Chapter 371: Negotiations with the Byzantine Emperor (2/2)

Berengar immediately grabbed a chalice from the table and filled it with fortified wine as Honoria stared at him in disbelief; she had wanted to inform her family of her pregnancy after she was married. Still, Berengar just had to force her hand. She honestly could not believe she was getting married to such a scoundrel; however, at the next moment, she sighed heavily and calmed her nerves before revealing the thought on her mind.

”Father, I'm pregnant...”

The moment Vetranis heard this, he was dumbfounded. Despite knowing that Berengar had already taken the girl's chastity; he didn't expect her to be pregnant already; as such, he looked at Berengar, who had a shit-eating grin on his face, and back at Honoria, who had a worrisome expression multiple times before breaking out in tears.

”I'm going to be a grandfather!?!”

After saying this, he grabbed ahold of his only daughter and hugged her tightly, which greatly astonished Honoria, she had only been embraced by her father once in her entire life, and that was when she was a young child. The raw emotions on the man's face had even shocked Berengar; he never suspected the Byzantine Emperor to get so emotional about such a thing.

Honoria smiled and nodded her head as she broke away from her father's tight grip, where the man immediately wiped the tears from his eyes and recovered the grace of an Emperor as he did so; he looked back at Berengar with a sudden glimpse of understanding.

”So that's why you set the wedding so close to your original one?”

Berengar chuckled and nodded as he answered the Emperor's question

”Yeah... She's not the only one pregnant, they all are, so I figured what the hell? I might as well have the weddings before it becomes visible. After all, I wouldn't want people to question the legitimacy of our offspring.”

Vetranis shook his head and smiled as he complimented Berengar for the first time since they had initially met.

”I truly envy your youth...”

In response to this, Berengar chuckled once more before cracking a snarky remark.

”Want to change places?”

The moment he said this, the Emperor broke out in laughter, and Honoria glared at Berengar with a murderous gaze; as such, Berengar wrapped his arm around her once more and kissed the young princess on the cheek before making a snarky comment.

”Come on, babe, don't stare at me like that; it was a joke!”

Despite his justification for the inappropriate comment, Honoria continued to pout, and as such, Vetranis sighed heavily before commenting on their relationship.

”I can tell that you two have a great relationship; I look forward to what comes of it!”

In response to this, Berengar raised his chalice in the air with a smirk on his face as a pseudo-toast before taking another sip of the fortified wine contained within. Thus he spent the remainder of the day with Honoria and her father, getting to know the man that would soon be his father-in-law. As for how the rest of Honoria's family interacted with Berengar, that is a tale for another time.

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