Chapter 54 · Heigan de Bromian

"H-How are you here?"

Isadel could hardly believe the man before her eyes, even as she looked at him.

Heigan de Bromian.

The man who, on that night, had fled Rastain toward the Duchy of Brecen and then vanished without a trace. Whether he had crossed the border safely, or whether he had been caught by the rebels on the way and lost his life, she could not know.

From Brecen, which had cut off all contact with the outside, no news had come for a long time, and as a result, no one knew his whereabouts.

In the end, Isadel had no choice but to accept it.

That the heir to the Duchy of Brecen and eldest son of the Bromian family—and the man who had once been meant to become her fiancé—was dead.

But now, the man she had believed dead was standing alive before her eyes.

Looking…