However, before Edwin could see his mother's expression, Lillian got up from her seat and walked towards another room.
Edwin's heart was now beating faster than ever. It was not that he had never deceived anyone before this, he had deceived the whole Kingdom. But he had never deceived his mother before. And the nervousness that he was feeling was starting to show on his face.
He wiped the sweat beads that were forming on his forehead and thought to himself, "What if mother figured it all out? What if she knows that I have sided with Adeline?"
His heart started to race even faster when he remembered his daughter.
He anxiously clasped his hands together and thought, "She couldn't have possibly already found out that we are going to ambush her on the way to Frostford, right? But what if she deliberately tried to drag my wife and daughter because she already knows? She has a lot of eyes and ears around the Palace and village…"
