I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 267

“You want to fight?”

At those words, the air around them changed instantly.

Until now, it had been utterly unthinkable for the leader of the rival and hostile House Vermonde—no less than from Rowen itself—to travel all the way to the distant north merely to congratulate the new lord of Valmont on their succession.

Moreover, hadn’t Rowen recently endured a civil war alongside the Pagos region?

Never before had the people of the domain united so wholeheartedly in hoping for reconciliation between House Vermonde and House Temnes.

Just as the late Queen Sylvia and the Duchess Temnes had been sisters, reshaping the kingdom’s political landscape,

this time, wasn’t the Duchess Temnes now the sister of Duke Vermonde himself?

With such high hopes, when Clodel’s party arrived and the onlookers—who had been eagerly watching the planned meeting between relatives—saw Irena and Kai An engaging in a silent battle of wills, they froze stiff.

‘Damn it. Of course Temnes and Vermonde would be like this.’

As that same thought passed through everyone’s minds,

“It’s nothing of the sort. I’m not so foolish as you seem to worry.”

Irena said lightly, her expression relaxing.

“I merely wondered whether you remembered something I’d heard long ago.”

His brow twitched slightly at her words—a veiled reference to how Kai An, though having invited him as a guest, had behaved as if he’d never learned manners.

“Thank you for coming to Valmont Castle. This way, please.”

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