Chapter 115
10. Kingmaker
Only after sleeping for a night as if she had fainted in Viscount Wolfe’s domain could Liv regain her senses. Her body, which had been enduring pain all this time, began to complain with dull aches as if it had been waiting.
‘...I told them everything.’
Only when she immersed herself in the bathtub did her sense of reality return, and she remembered what she had done yesterday. Liv had revealed her identity, and people had sworn loyalty to her.
Revealing her identity was something she had never imagined doing. She had only thought about her identity being discovered by the Emperor, not that she would reveal it herself. But it didn’t feel bad. Rather, it felt like a relief as the secret she had always had to keep inside gained freedom.
“Liv, are you done bathing?”
As the bathroom door swung open, Liv startled and sank deeper into the tub. She lowered her head, feeling unnecessarily embarrassed, but Emmett stood there speaking as if nothing was wrong.
“Are you feeling better?”
“Yes, I feel refreshed now. I was about to get out...”
“Shall I dry you off?”
“No, really, I’m fine!”
Only after saying this several more times and chasing Emmett out could Liv dry herself with a towel and put on the clothes hanging in the bathroom. The commoner’s clothes that Hayden said he had bought were certainly less conspicuous and more comfortable to move in.