Left alone in her office, Morvana's eyes sharpened as she stared at the spot where her supposed son-in-law had stood only moments ago.
What is he hiding?
She found herself trusting the boy again and again and yet the more she trusted him, the more suspicious she became of him at the same time. The contradiction unsettled her and she couldn't understand why.
But ever since the incident at Ancian, she had understood one thing.
He knew far more than he let on.
He had previously told her that he only knew fragments, and yet he had known exactly where and when the treasury would descend.
But it wasn't his knowledge that annoyed her. It was the fact that he kept it from her. And that, more than anything else, was what she couldn't understand.
She should have felt angry. Instead, all she felt was annoyance… and disappointment that he didn't trust her.
And if that wasn't enough, he had brought a troublesome person back with him from the Demon King's castle.
