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Evie watched everyone around her carefully. She couldn't believe anything that had happened to them. She and the others from the Isle Of the Lost had become good; Maleficent was no longer a true threat to them. And her mother couldn't get to them. None of their parents could get to them.

Itt had been a week since Ben's coronation. Since then, the girls had been coming to her wanting fashion advice—all except for Audrey of course, everyone knew she was to prideful for that. Mal had been on more and more dates with Ben. And everyone expected them to marry before long. But would they be married? Evie thought so, but first Mal still had the desires to go to school and learn, not ready to be queen.

Right now, she was trying to keep everything together. Carlos tried to help her, but she wasn't sure why. And she thought at times she could do it better alone. But Mal was also trying to help in her spare time though she had little of that. Jay seemed to be getting close to Jane for some reason, and that made her happy. As long as her friends were happy, so was she.

She didn't know; however that she was being watched. A dark-haired woman looked in at her, her eyes narrowed. She didn't like Evie much; she was upset with her. A second woman was around the back of the castle, a man waiting toward the front.

She was here to spy. That was it. The woman she worked with said they had to help their friend, but she didn't see any friend. If they were unable to do anything with help, they would work alone. They had gotten free on their own after all. She needed no one. And she would never accept help again.