A Secret Unkept

"My Lord, Lady Arianna had escaped! Something happened at the dungeon!" That was one of my warriors reporting to me.

At first, my heart skipped a beat. I felt elated, more than happy to hear or rather believe that my Arianna might probably have escaped the clutches of that bastard.

Then again, my mind nudged me toward the fact that no one knows about the different identities of the women who looked alike. Not even the warriors who took her to the dungeon. So, my elation melted and dissolved at that instant of realization.

It wasn't my Arianna that escaped, it was that two-faced slut who I had assumed was mine till a few minutes ago. But how did she escape from a heavily guarded dungeon within less than twenty minutes of the arrest?

"How did that happen?" I asked, icily. I raised my head to watch the warrior shiver under my cold glance.

"Your- your highness, she- she just vanished! After we kept her in the dungeon, she was screaming and all of a sudden, she was quiet. I went to check o