Didn't Plan to Become a Companion (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 92

Right now, my goal was to safely leave this country—whose ways I felt I’d never truly grow accustomed to—and settle somewhere else.

“Sigh…”

Sabrina, who had been struggling to focus her wandering thoughts on just one thing, quickly gave up and slumped back against the carriage seat. When had her feelings become so deeply entangled?

What woman wouldn’t be unsettled when the very man she’d hated as much as she now missed pressed his face so close and proposed an engagement?

“Yes, so of course I’d feel this way.”

She disliked herself for thinking even now that she was glad she’d at least gotten to see his face one last time, yet she couldn’t stop the thoughts that kept surfacing on their own.

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Ricardo left Lienne at the winter villa and stepped out of the ducal residence once again.

His destination was House Paquin. Aside from attending their regular family banquet, this was the first time Ricardo had ever visited their estate.

When Ricardo found Julian, he was at the archery range set up in a corner of the ducal grounds.

“You’re doing something that doesn’t suit you.”

Instead of a greeting, those were Ricardo’s first words. Julian merely gave a quiet chuckle without even turning his head.

Julian himself thought so too—not just unsuitable, but an exceptionally rare sight.

In the dead of night, shrouded in deep darkness, no one around to show off to, and far from hunting season, he was voluntarily drawing a bow.

Remembering the steward’s expression when Julian had casually mentioned he’d shoot some arrows while waiting for Ricardo, Julian chuckled again.

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