Chapter 111: Mom...
Walking into his home, he wished to quickly head to his room but the scene in front of him shocked him...
Why was he here?!
All he wanted now was to disappear into his room and escape the weight of his failures. But as he entered the main hall, he froze, the colour draining from his face. Seated beside his wife, the Duchess, was the assassin!
How was this possible? His mind was racing... Did she know everything?! There were too many possibilities now... And too many thoughts occupied his mind. If she knew... Should he kill her? Can he kill her? He did not have powers!
No... He worked too hard and took too many risks for everything to go down the drain. He will figure out a way... He always has!
He looked at the Duchess hoping to gauge her reaction... Her emotions... But he saw nothing. Not anger, not disappointment.
She was as cold as ice. She felt nothing for him. She had given up on him a long time ago, he still thought she was the infatuated young woman she once was. She wasn’t the Eastern Duchess for no reason...
He was stupider than Adeline expected.
As the Duke struggled to process the situation, he realized they were not alone. Adeline and Dimitri stood off to the side, observing the room’s tension. And then he saw Everett. His son...
His eyes were red and swollen... No... No! The truth has been revealed. Everything he prepared has been slipping out from under him!
Everett looked at his father with an expression of anger and betrayal. He didn’t want to believe that his father was the one who caused his mother’s death... But what with the evidence right in front of him...