Chapter 175

“Hey! You there! Tell the Viscount that James Cheslow is here!”

Shaking the gate of the Listerwell estate, James shouted at a servant passing in the distance.

The servant startled, then ran into the mansion as if fleeing. Even after a long while, no one came out.

It hardly felt like the same estate that had always welcomed him.

“Bella… did you really betray me?”

His insides felt twisted, his head spinning. He couldn’t believe that the beautiful woman who had always whispered that she loved only him had been unfaithful with another man.

So he clung to a different suspicion.

‘Bella wouldn’t deceive me. The Duke of Kailas must have threatened her while I was away. He must have used his power to crush her and steal her from me…!’

Yes—wasn’t that far more convincing?

Bella was the most beautiful woman in Genoa—no, in the entire empire—and Cedric must…