125 the drama

"What did you say, Monique?" I asked with a shocked expression, even my hands reached to cover my mouth as I started my award winning performance.

"Your highness, I know my daughter is a bit naive, and don't understand her right or wrong, but as an elder, you should be the one with a bigger heart." did she just call me old!! I was only one year older than Isabella, and she called me old! That was something more heinous than blaming me for the slap, 

"I am kind enough to accept you calling me elder when you are even older than my mother, Monique Adelia, what else are you expecting from me?" I said in a sharper tone this time, I could see Isabella trying to pull her mother's dress to signal her to stop.

 But the lady was so lost in her acting that she didn't even notice that after the scene she was trying to act didn't even happen in the first place.