Welcoming Ball (2)

Actually, even the others felt the unusual tension, so as the diplomat that he is, Ezekiel squeezed in.

"Now, now. Nadia is right. He is our friend and now he is my brother. We are not certain about things, so we shouldn't jump to conclusions."

"I'm just saying that it was too sudden. It gave me a whiplash. Do you know how shocked I was?"

"It wasn't just you, fool."

Everyone else is talking about it like crazy and kept coming up with these conspiracies. 

"By the way, why didn't Conrad join us? Where is he?" asked Nadia after noticing that aside from Nathan and Noah, one of them is missing. "He did not come?"

"He was here, but he left," Luther answered.

Eon tilted his head to the side.

"Maybe he's guilty?" 

"Guilty?"

"Why are you looking for him, anyway?" asked Gwen.

"I'm just curious."

Gwen cracked a smile. "You shouldn't be curious about other men, otherwise the duke would get jealous."