Chapter 85 – No Return (2)
“…”
Mason stared blankly at Isabella, clutching at the bruised cheek. Her cold expression, a smile that showed no remorse, proved that what had just happened was not a lie.
“… I’m serious?”
The pain in her cheek marked the end of the relationship, but she had no choice but to ask again. It was because she was associated with many of her few childhood poetic memories.
“…”
Seeing Isabella say nothing to her, Mason felt her stomach break down. No, to be precise, her insides had already collapsed. She had never been mentally healthy since coming to her hometown.
But even so, why did she not give up completely?
Because I wanted to be proud of myself and take responsibility.
Don’t cry.
Mason gritted his teeth and whispered to himself.
Don’t break down here You still have work to do.
Think about why you’re here
You have someone to take responsibility for and apologize to.
“… Siana.”
Mason’s cracked voice brought out a name she hadn’t spoken to in a long time.
“Where is Siana?”
And when she heard Sianna’s name, Isabella’s eyes lit up for the first time.
“… Siana? Oh, there was our poor Miss Sianna.”
Isabella smiled and approached her. Mason did not back down.
“Hey, do you want to see Cyana? No, that was stupid. Of course you would like to see Let me change the question.”
Approaching Mason’s nose, she asked again.
“Will Ciana want to see you?”
“…”
Her question was enough to make Mason freeze. It was a question that she, too, could not easily answer no matter how many times she asked herself.
“Do you think Shiana will welcome you if she knows that the older sister she never came to find herself, that she abandoned herself and became like her real sister and she and she are like that?”
Her words meant the worst, but it was also an undeniable possibility. Especially, after she virtually rejected Cianna’s confession, if she knew that she had a relationship with Lucia-
For a moment, her hallucination of Sianna in her house made her shudder shallowly, and Isabella did not miss it.
“Look, you’re not sure either.”
Isabella giggled and then quickly withdrew her laughter, her eyes filled with an intense emotion rarely seen. It was a look of deep madness in his eyes.
“I will never give Shiana away, and I will do my best not to take her away. Still, if you have to take her Sianna, tell her you’re going to see her Sianna now.”
“…”
Mason was confused by her words. She never understood why Isabella was obsessed with Cianna, and she didn’t know what it meant for her to do her best.
However, she was already taken to the extreme, and there was only one thing she had to worry about.
“… Where is Siana?”
Listening to her, Isabella slowly nodded her head.
“… Because the choice is yours look out Germaine will be waiting for you.”
Mason turned his back on Isabella and walked away. When she opened the door to Isabella’s office and went out, she did as she said, and Germaine was waiting outside the door.
“… Miss Mason.”
The look of Germaine, who called her by name, looked vulnerable. His appearance was not that of a neat and gentle old butler, but that of an anxious and frightened old man.
“… Please take me to Siana.”
“… All right.”
He took her down her stairs and into her basement. As she moved her steps in silence, Mason quietly opened her mouth.
“… Uncle Germaine.”
“… Yes, Miss Mason.”
“… I guess I didn’t know Isabella too much.”
“…”
He didn’t say anything, but Mason needed somewhere to complain, so she continued.
“I can’t even guess where it went wrong. I want to quit everything, but I can’t.”
To her, Germaine was not simply an employee of Isabella’s household. He was a benevolent old man whom she had met since childhood, and who cared for her and her Lucia.
Although he knew what Isabella had done, and she could not justify his actions, it was clear that he regretted his cowardice when he heard the warning he gave before entering her office.
“Now I have nowhere to step down, and I don’t think Isabella will step down either.”
“… Miss Mason.”
“You warned me, but I’m sorry. I can’t leave Sianna like this.”
At her resolute words, Germaine kept her silence for a long time, as if she couldn’t find anything to say.
“… Miss Mason had a strong sense of responsibility from an early age. I remember. Even at a young age, she took care of her younger siblings, including her young lady.”
He turned her towards her and bowed deeply to her.
“It’s not Miss Mason’s fault. Rather, the fault must be mine. It’s my fault for not being able to take care of you since I was little.”
Mason panicked for a moment, but didn’t stop him. Both he and she clearly knew. Even if you were in an extreme situation like now, it was a very meaningless act to argue about the past.
“… Please, please, I hope Miss Mason will be firm in her heart…”
Jermaine said so, and she opened the door to the room.
When Mason leaves Isabella’s office and her Grace follows her.
“For a moment.”
Isabella stopped her.
“Would you like to talk to me?”
Then, hearing her words, Grace burst into laughter.
“What baby? Anything left for us to talk about?”
“Well, I guess I still have a lot left?”
“Are you messing around? No fun.”
Grace smiled and put her hand on the doorknob and walked over to Isabella.
“So, what are you talking about?”
Isabella looked at her slowly. She was a figure I could not comprehend even though I had thought about her for a long time. I couldn’t figure out why she, an outsider who had nothing to do with her, was actively involved in her own business.
“I’ve been thinking a little about you.”
“Oh, so much that I couldn’t sleep at night? It’s troublesome.”
“Stop that disgusting sound. It means I knew you were just an adrenaline-crazy bitch with no answers.”
In the end, Isabella gave up looking for her logic in her actions. She found it easier to understand if she condition her actions to her pleasures and interests.
“Did you know that now? You’re dumber than I thought.”
“Sorry, I never thought that there would be anyone acting as stupid as you.”
“Haha, anyway, other than this nonsensical conversation, there must have been something you wanted to talk to me about.”
“Huh. Okay. I have only one thing to say. Even now, when your hand. Don’t get involved here anymore, and keep doing the crappy things you did before you came here.”
“Ah, you know that too, right? That you don’t give a damn about your warnings.”
Isabella listened to her words and smiled.
“You are great in that respect. If there’s something you want to do, don’t think about it before and after.”
“Have you been recognized now? Being acknowledged by you doesn’t feel particularly good.”
“I know that? I think we might have been good friends had it not been for this.”
“Um, just thinking about it is bad.”
Isabella and Grace talked and laughed. It’s not a story mixed with tension, but lightly, like sharing a joke among close friends.
Isabella said, nodding her head slowly.
“I think so too. Well, I just wanted to warn you anyway. Not a Mason, but I will kill you.”
Hearing her words, Grace opened her round eyes and looked at her, then burst into laughter. She held her stomach and laughed for a while, as if she had heard a very interesting story, then lifted her head.
“You? Me? I think you’re misunderstanding something, but I’ve already knocked you down once, so you don’t think you can beat me, do you?”
“Well, shouldn’t we just go to the end and see who wins?”
“You have a lot to care about, but I don’t the opposite. Do you think I lied when I said the other day that I could kill Mason?”
There was no bravado in her words, she spoke so plainly that there was no doubt in her face about her own abilities.
“No, but I don’t think you’ll kill Mason.”
“Why?”
“That’s not the victory you want.”
Grace was a narcissist backed by her skills. He liked to show off his abilities, and the means was to completely crush his opponent’s nose. He did whatever he could to make it happen. She was thinking that even if she cared about her Masons now, she might be trying to turn her teeth on her own side, which she had once been her own nemesis.
“Because you want to see me miserable. The more people there are to laugh at my downfall, the better. It is not so?”
Her townspeople Grace looked a little ambiguous, and she smiled, raising the corners of her mouth a little. Her golden eyes hid softly between her smirks.
“On second thought, I think we could have been good friends, as you said.”
At Grace’s words, Isabella also smiled.
“No way.”
Isabella said with a smile.
“I will decline that from my side.”
