Chapter: 11

Even so, she still couldn’t guess what was going on.

‘Why are you looking for me now?’

Astelle asked Kaizen, hiding her anxious and trembling heart.

“Why did you try to find me?”

“You made me look for you for two months, but you want an answer so quickly.”

Kaizen replied irritably.

Theor was surprised by the sharp gaze of a strange man he saw for the first time and grabbed Astelle’s skirt with his small hand.

At that moment, Kaizen’s gaze turned to the child.

“Who’s that kid?”

Astelle gulped nervously.

She had imagined and prepared countless times in case this moment would come.

However, simply preparing in the mind did not help much when it came to reality.

Her heart pounded endlessly.

Astelle forced herself to face Kaizen with the calmest expression.

She could see a questioning filled in the familiar red eyes.

She remembers the last time she lied to him and left.

Astelle still did not regret that moment.

And now she was confident that she would never regret this lie either.

“This is my nephew.”

“Your nephew?”

Kaizen frowned as if he doubted it.

It was worth it.

Fritz, Astelle’s brother, used to stay beside Kaizen as the Vice Commander of the Knight Guards a few years ago.

“Not my brother’s, but Sigmund’s son…… So he’s my cousin’s child.”

Sigmund was the only child of her maternal uncle, who, unfortunately, died during the civil war in the north, precisely six months before Theor was born.