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Actually, even before calling Noah, Alice had been troubled over whether she should ask Noah to grant her his protection once more.
Aside from her manners and abilities, there was only one aspect in which the carefree Alice truly lived up to the title of princess.
That was the fact that she rarely had intimate contact with the opposite sex.
As Europe's publicly acknowledged most outstanding woman, Alice had not lacked contact with exceptional men in the past, yet she had never had any intimate contact with one.
The reason for this was not only that Alice was too noble and elegant for ordinary men to approach, but more importantly, that this young lady was frail and sickly, spending most of her time lying in bed.
Under such circumstances, how could she possibly have had opportunities for intimate interactions with men?
Thus, although Alice was like a child pretending to be a well-behaved girl in other respects, she truly had little experience with ambiguity between men and women.
Therefore, only when it came to matters between men and women would Alice display the bashfulness most fitting for a young girl.
And asking Noah to grant her his protection again meant that she would need to have intimate contact with Noah.
Moreover, it would be the most intimate kind, an intimate act that only lovers would perform.
How could Alice not be troubled by that?
Yet while troubled, Alice's heart was also beating faster.
Without a doubt,