Strategic Marriage with the Mad Villain (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 28

It wasn’t as if I’d raised my voice, yet raw emotion bled through so palpably it sent a chill down my spine.

“If you understood, why don’t you just leave already.”

Reus’s tone and voice were noticeably rougher than usual—anyone could tell his patience had run dry—but Cassien, as if oblivious to it all, kept blurting out absurdities.

“I can’t do that. I absolutely must speak with Roel today.”

Is he truly out of his mind…?

Though keeping mistresses was widely tolerated, high society was steeped in the belief that affairs between nobles were among the gravest of sins.

No matter how infamous Cassien was for making every woman in the capital weep, his current behavior was utterly unforgivable—and certain to stir scandalous gossip.

Yet, fully aware of that, he brazenly approached a married woman like this—and worse, declared outright to her husband, the Grand Duke of the Empire, that he intended to take his wife away.

No wonder Reus openly scowled.

“I didn’t realize you still hadn’t grasped your place.”

“Coming from Your Highness, who stole another man’s fiancée, that’s hardly something to say.”

“Cassien!”

Startled by the biting sarcasm, I reflexively shouted Cassien’s name.

An odd tension hung briefly between them. Soon, Reus stepped slightly closer to Cassien.

“Do you really think that after even a single conversation, Roel would go back to you?”

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