Chapter 12: Journey To The West [3]
I didn’t go back to the Evans estate.
In fact, I never planned to.
The knights were exhausted—wounded in both body and spirit—so I let them return on their own. I handed them a sealed letter to deliver to my father.
In that letter, I wrote that one of our men had died while escorting me to the Draken Duchy, and that I, as the Young Master, had ordered full compensation to be given to the fallen knight’s family.
Yes, you heard right—while escorting me to the Draken Duchy.
Not a word about going outside of the North.
Not a single mention of the snowstorms, the beasts, or the lie I told to escape the duchy.
It was a secret. One that couldn’t reach my father.
That’s why I gave strict orders to the Knight-Captain and the rest of the escort team:
Say nothing about the North. Nothing about the deception. Nothing about what really happened.
And if they decided to open their mouths...