Chapter 34
Chapter 34
However, Lilles, who saw her happy that she could go back quickly, seemed to be glaring at her. Judging from the expression on his face—as if he wanted to grab Idina, he might have been secretly surprised at her behavior.
He sighed, swept his hair back, and turned around.
<Have your servant do it for you.>
As expected, it was hard to expect kindness from him.
Idina said she would do it without much regret and asked a question instead.
<Where is he?>
At the question, Lilles turned back to Idina and got angry.
<You can find him yourself!>
Even though he was annoyed, he usually made a fuss, so it didn’t feel that threatening. However, this time he was genuinely angry. For a moment, Idina flinched.
She might have shown a slightly frightened expression. Seeing Idina frozen, Lilles relaxed the tension between his furiously furrowed eyebrows for a moment.
He sighed again and turned around and strode down to the first floor. While Idina was glaring at his unfortunate back, the maid quietly spoke from behind.
<I’ll find the servant and tell him.>
<Hm….>
The maid was just about to leave the room.
The servant came just in time, saying that Lilles had sent him.
‘What the hell?’
She couldn’t understand why he had been so mad when he was going to call him anyway.
Thanks to that, the Bride family quickly sent a carriage to take Idina home.
Even when leaving the mansion, Lilles didn’t come out to see her off. The Duchess of Lilles was very sorry, but Idina just smiled and said it was okay.
And before turning around, her eyes met with Killian, who happened to be out alone.
For a moment, his mouth twitched slightly as if he had something to say.
However, there was no way they could talk from a distance. Idina simply nodded once and got into the Bride family’s carriage.
With Idina’s return to the Bride family, the marriage talk that she had to have with Lilles was postponed very briefly.
After that, the Lilles family kept putting off calling Idina, saying they were busy. It went from several days to several months.
That’s how the marriage with him came to be on hold.
***
When Idina woke up again, it was when the sky had gotten dark. Her head cleared, but she woke up abruptly, realizing that she had slept too deeply and too long.
Slide.
As the blanket fell, her upper body cooled, and she looked down to see that she was not wearing any clothes. Then before she could pull the blanket back up to cover her body, “Are you awake?”
“Ah……”
Just like when she had briefly woken up, Killian was sitting across the couch from where she was lying.
Unlike before, his dress shirt was unbuttoned, exposing his neck. She looked at him, leaning comfortably against the backrest as if he was resting.
“The Duke of Bride must be worried. It’s too late.”
“……I heard you didn’t tell my family the details.”
Killian laughed, his breath draining as Idina told him what she had heard from his maid.
“I guess I’ll have to tell him myself that you’re having a b*by?”
“……”
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Idina stared at him intently, and Killian asked her a question. Maybe it was because of the dream just now, but she began to see him a little differently.
However, she couldn’t figure out exactly what this strange feeling she had was.
Idina rolled her eyes and carefully stammered out the words that came to her mind.
“Your Highness… did you know me?”
“Knew you? That’s a strange thing to say. Of course I knew you. Idina Bride, the only lady of the Bride family.”
“That’s not what I meant.”
She struggled to explain the intention of her question herself. Killian raised his eyebrows slightly.
Idina tightly gripped the blanket covering her body. It took a little courage to speak out about the questions that remained inside her. Especially in front of him.
“Did you recognize me at the party?”
“…..”
“And before that…….”
Before that.
It wasn’t easy to think of exactly what question to ask. Maybe because her head was so hazy from just waking up? Her lips were twitching, so Killian simply summarized the question she wanted to ask.
“Before that, I was watching you.”
It was a pretty accurate expression, so Idina looked at him in surprise.
“What? Are you curious about that?”
Idina nodded quietly.
She didn’t think she had encountered him much. Even the two times they had faced each other, she didn’t think it was a special relationship.
It probably didn’t mean anything to Killian.
In fact, Idina should have remembered her encounter with him, but it was just an anecdote that didn’t have a big impact on her life.
However, when she faced him and recalled her past memories, there was something that seemed unnatural.
Idina didn’t know how to explain it.
Meeting Killian Escass was something that could be considered a coincidence.
But was it also a coincidence that he came to visit her when she was in Lilles?
Why did he, who was so inactive that people even said he was a recluse, ‘coincidentally’ come to visit her when she visited the Lilles family?
Come to think of it, it was common to wait about a week to visit a noble family. One would send a letter first to get permission, but at the time, it seemed like he just barged in on the same day.
It was rude. Even if he was a m*mber of the royal family, he had to follow such basic customs.
