CECILIA'S POV
We got into the palace and headed to the room when my mom called me. She looked very worried and disturbed seeing me with Sheila. She was obviously right about what she had said, I was so ashamed to look her straight in the eye. "Where have you been?" She asked. Sheila was at a corner in the palace courtyard listening to our conversation; when I looked at her, she made a sign to me, threatening to kill me if I disclosed anything to my mom. As soon as my eyes met hers, the palace seemed to be covered in strange smoke as of fire. Immediately, anger welled up in me and I glared at my mom furiously.
"Don't you dare question me like a kid." I yelled at her, moving back to meet Sheila who had been waiting for me for a long while now. I expected her to be angry at me for wasting h
