Chapter 564
This last he said made me contemplate on the what ifs.
Originally, in a book where her story was told... This Crown Prince sitting next to me, expressing disgust about Lady Karina... loved her. Maddingly so. Obsessively so... Yet now he was here before myself, saying there was no possibility for even having her near disturbed his peace... That he wanted her dead because of how her appearance unsettled myself that first time and how it now aggravated him.
’I might even feel guilty... she was supposed to have his heart in the first place. Yet... look at them now...’
It was odd a sensation. To know this should not be yet came to be...
"Your Highness." — I then said, taking all of the many thoughts and contradictions in my heart aside. Looking at him visibly restless even as he tried not to show it... and placing my hand on his, even when I knew our chaperons would sooner than later come to make us separate. — "This I will say, I do not want you to take it as if I have paid no attention to how these encounters made you feel. As it is... I was also displeased. Very much so, I acknowledge... However, this you say is not reason enough for you to take her life."
"... Disrespecting who I am and hurting you is not enough? I heard her say I would regret it. And I already do, Lady Marianne. Why would you say these reasons are not enough?"
"Because-"
"Excuse me, yet this closeness... I must intervene, Lady Marianne."
"Ah... It is alright Sir Vitor." — Bowing as I removed my hand, which he had come to grasp with both of his, the crown prince and I seemed gloomy by how the conversation had been going. Hence, we took the moment to placate the emotions. Resuming my sayings without the affliction I had at first. — "It is not that they are not enough, my prince... Yet, no one but us knows them. Were you to kill her in the spot the next time, how would the people react? How would they think of you when little do they know about that lady yet many things are believed about you?"
"... People’s opinion does not matter."