Chapter 42: Reputation
[Her eyes had been different since we got engaged. And most especially when she was brought here and we got married. It didn’t shine as brightly as before anymore. I have never even heard her laugh once even when speaking with her maid from Lobelius.]
Arabella instantly felt guilty but how could she just turn to look at him again after avoiding his eyes?
She could feel that he was still staring at her so intensely too.
[When I met her as Elmir, she was, all smiles to me. It hurt to hear her utter someone else’s name while she spoke to me, but she was so kind and attentive to me back then. And so I didn’t even care anymore that I was in someone else’s appearance and just wanted to be close to her. Did she like Elmir’s appearance much more than mine? Back then she even gave me her hairpin and bracelet.]
’Sir Elmir was a real person?!’ Arabella blinked. ’Ah, right. Of course, he was. How else would Alwin know his appearance, voice, and build that he was able to copy it through magic.’
She figured Sir Elmir must be someone both Alwin and Ferdinand knew. Probably someone in Estrella since she had never met the true Sir Elmir, Zion, or Rowan.
’Still, how could Ferdinand not know he is also very much good-looking and attractive? Did he never have any lovers before? Or at least someone who liked him?’
Arabella thought it was impossible for no one to even like Ferdinand when he had everything.
Looks, money, strength, power, and status.
How would there be no lady to approach him?
A lot of ladies would at least like him for the things he had and consider him a good prospect for marriage.