Chapter 275: You Can’t Marry Her Chapter 275: You Can’t Marry Her Nnenna had overheard part of the fight from the hall, heart clenched.

She knew Abuchi wasn’t going to back down.

He couldn’t.

Not while Ruth and her family were suffering.

Not while he sat safe behind palace walls.

He was already plotting alternatives, she could see it in the way he paced, eyes dark and heavy with thought.

He was probably thinking about getting a marriage certificate.

A way to make their marriage official without fanfare, without ceremony.

Just to meet the conditions.

But how would he pull that off?

Ruth couldn’t leave Purlit, not now.

She was likely trapped or under surveillance.

And even if she escaped, she wouldn’t be able to reach this kingdom undetected.

Nnenna chewed her bottom lip, fingers pausing over her notebook.

She didn’t know what Abuchi would do.

But she knew this, desperate people make unpredictable choices.

In the blink of an eye, before Abuchi could find another way, the kingdom of Purlit was completely lost to the king’s younger brother.

The news hit like a hammer.

lost all semblance

to

stopped showing up for official

that something was deeply wrong, but no one was angry at

the weight of

Nnenna noticed this too.

knew exactly what was

were also upset about the matter since it concerned their idol and the three

their friend, Nnenna didn’t shut

worries, offering comfort where she could, even if the subject

something worse happened, something that

court meeting, Queen

rulebooks of the Kingdom, which caused an immediate ripple of unease among

the engagement between the Third Prince and the Princess of Purlit, now that the kingdom had been

outside the meeting hall, lost in thought, thinking of a way to resolve the

his trusted friends, a baron who was in the meeting,

been holding back boiled

thought, he stormed into the meeting, not caring how it looked, his fury evident

to dissolve my engagement with Ruth because her father is no longer the King?” he demanded, his

room fell into

shifted uncomfortably in their seats,

of the kingdom were clear, but they seemed so cold, so

in the courtroom felt

it off now felt like an abandonment of an ally, a slap in the face to

with tension as no

Obinna, usually the voice of reason,

with his younger brother, tired of being dragged into

was Queen Chioma who finally

if she were addressing a matter of simple fact, rather than the emotional storm raging

turning to Abuchi, “according to the rules, you’re supposed to marry a princess from

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