Chapter 109

In that brief moment, a flood of thoughts raced through my head.

Was Dema part of the rebels? Someone with a grudge against Irenber, maybe? If she pulled out a knife, I'd have to shield His Highness.

She couldn't possibly be going for a blade, though — could she?

Dema seemed to have found what she was after, and straightened her clothes as she turned back around.

"My lady. There's something I need to give you."

I flinched back in alarm.

"My lady?"

Seeing how startled I was only startled Dema in turn. An awkward silence hung between the two of us for a moment.

Because of the great betrayal of my past life, my thoughts sometimes leapt straight to the worst extreme.

"It's a document, my lady."

Just as Dema said, what she held in her hand was a rolled-up document.

"I was told it must never, ever be…