<"BECAUSE ANY child of Nikolai is my child, too,"> the baby girl said, smiling warmly at her. <"If I didn't meet a tragic end, you would have been my stepdaughter.">
Neoma felt her heart drop to the floor when she realized who the baby girl might be.
Her head was screaming it was impossible.
However, she followed the whisper in her heart.
[If I was going to be her stepmother, then she could have been my stepmother.]
Only one woman could have been her stepmother then.
"Empress Juliet?" Neoma asked nervously. "If your soul belongs to Her Majesty, then who is the Empress Juliet in the Royal Palace right now?"
Now Paige and Jeno looked shocked.
The two looked confused at first.
After all, only Neoma could hear the baby girl's voice in her head.
However, all her "children" were quick to catch on. Hence, they looked as shocked as she was at the moment.
