Chapter 84

　　Eero's perspective 　　“Your grace, I wish for you not to plant false hope into my daughter's head." Beta Octavio remarked cynically. "Aelice's place will always be in the kitchen serving her husband, and in the bed giving him heirs. You'll get tossed back into that place too.” 　　Irritated by Octavio's vile words, I was about to advance and struck the beta when my arm got snagged by a hand. It seized me back on my spot. 　　“Engaging in a barbaric and ghastly act isn't something you should be doing on your first day of a new job.” A low, familiar voice sounded beside my ears. 　　It was Claudius! I was about to purr him out of my way when I suddenly came to realize that he could just mean to help, preventing me from falling into Octavio's trap. 　　"Could he? He had betrayed and hurt us." A sense of uncertainty rose in my heart as my wolf reminded me. 　　Yet I decided to take his advice this time. If there was one thing right in his words, I wasn't expected to make a scene at my first meeti