دانلود رمان انگلیسی “سعود یک درس خون” – بخش 4 – جلد 4

They say there are many points in one’s life when fate diverges dramatically. It was after finishing his first year in the Royal Academy and upon returning to Ehrenfest that Wilfried experienced one such point for himself.
There were only three people in the archduke’s office: Wilfried, Karstedt, and the archduke himself. The tension in the room was so thick that one could have cut through it with a knife; it was extremely rare for Sylvester to dismiss their retainers and speak to his son not as the aub, but as a father. The purpose of their discussion, Sylvester revealed, was to gauge what Wilfried thought about being engaged to his adopted younger sister, Rozemyne.
“I’ve arranged this talk so I can hear your opinion away from anyone who might try to sway you,” Sylvester said. “So, what do you think about this?”
Wilfried hadn’t the slightest idea why an engagement was being proposed with Rozemyne, of all people. He knew that many other duchies had taken an interest in meeting with and even marrying her, considering the trends she had started in the Royal Academy—he had even replied to many such potential suitors by alluding to the possibility that her marriage prospects would be settled at the upcoming Archduke Conference. Not once, however, had it occurred to him that he might be the one engaged to her.
“Considering that she’s an archduke candidate who came first-in-class and already has powerful friends, I had assumed she was going to marry someone from a high-ranking duchy,” Wilfried replied cautiously.
“You’re right. And if she were a normal archduke candidate, that’s what I would have done. But we can’t risk sending Rozemyne to another duchy.”