Maya's POV:

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Thankfully, nothing happened the following day. Then Harry, who was gone for two days, suddenly turned up near the palace again. He looked ghastly pale and haggard. Rumors in the palace had that Sylvia would use Joanna as a scapegoat.

This would ultimately put Harry and Sylvia's friendship at stake.

I told the guards to keep an eye on Harry and not let him in.

Meanwhile, Sylvia spent the entire day in her room. Even though she wasn't particularly hungry, she gobbled up a bunch of chicken wings. She ate them while watching a movie and soon the bones had already filled a small bucket. Compared with yesterday's restlessness, Sylvia was in better spirits today.

Rufus must have comforted her last night.

went for a walk to clear my head and settle my stomach. Like always, I took the path from the secret prison

very remote, and behind it was a forest. Unless some prisoners were being secretly escorted to somewhere else, relatively few people

was time for Sylvia to drink her milk. So I hastily returned to the palace and brought a glass of milk to her

was wearing a loose-fitting white nightgown that accentuated

set the milk down, and said softly, "Miss Todd, if

and yawned. "Okay. Put the milk here and I'll drink later. Rufus will not be home until very late tonight. He has something important to deal with. You don't have to wait up. Go and have

Todd," I replied

hearing Sylvia said that Rufus had something important to deal with tonight, I figured

the same path quietly and discovered two prisoners being held in the car outside the secret prison's entrance by Rufus' private guards. The heads of the two prisoners were covered in hoods and their

and followed them. This group of private soldiers managed to sneak the detainees out of the

very remote place. Both prisoners' mouths were gaged, and they whimpered in

large tree nearby, waiting for my

if they knew their

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