: "Guardian Belikov is the Princess Lissa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian."Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?”

“He shrugged. "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—”"Wild and disrespectful?" I interrupted. "Who the hell are you anyway? Outsourced help?”"Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova. "Her sanctioned guardian.”"You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?”

“Lissa's guardians- she had a fleet now- walked with her. I was among them, wearing my finest black and white, including the red collar marking me as a royal guardian.”

“You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?”

“The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.”