Madam and the Stable Keeper (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 92

“Elise seems off. Gilbert also looks like he’s hiding something from me.”

Just yesterday, Elizabeth had finally been able to share a meal with her daughter, only a few weeks after moving to the capital.

She understood that the child, who had barely been by her side until turning six, would naturally feel shy and uneasy around her.

“I’ll go inside, then.”

But the moment Elise said those words, Elizabeth felt an indescribable shock—her heart clenched as if facing a complete stranger.

[Mama, I miss you. I wish we could go on a picnic together.]

[Thank you for working so hard. Because of you, I’m doing well.]

Gilbert occasionally included letters from their daughter with his own correspondence, adding that since the child was still too young to compose letters properly, he wrote them down on her behalf.

“She even refused a hug—hardly the behavior of someone who missed me.”

Elizabeth couldn’t be certain whether the words penned in Gilbert’s handwriting truly reflected Elise’s inner feelings.

[Though circumstances require us to temporarily raise her as our nephew and his wife’s daughter, I show her your portrait every evening so she won’t forget your face.]

While confined alone in the Portrion domain with no familiar faces around, Elizabeth had believed every word in Gilbert’s letters without a shred of doubt.

Yet now, that transparent trust seemed merely born of circumstance—she’d had no choice but to believe him.

She’d thought that once her duties ended and she returned to the capital, she’d live under Count Gerturk’s protection with Gilbert and their child. Yet the only positive change in her life so far was purchasing a townhouse with Viscount Portrion’s inheritance.

“Even that will be taken from me in court if it’s revealed I was involved in the viscount’s death.”

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