Earl St. Claire had his eyes narrowed while trying to make sense of what his daughter had just blurted out.
She confessed not wanting to attend the event tomorrow and sent him down a spiral of questions that had popped up in his mind.
Thinking back to their interactions this last week, he soon realized that she had been trying to make up excuses for skipping this event all along but was unable to succeed as he had rejected them all.
Meeting the King was an aspect of prestige and fortune that he did not wish for any of their family members to miss out on.
Thus, he had refused every time she said that she would not be able to attend while using some invalid excuse.
However, the reason she had just given also wasn't making sense to him which made him want to dig deeper.
