Chapter 262.2
Eugene gazed at him with a look of surprise and felt the last of her tears dry up almost instantly.
Though it was brief, she hadn’t forgotten about the conversation she had with Flora yesterday as it had nearly put her into an awkward position. But since it was only mentioned in passing, she plainly believed that he didn’t give a fig about it, just like her family who pretended as if they heard nothing. If anything, that merely was a trivial incident which Eugene was likely to forget all about on the next day.
She merely stared with occasional blinking of her eyes before it dawned on her that she had missed her chance to gloss over the situation. But she wouldn’t have been able to answer him nevertheless since she hadn’t expected him to ask such a question.
“That’s…”
‘Have you lost your mind? Why are you stammering?’
Eugene reproached herself inwardly as her such response would likely cause more suspicion at this rate. But she could swear that she has done nothing that goes against her conscience. She first encountered Pides at the palace when he came to deliver Sang-je’s letter to her, and she absolutely had no personal feelings whatsoever for him.
Still, it didn’t feel right to feign ignorance since she was well aware of Jin’s feeling for Pides through her memories by now. Besides, it was impossible to leave out Pides if she were to explain to Kasser about the reason why Jin had decided to marry him in the first place.
But she wasn’t sure if it only had been a one-sided relationship or one of mutual giving since she knew no details about what really happened between Pides and Jin. All she could do was to conjecture from the snippets of memories she saw.
‘I should have asked my mother yesterday.’