‘Wait, could it be that my blood’s effect is still there in him?’
My dazed mind barely managed to make a hypothesis. It was pretty plausible. If it wasn’t for the influence of my blood, there was no way he would suddenly cling to me like a madman.
Sihael’s bright yellow eyes turned to my lips. Screaming inwardly, I hurriedly grabbed his wrist.
“Your Highness, I’m just asking this just in case, but you are completely lucid, right?”
“Well, how does it look to you?”
I nodded and gulped at his ambiguous response. His eyes were definitely clear. However, the vivid desires that gleamed inside them and his unusually reckless attitude clouded my judgement.
“Take a guess.”
Hey, give me time to think at least.
I closed my eyes tightly to Sihael’s approaching face, which was so close that I could feel his breath.
“W-Wait! Wait, wait! You can’t do this!”
I quickly held out my hand. But after a while, nothing happened. Feeling strange, I opened my eyes and saw Sihael’s shoulders shaking silently.
‘Are you poking fun at me now?’
My face flushed at the fact that he had tricked me again. Ugh! Why do I get deceived every day!
I couldn’t stay still because of the resentment, shame, and embarrassment. When I stomped my feet and struggled, Sihael, who had kept his mouth shut and laughed silently, could not hold back any longer and burst into laughter.
“Hahahahaha.”
“Are you making fun of me? Do you find it funny?”
I grabbed a cushion from the sofa and swung it wildly. My face heated so much that even my eyes throbbed.
“Stop laughing!”
“Ah, okay, pfft, hahaha.”
How annoying! I threw away the soft cushion in anger. I wanted to use the pillow that Sihael gave me now. I regretted not bringing it with me.
‘Should I knock him out with a single blow?’
Yeah, let’s do that. Then I’m gonna run away from here. Having finished thinking, I quickly grabbed the book on the table. And at that moment, the quick-witted Sihael raised his head. Our eyes met with each other.
“Ha, Rosetta, let’s put that down. It’s my fault.”
Sihael wiped away the tears hanging from the corners of my eyes and gently grabbed my hand. As I shook my hand away from the warm touch on the back of my hand, the back of my hand hit something firm. Suddenly, the hand that had been thrown away stopped in the air. The back of my hand, which had hit hard, tingled.
“Oh….”
I opened my eyes wide to what I had done.
I didn’t mean to react this hard. Sihael, who looked down at my hand blankly, laughed bitterly, as if silently saying he knew this would happen.
“I was afraid this would happen, so I talked to you secretly. If I tell you, you’ll run away without looking back.”
Yeah, I dug my own grave. I’d rather not know about it.
I was already worried about how to look at Sihael’s face in the future.
“I tried to finish it as much as I could. You’re saying some weird misunderstanding.”
“What?”
Suddenly, my nose scrunched up. Sihael shook my nose lightly as if he were being mean.
Being attacked out of nowhere, I glared at Sihael, but then lowered my eyes calmly at the reproach secretly laid in his eyes. There was no room for refutation. As Sihael said, it was true that they misunderstood that they were getting close except for me.
I didn’t get it wrong, but I was embarrassed and jealous. I promised him to be his wingwoman.
‘Isn’t it like me or lady who can’t get in between me?’
Why did Anisha’s words come to mind at this time? I pretended to be okay, and pretended not to care, but I guess I was stuck in my head. Maybe it’s because I know what she’s saying isn’t nonsense.
Now I laugh and talk, but when the two of them do well, and I return to the duchess, as Anisha said, I am nothing. It will remain as a past relationship.
“Rosetta?”
Yeah, it’s gonna end up like that.
My improved mood plummeted again. I bowed my head quickly since Sihael was looking at me. I never wanted to look like a face messed up with jealousy. I felt ashamed and unfair to be jealous of fate.
‘I found him first. Why?’
I shut my mouth at that thought. How crazy. Not wanting Sihael to be taken away from me was beyond simple jealousy.
The ridiculous possessive desire made me dizzy.
“Are you mad at me for making fun of you?”
A voice of concern above my head stroked my shoulder. I closed my eyes tightly at the tender touch of patting my shoulder.
What I hated was neither jealousy nor possessiveness.
It’s a moment, but I wanted to take advantage of this situation.
By now, I could have caught Sihael.
Since Sihael likes me, won’t he catch me for a while?
The selfish idea was abhorrent to me. It’s the worst. You’re trying to take advantage of people’s minds.
‘That’s how it’s no different from Rosetta.’
Blocking Sihael’s imprint with my desire was tantamount to saying that I would become a bigger stumbling block than the empress.
It was said that people do not know the future, and it was a result that was really unexpected.
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