Chapter 231
The moment | agreed to help Helene, | regretted it and wished | could take my promise back. H Ronald’s fiancee escape from Yurene when | was still in trouble myself?

But Helene appeared greatly moved. Her light brown eyes filled with tears, and her cheeks blushed a de she reached across the table and took my hands in hers.

“Thank you,” she uttered quietly as she squeezed lightly and gave me a grateful smile.

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| smiled back at her, but before | could reply, the door to the cafe opened, and the bells chimed as Helene’s maid retu The poor girl’s cheeks were flushed and she panted heavily as she rushed over to the table.

“| searched high and low, but your ring wasn’t in the shop, my lady,” Alana lamented, and her eyes fell to the ground as in were steeling herself for physical punishment. “I don’t know what could have happened to it,”

As the maid tensed up as if by instinct, Helene pondered her statement for a moment, and then, as if a sudden realization: hit her, her berry-painted lips parted.