Chapter 138: Did you expect it?

''Go on with the arrangements and get me a bride. A beautiful bride.'' 

''Aleister Daven, do you even know what you are talking about?!" Duke Maverick snarled. 

''Uncle, you should go out now and start making preparations. I need to get ready for the marriage,'' The man drank another huge mouthful of wine as soon as he finished speaking.

...

As the carriage in which Esme was sitting continued moving towards the outskirts of the small village Seran, it attracted attention from everyone. Seran was the village where they had settled for the past few years. 

When Esme had called her maidservant inside her carriage, no one had noticed a man was looking intently at the carriage door. 

If Adrian was there, he would have recognized the man as the same man whom he saw months ago. It was during the time when he was sitting on the tree and watching Esme and Arlan when Arlan flaunted his powers. Then, this man followed after them.