232 The Healer's choice

Taking one final whiff from his jacket after meticulously sewing back the two top buttons, Adela folded it neatly and placed it beside the decanter on her coffee table.

"The Majordomo should retrieve it once we leave." Her soft eyes shifted to Larissa, standing next to her.

Larissa's gaze fixated on the jacket's buttons, her face slightly flushed. "You seem saddened to part with it."

Adela swiftly adjusted her expression to one of excitement. "On the contrary, Lari, this will help clear Egon's name and redirect the Princess's focus onto someone else."

Now more than ever, Adela ardently desired for the murderer to be captured, not only for the sake of her Kingdom and its grieving people but for the sake of her own interests, as her courtship with Egon, though discreet and known to only a select few, had become official.