I don’t know the way I managed to run to my room. I couldn’t even make it to the mattress and simply plopped down on the ground.

However now I can’t try this.

This actuality was worse than any nightmare wherein one couldn’t get up.

However actually… that spot subsequent to him was mine alone.

Grand Duke Estin liked all his kids, nevertheless it was solely me who would sleep subsequent to him……. No, not Gilbert, or Aiden, or Theodore, after all, or Rex.

However why?

Of all issues.

knock, knock.~

Whereas I used to be respiration closely, I heard a knock on my door. I used to be so startled by the knocking sound that I sealed my lips once more.

A chill ran down my backbone. Who might or not it’s? Is it Grand Duke Estin? Possibly he got here right here to appease me in case I used to be too stunned.

After I stated nothing and remained nonetheless, I heard a smooth voice on the opposite aspect of the door.

“Sister, could I are available in?”

It was Tia Bluea.

I bit my lips tightly. Possibly she wakened due to me.

She should’ve been stunned to see me dashing out when she awoke. After I stayed nonetheless, she knocked on the door once more.

I couldn’t maintain pretending I didn’t hear it, so I scrambled to my toes and opened the door.

Tia Bluea was taking a look at me along with her eyebrows down. I clenched and unclenched my fist just a few instances to alleviate the stress. My palms have been sweaty.

“Have been you stunned?”

“Why are you there…….”

“Ah, I used to be speaking to the Grand Duke till dusk. So he instructed me to fall asleep, however I couldn’t sleep alone, so..”

After I was Ha Sohee, Jung Seulbi coveted every thing I had.

She might need thought it was honest and simply. But it surely wasn’t. It was greed.

However that is….

“Oh, I’m certain his reminiscence will come again!”

“Actually?”

“Sure?”

“Do you actually assume so?”

After I requested again helplessly, Jung Seulbi stated with a tragic look once more.

“Sister, don’t fear an excessive amount of…….”

How can Jung Seulbi play Tia Bluea so completely?

Or perhaps she’s at all times been this manner, and she or he’s solely imply to Ha Sohee as a result of she thinks she took every thing from her.

Or is it solely now that she will lastly be relaxed as a result of she will lastly have what she desires?

Why is Jung Seulbi at all times happier than me? The intangible self-loathing dug into my physique.

As I stared, Tia Bluea shrugged and turned to depart.

“Fall asleep…”

“With me… sleep with me.”

I stated, grabbing her wrist as she turned away. Maybe it was an surprising provide, Tia Bluea checked out me along with her eyes wide-open.

“Should you can’t sleep alone, you’ll be able to sleep with me. My mattress is spacious, and it could be uncomfortable to sleep with Grand Duke Estin…….”

Upon my determined suggestion, a touch of Jung Seulbi’s expression appeared on Tia Bluea’s face, and I paused.

She checked out me distantly after which giggled. “Oh, I’m sorry,” she stated in a giggly voice.

“However what if Grand Duke wakes up and appears for me? He saved saying he wished to speak to me and wouldn’t let me go.”

“…….”

“Good evening, huge sister.”

With out saying a phrase, the door to my room slammed shut in entrance of me. I crumbled as soon as once more. I felt like I used to be falling into an abyss deeper than the darkness that now fell in my room.

I knelt down and touched the ground with each palms. I didn’t know when it had began, however tears saved falling from my face.

The tears streaming out of my eyes have been making circles on the rug.

I hate all of it.

I questioned if I ought to run again proper now and kneel earlier than Grand Duke Estin and beg him. Beg him to recollect I’m his daughter.

I’m the one one who’s allowed to sleep in his mattress like that. That baby is a faux, so please bear in mind me.

However the considered going again to Grand Duke Estin’s room, and seeing Tia Bluea, who was mendacity on Grand Duke Estin’s mattress, choked me.

It could be painful to see Grand Duke Estin waking up and seeing him taking a look at me with chilly eyes……, and to need to consolation Tia Bluea, who was startled out of her sleep?

‘Grand Duke Estin is just the start?’

Lucas, Gilbert, Aiden, Theodore, Hestia, Bonita, Carrol. What if all the dear folks to me worth Tia Bluea greater than they worth me? Even Rex, who shed tears for me, will he do the identical for Tia…?

And Demimore?

I don’t know why I all of the sudden remembered Demimore.

With a lot occurring, I had put aside ideas of Demimore, however all of the sudden an inexplicable longing overwhelmed me.

“Oh, I miss you…….”

It’s egocentric that I hadn’t thought of Demimore till now, however I all of the sudden wished to see him. Sure, it was undoubtedly egocentric.

I longed to see Demimore, who at all times stood by my aspect, quite than the folks of the Conler Duchy who made me really feel unusually responsible at any time when I checked out their faces.

“Mary.”

It was then.

Somebody grabbed me by the shoulder.

I didn’t even have the vitality to be stunned, despite the fact that it was the form of second that might have set me off. After I turned my head, I noticed an surprising presence by way of my blurred imaginative and prescient.

“Are you okay?”

Solely then did I bear in mind coming with Arsene. I used to be already crying, however then I felt sorry for him, so I burst into extra tears.

Arsene sat down to satisfy my eye degree and wiped my tears away.

“You actually are Arsene…….”

“I instructed you so.”

I’d been denying in my thoughts that he wasn’t the canine, however wanting into these comforting eyes, I knew it was him.

After I mumbled one thing like that, he smiled at me.

His playful voice was so candy that I couldn’t cease crying. He held out Nero to me. I took Nero from him and hugged him tightly to my chest.

“Nero is gloomy.”

So he even is aware of Nero. It is smart now why Arsene all of the sudden appeared within the room.

“As a result of his grasp is gloomy, Nero is gloomy, too. He desires to grieve greater than his grasp, however his grasp’s grief is so deep that he can’t.”

Possibly Arsene was simply saying this to consolation me, nevertheless it made me cry just a little extra.

As I wiped away my tears, he stroked my hair.

“I’m in your aspect unconditionally.”

“Then, then…….”

“You need me to kill him?”

I nodded vigorously. I’d been fascinated about how a lot I wished Arsene to kill X and the god of the underworld or no matter it was.

“He’s gotten so robust, my powers…….”

“So what do they need? Me? Then it could be higher if they simply kidnapped me.”

“They did.”

“…….”

“However they discovered you. Your loved ones.”

They have been even worse than I assumed they have been..

“In order that they tried to sow discord between you and your loved ones in any method attainable. Keep in mind?”

I shook my head.

“Give it some thought. The novel you thought you learn, and the nightmares you had.”

Ah.

I felt like somebody had hit me behind the pinnacle with a hammer. I remembered the story of Mary, the unloved daughter of the Grand Duke of Conler.

Yeah, that was all their ruse. They saved reminding me of it in my goals, in case I forgot the novel. Throughout that point, I grew to become disheartened, pondering that I’d find yourself like the unique….

That’s why I always doubted my household, who liked me persistently and unconditionally, and thought that they’d abandon me at any second if I made a mistake. I used to be obsessive about being on their good aspect.

So when Grand Duke Estin misplaced his reminiscence and saved Tia Bluea by his aspect, I felt as if the world was falling aside, as if I had been betrayed.

You fool, Grand Duke Estin…….

I didn’t consider my dad as my dad, and I saved calling him Grand Duke Estin as if I used to be coping with a personality in a novel…….

I additionally saved telling myself that Rex was going to be a villain at any second, and sure, that was partly as a result of I didn’t belief him.

“Ah….”

Who was the one which didn’t belief their household was prepared to show their again at them at any second?