“Bring her in,” Isabella ordered in a stern voice. Her face is emotionless.
She wasn't pretending to be a sweet lady right now. Two guards dragged Eve to the front of the assembled maids. The maids raised their heads to look at the offender. Penelope's jaw dropped when she saw Eve with teary eyes, her hands bound to her back with a rope.
Eve dropped to her knees, her eyes red from crying so hard. Her muffled screams could not be heard because of the cloth thrust into her mouth. Her heart raced in her chest because it seemed she was going to breathe her last day.
She still needed to take care of her grandmother and little sister. She had come to the palace as a maid with the hope of taking care of her sister because her mother had run away after her father died.
Eve has made sure to
