EPOV
"I was going to tell you..." she said with horror written all over her face.
"No, you weren't." I said, "I think we can discuss further at the palace. That woman is not coming anyway."
"I am sorry." she kept repeating that on our way to the palace, but I was furious.
I am not going to forgive her easily.
"You know, when I was a kid, I had two very close friends. They didn't belong to a rich family, but I didn't care. One day, my father had brought me a rare sword, and I was really excited. The very next day, it went missing." I began telling her a story from my past when we reached our room. "A servant said he had seen my friends running away with it. I didn't believe him, but still I wanted to know. I asked them individually. Sadly, the servant was correct. My friends had stolen my sword."
"One of them had confessed the truth." I paused, "That was Jasper, who's still the best friend of mine.
"And the another was James, who lied to me. I haven't talked to him since that day." I said, "Because I hate liars."