Chapter 23
“T-Torn”:
“Her Majesty the Empress?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Why… why the Empress?”
Audrey didn’t miss it and asked sharply, as if piercing straight through his heart.
Mikhail had always admired Audrey’s rationality and intelligence, but at this moment, he felt a little resentful of her clever mind.
He swallowed back his tears and spoke.
“Sigh… Actually… she’s a guest my mother invited. Somehow, it seems this young lady is my fiancée.”
In the suddenly serious atmosphere, Kardin, feeling slightly flustered, lightly spoke up.
“Well, anyway, we just trust that our respected elder brother will handle everything, so we can relax a bit, right?”
“…Hmph.”
Lucius, whose heart had been a little upset, felt it melt away at that one remark. Muttering that Kardin was a sly fox, he shook his head.
“By the way, did Sir Melin say he saw our princess?”
Though grateful for the rescue, the thought of getting too close still made her uneasy…
Imagining the looks of the Empress Dowager and Charlotte on her, tinged with fear and disapproval, made her heart race uncontrollably.
That’s why Anette found Mikhail’s exaggerated description of the situation extremely uncomfortable.
Of course, it wasn’t normal to split a falling tree into pieces in an instant with a sword, but at least he had used a weapon, so she thought it could reasonably be seen as ordinary.
‘Besides, the big tree blocked my view, so I couldn’t see exactly what happened…’
“I saw it! Whoosh! It flew off and sha-sha-sha-shak!”
…Apparently, the overly excited little Crown Prince had no intention of cooperating with Anette.
As if recounting his own heroic tale, he kept embellishing what he had witnessed, exaggerating it more and more.
The problem was, it was hard to call his story outright false.
Unable to deny it, Anette could only break out in cold sweat
