15 CHAPTER 8 (1). LIVE AS IF YOU ARE NOT THERE

Patrizia stared up at Lucio with an expression showing that she was out of her mind.

"You should get up."

"Sister, what in the world were you shocked by? Did you see this man, your ex-husband?"

Patrizia's face turned pale at the moment of her rising hypothesis.

"No way… she couldn't have seen it."

The Emperor and Rosemond look together.

She wanted to grab his collar by the neck and ask, but that was purely her wish. Reality would never tolerate it. Even more, it would never be acceptable for Patrizia who was to become Empress.

Patrizia was forced to take his hand. Patrizia broke her lips to that cruel and shameful truth. It would be blasphemous not to grab the hand offered by the Emperor.

A woman who will be Empress could not commit such an injustice to her husband and Emperor. All kinds of logic and manners floated in her head as she warned herself not to commit any action that could be criticized.