"Nothing's going to happen. I am sure that nothing will happen to such a nice lady. I don't think so. She might have gone out to get some fresh air in the garden," Vera murmured, praying to the back of the Prince leaving the lounge.

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Phoebe looked up, thinking she heard something on the first floor. Since everyone left work, she was organizing the finished decorations in the bedroom on the second floor of the quiet dressing shop, and she left the bedroom carefully when she heard something again on the first floor.

Bang, bang, bang, bang... As she listened closely, it was the sound of knocking at the door of the first floor.

Phoebe opened the curtains of the hallway window carefully, hoping for someone, and looked down the street. But the street was dark, so she couldn't see who was knocking at the door of the dressing shop at this hour. She went down to the ground floor with a small magic lantern that she used to move, quivering with anxiety.

"Who is it?" When she opened the gla.s.s door and looked out through the gap of the closed shutters carefully, she heard Julietta's voice, which she had not expected.

"Oh, thank G.o.d. I hoped you weren't asleep. Phoebe, please open the door."

Phoebe hurriedly opened the shutters at the sound of the lady's voice which should not be here at this time.

"Miss? Huck!"

Dusty curtains were hiding her bruised face, and she wore a ragged party dress. Phoebe hurried to take Julietta inside the dressing shop and locked the door, knowing she was in trouble at a glance.

"Oh, my G.o.d! What the h.e.l.l is this..." Despite being too miserable to speak, Phoebe hurried to take Julietta to her bedroom on the second floor.

"I'm sorry, Phoebe. Did I disturb you while you were resting?"

After walking for more than an hour from the strange mansion on Harrods Street, Julietta collapsed on a chair. Phoebe hastily took off the curtains she had wrapped around herself.

"Ah..."

Phoebe grabbed her chest as she looked at the disheveled hair, her barely intact dress top, the scratches on her shoulders and arms, her bleeding mouth, and her black and blue bruised face.

Phoebe could not say anything for a moment, but finally looked into Julietta's eyes and said, "Miss, nothing happened today. This is nothing. Though a dirty thief touches a brilliant diamond, it doesn't mean it isn't a diamond. Even if the thief stole it and turned it back in, the diamond won't be damaged. You're a diamond, so beautiful and hard that they can't even look at you."

Phoebe consoled Julietta as best she could. She didn't even know what she was talking about, but she just wanted to comfort her lady who had been hurt.

Julieta grasped Phoebe's shoulders to calm her down, as Phoebe seemed more shocked than she was. "Phoebe! Calm down. I'm fine. Nothing happened."

At Julieta's words, Phoebe stared her in the eye. When the green eyes curled up without a single shadow, the relieved Phoebe sank down to the floor. "Oh, G.o.d! Thank you. Thank you..."

Julietta couldn't control her heart after seeing Phoebe crying out endless appreciation, like she had an hour ago. She sank to the floor and hugged Phoebe. "Thank you very much. I didn't go to the end, but it was awful. But when Phoebe worries about me like this, all my fears go away."

Julieta sat still for a while, embracing Phoebe as comforting and comforted. It was fortunate that there was a place to come back after the terrible incident. Without this place, she could have gone to the Eileen Theater or Lillian. There were people who she had to protect.

Julietta recalled that it was not time to be so weak. Though she didn't know who had ordered it, there was someone who tried to kidnap her and ordered the gangster to rape Princess Kiellini, and that woman had planned to hand her over to someone else.

'Who could it be? The person could command a servant in an imperial uniform. Could the person be Prince Francis?' Julietta thought it was not time for this, released her arms from Phoebe, and rose from her seat.

"Well, I'll use the bathroom. And I'm sorry, but there's a new dress for me downstairs in the studio. Can you bring it up? If I go back to the Kiellini mansion like this, all kinds of rumors will spread to the capital in less than an hour."

"Don't be sorry. I'll get it right away. Shall I bring in Amelie and Sophie?" Phoebe asked as she got up from the floor, helping Julietta take off her dress.

"No, they will be worried. Anyway, I'm worried about how to get back to the mansion."

Until she arrived at the dressing shop and opened the door, Julietta was constantly worried about who might have followed her, or if someone would attack her again.

Since there was no carriage at the dressing shop, she had to call a public carriage to go back to the mansion. But it was so terrible that she was still in a perfect fear, and she was afraid to go back to the Kiellini mansion in a carriage alone.

"I'll go and get Gibson. If I give an excuse to him, it will work somehow."

Julieta shook her head after thinking for a moment at Phoebe's suggestion. "No, actually, I'm not sure if I can go outside now. I'm afraid the person who kidnapped me today might be waiting in ambush near the Kiellini mansion right now."