Earl and Fairy: Volume 5 [Complete] by Mizue Tani

Author:Mizue Tani
Language: eng
Format: epub

After Lydia was gone, Edgar found himself unable to depart from the room in which she had left him. He sank down onto the sofa.

At length, Raven appeared to tell him that Lydia had gone home early for the day. “I sense it was indeed an unpleasant discussion after all,” the servant said.

“I could imagine no worse.” Edgar slumped, propping his chin up with his hand. “It would seem Kelpie has come into possession of the Daydream. Lydia says he is willing to part with it if we annul our engagement.”

“And did you, my lord?”

“Are you too, Raven, of the opinion that I would favor a diamond over her?”

“Forgive me, my lord.” Apparently, he was.

Edgar had thought that he had made his affections quite clear, but perhaps that hadn’t been the case. No wonder Lydia had presented Kelpie’s condition as favorable, much as it dispirited the earl to accept it. He sighed. “What do you suppose it is that she dislikes about me?”

“But my lord, would you choose Miss Carlton over the diamond?”

“You can be rather relentless at times, can’t you?”

As far as Edgar was concerned, it was an impossible choice. He needed Lydia. However, the diamond was also essential, and Ulysses could not be allowed to obtain it. He ought to have known how to solve such a conundrum by now.

“I cannot think of a solution that would allow me to have them both.”

“Then I must wonder what led Miss Carlton to flee.”

You and I both. Edgar still wanted to believe there was a way to keep Lydia by his side and obtain the diamond at the same time. Regardless, her ironclad confidence that he would rather have the diamond than her irritated him. He had gone on to take his anger out on her, something that could only be described as foolish in light of his wanting them both.

Whatever he wanted, whatever he needed, he would obtain. As such, he had no intention of letting Lydia go. It wasn’t a simple philosophy, but a given, and that was why he had been so surprised and exasperated at himself for shouting that Kelpie could keep the diamond. Edgar was a good liar, but he saw no sense in telling lies that weren’t to his advantage. His parting threat certainly fell into that category, and yet it escaped his lips anyway. Was that perhaps how he truly felt?

Still in a state of confusion, he got to his feet. “She isn’t free of me yet, Raven.”

“She scratched you, my lord.” The boy offered his master a handkerchief.

It was yet another entry for the list of unexpected events to occur during their encounter. Edgar had been more cautious about getting too close to her lately, and she, in turn, had started letting her guard down—if partly out of resignation. But if it was a kiss he sought, he had already missed several opportunities more apt than the one he had attempted to take. What had been the purpose of his patience if he was going to squander it as he had done?

“I was unable to stop myself.

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