A Mother Takes Her Daughter's Side

“Aurora. You don't happen to like that young man, do you?”

The feelings Aurora had never revealed to anyone.

The feelings she had quietly kept to herself.

That was the moment the Empress put them into words.

“……!”

Aurora reflexively lowered her head, as if trying to hide her expression for fear that her true feelings would be discovered.

But she couldn't hide her ears, which had turned bright red. That alone must have been answer enough.

“Aurora.”

But the Empress had no intention of letting a guess suffice.

She stared intently at Aurora, as if determined to hear her daughter's feelings directly from her own lips...