Chapter 94

One’s Blood (6)

“The count would think it was the work of Lady Adelia, who has a grudge against the house.”

In addition, Rowena also said she would be able to turn away from her family whose house was burned down.

He thought it would be a good way to set the house on fire, in a situation where he had to kill Louis as well as hurt Theo.

Anyways, Lyria ran away. Every time I come back home, I am furious!

Upon hearing the news that Rowena would be the Crown Prince’s fiancee, Matthias thought Lyria would be his. He was the first to swear when he heard that Lyria had run away with her lover.

He was angry every time he looked next door, but he thought he could move to a larger house while he was at it. Even if Rowena didn’t give him a house, he was going to use Kernan’s help to find a better mansion.

“The fire will come from downstairs, but just in case, you’ll have to wake the count up and go out in time.”

As he said, Matthias was not sleeping and was getting ready to wake up his father and go out. Matthias fed Louis a drink containing sleeping pills for this occasion.

Just in case Paul would try to save Louis, he sneaked into Louis’ room earlier and hid Louis who was asleep on the floor of the closet.

It’s Theo… He’ll have to break the door to save himself, so he’ll give up. Now I just have to wait!

Until he went out today, he was firmly convinced that he had to work at the engagement ball, but now it was different.

Kill Theo and Louis and he didn’t have to hurry.

He listened to Kernan and asked if it wouldn’t have to be tonight, but Kernan said it must be tonight.

“The crown prince will question whether her younger brothers will not appear at the wedding ceremony. Then the count will take your brother out of the warehouse room.”

Worse than that, the Crown Prince sent someone to check their actions. He couldn’t let that happen.

Matthias, who was sitting on the bed shaking his legs nervously, jumped up.

“There’s a fire somewhere!” He heard a sound. Some of the servants seemed to have noticed the fire.

Already?

There was a sense of haste, but he thought he could run away now. Matthias, like his father’s most beloved son, stormed out of the room and ran to Paul’s bedroom, the count.

* * *

The fire was starting near the warehouse room where Theo was confined. He didn’t even know Theo was waking up and making a fuss.

“Father!”

As he opened the door with a breaking spirit, he felt the bed for a sign. Paul crumpled his brows impatiently and looked at Matthias.

“Matthias…? What’s the matter?”

“Get up quickly! There’s a fire!”

“What? Fire?!”

“It looks like it’s on the first floor, so we have to hurry!”

Paul, who seemed to have lost his temper at Matthias’ cry, got out of bed. He was so surprised that he followed Matias out of the bedroom without wearing shoes.

“Louis… I must wake him up! You take your servants, break the warehouse door and save Theo! I’ll bring Louis out!”

“Yes, Father!”

He felt uncomfortable with Matthias running right away without being annoyed as usual, but he thought it would be different in this situation. Although his mother was different, they were all his sons.

Paul never discriminated against them in that fact alone.

Paul scurrying down the hall opened Louis’ door. He checked the bed, but he couldn’t find Louis.

Did he run away first after hearing that there was a fire?

He was secretly angry at the fact that he ran away alone without waking his father, but he thought he had no choice. Isn’t Louis a child?

There was nothing more to worry about if Louis ran away. He thought Matthias would save Theo.

…Mathias isn’t pretending to save Theo, is he?

He didn’t think so, but he was nervous for some reason.

* * *

It was the imperial family that prepared the ball, but it was the first party since Rowena became the prince’s fiancee.

As Rowena stayed in the royal family, learning skills had to kick in.

There were no other women in the current Imperial family. Officially, the royal mistresses were the emperor’s two queens, but they lived as if they were ghosts.

There was no way that they could conduct the ball. They couldn’t come out of their residence unless it was Cecil’s order. Most of the important choices were made through Rowena.

So there was a lot of tension in Rowena and today, the last day, she agreed to sleep quietly.

To be exact, Rowena had promised to love Cecil as much as he wanted as soon as the ball was over.

She was about to lie down on her side and rest in peace, but someone interrupted her.

Knock knock!

Cecil woke up at the urgent knock. There were only a few people that could go through, and even though, there were procedures.

To be woken up at this time, it had to be urgent.

As Cecil rose from the bed, Rowena, who had fallen asleep next to him, opened her eyes. Cecil patted Rowena on the head and said,

“… sleep more.”

Cecil, who came out of bed, walked towards the balcony. As soon as he appeared, one of his six shadows knelt at his feet.

“What’s going on?”

“Your Highness, there’s something wrong. You need to move right now.”

Cecil frowned at his words.

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