I Plan to Repay Kindness with Enmity (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 42

Only the matter of choice remained. Either take her as his wife, or marry her off to a retainer bearing the Lorenst name. Either way, he intended to bring her into the house.

How could he let another family steal her away after all the years he had invested in her?

Though it was said that a priest’s power wasn’t inherited through bloodline, Hubert didn’t believe that.

After all, hadn’t the royal family uniquely produced many priests?

There was a reason the king was so determined not to wed Princess Lalatu—a priestess—to a desert barbarian.

Thinking of Princess Lalatu and the desert prince brought someone else instantly to mind.

‘Igraine.’

A troubled glint flickered in his ever-calm eyes.

‘Something’s changed about her.’

He couldn’t quite put it into words, but she seemed oddly intent on keeping her distance from him.

‘It’s irritating.’

He’d put Igraine forward both to curry favor with the king—who was especially sensitive about the Princess Lalatu issue—and because he coveted the princess title for House Lorenst. Had that been a mistake?

Ever since gaining the princess title and beginning to date the imperial prince, she seemed different.

Truthfully, there had been signs even before then, but he’d only truly felt that sense of alienation when he saw her standing beside the imperial prince.

Though she merely stood and conversed like any ordinary person, an invisible wall seemed to encircle them.

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