Adela's POV:

"That's impossible!"

I immediately refuted Lucy's words with a vehemence I didn't know I was capable of. I even knocked over my tea cup by accident.

The sound of shattering china was unnaturally loud in my head. I could tell that I was going through shock.

"But that woman is a sinner... She was executed, wasn't she?" I murmured in disbelief, as if saying it out loud would make it the truth.

If that woman was truly alive, then Rufus would definitely not want me. Rufus had loved her so much. If she appeared before him now, I knew that he would never let her go.

and grabbed Lucy's arm. "You must have made a mistake. You must have remembered it wrong! What makes

in the imperial palace at the time of her persecution. However, everything happened so fast that I wasn't able to keep up. By the time I tried to investigate more thoroughly, every single piece of

He really cares about

at me again, there was a hint of pity in her eyes. "Rufus completely changed after she died. It

that possible? Why would Rufus suddenly forget about her just

and

after Rufus succeeded Ethan, I managed to have an audience with him. I learned that he had, in fact, forgotten a lot of things. He knew nothing of his mate, as if she has never been in his life. Now that I piece it together, it's clear that his memory

a tight line

She was on me in a flash, locking the door and throwing

Crystal." I

give in, though.

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