"I don't like forcing others. If you want to refuse, it's no big deal. You can go back and think it over." Lance didn't directly rush her, but the meaning behind his words was clear.
"It's nothing that can't be said; it's just that I don't want to get married." Margaret frowned, and as she spoke of this, her whole demeanor exuded resistance, but she continued.
"Father and the Earl arranged my engagement with that guy Alvin, and we'll be married soon. I was planning to escape all along, but I just couldn't succeed.
Until this time, Alvin and father were defeated and captured, throwing them into disarray and loosening their guard on me, which allowed me to finally escape the domain..."
Listening to her explanation, Lance summed it up in two words—elopement.
Goodness, so Alvin had the burden of 'win and go home to get married' as well.
In this case, losing wasn't unfair, no surprise.
