Chapter One Hundred-Twenty- Seven- Adriana Gervais- 20 yrs old

‘You have one minute to explain exactly what you mean by that? I thought my father requested you to take me from there. Didn’t he? Did you mate with me like that out of some plot for self preservation? What do you mean I’m the only biological daughter? My father has three daughters.”

“Ana, calm down right now. First, your father charged me with getting you out of there. He never told me who he thought I might be blood related to. But he made it clear to me that Tatiana and Dionysius were both the daughters of a stable master who’d been charged to teach the empress to ride. He didn’t know until recently for certain, but by then he’d claimed them as his and couldn’t take that back. You were an accident for the empress, and you are his only daughter. Look at you, you’re the female personification of him. Right down to the raging temper. Calm down, love. As for mating with my fated life partner, to save my life is a foolish idea. I did it because I had