Wrapped in Curtis’ arms, I moved up from his collarbone to his neck and chin, pulling my face away after I kissed his cheek instead of his mouth.
“What should I do. I don’t feel very sorry for you.”
Curtis’ eyes widen and become distorted in pain as if he suddenly couldn’t breathe. He was fidgeting, his fists clenched in the air at my cold expression.
“I guess it’s because His Highness has never felt sorry for me.”
Since he turned away from Edith Abina, wouldn’t it be fair for her to turn away from him too?
I walked away, leaving Curtis behind, who didn’t even dare to hold me.
* * *
‘What? Wasn’t this the back door?’
After proudly walking away from Curtis, I was ashamed by the dead end I reached. As I scrambled to lift the lamp and look around, I could see messy graffiti engraved in the corner.
– Shortcut to Edith Abina’s secret base –
It was similar to the graffiti I saw at the entrance earlier. As I moved my gaze along the white smudged text, I saw a gap that seemed like a person could barely fit in.
Thinking that I had nothing to lose, I stuck my head into the hole that I couldn’t even see inside of.
“…Why make a room here as a child?”
It wasn’t wrong to say that the mine was a secret base for young Edith, but the space was truly decorated like secret warehouse.
Looking around the small room made of colorful bricks, I immediately gasped and spread my arms.
“Oh, I really have to take this!”
Maybe it’s a gift that little Edith prepared for adult Edith – even though I wasn’t her.
Jewels adorning the walls and accessories strewn about the small dressing table were so beautiful that even I could tell they were expensive.
It was heartbreaking to learn that children from rich families had much more than beggars, but good things were good things. Shaking my head, I began to put the treasures of young Edith in my pocket one by one.
I was giddy and opened the dresser drawer because I thought I could get out of the beggar’s life in one shot, and an emerald necklace the size of my thumbnail emitted a brilliant light.
Thud.
As soon as I saw the necklace, I fell down in front of the dressing table with an excruciating pain on one side of my chest. Edith’s memories of the necklace came all at once. Things like warm hands patting her young head or laughter tickling her cheeks.
‘It’s a keepsake left by Edith’s mother…’
The Marquis’ wife died, and he took away all of her property she inherited and stuffed it in his own pocket.
“Now I have no part of being an Abina.”
The Marquis pretended to care for Edith as if she was his daughter, but it was purely to make money by selling his beautiful girl at a high price. The Marquis had even sent her to become the second wife of the old Count when she was no longer the Lady of Caballero.
Before everything was taken away from her, the young Edith ran in a hurry and hit the necklace that her mother had given her in the secret base, fearing that it would be taken away.
‘I think I’ve seen this design before.’
Ah.
Recognizing the identity of the necklace, I cradled the necklace in my arms.
‘Didn’t Curtis give it to her as an engagement gift?’
I never thought he’d take Edith’s mother’s keepsake and give it to his fiancée.
My body trembled. I was mad as hell, but I couldn’t tell if I was angry or Edith’s body remembered her anger.
In that sense, Edith had been deprived of a lot by the main character. From Curtis, who was her knight, to the honor of being the Grand Duke’s Lady. When I recalled the moments that perfected her death, my eyes turned black.
Is it really possible to go back? Her resentment seemed so deep and sad.
‘But if Kim Jian exists in this world, not me, then who does Edith want to take revenge on?’
I crawled and clung to the wall, barely holding on to my body that kept breaking down.
Tuk.
It was at that moment when I swung my arm because something bluntly pressed behind my back annoyingly. A sphere as big as a fist fell of the wall and rolled on the floor.
“…That!”
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