He Who Covets the Abandoned Bride (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 175

“What on earth happened?”

Laila wanted to ask just that, but it was difficult to secure time alone with Adrian. As soon as their business concluded, Isabella’s maid hurriedly took her away from Count Orson’s estate.

Naturally, everything Laila had done in the meantime was reported back to Isabella—as the maid’s own doing.

That didn’t particularly trouble her, however. After all, Isabella wasn’t someone Laila genuinely needed to impress.

Still, seeing things unfold this way made her somewhat understand why Isabella trusted no one… perhaps “bitter” was the right word.

On reflection, even she herself had come here intending to deceive Isabella, while the maid right beside her—despite showing no real loyalty—was busy scheming to claim credit for herself.

Whether Isabella’s distrust came first or the abundance of enemies around her came first was a question as useless as debating whether the chicken or the egg came first.

In any case, after that rather strange sequence of events, the “Marquis Millay” stood before Isabella Fitzroy a few days later.

Isabella received him seated on a sofa in the center of her room.

She scanned him thoroughly from head to toe in his neat suit and asked her first question.

“Are you truly the Marquis Millay of Harkin?”

Laila watched Adrian, who was calmly playing the Marquis Millay, with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation as she bent her waist slightly.

Adrian courteously bowed, the corners of his mouth lifting gently.

“That is correct, Your Highness, First Princess of Fitzroy.”

To Laila’s eyes, he looked far too much like Adrian—would Isabella really not notice?

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