Before coming to the party, Philips had thanked his lucky stars a million times that Alexander was such an understanding lord.
Any other man in his place would have surely blown up and broken the engagement right then and there, and then heavily punished the woman as well as her family.
But he didn't.
So he had spent the whole night admonishing his sister Camelia for her actions, giving examples of how generous Alexander was, and urging her to play ball, all to capitalize on the good nature of this man.
But it seemed that had been all for naught.
'To hell with her.' So Philips decided to cut the toxic part out as he wished to hand the reins to this unruly daughter.
But strangely enough, such a drastic action did not get too great a reaction from the princess.
Because not only she had already expected this, but in fact she had expected worse.