Chapter 160

"...They said Mom and Dad fell off a cliff, while they were riding in the carriage."

Noah's voice was so flat and even that it somehow felt even colder for it.

I said nothing, choosing simply to listen quietly to the boy's story.

What this child needed right now wasn't some hasty comfort, but simply someone to stay by his side and share this with him.

Noah glanced up at my eyes for a moment, then turned his gaze back to the gravestone in front of him.

"There was so much fog that day, they said the driver couldn't see the road properly."

Slowly, the boy told me the story of that sorrowful day he'd carried in his heart for so long.

The Young Duke and his wife had been on their way to a villa for a restful getaway when the carriage went off a cliff, and upon receiving…