Chapter 1131: Young Mistress? Maid? (2/2)

”Hmph! If some random women from the Loret Empire can become your concubines, then why not Nora? She loves you, and the way I see it, you stand to gain as you also get a beauty!”

”You!?” Logan flared, ”Do you see my oath to you as nothing more than a decoration?”

”Calm down, father...” Davis was rather calm himself, ”Can't you see that mother is also reluctant?”

Logan became taken aback as he looked at Claire's affronted expression. It was like he slapped her in the face for what she was doing when it should be a favorable opportunity to him as well.

He calmed down and sat back, his expression complex, ”What are you thinking, Claire?”

”I want you to make Nora your woman after you earn her complete trust...” Claire took a deep breath, ”This way, she will not hold a grudge towards me, and we can become sisters in a real sense.”

”But what you're doing... It's exactly the opposite... You're earning her ire while I earn her affection.” Logan felt confused, ”How will you two become sisters at this rate...?”

Initially, Logan didn't understand what Claire wanted to do, but since she pleaded to just follow her words, he did it. However, the more he followed her words, the more he felt that it was almost like Claire was planning to introduce Nora to him to take her as his woman.

He felt absurd, and when he finally asked, Claire didn't refute. However, until now, he didn't explode since he couldn't understand her thoughts and thought that she was just playing around, teasing him a bit overboard.

”Didn't I say that I would treat her based on how she performs?” Claire coldly uttered.

”Nora is an innocent woman I ruined with my own hands! Right now, she already knows that what I did to her grandfather, as I have already told her. It isn't strange if she secretly possesses hatred towards me, wanting to ruin my family. How can I allow that? But how can I kill her either?”

”This fate... I don't want it...” Claire's eyes turned moist before becoming determined.

”That's why the only way I can bring us together is through you, husband!”

”However, I will not allow you to have emotions towards her until I say so...”

”So selfish...” Logan interjected, but Claire continued with a somber expression.

”Didn't I accept your selfishness in accepting those six concubines...?”

Logan pursed his lips as he could not say anything against this matter.

Claire watched his expression before she took a deep breath, revealing her intent.

”If she accepts your love but tries to use you against our family or me, I will kill her myself. The same way, if she doesn't use you to possess an advantage against us, I will accept her as my sister.”

”This is the oath I have taken for myself!”

Claire declared, causing Logan to sigh in dismay.

”Claire...” Logan couldn't help but remind, ”In case if you forgot, I literally took an oath, declaring that I would have no relationship with any other women other than the seven of you.”

”You did...” Claire nodded as if she didn't forget, ”But for whom did you take it for?”

”Was it for you or me?”

Logan narrowed his eyes, ”For you...”

”Very well...” Claire adjusted her voice, ”I swear that I will not hold anything against you, and allow you one last time to take another woman called Nora Alstreim as your woman, my only friend whom I wanted to get close with since childhood.”

Claire seemed to seal the coffin with the nails as she finally declared.

”This way, with your current soul prowess, you should be able to exterminate your Heart Demon by yourself.”

Logan gnashed his teeth in anger. He knew what she said was plausible. It would've been virtually impossible for him in the past, but with his soul prowess grown in addition to obtaining consent from the woman he made the oath for, he knew that he could exterminate the Heart Demon upon introspection.

Oaths were like that, sometimes impregnable, sometimes flimsy. As long as one could untie the knots that bound the heart, they would be able to let it go. That's why it was a double-edged sword.

”Is Nora Alstreim so important to you? Why not just let her go?” he couldn't help but ask.

Claire shook her head, ”She would become my enemy if I let her go, and I would have to vainly kill her with how I humiliated her grandfather and deceived half of their complete wealth. Therefore, I want her to be yours so that she can choose us instead.”

Davis's eyes lit up. It looks his mother has indeed thought a lot about his words. He also confirmed that it was because of his bad influence that she became like this, but he had no words to offer because he wasn't opposed to this plan at all.

He turned to look at the uncertain yet hesitating Logan.

”Let me put it this way, father...”

”It was Mother who was against you in being with other women, and after you made an oath that she is still your everything, it is Mother who has accepted you in being with other women. If a few random strangers with your children from the past can be your women, then why not the person whom she thinks of as her sister, whom she had done something wrong to and wants to make up for it?”

Logan wavered.

'Wait... I'm starting to understand Natalya's thoughts for myself...' Davis abruptly mused.

No wonder Natalya wants her little sister Fiora to be together with him. It was because Natalya knew that he would give her a better life, and at the same time, care for her than anyone she could possibly imagine!