GDC 104

Inside, I was screaming, but I forced myself to smile calmly.

“Not yet.”

“I see.”

Perel might look absentminded sometimes, but he was very sharp.

And now Janet—who used to be my maid—was trying to play the spy by seducing my husband’s aide. Nothing could be more shameful.

‘I’ll cut off any chance she has before she does something even more ridiculous.’

I was pouring more tea for Raphael, thinking quickly, when—

Of course, timing was everything.

Perel was hurrying toward us.

“Sir Perel!”

Janet’s face lit up as she called, but he walked right past her and came straight to me.

“Your Highness, there’s trouble,” he whispered.

“What?”

I raised my voice before I realized it.

“They arrived two days early. The delegation is already at the harbor.”

“What? But they weren’t supposed to come until the day after tomorrow!”

“I don’t know what happened either,” Perel admitted awkwardly.…