Chapter 84 – No Return (1)
Standing with her back to the closed door, Isabella looked at the two women in front of her and smiled.
The value of both was fixed.
One was the one that would come into her family.
The other had to pay the price for humiliating himself.
“Sister Mason.”
As she called, Mason noticeably shuddered at her. In every little gesture and action she made, it was clear that she was still afraid of herself.
Why is she afraid of herself? No, why did she become so afraid of me?
She was sad
“What are you so curious about, why did you bring that woman all the way here?”
How much preparation did I make to include her sister in my family.
If she had followed my plan slowly, her sister wouldn’t have been afraid of me.
You would have spent happy days laughing happily next to me.
Isabella gave a cold smile that didn’t feel warm. She no longer had the soft, reassuring smile she had before.
Because Mason brought this on herself, she didn’t have to keep her hands on her either.
“No, is it right for me to ask how far you know?”
As she tried to approach Mason, her Grace stepped ahead of her and blocked her approach. Seeing this behavior, Isabella felt her annoyance rise.
“… Fall off a bit? Can’t you see Mason talking to me?”
“Why should I? Are you raising your head stiffly saying it’s my house right now? It’s no different from a dog, isn’t it?”
The amethyst-colored eyes and the golden eyes stared at each other without backing down.
No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t understand why she was helping Mason. Grace’s motives do not make sense to her, who enjoys making her people her own through her meticulous planning.
Wait.
You will surely kill me
Just then, Isabella passed Grace and came in front of her. When her Grace tried to restrain her, she shook her head, and Isabella snorted at her when Grace, who understood what she meant, watched her stand still.
“Sister, did you find a dog that listens well? I want to engraft myself with Roxy. Is it okay?”
Isabella did not respond. Her swaying brown eyes contained mixed emotions. Fear, betrayal, and hope.
Suddenly, I wondered what hope was in those eyes. The ridiculous belief that all your doubts are false? Or the expectation of being able to take Cyana out of here?
Isabella didn’t know her feelings, and she never would.
“… Why is that?”
It was quite a calm voice for what made her body tremble and fear.
“What?”
“… What you’ve done so far.”
“I don’t know what your sister is talking about.”
Isabella finished her words like that, and opened her mouth again with her sneer.
“Yo. This.”
She felt a little better when she saw the intentionally delayed jondae and Mason’s hardened expression.
Look. If you knew me like this, you would be disappointed.
I just wish I could have stayed as an older sister who took care of me forever and cherished me as much as Lucia did.
I also wanted to remain as a younger sister of a bright and kind sister.
“… Are you the Isabella I used to know?”
When Mason spoke in a trembling voice, his feeling of relief plummeted in an instant.
“Me? Does your sister know me?”
Lucia sprinted towards her, closed the distance from her, and stuck her head in close to her. She was so close that even the eyelashes were clearly visible on her face.
“How do you know? Can you quickly conclude that you really know me? Don’t you think I’m not like this?”
Isabella couldn’t control her anger at Mason. Her words grew faster, and she glared at her shocked brown eyes like they were going to eat them.
“My sister knows nothing. She said she left this town when she was little and it’s been a while since we started seeing each other again. This is what her older sister remembers.”
Isabella smiled brightly again. She smiled softly and quickly grabbed her frozen left hand and held it affectionately between hers.
“Ah unnie~ What are you talking about, sadly! This is my Isabella! Unnie, the younger sister who always followed me around as an older sister!”
Between the corners of her eyes curled up in her smile, Mason’s pale figure caught her eye. Isabella felt the heat rise in her head from her anger and excitement.
I hope she’s terrified of her. Come on.
Come on she hopes she’s afraid of herself.
He wanted her to suffer the pain she deserved for ruining her own perfect and precious plans.
“Is this the kind of me you know? But what should I do? I am much dirtier than you think.”
Then she pulled Mason’s right hand towards her.
She raised the nails of both of her hands as far as they could, scratching her hands with all her might.
“Ah… !”
Before she could let go of her hand, her Grace jumped in and shoved Isabella away, but had already wounded her. Her Mason’s hands had thin wounds, and little drops of blood were forming on them.
“Aha, ahahahaha!”
I could feel her shoved body throbbing, but Isabella laughed like a madman. Those wide open eyes, holding her left hand with her stupid expression and looking at her in disbelief, were so pure and pitiful.
Don’t look like you’ve been betrayed.
It’s something you brought on yourself.
Neither Grace, nor Mason, nor Isabella moved. Her office was full of tension that no one could carelessly move. Just like a statue, no one moved until she stopped laughing.
Finally, after clearing her throat slightly, Isabella brushed her body and straightened the crumpled hem of her dress.
“Aha, ah… , Isn’t it funny? That my sister didn’t know I was like this?”
Isabella looked at the two with a grin. One was shocked, the other was looking at himself with numb eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Isabella enjoyed their gaze. She couldn’t go back to the way she was before. From the first time Shiana entered this village, her plans went awry.
It would have been better if I hadn’t met Sianna.
But she soon realized that she didn’t even like her voice, so Isabella smiled again and continued her words.
“Enough now. I have no intention of hiding it from my sister any longer, and I will not restrain myself any longer. What do you want to hear about? That I intentionally approached you? What about Lucia? Oh or-“
Isabella staggered towards Mason. She was weird This unknown elation and excitement, and pleasant dizziness.
I don’t drink at all, but is this how it feels to get drunk?
“Surely, you want to hear about our Shiana first?”
Mason, who looked down at her hand in a daze for a moment, raised her head startled.
“Ha, then is it? Do you want to see Siana too? So do i. I want to hit everything right now and live with only Siana. Do you know how pitifully a dog’s expression contorts when it cries? You want to continue torturing me without me knowing?”
“… Stop.”
“-I think it’s because it’s so cute that I want to bite it off. I want to bully you. Huh. I want to see you cry, break, and suffer. I wish it collapsed like that. If, after going through pain, suffering, and finally giving up because there was nowhere else to lean on, I hope you would rely on me like that. How does a dog in bed-“
“Stop!”
Mason shouted. Isabella shuddered at her uncontrollable excitement. It was the first time she had ever seen Mason in her wrath. Her voice was more powerful than I thought.
Mason’s sister screams like that.
Are you losing control of your emotions and getting angry right now?
Continue. Good. You can’t control your emotions and rush at me.
It’s been the same since the beginning. Ever since she was little, she hated the pretense of taking care of her younger siblings. I hated seeing her pretending to be an adult she didn’t fit in and apologizing for indebted to me.
You are the same human Being swayed by emotions, saying things you don’t like.
Don’t force yourself to pretend to be a better human being.
I wish I had just given up on that. I wish you would have come to me
You have to admit that you are an ugly and pathetic human being.
Mason walked over to her. She struggled to contain her agitation, and the way she tried to keep her composure somehow reminded me of her puppies, who barked a lot as she tried not to show that she was frightened.
Of course, she couldn’t hide her tail curled between her legs.
Mason came right in front of Isabella’s nose. On her face looking down at herself, she could feel her hurt and hateful eyes looking at her.
As if time had slowed down, she could see her Mason’s palm slowly rising.
Undoubtedly believing that her palm was going to her own cheek, Isabella opened her eyes wide and followed her palm.
He swallowed her spittle, bit her chin, anticipating the pain she would soon feel on her cheek.
Hurry.
Come on.
Unleash her wrath and wave her hand.
Use violence Justify your anger and use your unresolved frustration as a means.
But her Mason’s palm, trembling with difficulty, landed on her shoulder.
There was a thud, and the room was enveloped in silence for a while.
“… You.”
It was Mason’s voice. It took a little while to realize that it was her voice because it was a crackling, crying voice.
“Did you even think of me as an older sister?”
Saying that, it was her eyes full of sadness that met her gaze with her own. It was clear that the tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, wringing out the last of her strength and struggling to keep from falling.
Suddenly, somewhere in Isabella’s mind.
Something that I thought had already collapsed a long time ago raised its head slightly.
A small, powerless final outburst.
Isabella looked at her in her split second, unable to find her words for a moment.
Why not use violence?
Are you controlling yourself that much?
Why? Did you come here?
There is no one who can stop me from beating me now.
Something very unfamiliar, the feeling of feathers tickling my skin gently wrapped around my body.
No. I don’t like it.
I don’t like it.
I do not like it.
What are you?
What a holy saint Why are you even doing that?
No.
You can’t be swayed by this sudden feeling right now.
If you just reach out your hand, everything you’ve built up until now becomes nothing.
Then what should I do?
At that moment, a very, small, warm, soft voice whispered in my ear.
-You can break it.
How?
-If you don’t want to go back, tear down the bridge you came across.
A sweet voice caressed her mind. Her seductive hand ran through her hair and kissed the nape of her neck gently.
-Come on.
In that moment, Isabella realized what she had to do.
Match.
In the quiet room, the sound of her cheek hitting her hand echoed louder than ever.
Mason, who had turned her head from the slap, didn’t think to turn her head back, and she just stood there.
Isabella gave her a light shove, and gently patted her shoulder where her hand rested on her mason’s.
“Ah.”
Isabella raised one corner of her mouth, and she opened her mouth, smiling into Mason’s stiff face.
“Touch somewhere with her hand when you would have touched your sister’s body like an animal.”
The corner of her mouth was hurting, but the smile didn’t come down as if it had hardened.
“Nastily.”
The soft voice that rang in my ear found the emotion that raised its head deep in my heart and tightened its throat with her soft hand.
I shuddered and then until I stopped breathing.
