It Seems Like The Infamous Trash Can is Right Here! - Chapter 208
There was no need to measure anything. Only he would become her entire world.
As the future ruler of the continent, the Emperor of Lubarque, he was the one worthy of locking away that woman who longed for freedom.
It was not the kind of desire one usually felt for someone met only once, but Axion did not think deeply about that.
If he wanted something, he took it. What further explanation was needed?
She was only a trivial woman, nothing more.
He considered the slightly troublesome process part of the fun and brushed it aside.
“I suppose I should prepare a gift of my own as well.”
Axion muttered under his breath as he rose from his seat. When Dana stared at him in puzzlement, he dismissed her from the office with a jerk of his chin and opened the safe built into his desk.
Inside lay a beautiful tiara, meant for his fiancée, Princess Isabella, to wear at his birthday banquet.
Though not the most extraordinary among treasures that belonged to the Imperial Family, it was still an item of a quality fit for the Crown Prince.
It would also be suitable as a wedding gift for the woman pregnant with the Duke of Luanax’s heir.
‘It is too late to stop the marriage anyway.’
Perhaps fearing that the Emperor would change his mind, Lionel had processed every bit of required marriage paperwork in the very week he got engaged.
Which meant that on paper, Sasha Dilottete was already the Duchess of Luanax.
‘All the better.’
As the Crown Prince, he could not possibly take a lowborn maiden as his mistress.
If the former Emperor kept a marchioness as a mistress, Axion deserved nothing less than a duchess.
After she wore this tiara, an Imperial Gift, and held the wedding ceremony, only then would she truly become his possession.
Then he would keep her where no one else could look at her or touch her, make her into someone who could not even breathe freely without him, and only then would he let her go. So that even if she were granted freedom, she would be unable to flee and live her life at his feet, craving his affection.
Imagining that sight filled his chest with a tight, swelling satisfaction.
Axion summoned a chamberlain at once and ordered the tiara wrapped to match its dignity. He even wrote the card with his own hand.
Yet unfortunately, he would not be given the opportunity to deliver the gift.
The next day, just before the luncheon hour, when he arrived at the Luanax estate, it was empty. Only the minimum staff required to maintain the estate remained.
“The master feared that the weather in the capital would grow colder by the day and departed early for Hered.”
The head maid bowed her head as she explained, and it did not sound like a lie.
Maintaining his composure with effort, Axion returned to the carriage and hurled the gift box containing the tiara aside.
Then he burst out laughing like a madman, while Princess Dana looked at him with a chilled, appalled expression.
“That damn Luanax.”
Even though he rampaged across the entire continent doing insane things while still rushing to seize every advantage by actively involving himself in imperial politics, the moment the weather turned a little chilly he abandoned the capital overnight.
He could not keep his hands still even before the Emperor and kept glancing anxiously around, so it was clear he had fallen completely, hopelessly for that woman.
“Fine, that makes it more entertaining anyway.”
Only if he loved a woman more than his family, more than his own life, would he wail and despair all the louder when she was taken from him?
“So what do you plan to do now, brother?”
When Dana judged that Axion had regained his composure, she asked carefully.
“We must bring him back to the capital as soon as possible.”
Axion replied without even needing to think.
“You are going to let Lionel marry that woman?”
Dana stamped her feet, close to tears, but Axion did not answer. He only stared fixedly out the window at the Luanax estate.
What would he need to steal the woman from inside that place?
Not long after, Axion came up with his next move and ordered the coachman waiting outside the door:
“We go to the Silias estate.”
ReadingRainbow9266
Annoying. I want to smash him to pieces just for having those thoughts about our serenia.