Chapter 55

“What are you doing here?” Stella asked her voice growing cold as she eyed him with a hint of disdain.

“Waiting for you,” Louis answered as he turned around toward them and bowed respectfully, “Lady Morrias,”

Elinor watched as Stella clenched her fists and she waited for her friend’s reaction. Her cousin’s tendency to manipulate people to his will not be a plus point for him today…

He had probably been planning this for a while now. He hadn’t told her but as soon as she heard from Stella that it was going to be the son of a duke she suspected that it would be Louis.

“Louis,” Elinor said,

“Your Highness,” Louis said with a bow her way and she made a formal courtesy toward him.

Stella looked her way and then at Louis with a frown.

“Stop with the ridiculous formalities and tell me what’s going on,” Stella said with a dark tone that made Elinor flinch at her cousin’s expenses.

He was never going to hear the end of it.

She knew Louis had been looking for a marriage partner, something profi