Chapter 114
“Did the job go well?”
Rafel, who was waiting in front of the drawing room, asked in an indifferent tone.He looked the same as usual, but his eyes were running sweetly across Annette's face as if it had been coated with honey.Seeing this, Annette laughed. Softly.
“Yes. It will take some time for you to confess your sins, but you can't help it. It's not something that can be done in a hurry.”
“How is your body? Are you really okay? He said he had already drunk poison several times.”
“It's okay. The poison I ate was very small, and I immediately made an antidote and ate it.”
At that, Rafel gave a visibly relieved expression. Raffel was shocked to hear that Eucalyptus was actually planted by the king, and that she had poisoned Annette all along. Annette's hands her trembled as she finally felt how great danger Annette had fought against with small and slender body her. He could have lost Annette without even knowing it.
Even if Annette ate the poison and suffered and died, he wouldn't have known anything. Rather, he must have closed his eyes, thinking that the king was still looking favorably on Annette. Rafel hated himself for living without knowing anything until now , and his hands his trembling.
'I must have been the worst husband ever.'
Rafel sincerely blamed himself. He loved Annette every time he saw her, and he suffered from guilt and self-hatred just as much. He constantly hurt Annette around him, even if he didn't intend to. Unchanged affection.
This fact stabbed Rafel's chest like a dagger.It was like going to heaven and hell at the same time.Lafel was sorry and thankful to Annette beyond words.As his manly eyes his twisted with anguish, Annette took his hand his his He and laughed.
“Don't make that face. I'm really fine, Lapel. From now on, you will protect me. Yes?”
“Of course. I will always protect you.”
Lapel, who was slightly saved by Annette's kind words of her, responded. He wasn't cool anyway, so he didn't have the talent to win people's hearts with words. Besides Annette, he had never met any other woman. He wasn't confident in whispering love skillfully.
But he was always sincere as much as his hearther he could not be expressed in words.Rafel definitely wanted to protect her.There was only one thing she had to do for her and now she herself.One can easily remove or use it.
As Harold said he was a pretty decent swordsman But to protect her Annette her he was not enough Just in time Annette looked at Lapel in her training suit and said
“Now go, Lapel. It's your time to practice. The wind is cold, so be careful not to catch a cold.”
“Worry about you. Fluffy that looks like it will blow away when the wind blows.”
Lafel, who replied bluntly, lowered her head and kissed her fur her. Her fingertips her cupped the little chin her, and she licked her smooth lips with the tip of her tongue, and she felt Annette smile a little. Touching lips was so lovely that I wanted to swallow it whole.
Rafel's eyes darkened even more. She wanted to snatch her up and snatch her up like her savage in this spot. What does it mean to wait for guests or not? Just before Lafel's urge came true, Annette laughed and pushed him away.
“Come on, Lapel. Before it's too late.”
Lafel, who had become sullen, reluctantly left. It was a practice that I didn't miss a single day whether it rained or snowed, but I really wanted to skip today. Especially when I thought of the guest Annette was about to meet. But he couldn't show himself fooling around in front of the woman he liked.
After Rafel sighed, he refreshed his mind and headed for the training ground. When will this bastard's sword master's level come to be in his hands his, Won. If you look at the remarks of the existing sword masters, they say that it is a state of 'climbing with the heart, not the sword', but it was crazy because I didn't know what kind of ghost it was.
Annette, who saw Lapel's back her with a friendly look, turned to the drawing room Now it was my turn to meet the guests waiting there Annette entered the door and greeted me in a soft voice.
“Thank you for coming, Celestine. It's nice to see you again.”
“Annette! How have you been?”
Celestine, who was sitting in the parlor of the Kanesis family, stood up with a broad smile. As she hugged her Annette, her face revealing her friendship she was very natural. Were now in a position to board the same boat.
Celestine loved her family her with all her heart her, and she believed in herself. She was too proud of herself to be a pretty doll sitting next to the crown prince. She could not forgive King Selgratis for instigating him as well as her own abduction of her, inflicting her psychological trauma, and using it to rid herself of her political enemies of her. He didn't even care if he was hurt by this or not.
Even though Celestine came from a powerless family, it was not fair for her to be treated like this. Thanks to her Annette her, Celestine, who learned the truth about her, gritted her teeth. Right away, she refused to continue playing in the king's hands.
'I chose the path I believed was right. What's left now is up to Annette.'
Celestine pressed her lips together and held Annette's hand her, which was wrapped around her own. Her hand her, which had been beautifully nursed all her life her, was delicate like a flower, but strangely strong. Annette whispered softly by as she hugged Celestine the shoulder her with a smile on her face her.
“Did Your Highness come to the promised place?”
“Sure. Please wait patiently there.”
Today, unlike usual, was the day to meet alone with Crown Prince Ludwig. After hearing Celestine's confident answer, Annette let out a sigh of relief. I don't know what method she used, but it was a great thing to call Ludwig out of the palace. She also did well to ask Celestine for help.
Annette intended to ask Ludwig today about how far she knew about the situation. The reason why the king did these things in the first place was for Ludwig, who would become the next great king. Bavaria and remove the lapel. That was the king's own denial of his.
'That's why His Highness Ludwig should be aware of this situation.'
Annette was actually somewhat uncomfortable with Ludwig alone. Especially since the last meeting wasn't so good. But now was not the time to be swayed by such private feelings. Because this was a huge problem that went beyond love and hated, intertwined with family and power.
Annette, who nodded her head, replied to Celestine.
“Like. We leave in ten minutes.”
Annette pretended to flirt with Celestine over tea for a while. After that, while going out shopping, he naturally rode in the carriage that Celestine had been riding. This featureless wagon was soon to be scattered among the other wagons. Annette was soon able to arrive at the meeting place where Ludwig was waiting.
“This is it.”
Fortunately, Raileen found a place to hold a meeting with the Crown Prince. Among the various businesses he runs, there is a secret tea house built for this purpose. When Annette entered the entrance just in time, Celestine patted her on the shoulder and encouraged her.
“Then I'll go ahead to the carriage. Please have a good conversation with Her Highness Her and I hope you come.”
“… Is it really okay if we don't go together? Celestine.”
Annette looked back at Celestine with a worried look. For her part her, she was reluctant to let Annette and Ludwig alone. Ludwig had once promised Annette a future for her, and he still had fond memories of her. Fiancée her, did not seem to regard it as a big deal.
“It's okay. The story will move faster if I fall into it. And it's not like we're getting married because we love each other anyway. Aren't all arranged marriages like this?”
Her proud her Celestine liked her other woman, and she did n't want to be strangled by her her fiance her her Annette nodded her head at her cool but cold reply her her Celestine believed in her like this, and she could n't betray her trust her.
Annette, now alone, entered the room with a calm face. As she sneaked up on her approaching clerk, she showed the ring of the Sacrit Guild, and the clerk nodded and guided her somewhere. Upon entering the secret door hidden behind the wall, Crown Prince Ludwig was sitting there.
“Annette!”
Upon entering her her, her Ludwig her, who spotted her, got up with her complicated expression on her face her. The fingertips that held Annette's hand her and escaped her were still affectate, but there was no sign of clinging to them like before Certainly, it seemed that Annette's sting her in the past had been quite painful.
“Thank you for coming all the way here, Your Highness. It must have been a difficult step in the middle of a busy schedule. I apologize for inevitably leading you to a place like this.”
“Don't be so polite, Annette. Even if she became the wife of another man…… The childhood days we spent together are still the same. At least let me remain as your close friend. Even so, so that I can stay within your boundaries…… Allow me.”
Ludwig's delicate features were gazed sadly at Annette. Perhaps because they were half-brothers, Annette was a little surprised to see the lapel on their face her. I didn't know anything else, but the lineage seemed like it couldn't be fooled But she was determined not to be shaken by that pathetic face of her.
“Majesty. Then, as a close friend who once shared the same memories, I would like to point out one thing.”
Unfortunately, Annette was a woman who valued reason more than emotion.She still had n't forgotten Ludwig's past atrocities.Annette, who respectfully kept her manners, asked back with her bony smile.
