Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 84

“Bicander Territory is currently forbidding all entry and exit by the imperial family and the Madelaine ducal house.”

That was it.

The reason every message sent to Bicander Territory had returned in vain. Even Sir Huxley, his aide, had said he couldn’t meet Olivia.

Duke Madelaine gazed toward one corner of the banquet hall. At the end of his icy stare, Olivia appeared.

More precisely, Olivia surrounded by two knights and the Archduke.

When he’d first heard the girl had arrived in the capital, he’d thought everything would return to its proper course.

But…

He hadn’t received any summons to visit the Madelaine mansion. And that child, who once adored the Crown Prince so deeply, was now refusing even to use his nickname. What on earth could have happened in Bicander Territory during those few weeks?

Remembering the earlier incident made his stomach churn.

Olivia’s expressionless face, telling him coldly not to use her nickname—as if she held no lingering attachment—and that girl who, upon entering the banquet hall and locking eyes with him, had turned away as though nothing mattered.

She was absolutely not the kind of child who could do such a thing. The Duke firmly told himself this, calming the rising impatience in his chest.

He had already resolved to bring Olivia back into the mansion.

For Hazel and Essela.

He had decided to forgive that child—just a little—who always brought him misfortune. If he spoke those words, she would surely leave the Archduke again and return to the ducal residence.

But now was not the right moment to speak them.

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