Chapter 131

• "Maximilien, son, is something wrong with you? I've noticed you've been very distracted in the last few days," Susan commented, a little concerned, as she left some documents on the desk.
• "It's nothing, Susan," he denied in a low voice, adding a spoonful of sugar to his coffee. "I suppose it must be the excess of work."
• "You don't have many pending tasks now compared to other days, and yet, I've never seen you so pensive as you have been lately," she replied.