Chapter 75: Painful History
"What do you mean? Whose daughter is she then?"
Despite the intended sense of reassurance that Ahspid’s words were supposed to deliver, Tillian’s mind was focused on quenching his curiosity and learning the truth.
The magus sized him up with a long stare, contemplating whether or not the Duke deserved to learn the truth that easily, but then only shrugged his shoulders, giving in to his own secret passion for storytelling.
"Well, Your Grace, it depends on what kind of rumors you yourself heard about Queen Consort Yuliana."
Tillian scratched his chin, trying to recollect everything he had ever heard about Aideen’s late mother, then redirected his glowing red eyes back to the mage, and replied,
"Just the filthy gossip of the noble circle... The one that berates the Queen by calling her a whore who seduced a royal knight and dared to let him into her bedroom."
"That is the one, Duke Valentine."
"What?! It cannot be! How dare you confirm this so bluntly!"
With an enormous wave of rage overcoming his entire body, the Duke grabbed Ahspid by the color of his black coat, his glare intensifying with each passing second while the mage’s lips were grinning in an insensitive and rather inappropriate manner as if to mock Tillian’s sincere anger.