Chapter 196

A muscle twitched beneath Karman's eye. His mouth opened and closed as though he might shout at any moment, but instead of raising his voice, he let out a sigh.

Then he spun around sharply and spoke.

"Follow me."

His tone and the atmosphere around him were so icy that the nobles trailing behind tensed and froze in their tracks.

Lately, the nobles had been watching the state of affairs between Cassion and Karman with razor-sharp attention.

Once it came out that Julia had been a witch, anyone with even the faintest connection to her had been hauled in, one after another, for questioning.

Most of the nobility had some tie to Julia, good or bad, and every one of them lived in dread of when Karman might summon them next.

And yet Karman had turned cold toward the one remaining heir to his throne.

There was no way he'd…