"Really! Then what if I did not want to marry Leo anymore?" gasps could be heard all over the room.
Even William was so shocked that his lips parted but the words just did not come out!
A mocking smile formed on her face but her eyes turned colder.
"Why? Would you not say yes anymore? What if i want to claim my position and then look for a groom as per my standards.
If Eli is marrying the crown prince, then I should at least marry the son of a duke or the crown prince of a foreign land!" her eyes filled with ridicule and arrogance when she stared at them.
"Evangeline! Didn't you say that you love leo? Just because he is not the real heir or ducal, you are going to leave him and find a richer husband!
How can you be so greedy!?" Eli frowned when she felt that was something a miss.
If Evan would have been so greedy, she would not have tried to run away in the start to avoid the marriage.
And the love she had seen in their eyes!
"Ha! You have not spent your nights in the small village. You have not lived in the village and did farming and gardening to have food!
And I am not backing away from marriage because of money. But I did not want to marry the person who had taken my place.
Due to him, I have suffered for all my life!"
"You are talking like it is his mistake! He did not know the truth! Or else he would have given up.
Leo is a honest and upright men, Evangeline.'' Though full of annoyance, Eve took a deep breath and tried to explain to her again.
But Evan took a step back she was not going to accept it.
"I have already decided! And I think I have explained enough. Let me go now! You have no right to keep me here!"
"Yes, you are right! We have no right to stop you!" the hands of the duke clenched hard as he stared at Evan whose face was colder with no shred of warmth. "But it is already night and you have nowhere to go!
Why not wait till morning. I will arrange our summer house for you. You can stay there as long as you want even if you want to stay there your whole life, it is fine!" She turned to stare at the man who felt like she was mocking him.
"You do not have to worry about that. Since you have already chosen Leo over me.
I have a father who has chosen me too. You have even lied that he was dead to keep me with you. And yet you and your family are trying to show that they care for me. How pathetic!?
You even went to the length of killing him. If not for his luck, he would have been murdered by you while the world would have taken you as a kind man who married his son to a beggar for a promise!" she clapped as she walked towards him, "you are a very fine actor and shrewd noble. But now I know your true colors. So, you do not need to act anymore!" With that she picked up her luggage again and walked out of the house under the stunned gaze of everyone who still did not know what just happened.
The information was so much that all the staff were having a hard time wrapping it around their heads.
They stared at their master with disbelief. They have known him for ages! He could not do that! But what if the lady was telling truth.,
If that was not the case, then why was he so silent?
William, who was still standing there frozen, only came back to his senses when he felt the warm hands of his daughter shaking him.
He blinked and looked around but Evan had already left. Like a man who had lost everything, even his will to live, his steps staggered and his body lost all his strength.
It looked like he had aged a decade in a single night.
"Evan!" He ran behind the leaving girl. Even if she did not want to stay with him, he could not let her go back to that man!
He was so greedy that he would put every effort to take the benefit of her anger and manipulate her against them further.
"Evan, wait, if you want, I can give this place to stay and we all will leave but do not go to that man!" His voice was so raspy and frail that even the heart of the servants trembled with pain but the girl did not even turn back to look at her staggering father.
Just as she reached the door, a carriage and a horse came running towards her direction and soon the face of frowning Leo could be seen.
She trembled a bit but then her grip on the bag tightened.
Leo ran the horse faster as he jumped down from the running horse.
"Where are you going? Why do you have luggage with you? And where were you? Do you know I was looking for you all around like crazy!" he held her shoulders tightly and shook them with rage.
His anger could be seen in his eyes and voice. He was looking completely disheveled while his face clothes were crumpled.
The girl continued to stare at him but did not utter a word. Yet the worry and happiness to see him was not there anymore.
"Evan! Are you even listening!" Leo let her go as he did not want to hurt her. Running a hand in his hair, he tried to calm himself down and then spoke in a soft voice.
"Come with me, let's talk inside!" But a hand held his arm that was holding Evan and threw it away with a jerk,
"She is coming with me, not you!"
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