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My clear and resonant voice echoed throughout the room, and my eyes that seemed capable of seeing through everything remained transfixed on him.
It was a question asked out of pure curiosity, with no malice behind it, but there was no way he could take Aina Peneloti’s question at face value, especially not in a situation like this.
“…”
“…”
Aina Peneloti knew something. Perhaps she had no idea exactly what it was, or she had yet to even realize that she knew it, but her question wasn’t some ordinary ultimatum or tedious mind game.
It was born out of an instinct—an intuition. Perhaps it was the manifestation of her curse, a limited foresight into the future. Instinctively, Aina Peneloti had asked the question that cut right through the heart of the matter.
“…”
‘Why aren’t you proposing, damn it? You’ve just been testing the waters with me.’
He had had more than enough time to propose. If Marquis Jayce truly wanted to do so, he would have already shown interest in the Peneloti Family. In a noble society, marriage was essentially a union between families, so expressing intent to the other family came first.
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