Chapter 426: Complications

Chapter 426: Complications



Northern sat with his legs crossed, silently waiting for his mother, Lady Henai, to talk.

She also stayed silent, her face however was a mixture of anxiety and uncertainty.

Northern decided to fold his hands and be patient with her, deciding to give her time to speak.

After a couple of minutes passed, Lady Henai finally raised her head. She looked passionately into Northern's face and said:

"Can't we let it be in the past? You're alive and that is all that matters. We can start a new life in Luinngard. You'll live a peaceful and silent life with your mother, me."

Northern's expression folded as he heard her words.

This was it. This was one of the complications he had feared.

"No," he responded sharply. "I have no intention to stay in Luinngard. I had a life before now, in the Central Plains, and I plan to go back to that life. When I discovered my mother was a princess in this nation, I just had to see what she looked like for myself. I'm sorry, but I don't expect anything from you."

His words were like sharp thorns, deeply shredding her heart.

But she understood very well the point he was trying to get to her.

Lady Henai probably wanted to claim her son, the one she had waited over fifteen years for. She never wanted anything to separate them again.

But she also had to come to terms with the fact that her son was nurtured and cared for by other parents.

Which, by the looks of how Northern before her eyes had turned out to be such a stern boy at the age of fifteen, with the tone of a man to his person, have done a great job indeed.

But still, she didn't want to let her son go a second time.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"You don't need to tell me if you don't want to," Northern said to her.

His expression was calm and gentle.

"But I need your help."

Belatedly discovering that he was getting distracted, he brought himself back to the scene and sighed.

"I'm sorry, mother. I just have a lot on my mind." He uncrossed his legs and sat down on the ground, leaning backwards on his hands.

He looked at his mother one more time and raised his head up, admiring the architecture work of the ceiling before bringing his head back down to speak.

"Mother..." 'Damn, I sound almost weird,' Northern's mind shrank from slight cringe, but he continued anyway. "I just need to leave here silently. I know it might not be possible tonight, but I'd like to leave first thing tomorrow morning."

Lady Henai leaned her head closer to him, determination radiating from her beautiful face.

"If so, can I follow you?"

Northern's mouth fell from her words.

"Why?"

"I never want to lose you again. I will never let you out of my sight."

Northern observed her for a moment, then leaned away from his hands, placing them gently on her shoulders with care.

He smiled and assured her, "You will not lose me again, and I am going to make sure I come back to see you. I promise."

She looked at Northern's eyes with a crumbling expression. A smile curled up the corner of her lips, simultaneously causing a tear to drop.

"You really do take every one of my physical features. I'm glad it turned out like that."

"I'm glad too," Northern smiled. "You are astonishing," he complimented.

"Thank you."

Silence fell between the two for a few moments before Lady Henai asked a complicated

question.

"Now that you know you are a prince of Reimgard, do you plan to go there?"