Chapter 135: Threads of Deceit
"Alex, hear me out!" The princess ran to the duke.
"Alex, hear me out! I’m not lying. Whatever she is saying is a lie. I didn’t do anything. Do you think I can commit a crime of killing a person?" she said, running toward the duke while trying to stop him.
"I don’t know, princess, what you can do and what you can’t. But right now, I have evidence that you have committed a crime. I have proper evidence that the maid said she clearly delivered the letter to the duchess, which was meant for you, so the investigation needs to be started," Duke said while walking.
"And how could you believe that when you didn’t read the letter yourself? You didn’t see what was written there, nor did I. Then how could you be so sure I have committed the crime?" she said.
"Princess, the duchess has read the letter, and I believe her. She said you have committed a crime, which means you did. And I didn’t even treat you like a criminal, so don’t try to say I’m behaving this way toward a criminal, or I would be so forced to think you were the one who put poison in the duchess’s food, which is why she was on the verge of dying," Duke glared at Princess Vixara.
"But I did no such thing. You are only blindly trusting her because I said I want to marry you. Otherwise, how could you just toss me like that? I’m the princess, your cousin whom you have known from childhood," she said, tears dripping down her cheek.
"Yes, but now the person I’m seeing is not the person I knew in childhood," Duke said and walked toward the entrance of the mansion.
"I’m going to the capital. I may not come for a few days, and don’t let anyone go outside. Especially the princess, she needs to be inside the mansion until I return," Duke ordered the head maid.
"As you wish, my lord," he said and left toward his horse, while the princess tried to go outside of the mansion. Still, the head maid said, "You can’t go outside, princess. This is the duke’s order."
"And who are you to stop me? You are just a mere maid. So behave like one. No need to involve yourself in my business," she said, grunting in anger.