Had Aurelia really left then?
"Alexander, since we're at this point, I might as well let you know." Carmella heaved a long sigh. "I do want to pair your sister up with Neil, and I hope Aurelia's able to leave Southeast Aciatic on her own accord, but the girl didn't agree to it. I can't possibly force her, can I?
"Don't worry. I know what I should and shouldn't do. It's not worth it to offend the Harris family over Aurelia!"
Alexander looked skeptical but nodded.
Carmella waved a hand to dismiss him, and her brows knitted into a frown after she calmed down.
Where had Aurelia gone? Did she run into someone else after she left her place?
Carmella's heart pounded as a name flashed in her mind.
"Call for Princess Victoria!" she asked loudly.
…
Aurelia curled up in the corner of the wall. The only feeling this place gave her was cold.
White walls, white room, a white rug, and even the window frames were white. This was like a world of ice.
Southeast Aciatic was a sweltering summer, but she was trembling here.
The woman on the bed slowly sat up and watched her with a curious gaze. A while later, the woman copied her and hugged her arms around curled-up knees to sit there like a ball.
Aurelia took a deep breath. Terror consumed her like hundreds and thousands of worms. The woman probably did not recognize her anymore, but she could recognize the woman.
It was the woman who had charged out on the day of Cordelia and Zephyr's wedding. It was the woman who had stabbed a fork in her wrist!
Aurelia backed down as much as she could until her back hit the wall, and cold numbness spread through her limbs.
"Hey…" Helene made a hoarse sound from her throat.
Helene smiled and trained her unfocused gaze on Aurelia's hair. She pointed at it, then at her own hair, fell in a daze for a bit, and grinned even wider.
"Hair! Same… hair!"
Aurelia smiled as well.
Both of them had the same long chestnut-colored hair. It was just that Aurelia's was lustrous and smooth, but Helene's was like hay like her slowly withering life.
"I heard you're the king's younger sister, so you're the princess?" Aurelia looked around with her big eyes. "This palace is gorgeous, but the color sends chills to one.
"Do you like white a lot?" Aurelia chuckled. "What a coincidence, me too! But I've always worn the nomads' long dresses in the past. Their clothes are super colorful. I didn't have a chance to wear white."
Helene listened, not showing if she understood or not. Her eyes suddenly brightened when she heard Aurelia's last sentence.
"Wear white?" She gave it a thought and sprang up, cracking a grin.
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