Chapter 255. A New Character

"Where are you going, my child? Leave Ellis with me."

"I'm going to walk with Ellis, so that she doesn't only know the part of the castle where we live. She needs to see new things or she'll become a very limited child."

"Then I'll accompany you." Serena said, dropping her glass of wine on the table and getting up.

"No, mom! I want to be alone with my daughter. Another day you can walk with her. But today it'll just be me and her. You've never enjoyed my company and I can assure you that this is reciprocated. I'm not going to be a mother like you and I want the privacy to show that to my daughter." Eliza said firmly and her mother sat back down with a frown on her face.

"Darling, Eliza's right." Don João tried to console her. "She hardly ever sees her daughter alone. Let them have their mother-daughter time."

Eliza then hurried away. Mentor was in front