Aella was seated in her father's office as she went through the records of sales in the past weeks. More merchants had come for a contract and she needed to work through their recent profits to know if there was space for more goods.
It has been just a few days since her sister's disastrous wedding and it would be a stretch to say she has gotten over the trauma she sustained on that day. She has been having nightmares of Vladter torturing her sister and the image and screams still rang in her head by the day.
She didn't know how her sister is faring and she wanted to hope that the Crown Prince wasn't as bad as she thought but with the stunt he pulled on the wedding day, she couldn't be foolish enough to have hopes.
Aella shook her head as if trying to ward off the horrific thoughts of her sister and Vladter as she concentrated on the papers in front of her. Looking out the window, she realized that the sun was just setting.
