Chapter 69 – Prayer
Lucia’s words that it’s over, and a bright smile on Isabella’s lips.
Ciana, who was sitting next to her, slowly raised her head as she listened to the two of them talking without a subject, which had a clear ominous atmosphere.
Has anyone else been caught up in Isabella’s plan?
Seeing Isabella’s blatant joy in her voice, Ciana thought that and felt sorry for her.
But that was all. She felt no further emotion.
Isabella’s resistance to her malice and desire was a state she felt keenly through repeated learning.
Also, Sianna’s failing mental state was also blunting her emotions.
Half a year had passed since they stayed at Isabella’s mansion, and they were treated like Isabella’s belongings every day.
In addition, as she started to live a life completely cut off from the outside world, her original weak spirit was completely destroyed.
After spending the day beside Isabella in awe, only the pleasure felt in her body at night is proof that she is alive.
She had never completely distorted her values or assimilated Isabella’s behavior or personality, but she did not even reject her now.
Siana was gradually becoming a person who was indifferent to others.
“Siana.”
At the sound of Isabella calling her, Ciana reflexively smiled Betsy. Isabella’s smile brightened even more when she saw the action that came out of her body as a reflex.
“My Siana will be fine.”
Her words tilted her head for a moment, but soon her doubts subsided again without leaving any traces.
Isabella whispered in her ear as she just enjoyed the tickling sensation as it swept her back.
“My Sianna, you think you will have a new family soon?”
Family. The meaning of the word was understood, but it was a word that did not create a special resonance. Words that do not even know the faces of their parents, and the place that was once considered a true family now feels as distant as other people’s stories.
“… Family?”
As she quietly repeated her words like a parrot, Isabella patted her ear lobe and tucked her hair behind her.
“Yeah, someone who knows our Shiana well.”
Acquaintance?
Siana quietly whispered the meaning of those words. She said there were few people she knew. Of course, first Isabella, then Becky, then the old butler and the red-haired maid, Lucia…
Family?
New family?
Her quiet thoughts come to life after a long time. Her eyes blink violently for a moment at the waves on the surface of the water that have begun to be drawn.
She also had her family. Her only older sister who truly cares about her.
She was someone I knew all too well. In fact, the person who occupied the largest part of her life.
The kind smile was so beautiful, the soft, warm brown eyes, and the same color hair.
As the thought reached that point, Siana’s body stiffened.
No way.
Mason?
Unsurprisingly, Isabella, who was hugging her like a snake, could feel her hardened body at once, and she soon met her ciana’s eyes and opened her mouth with her sly smile.
“Soon, you’ll be able to meet the unnie you’ve been wanting to see.”
The moment she heard her words, a scream of pain resonated in Sianna’s head.
No.
The only one who loved her. She was the one who cared for her and waited for her when she was cornered.
She was the one and only love.
It was not difficult to guess what she meant by becoming her new ‘family’ with Isabella.
Mason, like himself, is Isabella’s bonded and broken figure.
I couldn’t stand to see that. With the miserable words of the man she loved. It also shouldn’t have fallen into the same abyss as her own.
But she couldn’t react violently. It was difficult to move the emotions that had hardened like her habit before you knew it, and Shiana squeezed all her strength to open her mouth, but the answer that came out was weak compared to the emotions she felt.
“… I hate other families.”
It was her best as of now. Please refrain from extending her hand to Mason, the best request the present Ciana could ask for.
However, Isabella, who heard her pleading, treated her words as cute complaints.
“What is it, are you jealous of our Shiana?”
Isabella smiled and stroked Cianna’s cheek, kissed her briefly, then met her eyes before opening her mouth.
“Are you okay. Even if your new family comes, they will be happy for you.”
Sianna’s grief could not come out of her mouth. Her hardened habits and repeated learning held her back.
Isabella was so excited that she couldn’t read Cianna’s expression, but she still smiled as she got up and approached Lucia.
“Thanks for the good news, Lucia.”
Saying that, Isabella kissed Lucia as well, then she opened the door and disappeared somewhere.
In the room where only the two of them were left, Lucia and Shiana, there was silence. No one opens their mouth Lucia felt obvious hostility, and Ciana felt guilty towards her.
But she couldn’t be silent like this.
Mason shouldn’t have been broken like he was. She didn’t want to let Isabella get caught up in her as much as she did.
It was enough for me to suffer in this hell.
So Shiana opened her mouth with difficulty.
“… No.”
At the words that jumped out of her front and back, Lucia looked at Siana in amazement. There were mixed emotions in her eyes, which she thought must have been full of hostility.
Anger, resignation, and fear?
Confused, but she didn’t have the ability to quickly notice her other people’s feelings like Isabella.
“… As for Mason.”
Cianna opens her mouth again, but her dulled mind slows her down. After a long effort, she only said the words, but Lucia seemed to understand.
Lucia glared at her for a moment, but contrary to her expectations, her mouth opened.
“What’s wrong?”
“… They are family.”
At Cianna’s words, her Lucia’s eyes seemed to spark. Her stride towards herself, her Lucia looks down at her and opens her mouth.
“Family? Who? Mason?”
A sneer hung over Lucia’s mouth, but she seemed to be having a hard time. As if trying to deny her something.
“Not all people of the same blood are family. That you know better Your parents abandoned you when you were little, do you call them parents?”
Cianna looked at her with her emotionless eyes. It was a foolish sophistry.
“Mason loves you.”
“Love?”
Lucia laughed again.
“Anyone who loves me will not abandon you. I won’t run away in the name of feeding you when you need it most. A family shouldn’t be like that.”
Her voice trembled, but she spoke with uncanny certainty.
“But how are the Masons family? When I was young, when I was lonely and afraid, only Isabella stood by my side. She’s the only one who ever loved me and she’s the one I love. Isabella is my one and only family and love. If you don’t know anything, don’t say anything.”
“I never ran away.”
“What?”
Lucia seemed taken aback for a moment at Ciana’s low retort. Previously, she would have been angry at Lucia’s nonsensical wrath and she would have written evil, but now Ciana was not stirred by her emotions.
“I always missed you.”
Mason was a man who did not run away. The only knight of hers who protected her in her last moments, when everyone around her turned away, was her one who didn’t know how to run away.
She was more responsible than anyone else, and her one and only sister, Lucia, was always at the center of her responsibility. She often tells Sianna that she reminds her of her brother, and as much as she took care of herself, she knew her love for her sister better than anyone else.
She is overcome by Lucia’s presence when Mason asks her to return to her hometown with him, to the point where she is overcome with her fears that she will lose her place.
“You know.”
Cianna looked at her Lucia. As she watched the emotion in her eyes become more complex, Ciana’s confidence that her Lucia felt something of hers also grew stronger.
“…”
Lucia hesitated, opening and closing her mouth for a long time, and eventually she opened it again.
“… It’s already over.”
Sianna read the resignation in her words.
Shiana’s heart sank, but she was just that, she wasn’t shocked.
And that made her even more painful.
Now terribly withered, she herself, Mason, who was caught up in Isabella’s plan, and Lucia, who destroyed her sister by ignoring her sincerity, are the culprits of everything that people do not know how twisted they are.
“… If the day comes that Mason will be broken like you and me.”
Siana’s mouth opened.
“You will definitely regret it someday.”
Saying that, Sianna glared at her Lucia, and her brief conversation ended there.
In silence, which had fallen again, Sianna closed her eyes and offered her prayers, seeking her long unmindful presence.
If you really exist, please give Mason a chance at redemption.
Soon, to her surprise, her prayers come true.
