#13. On a Night Like This, When the Stars Twinkle (10)

The emperor, Eduard Galatea, was not a man whose emotions changed easily.

He had stood at the center of power for nearly thirty years.

He had firsthand experience of the hyenas swarming around him, drooling over their prey at the slightest twitch of his brows.

That was how he had always been.

“I want the youngest daughter of House Béarn.”

Yet the voice that had just rung in his ears was slowly beginning to shake the emperor’s hardened heart.

The emperor filled his view with Julian’s red eyes and asked again.

“Julian Balatier. What did you just say?”

“I want the youngest daughter of House Béarn, Eleonore Ariena de Béarn.”

The emperor looked rather surprised...