Gara wasn't entirely sure why he was sitting here, right beside a furious Duke Eshaan, yet he found himself trying to calm down the most powerful man in the entire Esalavya Duchy.
On the floor, the Duke's son, Ramun, knelt with his head bowed low.
A moment ago, the Duke had told everything that happened the night he collapsed into a coma.
That night, Karon had left the Duke's room after their discussion. Not long after, the Duke heard murmuring from outside.
But when he listened more carefully, it wasn't Karon's voice— though it sounded familiar.
A maid entered carrying a glass of water. The Duke drank it and casually asked who she had been speaking to outside.
The maid claimed she had spoken to another maid.
But the Duke knew that was a lie, he had distinctly heard a man's voice.
The maid panicked, and he restrained her immediately.
Terrified, she confessed the truth: the person outside had been Count Vardhan. The Duke instantly recognized the voice, his son-in-law's.
