...When Gray's attention was solely focused on me.
Why did he have to get his talent stolen? And was even thrown out of the D'Aurélion Family...?
Why him...?
If it wasn't him... we'd probably have been fiancées by now.
I swung my sword at another beast that jumped from the branches above without really looking at it.
Splat.
The thought alone made my chest feel tight in a way I didn't particularly like.
I remembered the day I found out.
I was twelve.
A servant had mentioned it in passing, the way servants mentioned things they thought weren't important, and I had stood in the corridor outside my father's study for a long time after that, not moving, just standing there with that information sitting in my chest like something swallowed wrong.
Gray Vireux D'Aurélion.
Talent stripped, and expelled from the family register.
Just like that.
Like he had never been there.
I cut through two more beasts without breaking my stride.
Splat, fwip!
The D'Aurélion Family.
