Countess Corindel strutted confidently into the lobby of Halo Manor.

‘Why is she here all of a sudden?’ Penelope couldn’t hide her shock. For this woman to show up of her own accord? Such a turn of events had never even crossed her mind.

Countess Corindel was astonishingly shameless.

"Give me just ten days. I’ll find a way to drag my daughter back and have her kneeling demurely before the Grand Duchess."

Penelope remembered the words Countess Corindel had spoken to the Grand Duchess of Rahinsel as vividly as if it had been yesterday. She could still recall the malicious gleam in the Countess’s eyes at the time.

‘Has it already been ten days since then? Surely she isn’t planning to take Ivetta away now, is she?’

Penelope watched the Countess warily, ready to intervene if necessary.