Duchess in the Attic: Volume 2 [Complete] by Mori

Author:Mori
Language: eng
Format: epub

19. Denounced

After her 15-day trip, Opal returned to the royal capital and attended a ball the following day of her return. She only decided to attend because she learned that Keymont would be present as well. Her reply for the invitation had been a little late, but Viscount and Viscountess Kreusel welcomed her warmly. After she finished greeting them, Opal found herself surrounded by many people.

“Marchioness Roussel, do you remember me?” a lady asked.

“Of course I do, Countess Keymont. It’s a pleasure to meet you again,” Opal replied.

Though Opal smiled back, she was internally panicking at this miscalculation. Countess Keymont was the mother of Keymont, Opal’s target, and the lady commanded quite a bit of power within the nobility. If his mother was in attendance, perhaps Keymont wouldn’t be present for this ball. If that were the case, Opal had to once again choose her events wisely, making sure to not run into Hubert and his potential wife.

It didn’t help that Countess Keymont was a narrow-minded and proud lady. When Opal was still single, the countess had tittered that such a “lascivious girl” should be shunned.

Tonight’s event was appearing to be a bust, and the moment Opal began to feel disheartened by the realization, another familiar voice called her name.

“Long time no see, Opal. I heard that you returned, but I never got a chance to see you. Wherever have you been?”

“It’s been a while, Kiara,” Opal replied. “I came back to inspect my land, so I’d left the royal capital for a good while.”

“Inspecting land?” Kiara repeated. “Can’t you just leave that to someone else? That’s not something a lady should do.”

“Is that so?”

Opal pasted a smile on her face. Kiara hadn’t changed—she remained the stubborn woman that pushed her viewpoints onto others. Until Opal’s scandal, she and Kiara had been close, but ever since, Kiara had outright ignored her. And she wasn’t the only one guilty of this; almost everyone currently surrounding Opal had done the same thing. Opal, however, wasn’t angry at them. While she was hurt and frustrated back then, she realized that it wasn’t her heart that suffered, but her pride. And ever since her feelings had been clarified she couldn’t have cared less about these nobles; there was no need to be troubled by the words of unimportant people. Although, I guess I’d come off as lonely to have no friends in society...

She’d created many enemies in Taisei already, and Alessandro could hardly be called an ally, much less a friend. If that were the case, she wanted a solid foundation in Socille, her home nation and also the place where she carried the most influence. With that in mind she smiled and spoke to every person that approached her—anything to help Claude.

The issue was Countess Keymont. Her son, a well-known debauchee, wouldn’t have possibly wanted to attend the same ball as his mother. Opal suspected that the two’s schedules had unknowingly overlapped. If Opal enacted her plan here, she’d embarrass the countess and earn her ire.

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