"Wait! Lugh."
He paused, eyes narrowing slightly, waiting for her to speak.
"Do you hate me?"
She finally asked. Her voice was low, almost a whisper.
"…Not anymore"
He responded after a long breath.
"Okay, good. Now that that's out of the way—what the hell were you thinking?!"
"Huh?"
"Family head? Thieves? Why did you have to do all that? What do you even need the position for?"
"Ah, that…"
He looked away, his expression unreadable.
"I can't tell you the reason."
There was a reason. A goal, too vast to explain in one conversation. He couldn't just let go of the resources, archives, and reach that an ancient house like Von Heim commanded.
As fate would have it, he was the only male heir of the main bloodline. A cruel gift from the heavens, but a gift nonetheless. Not using that to his advantage would have been foolish.
