Chapter: 14

“It’s all right. Please go to the room next door for a while.”

Then, she held the child’s little finger.

Astelle practiced this ‘play’ like a game so that the child would not be nervous and scared.

Thanks to this, Theor had fun every time he practiced.

Even now, Theor laughed with sparkling blue eyes as Astelle wrapped his finger and held it.

“Yes, Aunt Astelle.”

Astelle lightly stroked Theor’s soft black hair and kissed his forehead.

The knight took Theor and afterward, the door was closed.

“Sit down.”

Kaizen pointed to the tea table by the window.

Astelle pulled the table to the middle and sat facing him.

She didn’t know a day would come when she would sit face-to-face, with this man again.

After divorcing only one day after her marriage and leaving the imperial palace, Astelle had thought she would never meet Kaizen again.

Even if they did meet again, she thought they would only see each other if she were to become a sinner and forced to kneel in front of him, or if she were to be dragged for execution along with her father.

Kaizen seemed to share similar sentiments.

He looked at Astelle with a serious look in his eyes and brought up the subject.

“I found you because of my late grandmother’s will.”

“The Grand Empress Dowager?”

Kaizen lost his mother when he was young and was raised by his grandmother, the empress dowager.

The old empress dowager was also kind and friendly to Astelle.

When Astelle left the empress’ position, she was the one who mourned for her the most.

“I heard that she passed away. You must be extremely heartbroken.”

Even if she lived in the eastern countryside, she had still heard the news of the empress dowager’s death.

Astelle was devastated when she heard about it.

‘She was a good person.’