Episode 28: You Are Courageous

“However that is the primary time Raymond has proven curiosity in a lady like this.  In addition to, you actually match his style.”

“Is it attainable? I heard that Your Majesty loves stunning issues.”

“Who stated that to you? Grand Duke Ludwig?”

As soon as once more, she made eye contact with me, lifting the tip of my chin firmly. I felt like her refined brown eyes penetrated via me.

“Chloe Garnet. Viscount Garnet’s illegitimate baby, introduced out of the burning Garnet’s mansion by Grand Duke Ludwig. An exquisite-looking girl who has been raised beneath the help of Grand Duke Ludwig since she was twelve. You have been the one who went to Raymond’s bed room on the New 12 months’s social gathering, proper?”

“…….”

Her voice, which was reciting about me, took out my previous one after the other and captured me. She checked out me, most likely pale and drained by now, and laughed a bit of.

“You don’t must make a face that’s afraid of me like that. I didn’t imply to do your background analysis from the start, however, someway, I turned fascinated about you.”

“I…..”

“Raymond referred to you as a scapegoat for himself and for Grand Duke Ludwig. In fact, he didn’t inform me every thing, so I may solely infer with the knowledge I had, however you definitely supposed to seduce him at first, didn’t you?”

“…….”

There was nothing improper along with her phrases, so I couldn’t even make excuses. Regardless of the place I’m and what I believe, the previous days after I seduced him to destroy him didn’t disappear.

“However why did you modify your thoughts now? Did you not like your night time with Raymond?”

“That, that…!”

Her finger slid down alongside my jawline. My face turned crimson along with her outspoken remarks. She should have loved my response. In any other case, there’s no means she’d giggle with such a nasty smile.

“Oh my, I’m sorry. It was a query that could possibly be fairly embarrassing for a 20-year-old girl, however I requested as a result of I used to be actually curious. Sadly, I don’t know what Raymond is like.”

“What, what…..?”

“Poor Raymond. For some purpose, I assumed it was unusual {that a} man who had every thing like that couldn’t fall in love correctly.”

I used to be confused with a crimson face, whereas she muttered to herself, ignoring me.

“Your Majesty, I……! That’s not the explanation. I simply don’t wish to deceive him! I don’t know why Your Majesty is making such a proposal to me.… I actually don’t wish to.”

At my cry, she stopped muttering and made an odd face.

“… You say one thing related.”

After shouting what was inside, a belated concern got here. My coronary heart pounded, however I by no means regretted what I simply stated. As I checked out her with a tense expression, the girl set free a sigh.

“I hope you don’t take a look at me like a villain like that. I didn’t make that supply to you to deceive Ray.”

Seeing the girl’s face that abruptly subsided bitterly, I needed to look at her.

“I owe Ray an excellent debt. Nicely, that is all my scenario, so I can’t drive you to do it. I gained’t recommend it once more since you don’t need it.  Everytime you change your thoughts, please inform me. Raymond is a very good man.”

“I’m sorry.”

“There’s nothing so that you can be sorry about.”

She turned calmly and walked towards the desk.

“Sit down.”

Following her gracefully sitting down, I sat fastidiously throughout from her. Seeing me clasping my fingers, she grinned.

“It’s actually wonderful. How may even a sitting posture be Raymond’s style? In spite of everything, I’ve identified Raymond since he was very small. At the moment, I used to be two heads taller, however now I look as much as him.”

I knew that Empress Daria was a really solemn and scary lady, however the best way she introduced up her story one after the other was a bit of totally different from what I imagined.

In fact, she should have been a chic lady with dignity in every tone, however she was extra beneficiant than I assumed and appeared to be a benevolent individual.

She didn’t look like a bloodthirsty assassin, as rumored. I don’t assume she’s an individual who mercilessly slaughters her opponent simply because she feels a bit of twisted.

“I’ve by no means seen Raymond so stressed, that’s why I made a decision to assist. In fact, I’ll take a bit of worth.”

The empress smiled with one hand holding her chin. One way or the other that posture and smile jogged my memory of Raymond.

“Sooner or later, you’ll keep within the Empress’ Palace and be protected by me. Regardless of how highly effective Grand Duke Ludwig is, he wouldn’t dare to the touch my individual.”

“To be the Empress’…….”

“You’re going to be my maid.”

I used to be frozen for a second by her surprising phrases. I can’t consider I’d be the Empress’ maid, I’m solely an illegitimate baby of the Grand Duke Ludwig’s household.

“That’ll depart a stain on Your Empress’ title!”

“However there’s no means I can shield you extra clearly than that, in any other case you’ll must be Raymond’s mistress? I don’t assume you and Ray need that, so that is the one means, proper?”

“…….”

“Don’t fear an excessive amount of. In contrast to Raymond, I by no means make unpaid sacrifices. You don’t must be sorry for me as a result of I made a decision to get one thing from Raymond.”

Initially, the empress’ maid was solely attainable for girls who have been from  Duke’s or Marquis’ household, irrespective of how low it was, it needed to be a Rely or above. If the empress carries me round, the illegitimate baby of Garnet, who has fallen, it is going to simply be a laughing matter for individuals.

“Oh my, I’m actually high-quality. I’m probably not aware of individuals’s eyes. Should you really feel actually sorry, you must give it to Raymond, not me. It’s Raymond who’s going to lose out on this deal.”

“……Have you ever already determined?”

“Sure. I by no means intend to shut this deal. Should you intervene with it, I gained’t allow you to go even when I’ve to observe you to the tip of hell.”

The face of the girl bending her eyes appeared to be honest.

I didn’t know what Raymond had determined to provide as a situation to guard me, however it will by no means be gentle, much more gloomy feelings hit me.

“Raymond is that sort of man. If he decides to take accountability as soon as, he’ll take accountability till the tip at any value. In fact, not everyone seems to be the goal. So I assumed you’d be very particular to Raymond.”

She was speaking with a playful smile, however each phrase of the girl got here into my coronary heart and hit me. I didn’t eat something, however I used to be nauseous.

“I heard how you bought out of the Duchy. I wish to allow you to relaxation a bit of longer, however…… You may’t take a protracted break. It’s worthwhile to solidify your home earlier than Grand Duke Ludwig finds out about your lies.”

“I’m high-quality.”

“Sure. You’re courageous.”

After I nodded quietly, the girl rolled up the corners of her mouth as if happy.

Raymond, who had gone out like operating away, didn’t return, and I used to be assigned a spot within the Empress’ Palace, the place I’ll keep sooner or later.

In my previous life, I gave beginning to Raymond’s baby, however I used to be positively a mistress. So, it was a spot the place I may by no means step besides as soon as when the empress had referred to as me.

In an unfamiliar palace, I sat in an unfamiliar mattress in an unfamiliar room and stared out the window blankly. Unusual anxiousness and pleasure coexisted in my thoughts as I regarded on the whitish gray moon.

Hating, despising, and loathing Kailos, I struggled to get away from his facet someway.

Nevertheless, after leaving the Duchy like this, I couldn’t assist feeling anxious. For a really very long time, I’ve lived just for Kailos.

On the identical time, the considered lastly getting away from him was accompanied by a weak concern and gave me an unfamiliar pleasure.

‘I don’t need you to cry.’

‘I believe your smile is extra stunning.’

There have been two voices intersecting in my head. Chloe Garnet who doesn’t cry, Chloe Garnet who appears extra stunning when smiling.….

‘I would like you to be completely satisfied.’

‘I’ll shield you.’

The one who wished for my happiness, the one who stated she would shield me……. Those that give for Chloe Garnet, who deserves to be an unlucky one…….

‘Are you content proper now?’

I additionally needed to ask. Can Chloe Garnet actually be completely satisfied? How dare I smile in entrance of you?

* * *

Chloe Garnet, the daughter of a Viscount who had been sponsored by the Grand Duke had left. Only one individual left, however Ludwig’s fort, which had quiet magnificence, changed into a bleak and desolate previous fort.

Crash! Crack! Crack!

The servants screamed and ran away on the sound of the damaged furnishings thrown in all instructions. Erikson, the previous butler, sighed and stepped fastidiously into the room.

“Grasp, it’s okay…….”

A boring object hit his brow with a crackling sound. Heat blood flowed down and on the identical time Erikson’s thoughts turned dizzy.

“Nobody.”

In the course of the room, the younger Grand Duke growled in a dismal voice.

“I’m certain I informed you to not let anybody in.”

There have been crimson veins standing in each eyes staring on the opponent with open eyes. His form was like a beast, and the previous butler swallowed his breath and froze.

Erikson, an previous butler of Ludwig’s fort, has identified his younger grasp since he was born, however he’d by no means seen him so modified and crazed.

Kailos Ludwig has at all times been a delicate and benevolent grasp since he was very younger. He had by no means been indignant at anybody or made a loud noise. He was the best proprietor who at all times smiled affectionately with a gentle smile on his lips.