How on Earth Did You Seduce Her to Make My Disciple Turn Out Like This in Just a Few Days?

Chapter 70

Cardinal Barneo sat at a desk inlaid with lavish gold ornaments and pressed a heavy hand to his brow.

His mind felt like a tangled knot.

He instinctively sensed that something had gone wrong.

'It's drifting away.'

Lily, who should always have been under his perfect control, just as she always had been.

He was certain that she was slipping, however slightly, from his grasp.

Paradoxically, that certainty had arisen from yesterday's prayer session.

'It wouldn't read at all. I couldn't see a single thing in that child's heart.'

She had dutifully shouldered the heavy slate...