The Secret Story

"So after I met Carlex, I hid him in a private safe house."

"Then no one saw you two there?"

The woman laughed when she saw the curious look of the girl next to her.

"No, the two of us spent the days together. We also made land to grow vegetables in the garden."

Hearing the story from the woman who was older than her. Elie smiled slightly, imagining the scene as Yuvewa had told it. But at that moment, for some reason, she felt sick when she saw Yuvewa's sad eyes.

"I know that I was neither a good mother for Clovis nor a dutiful wife for Karlex," she said.

"I left Clovis in Carlex's hands when my son was only four years old.

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"Do you know that Clovis has always been demonized by the Imperial Court? Do you know that people think you abandoned your own son, Madam Yuve?" She blasted Yuvewa with questions.

Yuvewa gripped her fingers tightly. She could feel the sharp nails piercing the skin of her palms.