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Layla was in the middle of a hallway that seemed too familiar to be a mirage of illusion when she saw a man inside the parlor pouring himself alcohol from the exquisite glass bottle and there was not much that reflected on his face.

He wasn't sad enough to cry and didn't looked to be happy either instead there was a calm that spread throughout the place including his own demeanor, his father's funeral took a day after Layla and the person to be made the new Duke of Everdale was his brother Karl.

A month has passed since the catastrophe struck their ducal house.

Leon drank till he could not even distinguish his surroundings and had stopped attending court, the young master known to be a distinguished prodigy now was just a drunkard. Layla saw the scene and felt a little bit of sympathy for the male who was a blood relative yet there was no profound emotion for him.

For Layla and Leon have never mixed well. Layla wanted to turn away for she did not wished to know what happen