Blue's [POV]

"So, you are friends with the duchess as well. You have a lot of friends. Even your subordinates are like your friend," Evan said after Iris left in the evening and I was returning to my room.

"Are you jealous because you don't have any friends?" I asked.

"Kind of. Do you take pity on me? Want to be my friend?"

"I did not know you were like this," I said.

"Everyone says King Ford is very cruel and cold. He doesn't talk to many people. But you don't seem that way now."

"I ...