The Duke Only Needs My Child (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 142

At that moment when Miera and the knights were frozen, staring at the empty room, Ruth, who had arrived a step late, interjected.

“See, what did I tell you? I said she wasn’t here.”

“Where did you smuggle the lady to?”

At the knight’s tone, as if interrogating a criminal, Ruth smiled coldly, as if exasperated, and retorted.

“Watch your words. Smuggle, what nonsense. Yesterday, His Excellency must have told that lord directly. That she would go to Rivren soon.”

“Normally, don’t people greet the lord before leaving?”

“The lady’s health wasn’t good, so she went to Rivren first. His Excellency is still here, does he have to report every little thing to you?”

“Is there no reason to hide the Duchess?”

Just as Ruth, unable to bear it any longer, was about to say something, a familiar voice came from behind him.

“Why are you looking for my wife?”

The knights, who had been about to rush and interrogate Herdin who had appeared just in time, hesitated upon seeing his condition.

“Your Excellency, you’re badly hurt—”

Miera, who had discovered the roughly bitten back of his hand and various large and small scratches and was about to approach, was also overwhelmed by his fierceness and froze.

His appearance approaching with a blood-splattered face evoked eeriness. Moreover, the aggressive mana surging around him was threatening just by its presence.

The knights of Nerha watched Herdin’s mood with considerable tension, then swallowed hard and asked him.

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