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ISABELLE’S POV

Lillian quickly comes towards us. She becomes angrier when she sees me beside Barden. She glares at me and I look at her while crying. Suddenly, a look of horror crossed her features when her eyes fell on my arm which was in the soldier’s grip.

“Leave her arm right now. You cannot touch her. She belongs to the king and is very special to him. The king will cut your hand if he gets to know that you touched her”. She says to the soldier angrily and he immediately leaves my arm. He is looking at me with shock as if he just got to know that he has done a sin.

“I did not know that she was someone special to the king. If I had known then I would have not touched her. I thought that she is a random slave. I was checking the carts when I found her in one of them. She was hiding between the wine barrels. I think she was trying to escape”. Barden tells Lillian quickly. Lillian comes toward me angrily.

“I will talk with you later, Isabelle. You have welcomed death for yourself