How To Hide Emperor's Child

Chapter 8

Astelle paused for a moment and opened the door.

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When the door opened, the maids who were talking in the room turned around in a hurry.

"La, Lady."

The maids bent their knees with faces full of frustration and lowered their heads deeply.

Theor didn't know what he had just heard but he seemed to feel something was wrong.

Astelle ordered the maids with a calm expression.

"When you're done talking, will you prepare to wash the child?"

The maids exchanged their eyes with each other and disappeared hastily.

As they moved busily, the bathroom was prepared with hot water with warm steam in full bloom.

Astelle washed Theor in warm water and changed his clothes.

As Theor sensed her anxiety and looked at her eyes, Theor tilted his head, and asked, "Aunt Astelle, are you mad?"

"No."

Astelle smiled at Theor, thinking that he was very smart at 5 years old.

He wasn't so naive enough to know anything, but he was too young to know all the bad things about the world.

Astelle tapped Theor's little nose and turned his attention.

"After washing, I'll take out Levin."

"Yeah!"

Levin was Theor's favorite teddy bear.

Astelle made it herself from the old brown velvet curtain.

It's been too old and tatter, but Theor still liked Levin the most.

Theor was innocently delighted at the words of giving Levin.

The maids were also relieved.

Astelle took Theor to the bedroom and took out a teddy bear from the pack.

She then returned from the bedroom to the connected parlor, leaving Theor in bed where he played with his teddy bear.

She looked at the maids standing side by side, Astelle was calm, but she ordered firmly, "Go to the butler, say exactly what you said and ask him to send a new maid to me."

The maids who had listened with a blank face started to stutter.

"La, Lady......well, we......"

The maids belatedly trembled because they were frightened.

It seemed like she was okay just before, so they thought she'd just let it go.

"I didn't punish you right away because I couldn't show that way in front of a little child," Astelle said calmly in a careless tone.

Of course, she couldn't get angry at the maids or beat them in front of the child.

It was not good to gossip in front of a child who is only 5 years old.

Actually, it was just gossip.

If she had heard it alone, she could just pretend she didn't hear it.

But this time there was a reason that she could let it go.

"I don't care what you're talking about, but I can't keep the maids gossiping me where the child can hear it."

The maids fled and went outside.

In the bedroom, Theor kept playing with a fluffy teddy bear.

"Theor, it's time to put the medicine."

Theor gently raised his face.