"Are you looking for my husband? Do you really know him? My husband has never been involved in a crime, let alone any case in the name of business. If the wealth that my husband has makes all of you suspect, I can swear that even though my husband has been bad at public eye because of our marriage case, but he is not a con man." Viscountess Eleana tries to defend her husband with personal opinions on what she sees from him every day. Viscount Thomas couldn't deceive her, Viscount Thomas' wealth and peerage weren't the result of rigging people--at least that she knew as a wife.

"Maybe he's hiding something from you as his wife." Anthony's words really made Eleana furious. She felt that their relationship was doubtful, they didn't know each other and were filled with each other's secrets even though they were a married couple who shouldn't have anything to hide.

"I feel doubted as if I am an incompetent wife. We have never had secrets from each other, how could he have problems that I don't know." Eleana is still defending herself.

"In that case, may I know where did Viscount Thomas go? You should know as a wife right?" asked Ashton, who succeeded in making Eleana freeze.

"That..." Eleana couldn't say anything in response.

"We didn't know about brother-in-law's departure," Lady Katherine tried to help her sister who was at a loss for words.

"Yeah, that's what I mean. If his going out meant going to monitor our corn fields, I already knew so I didn't ask him anymore. The things he did outside other than that, I don't know either. It doesn't matter if we have each other. Just a little privacy? The same if I go to shop for kitchen needs, but I see a baker who is tempting and so I go buy it, when I come home of course I don't need to tell my husband about small things like that." Eleana explained it at length, Katherine who was beside her looked away and shook her head as if she didn't agree with her sister's words that looked like she couldn't help the situation, instead her sister would only look like twisting words like hiding her husband.

"I'm sorry Viscountess Eleana, but we have received news that your cornfield has changed ownership. Am I mistaken?" Checkmate, Ashton found his words really hit the spot. The look of bitterness on Viscountess Eleana's face could no longer be concealed.

Ashton smiled faintly as the atmosphere completely froze, there was no conversation from them because both Ashton and Anthony had deliberately trapped Viscountess Eleana so that she couldn't move. "Sorry, Your Grace. But actually we don't know the exact whereabouts of Viscount Thomas either," Lady Katherine spoke up. Katherine couldn't bear to see her stepsister cornered like this, for the first time Katherine also felt sorry to see her sister like a stupid woman who defended her husband who even left Eleana when she was pregnant with their child.

For Katherine, neither Eleana nor her fiancé was wrong at all. Eleana did not know the whereabouts of her husband, nor did she know what her husband was doing to become a fugitive from famous nobles. Even with Ashton, who, however, really felt that he was looking for the perpetrators of fraud in the name of business, be it gentle or rude, Ashton and Anthony had the right to be smart in speaking and carry out their own strategies to get the perpetrators of these crimes.

It's just that if Katherine remembered, she was in the position of Viscountess Eleana's little sister, who also didn't know anything about Thomas or specifically. As Katherine's younger sister, she felt sorry to see her sister who was pregnant. Instead, she was openly given a statement that would have shocked her, made her numb and didn't know what to say. Katherine was sure that Ashton had a grudge in his heart because Eleana often disturbed Lady Darrellyn's family, so Ashton deliberately said this to Eleana without thinking about the consequences for the fetus that Eleana was carrying if she received this sudden information about her husband.

Initially Katherine did not expect Ashton's arrival at her sister's mansion, she accidentally visited and suddenly a maid ran and announced the arrival of the Duke of Edinburgh. Katherine couldn't deny that her heart fluttered at hearing Ashton's arrival, but her logic still felt astonished by the sudden visit not to mention Ashton had never had any connection with her sister or her brother-in-law Viscount Thomas--she started to think as soon as she heard that the horse-drawn carriage from London yesterday came to the mansion also came back by horse-drawn carriage from Edinburgh.

Katherine was not stupid, since earlier her heart was beating because Ashton's arrival was not as loud as the fear that Eleana would finally find out about the crime that her husband Viscount Thomas had committed. Katherine hated Eleana's behavior, but when her half sister made a mistake or was cornered in a situation like this, her instinct to protect Eleana came unexpectedly.

"Are you really not aware of Viscount Thomas' whereabouts?" he asked.

"I don't know at all, how many times do I have to say it until you understand." Oh come on, Eleana's words weren't even like the first time, at the beginning she avoided not knowing her husband's whereabouts because they were a harmonious husband and wife. But now she says that she doesn't know where her husband is either.

"Please speak more slowly with the Earl of London, you have no idea how much your husband owes him. Besides, what you said wasn't what you said earlier, so which one can we trust?" Ashton's words surprised Katherine, it was true that Ashton was planning to attack Viscountess Eleana for revenge.

"The truth is that we don't know where Viscount Thomas is either. My sister is also looking for him but we haven't received any information on Viscount Thomas' whereabouts. He hasn't been home for three months, and I swear that none of us know where he has gone." Eleana didn't really want to admit this, but Katherine ignored Eleana, who had been tugging at the hem of her dress to stop talking.

Katherine herself had no choice and it was so urgent, she and Eleana would lose so badly that they had to admit the truth. "If you don't know where your husband is, then how come there's news that Viscount Thomas goes to Sir. James's mansion to see his daughter Lady Darrellyn every night. You can't be making untruthful speculations on others right? public and bring a family down to the point of ostracism?"

Eleana broke into cold sweat, she thought of various words to answer and beat Ashton's words that had offended her so much. "Are you here to avenge your lover or to find my husband?"

"Both of them." Katherine was hit by a huge hammer weighing thousands of tons. It was proven true that Ashton brought Anthony there at the same time to pay for the shame of his lover who had been humiliated in the city market. Word had spread fast when Darrellyn had gone to the town market with her maid and she had received a lot of harsh treatment from the market goers.