Chapter 224 – Later Story: The Warmest Winter in the World (6)
The next morning.
“Ha…”
After going to work at the castle and entering the office, Essili sighed as usual.
It was because he already had a headache when he saw the letters and various papers heaped up on his desk.
The voice that the county of Pelgaroin is prospering day by day is in line with the fact that Esily, the owner of the county, is faithfully ruling the territory with a sense of responsibility.
In times of peace, the rule of rulers is usually clerical work. Esily, who was in the position of the decision maker, had all the paperwork gathered, so the day after the weekend off, there was always a pile of work, just like now.
So, in a way, it was only natural that fatigue piled up at the same time as going to work.
‘I want to rest…….’
Essilie’s complexion darkens as she takes off her coat and walks to the hanger.
In my heart, I wanted to lie down all day with Theorad in the mansion. He wanted to make delicious food for Raylin and Roselia, and chat with Linea over tea.
It was impossible to abandon work and return to the mansion, so it was only a hope. No matter what anyone said, Essilly was the head of Count Pelgaroin and the leader of the territories.
‘Let’s calm down.’
After patting his own cheeks, Seeley walked over to his desk and sat down. Essili, who reached out to deal with the correspondence from all over the empire, stopped when she found a familiar letter.
‘This…….’
The lion’s pattern stamped on the sealing wax that sealed the letter. Beneath it was the name ‘Benelia von Esteban’ written in elegant handwriting.
The implications of this letter are clear. Nor would it be, for this was the fifth time that Benelia had personally sent her correspondence to her.
She sent me a letter this year without fail. Esily, holding the letter in a rather uneasy mood, recalled the past.
‘The first letter I received was…….’
Immediately after Linea returned to her mansion and held the ceremony with Theo Rad, her letter from Benelia arrived at Pelgaro Personal Castle.
The content of her letters was as straightforward as her Benelia character. Because the succinct sentences that saved her rhetoric were consistently asking for permission to have an affair with Theo Rad.
Seeing that, Ashley was furious. When she ascended to the position of emperor, there was nothing to see in her eyes of her, and it seemed that she was trying to usurp the husband of her subject her.
So, Essilly felt a terrible sense of contempt for your request, and she replied that the Pelgarin family would not stand still if you acted like this one more time.
Upon receiving her letter from Essilly, Benelia sent back her apology, stating that her own words her were not intended, and her case her seemed to be settled that way.
‘…… Another letter came the following winter.’
What a surprise she was when the head maid delivered her letter to her. She was silent for a year, and then doubts arose as to why she sent another private letter.
Having received her letter her with her trembling heart, Eshil was able to face her Benelia’s sincerity her. Her point for permission to have an affair with Theo Rad remained the same, but with the added condition that she would not marry and that she would not have children of her own.
It was a really stupid sound. Why did she want to have an affair with Theo Rad, even giving up her marriage and child her?
Benelia’s obsession of her was incomprehensible, considering it was her simple sexual desire of her. Theorad was handsome, but a handsome man would fill the empire.
If you wanted to, you could wallow all day in a basket of handsome men. It was because she was Benelia, who had that kind of wealth and power, sitting in the seat of the people.
I was curious, but I had no intention of looking into it further. As before, Esily sent the answer, ‘It can’t be’, to Benelia.
‘Then again…….’
As if it had been promised, when winter came, a letter came from Benelia.
The content of the letter was becoming more and more docile, but eventually the content was to ask for permission to have an affair with Theorard.
By that time, Essilly began to wonder why Benelia was obsessed with Theorard.
She investigated the relationship between Benellia and Theo Rad through informants scattered throughout the Empire, but she could not obtain any information.
At most, it was just that Theorad and Venelia met in the Mage Tower a long time ago.
What the hell happened at the Magic Tower? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it, so I asked Theorard indirectly, but Theorard smiled awkwardly and said nothing was wrong.
‘It must be a lie.’
Benelia’s affection for Theo Rad was incomprehensible to her. In addition, Benelia has n’t had a relationship with anyone since her coming-of-age ceremony her until now.
Even when various monarchs of each country made public courtships, they did not even pay attention. She hates to admit it, but she was Benellia, a woman of outstanding beauty and excellent at her literary and martial arts her.
It is only natural that her suits will continue to line up, as she has tremendous military power and charisma. However, Benelia rejected them all.
Nevertheless, her suits her did not cease, so she even left the words at public events, ‘I am the mother of all people, and her spouse her is the empire’.
‘A person who is so thorough in male relationships…….’
Why does she act like a maiden blinded by her love her, as far as Theo Rad is concerned? It was a conundrum that could not be solved no matter how many times she thought about it with her brow furrowed.
‘I don’t know.’
With a deep sigh, Seely opened the drawer of her desk and put Benelia’s letter in her. Reading her letter her would make her distraught, so she intended to take care of other things first before reading.
Closing the drawer and raising her head, Esily’s eyes were unknowingly taken by a small picture frame in the corner of her office desk her.
A family picture that Raylin and Roselia had painstakingly painted was placed in a frame. Although the line processing is sloppy and the colors are awkward, it was the best picture for Essilie.
Just looking at it puts a smile on your face. To the point where I want to go back to the mansion and cuddle my two children right now.
‘I envy you, Linea.’
Before her commute to work, she stopped by Theo Rad’s room her, and how peaceful she looked when she saw Linea sleeping with Roselia in her arms her.
Linea should be awake by now playing with her children. While she is receiving the love of children in one body.
Of course, Linea would have her own difficulties of her, but it was inevitable that she would think that it would be better than spending her days surrounded by hard, office work.
Smart-
Knocking sound then. Hmmm. Esily said as plainly as she could, hushing her voice so as not to be discovered that she was doing something else.
“Come on in.”
Upon permission, the door opens and a black-haired man enters. A man dressed neatly, with neat hair, and a red brooch, the symbol of his family his, walked calmly and stopped in the center of the room.
“Your Excellency Count.”
Her man politely bows her head. The handling of the eyes and the no-nonsense gestures are perfect enough to be used as textbooks.
The noble’s name is Theorad Deharm. He was the 7th head of the Deharm family, the second count, and the consort of Count Essilly.
She was a husband she would not be ashamed of, but she always did not like her current situation her.
“Theorard…… There is no need to show respect to her wife her.”
“I’m sorry, but the person in front of me right now is the Countess who rules the county of Pelgarin before she was my wife.”
“Really. Are you still like that? There are no eyes around you anyway.”
“Shouldn’t you be sure to do the business? Earl Essilly, who is on duty, is my superior.”
It’s not wrong, but is there a need to be so strict between a couple? He wanted to treat himself without hesitation, but he had no major complaints. Because he treated himself as usual when he returned to the mansion anyway.
“I know. By the way, what did you come to the office for?”
At Esily’s words, Theo Rad stepped forward and laid the papers in his arms on his on the office desk. It was a contract signed by the head of Carastain Bank.
“This is a contract that will distribute funds from Carastane Bank to all welfare projects in the Earl of Pelgarin. If His Excellency puts his final seal on it, we can proceed.”
“…… Did that serpent allow the money to flow?”
The president of Carastain Bank was famous for not running a losing business. So it would be common to not touch things like welfare work.
I read the contract carefully just in case, but there were no unfavorable conditions for the Countess of Pelgarin. Rather, there were several clauses that were unfavorable to Carastain Bank.
How the hell did Theorard win such a contract? He nodded his head in the feeling that he knew something.
“Nice job, Sir Theorard.”
The bank manager probably bought a ‘good image’by making a deal with Theorad in order to expand the scope of his influence on the empire. Theorard himself didn’t seem to know much, but most people knew that Theorard was giving money to the poor all over the empire.
No matter how much I donate anonymously, his tail his will be stepped on. In the first place, I donated all the gold and silver treasures that reached the tropics of the carriage, but it was strange that they were not caught.
‘A stupid person.’
Seeley smiled lowly and looked up at Theorard as he signed the contract. The light brown eyes that look like autumn barley fields look more attractive today.
“Sir Theorard. Do you have other plans for today?”
“Today is relatively free.”
“It’s good. Then could you help me with my work? As you can see…… It’s a bit too much for me to do alone.”
Exactly. The large office desk was full of papers. It should be around evening before I can finish my work alone. He said he would make a distinction between public and private affairs, but he did not want to see his wife his, Essilie, suffer.
“Yes. We will help you.”
Theorard brought a chair in the corner of the office and sat down to sort through the papers.
He prioritized urgent or high-important agendas, and began to withdraw private requests or documents of low importance.
Thanks to that, Essilie had to prioritize processing the documents that Theorard had selected. After an hour, two, or three hours like that, his body gradually gets stiff.
“Turn it off…….”
To combat her tiredness her, Esily stretched her. Then she glanced back at Theo Rad, but Theo Rad was sorting through the papers with no sign of tiredness.
The image of him devouring the documents without shaking is somehow cool. Seeley leaned in as the playfulness matched her pounding her.
The target is Theorad’s Ear. Approaching quietly and opening her mouth, Essili softly bit Theorard’s ear.
“…… !”
Shocked, Theorard stops and looks back at Esily. Even so, Shili did not stop her pranks. Her thin, white hand was touching Theo Rad’s thigh of her.
“Esily?”
“Don’t move.”
Esily, who giggled slightly, met Theorard’s gaze and gave a bewitching smile.
“Because it’s an order from the superior.”
