Having heard the news, Count Greenwood ran to the room, pale as death. Just as the head housekeeper had said, the room was empty.
The engagement ceremony dress. The jewelry. The shoes.
Everything was ready, yet only Ines had vanished like smoke.
Even as he saw it with his own eyes, he could not understand it. Where on earth could Ines have gone, when she had arrived at the ducal residence together with him?
“Why on earth did you leave the girl alone! Even if we rush the preparations, we'll barely have time!”
His resentment lodged in the wrong person. At Count Greenwood's rebuke, the head housekeeper felt a self-reproach so great she could scarcely breathe. It seemed as though this whole situation had come about through her own fault.
Just then, Cedric stepped in front of the head housekeeper, who was trembling all over, and regarded Count…
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