Chapter 348: Maid in Disguise
“You’re right. I simply thought that it was funny. Things got more interesting when I called her out on it and she offered me her cigarette,” he said as he seemed to recall what happened on that day.
“Do you smoke?” I asked although I guessed I already knew the answer.
“I don’t smoke,” he replied.
What the prince had just told me about her didn’t quite add up. First of all, she was a prostitute before being brought to the palace. Then she became an honorable maiden who should be kept in the Sacred Chamber. So, how did she end up smoking in the prince’s garden on his palace grounds?
“How did she end up there in your garden?” I asked curiously.
“Oh, sorry I missed telling you properly about this. When I first met her, I thought that Roxanna was just a regular palace maid. After all, she was wearing a maid uniform, and so I thought that she was slacking off on her cleaning duty. She was surprisingly bold, cheerful, and very talkative. Either that or she was trying to talk herself out of trouble the first time that we met,” he continued with his story.
The prince seemed to be speaking quite fondly of her and I could sense that he held the memories of her dear and close to his heart. Although I thought that it was great that the prince had good and warm memories to recall, I couldn’t quite ignore the throbbing pain in my chest that felt like thorns were piercing my heart every time I breathed in and out.
“She sounds like a very nice person. Umm...but how did she become a maid?” I asked curiously.
“Let’s just say that she’s quite unique. As for how she became a maid, well...that’s part of the committee’s creative plan to help the maidens get closer to the princes. Roxanna was assigned to work as a maid in my palace with the aim of catching my attention. Funnily enough, she managed to do exactly that but perhaps not in the way that everyone had hoped for,” the prince said before letting out a laugh.
“Oh...” I murmured.
“That’s how she ended up wearing a maid uniform and walking around in my palace. The committee member probably didn’t count on her lazing off and smoking while hiding in the garden. Apparently, Roxanna wasn’t at all interested in me or any of the princes for that matter,” the prince said before grinning my way.
I was dying to know about their relationship. Although he had told me that she wasn’t interested in him that way, that didn’t quite mean that nothing happened between them, and nothing could explain how she ended up the way that she did.