Chapter 78 - Top Secret (2) (2/2)

“Yes.”

“Who did you come to see?”

“I’m here to see Countess Viviana.”

The clerk gestured to Elena as if he had done this a hundred times before.

“Come this way, please.”

The employee seemed exceptionally experienced and meticulous. She knew it was a secretive establishment, but it there was more thorough attention to detail than she expected. The clerk guided her inside the depths of the building, finally arriving at an antique door which opened with only the slightest sound of friction. Inside the room was middle-aged woman seated rigidly in her chair. After Elena stepped inside, the clerk closed the door behind her. The two women stared at each other.

“…”

“…”

It was Elena who first shattered the silence.

“How do you do? I am Elena Blaise.”

“I know. You are the most talked-about person these days.”

Her tone was harsh, and her gaze was full of thorns.

“Let me ask you straightforwardly. What you wrote to me…How did you know?”

Elena couldn’t honestly answer that question.

“The question is not how I learned the secret of Countess Viviana, but whether or not I tell someone about it. Am I wrong? “

The letter Elena had sent to Stella was brief.

[I know about your hidden son.]

Before Stella became a countess and a leading figure of society, she lay with a man as a young woman and had secretly given birth to a son. Stella’s parents thoroughly covered up the incident, and Countess Viviana had married without anyone else having knowledge of it. When the truth was revealed in Elena’s previous life, Countess Viviana’s reputation had plummeted. However, that was not the end of the story. There was further tragedy after that.

“Are you threatening me?”

“Yes.”

Elena answered unblinkingly.

“You will do something for me in exchange for my secrecy.”