395 Catching up - I

"Before you offered me to come today to the court of public affairs, I was already thinking of asking you something. Rather, I had decided something about you in my mind."

"Oh?" Chiara didn't bother hiding her expressions. She had let her guard down. "What is it?" The woman was curious to know, not afraid of what it was going to be.

To tell her what I was thinking about, I had to tell her why I was doing it and that was going to be a long answer. However, I felt the need for her to know it so that Chiara would realize how important it was to me. How important she was or rather had become, to me.

"I was almost eight years of age when I lost my mother. My sister was then taken away, not in the complete sense of the word, but to be the next queen, they have to prepare her for it, and in that process she was taken away from me and Catherine. She had her mentors, and since my betrothal was said to prince Terrence, queen Anastasia became my mentor."