Lord Parker watched Lord Bernard struggle to come up with a plan with a complicated feeling in his heart.
This was because he knew he was being unfair to the man.
How could a single man hope to achieve something when so many of them could not?
But he also knew it had to be done. Lord Bernard had to fail here.
And the reason why he needed to do it was all because of Alexander, because of the hostage situation that he had created.
To fully understand the thought process of Lord Parker here, one had to go back a bit.
Go back to when the late Lord Margraves had appointed Lord Bernard as the head of the family's forces.
The shrewd old man turned was not blind to the back handed dealing Lord Bernard had used to get his post.
But despite being aware of it, he largely let it slide.
Because the old lord actually approved of the act.
