Ruth sneezed all of a sudden, and the ripple effect caused her body to ache all over. She stared at the rolled parchment beside her pillow, and a look of hatred flashed past her eyes.
'Since the princess consort wants her to suffer and be in pain, she would also make her suffer.'
She had picked up the rolled-up parchment from beside the princess consort's bed this morning when she had gone in there to report to her that she had finished receiving her punishment.
It was a message from the prince to the princess to tell her he was going out of the capital and for her to meet him in the meadow behind the palace in two days. But she wouldn't let the princess consort know about it.