When Elizabeth makes her way back, her friends are immediately concerned with her change of mood. Usually, each time she goes to see Coldstrom, she comes back bubbly and happy with tons of energy to spare. Today, her feet drags on the ground as she lets Adele and Louisa escort her to a sofa.
"What's wrong?" Louisa asks. "Did you guys fight?"
"Is it not obvious?" Adele says, putting an arm around her shoulder comfortingly.
Elizabeth does not even have the energy to reply the both of them, dazed and lost in her head as she is. She does not care that Mist and her minions are looking at her with happy smirks and all of the concubines are trying hard to eavesdrop on the conversation. What went wrong? She keeps asking herself over and over.
Was it the timing that was wrong? Is he just not r
