Please Marry My Son (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 124

“……Yes.”

Since he clearly couldn’t deceive him, Eric hesitated briefly before answering honestly when immediately questioned.

Seeing Eric’s calm reply, the Earl of Lancaster clicked his tongue.

“What if you can’t handle it?”

“There’s nothing I can do about it.”

As expected, another straightforward answer.

That pleased him somewhat, yet it wasn’t as if he could openly praise Eric for it.

“Even now, more than ten years later, I still regret it.”

The Earl of Lancaster’s voice was calm and quiet.

“Every day—no, every hour—I chew it over whenever I see Alicia. I wonder if things might have turned out differently had I judged or acted differently back then.”

“That wasn’t your fault, my lord.”

“Everyone says that. But it doesn’t change how I feel.”

Perhaps because the Earl’s expression and tone were so composed, his words felt even heavier.

“If anything goes wrong with Alicia, I’ll probably live like this for the rest of my life—regretting even more, blaming myself even more. I’ll keep wondering, ‘What if I’d done this?’ or ‘What if I’d done that?’ And yet—”

The Earl of Lancaster fixed his gaze squarely on Eric.

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