CECILIA'S POV Merida had the nerves to stop me from strangling Jude. It was now clear that the news spreading widely about their death was false. That fool Alvin will explain to me how he got to know that they were dead, whereas they weren't. I rushed out of the bathroom in pain with tiny drops of blood all over my face. My mask had already been taken off and I suspected Merida to be the person behind it. I was confused as to how I was going to face the angry crowd. I had planned to run out of the hall fully masked after I must have dealt with Jude ruthlessly. But he was just so lucky to have himself saved by Merida. That fool made away with my masks just to make a public mockery of me. All eyes turned towards me as I stepped out, "Cecilia!" Every single person in the hall yelled as

