Female Novel
Chapter 877 Their Relationship Changed Drastically (Part One)
When Harper returned to the Harmony Palace, the maids had already prepared hot water and freshclean clothes for her. Her eyelashes trembled a little while she looked at the steam over the hot waterin the bathtub. Rolando had always been so considerate to her. She had been used to it for so long thatshe didn't feel like anything was wrong with the way he was treating her. But right then, Harper realizedthat she had been sitting on pins and needles all this time.
"Hmm?" Patrick tried to speak but it sounded more of a squeak. It looked at Harper in confusion. Itcouldn't understand what she was thinking.
Harper put the creature down and said, "I'm fine."
Harper started dipping herself into the tub while Patrick was playing outside. Suddenly, it heard Harpercall it. Instantly, its eyes lit up. It dashed to the screen and looked up at Harper, drooling a little. 'Are youfinally willing to let me see you naked?' it thought.novelbin
"Matthew has arrived in the capital, right?" Harper asked. She then sank into the water, leaving only herhead above it. Patrick jumped unto the bathtub and stood on its edge. Then, it couldn't help butregretfully sigh. The water was covered by petals, so it couldn't see anything in the tub, no matter howhard it tried.
"Hmmm, Hmmm," Patrick answered, without much energy.
"If he has arrived in the capital, why hasn't he come to me?" Harper asked in confusion. With how sheknew her husband, Matthew would have come to her as soon as he arrived, so she couldn'tunderstand why he hadn't.
Upon hearing Harper's question, Patrick jumped up and down, as if it was dancing on the edge of thebathtub. It not only jumped here and there, but also pretended to be very powerful and vicious. AsHarper was amused by it, the expression on her face lit up.
"Do you mean to say that Matthew has already come to the palace to look for me, but someone drovehim away?" Harper asked. From the happiness in Patrick's eyes, she could clearly figure out that it wastaking pleasure in Matthew's misfortune. It was as if seeing Matthew being defeated and driven out byothers bring Patrick so much joy. Understandably, because Matthew had never been kind to Patrick, itcould not be happier when it saw Matthew suffer. After all, it was very rare that the prince wasfrustrated.
"Who drove him away?" Harper asked.
Upon hearing the question, Patrick suddenly pinched its two fingers and wriggled its fat hip in a sultryway. It waddled along the edge of the bathtub. When Harper noticed that it was evidently imitatingsomeone, the corner of her mouth could not help but twitch. "Miguel?" she guessed, though she wasalmost sure.
Patrick desperately nodded. Then it put its two hands on its hips, pretending to be serious. Whilelooking straight on, it suddenly turned around with a nasty smile shown on its head. Harper almostburst into laughter at the sight of its imitation. "And Rolando?"
In order to peep at Harper's naked body, Patrick then squatted on the edge of the bathtub and tried tocatch the petals over the water with its claw. While it was so concentrated on its goal, it didn't evennotice the dangerous expression on Harper's face. Imagining what it was about to see, it felt veryexcited. All of a sudden, however, its head was grabbed and directly pressed into the water. Ithappened so fast that Patrick couldn't even react, so it was actually choked by the water. When it finallyraised its head, Harper was already dressed up. She was sitting on the side and wiping her wet longhair with a towel.
Patrick jumped out of the bathtub, shook all of the water on its body, and rushed toward Harper. Itwanted to let her know that as a Holy Beast, it could not be pushed around so easily. However, before itcould reach Harper, she slapped the creature with her towel. Patrick directly hit a wall but it didn't give
up. It kicked on the wall and rushed towards Harper again. But Harper didn't even look at it. She justsimply slapped it away again.
Patrick had expected that it would hit the wall as a result of Harper's force. To its surprise, it was caughtby someone, who then asked, "Harper, is this beast yours?"
When she heard that, Harper raised her head to look at the direction of the voice. It was not until thenthat she realized Rolando had come to her quarters. He was staring at Patrick, which he had justgrabbed, and asked, "Does it have a name?"
"Patrick," Harper responded.
As soon as Rolando put Patrick down, the little beast quickly jumped into Harper's arms and buried itshead on her arms. It was as if the creature was declaring that Harper belonged to it. Rolando'seyebrows twitched a little when he saw that. "That's a good name," he commented.
Harper wiped her semi-dry hair and placed it behind her. Staring at Rolando quietly, she said, "Matthewhas arrived in the capital."
Her tone indicated that she was stating a fact rather than asking a question. Rolando immediatelyrealized that Harper must have known something about what happened. He thought that there must besome special communication method between her and Matthew. With such thoughts in mind, headmitted, "Yes, he arrived today. And the envoy's team will arrive in three days."
With a frown, Harper asked in a low voice, "And the coronation ceremony for the new empress isscheduled to take place in five days, right?"
"Hum." Rolando's voice was clear but not rigid. He knew that the empress coronation ceremony wouldnot take place as scheduled.
Harper fell silent for a moment. By then, she had a clear understanding of the incident that hadhappened yesterday. When Lilian came to the Harmony Palace, she took two maids with her, but whenshe left, there was only one maid with her. The other one must have been Becky who took the chanceto sneak into the palace. Harper didn't want to think about the possibility that Lilian knew everythingthat Becky had done.
After a few moments, Harper still didn't say anything. Rolando immediately said, "I've already told youthat I will give you an explanation for what happened. Don't worry. I will find out the truth as soon aspossible."
"I should leave the palace right now. Now that Matthew has arrived in the capital, it's time for me to go.Lilian's health condition is already stable, and there are a lot of imperial physicians in the palace. I'mplanning to leave the palace today." Harper brought up the topic again.
Without saying a word in response, Rolando just stared at Harper silently. His face was devoid of anyexpression, so it was impossible for anyone to guess what he was thinking right then.