Aerith

Ensuing the public ending of a year-long engagement, Aerith Umbra finds himself entering into a desperate contract with his deceased father's old friend in order to reverse his frantically decreasing reputation for the throne. The deal is all but to tutor the stubborn and negligent prince Azrail of Kreshia.

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"Most definitely."
There was something foreboding about that surety of his, Azrail Agnus's determined stare, that had done its job of causing me to second-guess myself. I'd thought about it but in reality it did not take much effort to unravel how he felt-His words themselves were obvious: he wanted nothing to do with me. Nothing to do with anything or anyone in relation to this role of a 'tutor' that I had been forced to fill, and in his words I could tell that whatever had brought upon this rejection, and this resolute intent to drag me out of his life, came either from sheer pride or straight contempt.
Perhaps both, even.

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