Chapter 182

“I don’t even know where to put myself when you welcome me so warmly. Honestly, I thought you might oppose this, ma’am…”

“Hm. To be blunt, I’m not someone who has the right to interfere in Cedric’s dating or marriage. I don’t have that qualification. And I trust his judgment.”

“B-but I don’t really have anything, and there were those unpleasant incidents in my past…”

“At one point, I did want to test you, Miss Harriet. If you had gone around boasting about your connection to Her Majesty the Empress, I would have been disappointed.”

Harriet wondered why the Empress was suddenly being mentioned, then searched her memory and recalled that Anastasia had once protected her. Jeremiah’s influence must have been behind that.

“So she wasn’t helping me just because she heard Cedric’s story… she was watching me?”

A chill ran down Harriet’s spine. If she had tried to exploit…