"Protecting you should be the responsibility of lord, not trouble my lady. If he would come to know that you are thinking this way, he would be hurt." since he would have been hurt if Hazel would have kept her problems to herself even if she was concerned about him.
His eyes widened when he realized he had conveniently replaced Rafael with him.
No! It was only because he was worried for the girl. He assured himself before nodding his head.
Hazel stared at the man who was having a self conflict with amusement before shaking her head too.
"That is not the point. I want to look for a girl but if I go by myself, then they might like her, could you look for me stealthily so that no one would know?" he could see how worried she was and nodded before he could think about it rationally.
His only goal was to kill Rafael or bring them closer but recently he felt that he was getting entangled in so many things he had never thought of.
