"I'll wait for you then," she said with her lips curving up. "Maximillian…"
As she was speaking, the maid got very close to them and she pushed him into the thicket and ran away.
"I am here!" she shouted.
He returned as Horatio urged him to not show himself then, so as not to stigmatize her honor. As he returned to Lethusia, his mother was not impressed with his visit to Deberia. And he was sure Horatio must have reported everything to his mother.
He didn't mind as he was pretty sure they will have to accept her as his bride.
He tried to contact the Duke of Riza to get permission to marry his daughter. But his mother was stopping all his efforts which he found out a little later. He was the Emperor by then because his father had passed away, but his mother was the regent. It was then he realized that the Kingdom is run by his mother and she has a little too much power in her hands.
