Gerome simply could not accept it. His mother had done nothing wrong. She had never committed a single error, and now Eleonora—that wretched girl—was trying to poison his mind.
"Everything she said is nothing but nonsense!" Gerome gritted his teeth in fury.
When he arrived at his mansion, his hunched butler was already waiting at the main entrance. Not only the butler, but also several servants who had been watching him in the lounge earlier, and a few knights he had never seen before.
"What is the meaning of this?" Gerome demanded of the hunched man.
Instead of answering, the butler posed a question of his own. "Where have you been, Prince?"
Gerome felt a sickening premonition from the behavior of those standing before him. They were all staring at him with strange, piercing eyes.
"I went to see Ebe!" Even if everyone eventually found out he was lying, he couldn't afford to be caught like this now.
