Katrina's POV
"Who is there?" Vernus asked angrily. I had already run away at the fastest speed.
I didn't know if he had run out of the bedroom faster than me. If so, I would be easily discovered by him.
I hid in the laundry basket in the corner and covered my mouth tightly with my hands, beginning to shiver.
Their conversation couldn't be fake.
"Could it be Katrina?" the royal witch said.
I thought, Damn it! This woman is always targeting me. If she had not said that, perhaps Vernus wouldn't have suspected me.
Vernus didn't reply to the royal witch.
I listened to their footsteps getting closer and closer, and my breathing became slower and slower. When I heard their footsteps stop at the laundry basket I was hiding in, I didn't dare to breathe.
I saw Vernus take a step toward the
