More Than You Know by YEMARO
Author:YEMARO
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Editio Publishing
Published: 2022-09-29T15:44:12+00:00
âMy, so thatâs what happened. My daughter is very righteous.â The viscount laughed heartily, and it felt so foreign to me.
I had never seen him laugh like that before. Iâd thought he didnât know how to, but I realized that he had simply never felt the need to. Jeffery and the viscountess seemed normal. They laughed as if that was the only thing they could think of doing.
The viscountess occasionally reached out to stroke my hair, and Jeffery offered me snacks. They both looked as though they loved me very much. They were jolly and merry, but Marias and Kendrick were as cold and unmoving as ice. Marias looked stern and distant, as if to prove that she had only shown me her warm side until now, and Kendrickâs impervious expression was new to me.
The Broschte couple acted like knights who had won a war. They barged into the Severilousesâ sitting room, praising me as the hero who had saved Shuell. Their eyes were brimming with greed. If I could see it, there was no way that the Severilouses couldnât. What would the Broschtes request?
The viscount desired nothing more than to be acquainted with the capitalâs nobles, so he surely wouldnât be satisfied with any reward money. I was the one who had essentially saved Shuell, so it was only natural that I was allowed to sit with them here. I shouldâve been the one to oversee this meeting, but my head kept emptying itself. My thoughts were fleeting, and I tried to keep a coherent thread going.
The Broschtes would want to keep the Severilouses as acquaintances and maintain a steady relationship. Still, my saving Shuell wasnât enough to guarantee such a liaison. That meant there was only one way for them to secure ties with Severilousâan engagement between Shuell and me.
It wasnât completely unrealistic that the duke and duchess would agree, given their unrealistically kind personalities. After all, Rietta was staying in the mansion solely because she had revealed Shuellâs location.
However, it could never happen.
An engagement would really be crossing the line. Engagements were nearly binding. One between the heir to a dukedom and a viscountâs daughter would be dishonorable enough, but if the engagement were ever broken off, it would be so much worse.
And now that the duke and duchess had seen the Broschtes, there was no guarantee that their kindness toward me would continue. Iâd had no ulterior motive for saving Shuell. He was an abused child, and he had been the only one I could save. I had to tell them I wanted nothing in return. Still, then what would happen to me?
If their plan to shove me into the Severilous family tree failed, the Broschtes would do anything in their power to drag me back home. Everything would go back to how it was, and they would once again try their best to sell me to the highest bidder.
There was no escape.
There was a void under my feet. I had nothing to call mine but somehow felt like I had lost everything.
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