He Who Covets the Abandoned Bride (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 104

Reynald had already sensed in Pilmer that Millay’s gaze toward Laila was anything but ordinary.

After all, hadn’t he deliberately used Laila to provoke him…?

Yet now, the slave Reynald had brought from Wessex turned out to be Laila herself—and the fact that she was still kept by his side sent cold sweat trickling down Reynald’s back.

There was no need to strain himself interpreting this situation.

Because in an instant, Reynald immediately understood why he and Pilmer had fallen into such a predicament.

As if to confirm Reynald’s realization, Adrian gestured for Laila to sit in the chair right beside him.

A crown prince and a slave sitting side by side… Though this would astonish anyone unfamiliar with the situation, not a single person inside the tent was surprised by it.

Adrian, too, acted as though this were trivial, and gesturing toward a chair placed a short distance from Reynald, he spoke.

“If I say I’d like to set aside all the complicated matters for now and have a brief, friendly chat, I imagine that should be possible.”

“…….”

Reynald recognized this as a signal Adrian was sending him.

Though outwardly phrased as an invitation, the reality was that Adrian held full control of the situation—thus his words carried no such gentle meaning.

“A friendly chat…? Of course, that sounds perfectly fine. Building rapport is only natural, after all.”

Rapport—what a remarkably peaceful word.

Even as he uttered it, Reynald felt it didn’t suit the situation at all.

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