A free woman reveals her secret

"Esmee, calm down and explain. What happened? Did one of the guards do something to you?" Astrid asks, confused by the sudden outburst. But when the girl hears the possible accusation for the guard, she just starts to cry even harder.

"No! No! He did nothing wrong! I jus... I was the one..." In between old sobs, the words are almost unintelligible.

"Esmee. Look at me!" Astrid holds her head straight with her hands and forces the panicked girl to look at her. "I swear to you! Whatever happened. Whatever you did. I will help you and I won't get mad!"

There are things that would make her mad and for a second the possibility of Esmee being involved in Omar's disappearance creeps into her mind, but she waves it away. She won't get anywhere scaring her even more.

Esmee looks at her with a bit of doubt in her eyes, but the promise quickly calms her down enough for her words to tie up together in sentences again.

"I talked to him..."

"Yes, I understood that. What did you talk to him about?"

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