Duke Partlan was not pleased with the presence of Benedict, who was brimming with momentum before him.

How could he be pleased when he had put his daughter in a predicament right in front of a man who loved her more than himself?

“Well then, why don’t you make your excuses?”

Excuses? For a duke of the Partlan family, that was quite a harsh way to speak.

Though Duke Partlan thought this, he didn’t voice it out loud. The person standing before him was not someone he could crush with power.

Even if he could have suppressed him with authority, …