THIRTEEN
"Have you heard anything?" Maram asked fretfully.
The guardsman shook his head. "No, Your Highness. I have told the prison guards to send word if they see a man with that name but no one has seen him. Are you sure he exists?"
"Of course he does! And so does his mother!" Maram snapped.
The guard bowed deeply. "My apologies, Princess, if I have offended you."
If this man knew half the things she'd seen and done in foreign courts, he would not worry about offending her. Maram hid her smile. "You are forgiven. I am...frustrated. I do not understand how a man can vanish in this city and not be found."
"Perhaps he is not in the city, Your Highness."
She'd thought the same thing, but Sadaf had insisted Aladdin never left the city. Sadaf...perhaps she should send for the woman ag
