Chapter 140 (1/2)
Chapter 140
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Lawrence stopped. He tried hard to straighten his expression.
“When did you come back?”
“This afternoon.”
Cedric answered in a low voice.
“Is the war over?”
“No. But I heard the news from the capital.”
Lawrence made his face expressionless, then halfway it twisted. He knew he shouldn’t, but he couldn’t contain his emotions.
From the beginning, he did not know how to suppress himself for a long time. He was born with a passionate temperament resembling Miraila. Besides, he had little need to train patience.
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Lawrence didn’t know why he hated Cedric so much.
He knew from the beginning that Cedric wouldn’t be actively supporting him right away just because Cedric married Artizea.
Rather, now was the opportunity to attract him.
If Cedric didn’t intervene in this and wanted to keep his distance, he would have stayed in the north, pretending not to know, instead of returning. The border work was more urgent, and the excuses that the news arrived late could be used as needed.
But Cedric did not do that and returned in haste. It meant he was paying more attention to Artizea than Lawrence had thought.
While nothing was going well, he could actually say it was going in a good direction.
Cedric had a good reputation and was supported by the public. With his help, the aftermath of this incident could have passed more easily than expected.
Neither Grand Duke Roygar nor Grand Duke Evron would easily do such a dangerous job like treason.
Still, he couldn’t make a good face. So pretending not to know Cedric and passing by was the best option he could do right now.
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Lawrence didn’t always like Cedric. But mostly it was directed as discord and compared often to relatives of the same age but wasn’t in the same tune.
He didn’t really want to face Cedric, but he had no reason to actively hate Cedric.
But now it was different.
There was an unbearable deep emotion that was boiling from the depths. It was as if Cedric had scraped the depths of his heart with something like a claw, and the cold pus was spewing out poison.
It was hateful. Lawrence thought that in that expressionlessness and indifference must be hidden contempt and hatred for Lawrence, too.
And even though he’s never actually seen it before, he kept imagining Cedric’s horrific expression of disgust.
And Lysia.
Her face is like that, too.
The lady-in-waiting still occupied one side of his head.
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It touched with the hatred in Lawrence’s head. It was really a mystery.
She was just a woman he had little interest in. She was not the type to be taken or stolen, or something like that at all. They never even converse properly.
He told her to come, but he didn’t really expect her to come. She was, after all, the woman of Evron. A woman of Evron whose mission is more important than passion.
And it was Artizea who sent Lysia to the west in the first place. It had nothing to do with Cedric.
‘This bastard will take what is mine.’
Still, Lawrence was caught by his ankles at the thought without any basis, and he couldn’t get out of it.
Amalie had once told Lawrence he could become emperor if he could embrace Evron Grand Duchy. Lawrence agreed with her.
But now it was different. There are people in the world who can never be tolerated.
He couldn’t understand how he had thought of getting Cedric on his side.
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“Please excuse us for a moment.”
Cedric raised his hand lightly and said. Amalie, Gayan, and Sir Keshore bowed their heads slightly and stepped back.
The attendant who was leading Lawrence knew that it was not his place to join, so he hurriedly backed away too.
“Well, do you have something to say?”
Lawrence asked, showing raw hostility.
Cedric squinted his eyes. Unlike Lawrence, that was all his signs of hostility and displeasure.
“Is that all you have to ask?”
“What are you talking about?”
“I mean, do all you have to ask me is war stories? Aren’t you wondering if everything’s okay with Tia? Aren’t you her brother?”
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Lawrence frowned slightly at those words.
“Yes……. Come to think of it, is everything all right?”
Lawrence said so indifferently. Up to this moment he was not very curious about Artizea.
Cedric took a step towards Lawrence.
Lawrence was not swayed by his momentum.
But in the next moment, Cedric reached out. Lawrence was startled and took a quick step back from Cedric, but he couldn’t avoid it.
Cedric grabbed Lawrence’s collar with his left arm and thrust him against the wall.
Thud!
“Keugh…. !”
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Lawrence gasped for breath at the shock on his back.
Cedric clenched his teeth and said out.
“It is such a waste to dedicate lives to something like you.”
“What, nonsense…… Ugh!”
Lawrence struggled to shake Cedric’s hand away.
Lawrence handled quite a bit of weapons and was good at hunting. He was a young man with above-average physical strength. He was also very accustomed to using violence.
But with all his might, he couldn’t even push Cedric’s left hand away. He tried to kick Cedric, but that didn’t work either.
He lifted his toes with force. Lawrence’s face turned red as he suffocated. There was no sign of the white and beautiful face.
“It’s your little sister! It happened while she was trying to mediate your mother’s affairs, and even if you don’t even think about protecting her, isn’t it normal to worry about whether she is okay?”
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The attendant rushed in and tried to stop it. Gayan grabbed him and shook his head lightly.
Lawrence is no longer the Emperor’s favorite son. And Cedric was the one who decided that he would now live as an imperial family.
He didn’t mean to intervene in a fight between such high-ranking people.
“You should at least protect your mother and sister and wife.”
“What, pretend to be nice.”