Chapter 213

The Spring of Enlightenment

“Focus on why you came north. Take the Saintess and disappear.”

Only after giving one last warning did the Grand Duke finally remove his hand from the carriage.

Adrian, who had somehow ended up looking like he was flirting with another man’s wife, scratched his forehead uneasily.

That was not my intention from the start.

He had simply been curious.

When he had briefly met Lady Annette Preyes at the temple before, she had seemed like a pale young lady with no particularly memorable traits.

Even when he heard rumors she liked him, Adrian had only scoffed.

But then—

She became Grand Duchess of Blenheim.

She helped raise the North.

She put the Saintess in an awkward position.

And I failed to recognize someone like that?

Adrian, usually confident in his judgment, found it unsettling.

That was why, after overhearing women talking about the dress shop,…