Within moments, a group of guards surrounded Guinevere, holding her firmly.
She struggled, crying, but soon realized there was no hope of escape. She sneered.
so eager to rebel against your house’s chains… you clung to my lies! You doubted your own heart’s voice! How pathetic!TM
“You were so
Guinevere was dragged away, her laughter like a knife that pierced Vince’s heart, making it hard for him to breathe.
The cruel words that had hurt Seraphina had come from him. It was he who had nearly taken her heart’s blood.
Jan overwhelming grief surged over him, and he nearly collapsed.
After leaving home, didn’t head south.
I wanted to visit the land where my parents had fought their entire lives. After much travel, I arrived in the southern region.
was not as rich as the capital, but the people were simple and kind.
This place w
The ferryman eyed my fine woolen cloak curiously.
“Milady, these burderlands face constant raids. Why come here?”
I didn’t answer.
My parents had protected this land their whole lives, and I wanted to make their homeland better.
Here, I established a school. An orphanage. So no child would know the loneliness I’d endured.
Time passed quickly. As I stepped from the schoolhouse, rain ceased pelting my face.
But suddenly I felt the shelter of an oil–paper umbrella above my head.
That familiar fragrance, onell hadn’t smelled in a long time, filled the air, as if an entire lifetime had passed.
- up. Can you take better care
“You’re still the same as before,” he said. “On rainy days, you’d forget your umbrella, always waiting for me to come pick you up. C uf yourself?” I looked up, and it was Vince.
For a moment, I thought I was dreaming
Vince looked different now, his eyes were no longer bright, and he had lost much weight.
His voice was hourse, almost inaudible,
“Seraphina, I finally… finally found you.
1 thought I would never see Vince again in this lifetime.
“You came to find me… because Lord Father and Lady Mother missed ing?” I clenched my lists tightly, trying to suppress the emotions surging in my chest
How could Vince have come here just to find me?
Vince gazed into my eyes as it afraid I would disappear, his gaze bloodshop.
He reached out and touched my head, just like when we were children.
“It’s me. I wanted to see you.”
I stared at him, my mind blank
Chapter 9
“You came to find me. what about Guinevere?
Vince fet a sharp pain in his heart, a wave of deep sorrow washing over him.
He had never let the woman he loved know his true feelings
