Catherine’s Entertainment

“You’re Leon’s mistress? When?” I asked Lola angrily, and she quickly backed away. “Miss Emily, please forgive me,” Lola bowed her head and didn’t dare to look at me. Her voice trembled as she said, “It was many years ago. When Prince Leon gave me to Colonel Bohr, our relationship ended.” Leon leaves his lover to his underlings? I was confused. Was a mistress merely an object in Leon's eyes? Of course, I had no sympathy with Lola's experience, but I did not understand what Leon was like. “So, are you Colonel Bohr’s wife or something?” I almost said the words “mistress” or “sexual partner,” but when I saw Lola kneeling on the ground with helpless and tearful eyes, my heart immediately softened. I did not speak to her in the same harsh tone as before. “I’m not Colonel Bohr’s wife. Colonel Bohr, in fact, was not married. The king was considering the choice of a young lady from the house of Count Renaud to marry him. And I belong to nobody now. Just now!” Lola's voice was full of helplessn