"Your Majesty!"
"One of the cats is showing signs of dying…it's the cat treated by the princess consort!"
"I'm going to kill whoever did this to the cat and spoil our together," Nicholas cursed under his breath, a deathly aura surrounding him.
The spell was broken and Nicholas took a step away from her. He helped her fix her attire before holding her hand and sending her back to where they had just come from.
His words finally sank in and Luciana watched their intertwined hands and his side profile as they continued to walk and asked,
"Why do you think it was someone's malicious plot and not my mistake? It could be I'm not as gifted in medicine as Princess Agatha."
"I trust in your capabilities… I know you are an excellent physician," Nicholas said with a voice full of certainty.
Luciana didn't know why, but his confident words felt like a boost to her nervous heart, and she subtly smiled at him.