The old man, already sweating buckets due to the tension in the room, almost ran out while carrying the engagement documents. I saw Aurum in my peripheral vision standing up abruptly, trying to run after the old attendant to take back and destroy the documents. I waved my hand and he froze in place then I returned him back to his seat with a poof.
Aurum started panicking when he realized that I can use mana. He started begging his parents, "Mother, Father, I am in love with somebody else. I don't want to get married to this woman, I beg you. This is fraud! I never signed those papers out of my own free will! I was tricked! You can't do this to me!"
His parents were quiet and I was the one who responded on their behalf, "It was all my idea so blame it on me. We did it that way indeed since you would never sign it any other way. Sure, we tricked you. What can you do to me?"
