Madam Quartley gave Yuliana a deep stare, "You're thinking that since my eyes aren't clear, in turn, my heart is also confused?
That was exactly what Yuliana meant, but what came out of her mouth was, "Grandma, you've misunderstood. What I meant was, you're bound to be confused, even a more intelligent person would be no exception."
Madam Quartley shook her head, "Oh, Yuliana, my heart isn't confused. Did you really think I don't know what you're thinking?"
A trace of uneasiness flashed within her eyes, before she replied drily, "Look at what you're saying, Grandma...what would I even be thinking about?"
Madam Quartley seriously studied her which made Yuliana even more uneasy.
She had never looked at her with such a serious gaze before.
Yuliana avoided Madam Quartley's eyes as she touched her face, "Grandma, why are you staring at me so? I only came here and talked this much solely for the good of Nashaland."
Madam Quartley sighed in reply, "What for the sole good of Nashaland? Did you think I still wouldn't know that you're doing this for your own sake? That if Tremaine doesn't hold his presidential post, you wouldn't be the wife of the president's brother and still enjoy the treatment that you had in the past? What you're really worried about, is losing your place that is second to none to all others above."
Yuliana was stunned.
Madam Quartley continued, "Yuliana, you've been married to Zorion for many years now. The kind of thoughts you have, did you think that I'm not aware of them? I was only keeping my silence about it, didn't expect that it would make you think I was blind."
Yuliana suddenly felt that she had never known Madam Quartley before.
By the time she married into the Quartley Palace, the matriarch was already quite old.
She had even once heard that Madam Quartley was shrewd, vigorous and resolute when she was young.
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