Gaiden 4
Oddly enough, the stairs where aristocratic women stumbled or fell so easily was a very dangerous place.
Annette, however, was calm in her natural disposition of her, and she was able to descend the stairs without much trouble.Arriving safely in the hall on the first floor, Annette looked around her.
“Lapel?”
The first floor, where even the employees went to sleep, was extremely quiet. Only the sound of the ferocious wind could be heard from outside, rattling the windows and howling as it clawed at the heavy front door.
Annette looked around alone in the oversized and massive marble mansion, clutching her lantern.
She said, 'Where the hell have you been?
At this point, I was terrified. Rafel usually sleepwalked, but she didn't go very far.
Sensing her insecurity her and worrying her, Annette raised her voice and started looking for Lapel.
“Lapel, Lapel!! Where are you?”
Her thin voice was terribly drowned out by the roar of the wind.She doubted that even if Lapel was a sword master, she would be able to hear such a strong wind disturbing her speech.
Tears welled up in Annette's eyes her. She was saddened that Lapel could not overcome her insecurities and that she had left him alone. She had been overly leaning on him, and she felt that she had taken it for granted and she regretted it.
“Lapel…!!
The tears in Annette's eyes were about to flow. The door, which had been shaken by the wind since before, seemed to creak especially loudly, and then opened with a rattle.
“Lapel!!”
It seemed that he was not in the mansion for some reason, he must have been in the garden.
Anyway, she was very glad to find the husband she had been looking for so long.Annette, deeply relieved in her heart her her, trotted toward it.Then, as if she was worried that she might fall, Lapel came running right in front of her at once.
“Annette. Why did you come all this way without sleeping more?”
I felt cold energy from Lapel's body His His, who was out in the garden Standing in the moonlight in the dark marble mansion Rafel's face was like that of a vampire Annette looked at his bloodless white face with a worried look.
“When I woke up, you weren't there, so I came to find you. Why did you go out to the garden? The wind is blowing like that outside. Aren't you cold?”
At the same time as she spoke, Annette reached out her hand toward him.The cold air felt from Lapel was not normal, so I grabbed his hand and tried to melt it.
Lapel was not a man who avoided Bondianette's touch her.As if he was rather pleased, he bent down on her first and pushed her face her to touch her.He did not think about leaving Annette's side of her, especially because he's been anxious lately.
But at this moment, Lapel avoided her her hand, her and pulled her body, her her back, Annette's white hand fell helplessly into the empty air, She looked at Lapel, who was avoiding me , and looked like she was going to cry.
“Lapel?”
The moment he met her swollen eyes Her lapel bit her lips in agony And she averted her eyes and spoke in a loud voice.
“Don't touch me because my hands are cold, Annette, I just went for a walk in the garden because I couldn't sleep. Now go up and go back to sleep.”
Listening to Rafel's words, it didn't seem like a big deal. He didn't look drowsy or wander the line between his dreams and reality as he did when his sleep disorder kicked in.
But Annette quickly noticed that he was pretending to be okay again.
“Don't avoid my hand, Lapel, I'll be really mad if you avoid it again.”
Annette, who let go of her bluff while whimpering slightly, reached out her hand again.Lapel flinched as if she wanted to avoid it, but she hesitated, wondering if she could ignore her words.Taking advantage of that gap, Annette finally succeeded in grabbing his hand her her
'It's cold.'
Sword Master Lapel's body temperature did not drop well.If his hands were cold,it meant he had been standing in the garden for at least a few hours.
As he said, it was too much to say that he simply went for a walk because he couldn't sleep.
Annette was holding the lantern, so she took his warm hand her his and gently melted it.Then he suddenly felt something strange and asked casually.
“Well? Your hands are damp. Is it raining outside?”
When Annette woke up earlier and looked out the window, the wind had blown, but it had n't rained yet.However, Raffel's hand her felt completely wet.
He looked up and looked closely at his face her, and he saw that his eyelashes and lips her his and even the front of his shirt her his were damp.
“It is strange. It's not raining.”
Annette, who glanced outside through the large windows around the front door, murmured. At that, Rafel's face was slightly agitated. He hurriedly responded, avoiding Annette's gaze at her.
“Rain, you came. Just now.”
Annette's eyes returned to the window. There were no leaves that could be glimpsed through the moonlight, and not a single wet spot on the floor. On the contrary, the gusting wind made her look more dry than usual.
At this point, he could n't be fooled at all.Annette looked into Lapel's blue eyes, which were still slightly wet.And he asked him carefully.
“Lapel, you…Did you cry by any chance?”
“No way.”
Rafel did n't even breathe and immediately denied it.So he was even more suspicious.Annette stared blankly at the side of his face as she turned away from me.
“Really? I hate it when you lie.”
Rafel couldn't bear to lie again. But he couldn't even tell the truth. He pressed his lips together and stared at the poor ground. Seeing this, Annette sighed deeply.
“Oh my God, Lapel.”
Somehow I thought he was quiet these days. When I recalled how anxious he was in the early days of his pregnancy, it was impossible not to be overly calm.
So Annette thought that Lapel was ready to become her father her her.But that was not the case, he was expressing his anxiety her periodically.
Afraid that that would also annoy Annette, out of sight of her, all alone.
Annette looked at his wet eyelashes in her.I don't know since when or how often he went out alone in the garden and cried.However, it seemed to me that this was not the first time.
It was probably from when Rafel no longer showed his anxiety in front of her.
“Come and see, Lapel.”
Annette took him by the hand. Although he is a very weak force, he was also a force that Rapel could never disobey. Hesitantly, he was brought to Annette.
Annette gently opened his arms to her and embraced him.It was a little hard on her bloated belly on her, but it got better when Rafel bent over her and hugged her on the shoulder.
The two were now hugging each other tightly.Lapel's frozen face loosened as he felt her wife's warm body her temperature her, which had risen slightly from her pregnancy her.
Taking advantage of that gap, Annette comforted him in a calm tone.
“I don't know if you remember, Lapel. I told you. I'd rather be married to you than be the Crown Princess. Even now, that thought has not changed.
I am so happy to live with you, and I enjoy every day.”
“…..So do I.”
Lapel barely responded in a terribly subdued voice. It was sincere. Married life with Annette was happy, so every day was like a miracle… That's why I was even more scared.
I'd rather not know if I didn't know this kind of happiness, but since I already knew it, I couldn't go back to before.
Until now, childbirth by aristocratic women was not very safe. There were often deaths from difficult labor, and Annette was not very healthy. So, Lapel felt like she was slowly burning in the fires of hell where she was every day she was so damn happy.
How nice it would be if I could just give birth to a child instead of myself. If so, Rafel would surely survive, and she was confident. But damn, it was his wife who gave birth to the child, and Rafel couldn't do anything.
So he was going crazy day by day.In extreme anxiety that he might lose this happiness and his beloved wifeHis.That fear was slowly strangling Rafel.
“Silly. I won't die leaving you It will survive and live a long, long life with you and the child.”
Annette gave Lapel a pitiful look and hugged him tightly. Although it seemed like she was being hugged because of the difference in their height her, it was Annette who was hugging her lapel heart her right now. Her small hand her patted Lapel's cold back her , comforting him affectately.
“Okay. You will be safe. Certainly.”
Lapel murmured as he lowered her head and kissed her soft hair her.Afraid that his words of her would become reality he could not even express his anxiety of her.
Annette's eyes her moved as she listened to what he said as if he was repeating it to himself Somehow, with Rafel so anxious, she felt compelled to resort to her last resort her.
“If you're that worried, Lapel. Will you do one favor of me?”
Annette, who let go of her pretense her her, blinked at him and asked Rafel nodded her head in advance before he even heard what her request her was her because he was the one who was impatient to do something right now..
Annette smiled inwardly at her husband's extremely cooperative attitude towards her.And she whispered something in his ear her.
