<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Ellanore listened and rose her eyebrow after he said that he will assist watching over her personally and there was a pause as he took a another smoke and continued to speak that they will make sure to protect her mother, while she is the future and also she will be the main key to their alliance after her mother steps down from the throne. It was a valid reason and it was only logical to keep her alive for the sake of keeping this strong alliance, but Ellanore felt something else as she took a drink from her wine glass. Whether she triggers something or it was there before, she couldn't help but react.<br/>
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Her heels touched the floor and she got off from the stool and stood closer to Valentine, perhaps the closest they ever got while he was still seated and facing her. She still kept her voice down and smooth for him as the daring nature returned, her emerald gaze still not shying away. "Protect me personally.. Just for the future of the alliance?" she asked, her head tilting slightly to the side in that small bit of her curiosity.​</div>