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When the slender being that relied solely on him revealed her mind, Leon felt something touch his heart.
“Whoa.”
He was shaking his head and walking through the hallway, and he could see a familiar silhouette from the other side. It was Daniel, his aide. When he saw Leon, he rushed in and looked at him curiously.
“What are you looking at?”
Daniel fixed a professional expression on his face. “Your Highness, is there anything good going on?”
“What?”
“Oh, your expression is so bright…”
In short, Leon’s face stiffened, and he returned to his original icy look.
Daniel, who read the superior’s mind correctly, also changed the subject quickly. “I learned about Dana Deniz.”
He didn’t care if it was a topic he wasn’t interested in, but he just listened to him without any reaction. At first glance, he felt like he was thinking about something else.
Daniel continued to explain quickly as he knew roughly, “First of all, I couldn’t meet her in person because she was out of the office. They didn’t know about her whereabouts at the merchant group. There was also a saying that there was already a man.”
“That’s rather good.”
“What?”
Leon grabbed and opened his office door and said. “I don’t want affection that I don’t have, at least.”
“Did you want to get married a little bit?” Daniel followed him in and asked unexpectedly.
“Well.”
Unlike before, Daniel opened his mouth as if he was nervous and closed it again.
Leon went into the room silently and approached the window. At the end of his gaze, with his arms folded alone, there was a room with his mother, Sophia.
‘The Duchess…’
Daniel did not ask further about Leon’s feelings. Instead, he reminded him of what he had forgotten.
“Anyway, shouldn’t you answer the old man’s letter? He’s such a hot-tempered person…”
It would have been nice if it could be ignored at all. However, Owen Tertius was still an influential figure in the capital’s social community even after losing many of his political allies.
Although the decisive thing was the virtue of having a son, it was also because of his skills that he survived even though he was in the enemy’s camp when the current emperor was a prince.
“…”
Leon knocked on the floor with his front feet and remained silent for a moment. For him, his father’s intention wasn’t a problem, but his mother was the problem.
“Before you go back, once.”
Why do I think of her even at this moment? Leon closed his lips tightly, turned around and left.
Daniel followed a little further. It was obvious where he always went this time.
Once a day, Leon always visited Sophia.
When he arrived, the maids guarding the front jumped up and tried to open the door as usual.
“Katie, how is she doing?” Before entering, he asked a maid about Sophia’s condition. Leon knew her name because she was a maid who had been next to Sophia since her youth.
“It’s been fine, but she hasn’t been able to sleep well in the last few days. She cries often…”
Katie reported it as it was, but was worried that the Grand Duke would blame her.
In fact, in the past, when Sophia was a little better than now, she had walked away from her maids and fell and hurt her knee.
Leon became very angry. Hpunished and kicked out the maids who were not taking care of her properly at the time.
However, Leon now nodded lightly and went inside. The maids looked at each other and sighed with relief.
“Mother.”
In the dark lights, as usual, a haggard-looking Sophia was sitting on the bed.
“Why are you sitting down?” Sophia muttered helplessly, looking at Leon with empty eyes. “…It seems like there’s really not much time left.” Touching her skinny hands, she smiled faintly.
“I heard you can’t sleep well. What are you worried about?”
Moisture was there in Sophia’s eyes, who had not spoken for a while. Leon sighed at the sight. The words that would follow were obvious.
“Owen…” Droplets fell from her face to the blanket. “There’s really not much time left. I know. Does Owen really not think of me at all? What the hell did I do wrong to him?”
“…It’s not your fault. What’s the fault of my mother? That’s all he did.”
The moment Leon tried to speak badly about Owen, Sophia grabbed his hand and stopped him. “Don’t do it, Leon. He’s your father.”
“…”
“If I don’t see him before I die, I probably won’t be able to sleep comfortably even after I pass away. If Owen is not dead, please, Leon… Heuk, heuk.” After speaking in a motherly tone, she began to beg and cry openly like a child. After hearing her voice, the maids waiting outside came in.
Leon got up to leave. Then the maids fed Sophia with sedative medicine and laid her down on the bed. Otherwise, Sophia did not stop crying until she collapsed.
Everyone here responded calmly to this situation without panic. They’d been through a lot.