Sylvia's POV:

The look on Harry's countenance spawned what might have been a chortle from my throat. How amusing! It seemed as though blood was drained from his face, leaving only a soft trail of paleness. "I assure you, Harry. Your eyes aren't deceiving you; I'm real."

My voice seemed to pull his senses back on ground. With haste and reluctance struggling whichever would surface, he rushed to me and eyed me carefully. He exclaimed, "Sylvia! I can't believe you're alive! But-well, this is good news!" "Why do I hear a hint of disappointment from your tone that I didn't die?" I narrowed my eyes at him as I teased to lighten up the atmosphere. The bewilderment was momentarily lost as Harry rolled his eyes in return. "Who said anything about me wanting you to die? If any, it was you who scared me to death!"

Only then did I closely see how swollen his eyes were. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought that his eyes were stung by bees. I mused, "I remember how your eyes give you away whenever you cry buckets of tears."

Harry lifted his hands to hide his eyes from my view and tried to defend himself, "Who cried? My eyes are like this because I slept in!"

A chuckle broke out of Joanna's lips as she snitched on Harry. She was not at all trying to be subtle about it either. "He sure took his time in prison crying his heart out. I couldn't even do anything to make him stop." She shrugged her shoulders." Well, I tried." Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FindNøvᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

painted his embarrassed face with a tinge of scarlet. He averted his gaze

and I stole a glance at each other and laughed at Harry's

days in school. Tears began to dampen my eyes as a ghost of a smile forcefully lifted my lips. We couldn't go back to that

apology to Harry in a

of it, it seems something's bothering you. You and the queen must have orchestrated the events that unfolded. If my guess is right, it has something to do with Prince Rufus in a coma. Otherwise, you wouldn't have chosen to ruin your life if you're left with many other choices. Your goal is to leave the capital city, so that everyone would condemn

me by his impressive

just wanted to leave and exit from their lives with them thinking that it was all my faul as their last memory of me. But when I saw how Harry and Joanna believed me and defended me without hesitation, I couldn't stop guilt from devouring

his point, Sylvia. If you're having a hard time, just tell us and we can figure it

before I decided that they had to know everything, including the black thorns. I told them what I

deafened our ears the moment the last word escaped my lips. None of us knew what to say, as if we were feeling each other out. Both Harry and Joanna had their eyebrows furrowed, looking lost in their trains of

to worry about in the future. I can rest assured and leave now and

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