“Father, Father, please help us. Do something so the king free us. Father, I beg you,” Aerith pleaded hopefully.
Duke Scarlet looked at her blankly. He didn’t say anything. A few seconds later, he turned to look at Duchess Scarlet, the woman he had been married to for twenty-eight years.
“I have warned you many times that you should control your greed,” he said in a flat tone.
“Stop lecturing me and make yourself useful. Think and do something to get Aerith and me out of here!” Duchess Scarlet spoke in a commanding tone. Her arrogance had not disappeared at all.
Duke Sc
arlet’s expression became cynical. “Why should I do something so troublesome like that when you are nothing to me anymore?” he asked, making Duchess Scarlet shocked. She looked at him fiercely.
“What do you mean?”
