"Your Highness," the manager replied, his voice low, "the Second Prince of the Sea Clan hasn't been back since yesterday."
"What?" Su Yaoyao's eyes widened in surprise as a profound sense of disappointment washed over her. She couldn't believe Noah wasn't here.
Su Yaoyao sighed softly and turned to leave.
Roland followed silently behind her and said softly, "Your Highness, perhaps the Second Prince has already returned to the Sea Clan. Come to think of it, his permitted stay in the Imperial City was almost over anyway."
"No, he wouldn't," Su Yaoyao said quickly, a hint of stubbornness in her voice as if she were trying to convince herself. "If he were leaving, he would have told me."
But the image of Noah's dim, sorrowful eyes when he was angry and hurt involuntarily surfaced in her mind, and a sharp pain lanced through her heart.
'Maybe he really was so hurt that he'd go back to the Sea Clan without a word...'
