Chapter 72

Chapter 72

"…What?"

At Ines's brazen words, the Count could only ask back in a daze. But her father's reaction made Ines scream even more furiously.

"You say it's for the sake of the family, but you only want to sell me at a high price. Then sell yourself. You'd fetch an even higher price. Don't you like that idea?"

"You've truly lost your mind. I did it for you…"

Stunned, the Count could manage only that much.

"For me? Do you even know what 'for me' means? Not once, until now, have you tried to learn what I want or what I need. And you claim you did it for me? What, exactly?"

Ines gritted her teeth and murmured in a low voice. The bitterness she had never shown her father came pouring out like a collapsing riverbank.

"Ever since I was born, you've been a man who couldn't…