Chapter 837 The Little Prince of the Royal Family
"There's a bit of an issue. The guests downstairs reported that the bathroom is leaking. Can we come in to check it out?"
The hotel manager asked.
A leaking bathroom.
This was just an excuse. In fact, they were looking for Mateo.
Nora's eyes flickered, and she deliberately put on a cold expression.
"This is supposed to be the best hotel, and yet you have such problems? It's inconvenient for me to have anyone in the room right now. Come back when my husband is here."
With that, Nora shut the door.
The person outside probably didn't expect Nora to be so direct and called out, "Ma'am."
Nora ignored him, pressed her ear against the door, and listened to the sounds outside.
They were talking about something.
It was in the local language, which she couldn't understand.
Soon, it became quiet outside.
They probably left.
Nora locked the door and returned to the living room.
"Come out."
Mateo emerged from behind the curtains, a slight smile on his face.
"Thank you, Dr. Smith."
Nora glanced at him and teased, "You've been hiding for so long; you must be thirsty. Want some water?"
Mateo smiled and nodded. "I am a bit thirsty."
'Quite shameless,' Nora thought to herself as she went to get him some water.
Mateo sat on the sofa, waiting.
"Alright, who exactly are you?" Nora handed him the glass of water.
Mateo took the glass and sipped.
"I am a member of the Royal family in Hchilia. My name is Mateo Fischer."
Nora was drinking water, too, and almost choked upon hearing this.
Mateo's demeanor and attire were top-notch; she had suspected he might not be an ordinary person.
But she hadn't expected him to be from the Hchilia royal family.
Nora looked him up and down, saying, "You don't seem like a royal bodyguard or anything."
Mateo smiled and asked, "Do you know how many members there are in the Hchilia royal family?"
Nora shook her head and said, "I haven't paid attention to it."
Hchilia was just a small country.
She didn't follow international political issues.
If it weren't for Millie being brought here, she probably wouldn't have come here in her lifetime.
"I'm a prince."
Nora was speechless.
Mateo was a prince!
"If you're a prince, why are you hiding here and pretending to be a fool? Aren't you afraid of disgracing the royal family?" Nora asked, puzzled.
A look of mockery flashed in Mateo's eyes.
"When you're on the brink of death, do you still care about dignity?"
Nora was stunned and probed, "Are you saying someone in the royal family wants to kill you?"
Where there were people, there was conflict.
Even wealthy families had constant strife, let alone a royal family.
Mateo fell silent, then he put down the glass and spoke sincerely, "Dr. Smith, I came to you because I need your help to treat a patient."
"What kind of patient?" Nora asked.
"An old servant who has taken care of me since I was a child, Florence Petrova."
Mateo went to great lengths to find her, just to ask her to treat an old servant?
Nora couldn't help but feel more curious about this prince.
Royal family members usually cared a lot about status and reputation.
However, Mateo went to great lengths to find her for a servant.
It showed he was a person of kindness.
"Dr. Smith, if you can cure Florence, I'll agree to any condition you have." Mateo looked hopeful.
Nora said, "The royal family should have plenty of doctors, and their skills shouldn't be inferior to mine. Why do you insist on having me treat Florence?"
There must be highly skilled doctors in Hichilia.
Mateo didn't need to come to her.
"There are many doctors, but they aren't willing to treat Florence."
A hint of coldness flashed across Mateo's handsome face.
Nora was stunned and asked, "Doctors are unwilling to treat her? You're a prince; who would dare disobey you?"
Mateo lowered his eyes slightly, hiding his emotions.
"My biological mother is not the queen; I'm an illegitimate child."
Nora was shocked, digesting the information.
So Mateo was an illegitimate child.
Mateo's life as an illegitimate child in the royal family would be fraught with challenges.
"My mother used to teach royal etiquette, and my maternal family is from Chrisland."
Mateo continued, "My mother was very beautiful when she was young, so my father took a liking to her. One day, my father got drunk and raped her despite her resistance."
"My father was the heir to the royal family and couldn't marry a commoner, but he forcibly kept my mother. He would threaten her with my grandparents' lives if she tried to leave. My mother had no choice but to become his mistress and gave birth to me."
"This experience left my mother in constant sorrow, and she eventually developed depression. When I was six, she drowned herself."
At this point, Mateo's eyes reddened slightly.
Nora listened intently, not saying a word.
At this moment, anything she said would be inappropriate, so she silently played the role of a listener.
She refilled Mateo's glass with water.
Mateo calmed himself, took the glass, and thanked her.
"After my mother died, my father brought me into the royal family. I was smart and clever from a young age, and my father liked me a lot. But because of this, I became the target of my siblings' jealousy."
"They schemed against me, tormented me, and scared me, causing me to suffer both minor and major injuries. When I was twelve, they even deliberately made me fall off a cliff, leaving me in a coma for two months."
"Fortunately, I woke up. After I woke up, Florence, who had been taking care of me, secretly advised me to pretend to be crazy to stay alive until I grew up."
"Florence said that I needed to secretly build my strength to be able to fight back. I did as she said. My siblings probably thought I was a loser and indeed restrained themselves, no longer scheming against me, but they still had people watching my every move."
Mateo recounted calmly as if telling someone else's story.
But Nora could empathize.
She had also been schemed against by her stepmother and stepsister since childhood.
She knew that feeling all too well.
And as a prince, Mateo must have suffered even more.
"So the people who came just now were your brothers' spies?"
"Yes."
Mateo nodded and said, "They are spies my siblings placed around me. If they find out I came to see you, they will definitely think I'm pretending to be crazy."
Mateo paused and added, "Over the years, Florence has taken care of and encouraged me. Without her, I might not have made it this far. She is like family to me, and now she is ill. Dr. Smith, I really don't want to lose her."
Listening to Mateo's story, Nora asked, "What illness does she have?"
"She has a stroke."
A stroke could be a serious or minor condition.
"Have you taken her to see a doctor?"
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