Chapter 13: The Engagement Ceremony (2)
Despite arriving early to the engagement ceremony in hopes of gathering information, I ended up spending a mind-numbingly dull time trapped beside the prince, who suddenly started acting overly familiar with me inside the ballroom.
Only when he stepped out briefly to get some fresh air was I finally able to breathe for a moment—only to learn this chaos had been unfolding while I was gone.
If it hadn’t been for Meredia’s stubborn old butler, who reminded me suspiciously of Alfred, I might’ve ended up facing her as the prologue boss.
“Sir Whitney, I don’t quite understand what you mean.”
Still catching my breath after narrowly preventing that emotional time bomb from detonating, I heard the prince’s confused voice next to me.
“Wasn’t Lunelle your partner?”
Come to think of it, despite my protests, he had insisted on gifting Lunelle an extra dress and had her maids dress her up personally.
Judging by the situation, he didn’t seem to have caught on to the secret deal between Meredia and me—so why has he been taking such a keen and frankly unreasonable interest in me for the past few days?
“There seems to have been a misunderstanding, Your Highness.”
“A misunderstanding?”
“Miss Lunelle is not my partner. She came as an attendant.”
As much as I was confused myself, I needed to clear this up quickly—for the sake of Meredia, who was starting to look visibly upset again.