The Accidental Empress Book Novels & Stories

Chapter 14 Ashley was deeply focused in the book she was reading; it was about an adopted princess in the throes of palace betrayal. The princess was about to discover the biggest backstabber in her court when a baritone voice pierced through her consciousness. It took all her concentration not to topple over on the hammock as she was startled. This bastard! "Well, any one that has eyes would know I'm reading, dear husband", Ashley taunted. She saw Ian's eyes narrow the way it always did when he was about to yell at her in that stupidly sexy way he always did.

She could feel his warm breath on her skin and her body shudder when he replied with his charming smile: "What kind of man would I be if I didn’t help a lady in distress?" Mateo helped her to stand and Alissa kept looking away, not knowing where to look. Until something caught her attention. A tiara with long green flowers, big and fluffy white feathers right above. "What is that? It’s the most flamboyant thing I’ve ever seen." Alissa pointed to the object, slightly frightened.

She should have looked like any other academy girl getting ready for school, but her restless fingers tugging at her bracelet betrayed otherwise. “I have a date with Adams tonight,” she said finally, her voice edged with nerves. “And.. I’m already scared of playing this stunt with him. He's more dangerous than we thought,” Steve didn’t answer at once. He leaned back in his chair, arms crossed, a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. His phone screen glowed faintly in his palm, replaying the clip he had saved far too many times. The first video: the principal’s office. The grainy recording caught Thea seated stiffly across from the woman, her voice lowering as she proposed that Thea shoul

“And you—Maria—you’re done here.” Maria’s face crumpled. “Ma’am, please. It was an accident—” “I don’t care if it was the ghost of Florence Nightingale who tripped over the files,” Emilia snapped. “You mixed my life with some nobody’s. Some poor street girl, some random patient off the hallway—” She pressed her palm to her forehead and took a sharp breath. “You think this is just a mix-up? My husband’s legacy is in another woman’s womb.”

I admitted before following her inside. The club was bigger than I thought it would be. Main floor with a stage, a pole in the center, tables scattered around, a bar along the back wall. Everything was red. It looked like the inside of something dark, dangerous. "Jo's in his office," Camilla said, grabbing my hand. "Come on." We walked through a hallway with doors on both sides. Some were open. I could see small rooms with couches, dim lighting. My stomach turned over.

Something that definitely didn't belong to me too. I pulled it out, my fingers trembling. It was a pair of silk panties. They weren't mine. I didn’t own anything that loud, that intimate, that small. "What is this?" I whispered, my voice cracking. "Whose are these, Damian?" He didn't even flinch. He just leaned against the doorframe and let out a dry, cruel laugh. "Those? Those are yours, Emil. Or maybe you planted them there yourself. You’ve clearly lost your mind. You’re so desperate to be a victim that you're making things up now."

Because now she had turned from being a crown princess to an Empress. Though she had not built this empire, she inherited the kingdom. And now it was her responsibility to make it prosperous. Alexandra had turned out to be socially inactive most of her life. Why could she do it? People are awful. Ew. Coming out of her shell wasn't an easy decision. She hoped not to catch social anxiety! People in the building were wondering what Alexandra was doing here after disappearing for four years. They were only informed that the new CEO will be arriving today, They already knew that Benjamin Winchester has died and it was rumoured that the next heir will be Anastasia Roberts.

' Maria remembered that in the book the male lead had a villainous older cousin, who was determined to avenge his family, who was tragically murdered via one of the empress’s evil schemes. At first, Maria recalled wondering why would the empress murder his family, only to find out later that the empress's first love was actually the emperor's brother, who instead had fallen in love with a mysterious crimson-haired woman. It seemed that even after she married the emperor, the empress was still upset that she couldn't be with the man she loved, so she plotted a scheme that would get the man she loved, along with his wife and child, killed.

“The Shadow Assassins could be of great help right now. Maybe a visit to Lady Serena’s household would do the trick.” Back in the palace, Emery got back inside her room and added the new books to the old ones given to her by her tutor. Just staring at them made her feel tired and exhausted, but it was one of the things she needed to do now that her position to become the empress was once again secured. She had to prepare because this was just the tip of an iceberg. Before anything else, she opened the letter from the prime minister.

By the end of the morning council, three ministers had left the chamber visibly shaken after Halrem dismantled an agricultural proposal with such ruthless precision that an elderly duke later insisted he had briefly experienced spiritual separation from his own body. The devastation continued in the western infirmary, where a physician’s assistant accidentally dropped a tray of surgical instruments and received a seven-minute lecture on professional incompetence so merciless that several witnesses quietly questioned whether emotional recovery was medically possible. The palace servants adapted quickly. They stopped making unnecessary conversation, avoided eye contact whenever possible, and s