“What?” I blurted out, incredulous. Was this guy seriously saying that Ella intentionally showed up at the coronation looking the way she did?
It was almost laughable.
I’d seen the tears on her face earlier. The humiliation in her eyes when she had entered that event looking like that. Even if Ella was a spy for Stormhollow, there was no way she would ever be caught dead in public like that without a very good reason.
“And just in case you don’t believe James, this is Stephen,” Sophia went on, gesturing to the security guard. “He has an interesting tidbit to add.”
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, but let the security guard speak, more out of curiosity than anything.
The security guard stepped forward. “When she showed up at the cathedral, she was acting really stran
