Chapter One Hundred-Twenty-Eight- Emperor Franco Centauri Gervais - 137 yrs old

- A Month Later -

“Your eminence, the ambassador, received the necessary security while her visit with you. Before and after you met with her, and I can assure you of that. I briefed her on everything you wished me to and made sure she understood it all. She is far from a stupid woman. That, I can assure you, is a fact. She won’t allow Princess Adriana to do anything foolish or self destructive.” Edger stood before the emperor in his official office with most of the advisors gone for the day. They were finally able to speak between themselves about matters no one else needed or could hear.

Franco sighed heavily. “Fine, that’s one daughter, safe and out of the way. But what about the one that wants to be my heir?” He hated to say his eldest daughter’s name. Somehow, the fact she’d been pregnant leaked out into the general court gossip mill. Now his image became related to the idea that he couldn’t control his wild daughters.

Adriana