Chapter 75.1

Yurina sat on the sofa in the middle of the room and watched as Emily entered the room, guided by Sir Aaron’s iron grip.

Perhaps sensing something amiss in the atmosphere, Emily closed her eyes tightly and frowned, in contrast to her usual cheerful manner. Then, as soon as her gaze met Yurina’s, she ran up to her and knelt down.

“Milady!”

“Do you know why I called you?”

“I don’t.”

Yurina looked at Emily and bit her lips tightly. She tried to hide her emotions from her face, but she never succeeded.

‘Would it be easier if Ray did it?’

In such a situation, it wasn’t funny. But it was no less amusing that, in her hour of need, it was Reynard who first came to her mind, and not Betsy, or even the Marquis. Yurina was now wondering how she had dependent on him?

Sympathy for him was only recently realized by her and accepted as a fact. In fact, years had passed since those feelings took root in her subconscious.

Perhaps seeing a ray of hope in Yurina’s smile, Emily jumped up from her knees and grabbed her hem. Sir Aaron hastened to intervene. Yurina then gestured for him to leave.

“But lady…”

Sir Aaron led the knights out of the room under Yurina’s determined gaze. With the sturdy knights gone, Emily was able to speak more calmly.

“Lady, I really don’t know why you called me. I, I really…”

“Don’t you know?”

“What?”

Emily blinked rapidly. Her bloodshot eyes were wet, as if she might burst into tears at any moment. She seemed to want a detailed explanation, but Yurina didn’t do anything but ask the same thing over and over.

“I ask you don’t know?”

“I, I have no idea what the lady is talking about… I don’t know anything.”

“Emily.”

Yurina took out an earring that she kept in a drawer next to the sofa. She kept it the way she got it from Reynard. Therefore, there was still dark red blood on the earring pin.

When she waved the earring in front of Emily’s nose, Emily’s face turned white.

“Something familiar, isn’t it?”

“Lady, I…”

Yurina took her time with Emily and calmly waited for the continuation. Emily looked at Yurina, then at the earring, and finally burst into tears.

“Milady, I’m so sorry. Please forgive me.”

There was no need in other words.

Yurina felt like the last hope inside Emily had vanished as the latter sobbed and clutched at her hem again like a straw.

‘So that’s how it was.’

Previously, Yurina held some hope while Sir Aaron took Emily to her for questioning.

Could it be that Emily really just lost her earring? And then the insidious enemy, who planned intrigues, found it? If not, then someone deliberately stole earring from Emily’s pocket?

The whole family would have thought that was ridiculous, but Yurina really didn’t want to believe that Emily was one of the conspirators.

Only for 6 months.

They hadn’t known each other for very long, but Yurina really liked her. She worked complaisantly, and didn’t show discontent. Even mired in work, Emily always kept a smile on her lips.

But now, looking at Emily’s reaction, Yurina felt that her previous assumptions were indeed absurd.

‘Betrayal is the price of faith.’

This new discovery wan’t pleasant.

Yurina hesitated for a moment and then threw away Emily’s hand. When Yurina got up and turned to leave the room, Emily desperately grabbed onto her dress again.

“Milady, milady! Please listen to me!”

“Is there anything else I need to know?”

“Please, just once…”

Ignoring her insistence, Yurina continued on her way to the door. Emily, having fallen to the floor, couldn’t even get up, and dragged herself along the floor. Cuffed with a heavy weight on her dress, Yurina staggered, unable to take even a few steps.

She could have just kicked Emily and left her laying like that. Otherwise, she could call Sir Aaron and ordered to take Emily away. However, the reason that prevented Yurina from doing so was probably due to her still smoldering compassion.

“What do you want to tell me?”

When Yurina turned around, Emily knelt down and wiped her face that was flooded with tears.