Chapter 40
Lapel said she didn't know what she was feeling, a feeling close to fear. But if Annette chooses Ludwig at this place…… She felt like she couldn't live as well as before.
This is just an arranged marriage, let alone Annette, who comes from that loathsome Bavarian family… Why did she feel this way? Rafel wanted to run away right away. And in a very firm tone.
“If you didn't want me to get married like that, you shouldn't have run away together. Or would you work behind the scenes to prevent an arranged marriage?”
The moment Rafel heard that, his heart sank.Did Annette hate her arranged marriage her so much?Because of the shock, the tinnitus that had been ringing in my ears became louder.Because of this, Lapel could hardly hear what Annette said after him.
“At the time I wrote. To peel off… If you did, I would… I don't think I will.”
Rafel moved closer to them, trying to catch his rough breath. There was a risk of getting caught if he got closer, but the senses in his body his ran wild and he couldn't see the situation in front of him at all. Had to confirm this situation with his own eyes and ears. And then, Annette's last words hit Lapel's ears.
Annette raised her head and uttered words that Lafel could not have imagined.
“And if you have even a little respect for me, please. Please don't talk about my husband that way ever again. Rafel is a nice man, and despite my bad circumstances, he was willing to take me as his wife. He is my family. No one ever criticizes the family in front of them. Do you understand me?”
The moment he heard that, Rafel was at a loss for words. Strangely, it felt like the inside of his throat his was getting hot. He had never been particularly nice to Annette, and he had never trusted her. Remained faithful to him.
But now, hearing from Annette's lips her her, he sounded like a more generous and wonderful man than anyone else in the world So Rafel felt himself more like trash.
“I dare you to ask, I hope that after today, I will never see you again for personal business. Then I'll just leave.”
Annette finished her sentence and turned her back. From Deltium's noblest, proudest, and self-loving crown prince. And without hesitation, he took a decisive step.
Seeing this, Rafel felt like crying for the first time. Annette's confident gait her, her upright back her were dazzling. Ludwig, who was standing far away, was no good at all. Lapel just stared at Annette's back as if she had been nailed Talk to her until she completely disappears from her own sight.
'Family, Ira…….'
Rafel repeated her words to herself.Fortunately, it seemed that he had not been caught following Annette.Upon returning home, Annette seemed a little suspicious of his attitude to her, but he did not doubt it.
After Annette was asleep, Lapel sneaked into her bedroom and looked at her sleeping face without saying a word.This little woman kept arousing strange feelings in him.
Is this woman good or bad for me?Rafel looked at the beautiful mystery before her eyes her that she could not answer.And she lay down beside him and she slowly lowered her eyes.The small, regular breaths coming from her close quarters she was warm.
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It was very windy today.Maybe that's why the lilacs that bloomed in the backyard carried a wonderful fragrance.But even that scent was no more fragrant than the smell of flesh from Annette's hair and the nape of her neck her.
Annette was sitting on the sofa, looking intently at something. Lapel, who hugged Annette from behind, bit her earlobe exposed through her hair, and then she licked it up. Then Annette, trapped in Lapel's arms her, shrugged her shoulders and shook her body her. A laugh burst out of her mouth like a twinkling bell.
“It's tickling, Lapel.”
“What are you looking at?”
Lapel, who interrupted Annette like a big cat and beast, lowered her head and reached out her hand and she confirmed that Annette had been looking at her with a serious face until just now.It was an invitation letter engraved with silver foil on thin, crisp paper.
“A garden evening party? It seems that the Marquess of Elroch is holding the event.”
“Yes. The summer garden there is quite beautiful. Have you been there too?”
“Not at all.”
Rafel said she didn't like going out to crowded places.The women flirted with him with envious eyes, and the other men disapproved of it and looked at him behind his back.They were no match for their looks and abilities, so the only The thing they could bite was Rapel's lineage.
The fiery-tempered Lafel couldn't stand such a thing. He was even up to his ears. He overturned the scene as soon as he discovered it, and gave the rat-like crowd a solid scare. Organizers for causing a commotion every time at the ball, so Lapel naturally avoids social circles.
Still, it was pretty good if the host was the Marquis of Elroch. It was a family that advocated political neutrality, and since it was a prestigious family with a long history, the guests were quite educated. Annette intended to hold her first ball after her wedding her here. After all, he needed to meet Celestine Keers again to clear himself of the blame.
'Celestine does n't know anything else, but she always attended the writer's party after El Roque.'
The hostess of the party, the Marquis de Elroque, was also the president of a book club that Celestine had attended for a long time. So she was Celestine, maybe she was going to this El Roque family party.
When Annette thought of facing Celestine again, her heart skipped a beat. I was anxious and afraid, but on the other hand, I was expecting that much. It was the first time he had met Celestine since the kidnapping her. Annette wondered if she would be able to pretend to be her victim in front of her.
Rafel didn't know why Annette had such a sad expression. But he had to see Annette's eyes her as she looked down at the invitation. She had the frightened eyes of a rabbit determined to fight a rattlesnake. , Rafel asked Annette.
“Are you going? This party.”
“Well… Yes, I think so.”
Annette answered honestly.Then, after carefully opening the invitation, Lapel made a disapproving expression.His eyes his focused on the place and time written on the invitation.
“It's too late. What are you going to do if a strange guy sticks to you at night? And the place is outdoors. What if you catch a cold? Did the Marquis of Elroch take responsibility?”
Annette wondered why Lafel would suddenly find fault with the party. Outdoor garden parties in the summer were originally held at night. Because it was too hot during the day. Annette, who blinked a couple of times, responded calmly.
“But it is summer now. It's cool at night, so you'll feel good. And speaking of an evening party, I plan to be out before nine anyway. So it will be fine.”
Annette's answer was very reasonable.However, it was not the answer Lafel wanted.He furrowed his thick eyebrows and bit Annette's earlobe gently from behind her.As if to complain.
“I mean, it's dangerous. A cold is dangerous, and the way back is also dangerous. After all, night parties are dangerous.”
“… So are you telling me not to go?”
Annette, who was silent for a moment, turned her head to look at Lapel and asked. If it was the evening party of the Marquis de Elroque, it was a suitable place for Annette's re-debut her. In addition, there was a high The possibility that Celestine, who was busy preparing for the crown princess coronation, would come.
Places like this weren't common. Annette wanted to attend this party as much as possible. But if Rafel kept trying to stop him like this, he had no choice but to fight him. Anticipating the upcoming fight, Annette's eyes her drooped in melancholy .
“No, I don't mean that!”
Rafel, who saw this, raised his voice involuntarily. Then Annette's body her, which was being held in his arms his, shrank in surprise. He shouted at her fiercely right in the ear of her, so she was afraid of her. , Rafel frowned and suddenly looked back at her actions.
'Why am I like these days?'
He realized that he was watching Annette too much.Look today, didn't she crawl around her without work and then crawl to her words her her?They steal invitations and even gossip about it.
It was all because she had followed Annette the other day. As she kept praising himself as a good husband for her, it seemed she wanted to tune in to that tune. Not some kind of clown, won. Anyway, seeing Annette's expression like that Lapel, who quietly softened his voice, spat out.
“What I'm saying is… It's dangerous, so I'll go with you.”
“Are you going with me?”
Annette doubted her ears.She and Rafel had never attended a party together in her previous life.It was because the relationship between the couple was so bad.
Not only that, but Annette had a kind of social phobia at the time. No matter how hard he tried to keep his mouth shut, there were no eternal secrets in the world. I was afraid that even if everyone pretended not to know in front of me, behind my back they would know and whisper. Naturally, Annette shut herself up in his mansion her and couldn't even dare to go out. Because of this, they never attended a single party together as a couple.
“Why, don't you want me to go?”
When Annette didn't say anything to her, Lapel's handsome eyebrows twitched as she looked at her. Perhaps before, she would have sarcastically said that she was ashamed of her illegitimate husband. Herself several times. She was not one to be ashamed of herself.
However, her perverse nature of her lapel was sometimes expressed in this way.It was a kind of pressure for her to answer quickly, that she would like to go with me.Annette, knowing this well, shook her head quietly and smiled. .
“It can't be. It would be great if I could go to a party with you. Happy.”
Lapel flinched at Annette's kind words her to her and then slightly turned her head away.The area around his temples her was slightly red.There was no doubt that Annette knew how to lift and release me with a single word.
