(Sabina) I DID NOT think that things would come this far. Suddenly, the music stopped and all that could be heard were the weeping of the women from the House of Peiris as the medics took Barbara and brought her to the treatment room while the other women were left kneeling and shuddering in fear. “Please have mercy, Your Majesty and Your Grace,” Denise said in a now broken voice. “How much more mercy do you want us to give? Do you even know what that word means? Catherine refused to disclose her family matter but I have ways of finding out that you did more than just slandering her over the past years. I turned a blind eye on it because Catherine was not yet my fiancée at that time. But things are different now. I gave you a chance to redeem yourselves through this banquet. Yet, you ch

