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Chapter 219

Chapter 219

"Regret what?" Dylan frowned, clearly puzzled. Tm doing just fine, actually."

He might have given up a life of luxury after walking away from the Stonor family, and sure, his days were harder and his work tougher-but for the first time in a long while, he felt truly at peace.

To Dylan, that was enough. He believed that one day, Eliza would forgive him. So no-he didn't regret a thing.

"What are you two even doing here?" he asked, glancing between Matthew and Anthony. "If you've got something to say, say it quick. I'm on the clock, and I get paid by the hour."

He was saving up to buy Eliza her favorite pastries. He had no time for pointless talk.

"And what's so wrong with this life?" Dylan shot back, expression darkening. "At least I live it with a clear conscience-and with joy

Matthew couldn't understand.

per young master in the

Stonor family,

"You had a better choice!" he barked. "You had a way out! You could've stayed a proper young and instead you chose this? To be some useless nobody?"

Dylan chuckled coldly. The Stonor family might have everything, but it has no Eliza. Wherever she is, that's where I belong

Matthew's face twisted in rage. "So what, Sophie doesn't count as your sister anymore?"

"She never was. Dylan said flatly.

just infuriate Matthew-Anthony's face turned to ice. "Wow. I didn't expect you to be the coldest of us all. You used to dote on Sophie just as much as

I'm cold and heartless now. And I've got nothing more to say to a bunch of fools who still haven't figured out what's truly right or wrong. Go home. If you're

raised his axe, and returned

his mouth again, Anthony held out a hand, signaling him to stop.

calculated, "I don't know what Sophie did to make you this angry. But whatever it was, she's in trouble now. You may have

Dylan didn't even flinch

consort. If she really enters the palace, do you think there'll be

That made Dylan pause.

last

was what

Sophie became a royal consort... with her vindictive heart, would

Eliza's side now,

protection last? If the

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Chapter 219

stomach dropped. Even the slim chance of that scenario made

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turned to face Anthony, and asked, "Is what you

himself at the royal banquet. He's already kept her in the palace to learn proper etiquette-he's just

palace?"

Matthew under the

said it was love at first sight. He

so that he's having the Empress Dowager personally

lessons.

sank further. So the King really does like

the sole favored consort in a palace

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