This Life Will Be My Last

Chapter 17 - An Unexpected Gift {Part 2}

"When I visited her, she told me I was a concubine, but not her sister. Is that how it's supposed to be, Baron Limonet? Or does the Empress hate me?"

There was no contract signing ceremony or an official ceremony as you would have expected with a marriage. All that was needed was for the pope to Intiialise a concubine in the Imperial Palace, All the documents had to be signed by the current Emperor and Empress as well as the Concubine... it couldn't be granted without the wife's permission and even if it was? It would be immoral wrong?

Leonardo was just A Crown Prince, yet he had the authority and spirit of his father, Emperor Virion II with the added bonus for a temper fitting for a mad and inhumane ruler at that.

"You visited... Her Highness?"

"..."

"The Crown Princess?"

"Yes! She sent a gift to Me And i thought I should thank her in person..."

Baron Limonet, groaned and pinched his head as he looked at the Countess? Surely she Would've had an education in court etiquette, but with her low-ranking nobility status due to her fathers backgrounds and treasonous roots that they were still, being punished for to this day? It made sense.

"What is it? Did I do something Wrong?"

"Worse Than that, My lady" Baron Limonet continued as she spat the words of how he used the status of the countess

"?"

"The positions of A Countess And the Crown Princess Are in opposition to each other."

"Why? They both serve the same husband."

"We both share the Crown Prince!"

Is that what This mere mistress said to the Crown Princess! Baron Limonet was momentarily dizzy. However, Rossett's innocent and doe-like light royal blue eyes convinced him she acted out of innocence. One did not hold children accountable like adults.

More like when you spoke to a child and tried to scold them for their actions and they were quite clueless and confused on why they were being reprimanded by harsh words being shouted.

Rosette was more ignorant of aristocratic society than even aristocratic children, and so he had to show some consideration. But even so.... Blatantly...Disrespecting her Highness like that isn't a good move... It could easily give her father an exile order for their family to the nearest empire while they were stripped of their fortune.

"Countess?"

"Did anyone stop you when you were going to visit The Crown Princess?"

Baron Limonet questioned as he looked at Lady Rosette, those eyes of innocence... It wouldn't do her any good in this place, only make her and her family a more known target to crude and disrespectful comments made by the staff and the aristocratic society.

Did she not know how cruel society would be? Or was she completely clueless about it?

"Ah- now that i think about it"

"It was Lady Carail and Lady Féela!" Rosette said softly as she looked at Baron Limonet, knowing that he would believe the lies and deception she had just spoken. No one stopped her.

That's the truth to it.
She knows if she used her mind she would be kicked out of this place.
She couldn't have that, not when she had her own goals and achievements To do in her fathers name, To avenge her family, the fallen house Toussaint... She wanted to restore it, she needed to?

"Who are they?" Baron Limonet questioned as he looked at the concubine.

"They?.... They are the Princess' Ladies-in-waiting!"