Chapter 46: The List of Deviations
The Baye manor’s gardens looked too perfect from this height.
Lucas sat at the small table by the window, elbows propped neatly, spine perfectly straight—as if posture could make order out of chaos. Outside, the gardens gleamed beneath the late light, arranged in precise symmetry. Nothing about them was natural.
His tea had gone cold. Again.
He hadn’t touched the agenda in the last ten minutes. The leather cover sat open, a thin pen slotted into the crease, hovering between pages. On the left-hand sheet, his own handwriting stared back at him.
List of Deviations
Lucas Oz Kilmar becomes Lucas Oz D’Argente - future duke. Serathine is my guardian - Misty banned from seeing me ever again after the GalaTrevor Ariston Fitzgeralt — Grand Duke of the North.Who sent the info about me being his son to the Emperor?
The last line wasn’t underlined. He’d rewritten it twice already, and still it didn’t look right. Too vague. It hadn’t happened in his past life—not like this. Misty had spent years hiding what he was. The registry had been tampered with, sealed shut. Lucas hadn’t even known the truth until it was too late to matter.
But now?
Now Serathine had announced him as her heir—and not just to the Capital. The Baye Gala had made it official. Lucas Oz D’Argente, ward of the Duchess. An heir with land, name, and blood that mattered.
But she hadn’t stopped there.
She had also confirmed the interest of the North—an alliance between House D’Argente and House Fitzgeralt, through engagement. Through him.
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Even more, Trevor wanted to take part in it.