"1, can we talk again later?" I asked. "I need to go back to work." I was in my office, taking a quick coffee break before I resumed drafting some proposals for the meeting tomorrow. It would be my first day as an official administrator for the fashion and arts office, and I welcomed the considerable load that came with it. At last I would be able to do something tangibly productive with my time since assuming the identity of Concubine Number 1.
I never thought I would say this, but being a princess was surprisingly boring. I didn't know about the other princesses in the empire, but Lucrezia certainly didn't seem to have much on her schedule except frequent social gatherings and her occasional nights with the emperor. I felt my cheeks flush a little. Now that the latter was out of the way, there were even fewer things to do – not that I wanted to resume them.
