Like a rabbit caught in a trap, the young Valeria didn’t dare to move a muscle. It was the first time Aria witnessed a member of the Imperial family being so scared. Was it because of Shareen? She couldn’t be one of Kareen’s children, so who was her concubine mother…? A girl her age and her rank definitely had nothing to do there, especially alone and in a servant’s outfit. It looked like she had sneaked out of the Castle.

“Valeria, talk,” insisted Shareen. ...