I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 49

Goosebumps rose all the way up Ilyd’s back. The worst possible scenario they could imagine had just fallen right in front of Lynette and Ilyd.

Their eyes met. They were probably thinking the exact same thing.

“No way…”

“It can’t be…”

If it was Claudius, he would be an expert at secretly disposing of a few people. It wouldn’t be surprising even if they were buried under some large tree in a separate palace.

Moreover, if there were no remaining family around like with Lady Derent, getting rid of someone would be easier than turning over one’s palm.

Ilyd tightly grasped Lynette’s hand beside her. Perhaps because she was nervous, Lynette’s palm was damp with sweat.

More than ten full years had already passed since Ilyd began living in the imperial palace. Even as the Empress, she was ultimately only the Emperor’s wife and could not reign above him, and it was even harder for her to get involved in matters the Emperor hid.

“Could there be an area in the imperial family that we don’t know about?”

If Claudius had seriously made one, there might be a secret passage or a hidden safe house inside the imperial palace. It was the moment when the hypothesis that there was an area in the palace they didn’t know gained weight.

“I will look into it more.”

“No, if you dig any deeper, you’ll get dragged in too.”

“Your Imperial Majesty the Empress. Even though I look like this, I have eaten from the same pot as Your Majesty and the imperial palace.”

Lynette wrapped her hands around Ilyd’s trembling ones. Lynette was just as nervous. Cases of disappearing from the imperial palace without a trace ultimately led to death.

“You have to be careful, understood?”

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