A sigh of relief burst from her lips. Thanks to the quiet of the corridor, the maids' conversation had carried all the way here, clearer than necessary.
Fortunately, she had not been caught.
Had a maid found it strange and so much as opened the door, her escape would have been exposed at once.
“Haah.”
Another sigh escaped her. But this was no time to rest at leisure.
Ines forced herself to her feet on trembling legs.
The room looked like a storage room. Statues and paintings, large and small, filled it, strewn about in utter disorder.
But Ines knew.
This was a confusion staged on purpose. A calculated confusion meant to hide something important.
Not long after their marriage, Cedric had brought Ines here.
To her bewilderment, Cedric had told her an astonishing secret.
That here, long ago, in preparation for a great upheaval, a hidden…
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