Camille and Selena froze for a moment, then spoke in unison.
"He didn't come with you?"
"He isn't here with you?"
The two women exchanged a glance after speaking.
Once they were certain the woman opposite them wasn't lying, both inwardly cried, This is bad.
Because this wasn't Old Charlie's style.
Although Old Charlie left lovers everywhere he went, he took every relationship extremely seriously. He wasn't the sort of bastard who used a woman and then ran off.
So if Old Charlie had come to Barney, he would definitely have sought out Selena.
Even if he knew Camille was looking for him, he would never hide. Even if he was in for a vicious beating, he would never flee.
That held true even if it cost him his life.
Back when Baron Novia's daughter had confronted him, Old Charlie had let Baron Novia stab him three times rather than dodge.
One of those thrusts had even injured his heart.
The same had happened when he faced the test set by the twins of the Gilded Gold Family in West Dean Fort.
When the twins held daggers to their own throats and asked Old Charlie to choose between them, he calmly admitted that he couldn't give either of them up, then drew his own sword and slit his throat.
Had Baron Novia's daughter not happened to pass by, Old Charlie would truly have died. Even so, he lost his voice for six months and spent those six months in Novia Territory. Then Baron Novia stabbed him three times and expelled him, warning that if Old Charlie ever dared set foot in Novia Territory again, he would break his legs.
But once his wounds had mostly healed, Old Charlie broke his own legs, climbed up to Baron Novita's daughter's window, and