After Ivy shared her suspicions of how she would soon be detained, she began to explain the reasons for her claim.
"I know I don't have any proof for saying this, but I just feel it's too much of a coincidence for the missing Princess to suddenly reappear and wounded at the same time during my meeting with Sophia.
If my reasoning is correct, I think Princess Minty must have told the King about my daily meetings, and if he uses that as an opportunity to frame me as her murderer, with or without the treaty, he will have legal rights to own me as his prisoner, and in the end, I might even be ex—"
She paused.
The moment she realizes that she was about to say that word, she suddenly felt as if the clouds of horror were slowly crawling behind her.
So she gulped that word back into her throat, for she fears if she says that word out loud right now, the nightmare that has been haunting her all these years might come true at the end of this chapter.