The day before

Marry POV

I crept in while still holding Ben's hand to enter the palace. I didn't bring him through the front door because that would risk getting caught by the guards, so I brought him through a secret passage, through an underground tunnel that my father had built for Hera and me to play in. The end of the tunnel led directly to the dirty kitchen. So after that, I could take Ben straight to the guest room that was rarely used.

It wasn't that I was excluding him, I just wanted ...