IELNDMH - Chapter 30 < Feelings For Rebecca >
I Ended Up Living Up Next Door With My Ex-Husband
The two figures leaning against the closed door soon began to tangle with each other. The body temperature grew hotter and hotter, and the heartbeat rapidly increased.
Cedric seemed to have already become addicted to the unfamiliar sensation he was experiencing for the first time. He remained absorbed for a long time. He barely separated his lips and looked at Rebecca in his arms. Her cheeks had already turned red. As Cedric faced that scene, a hot fire arose again in his heart.
His heart became more and more impatient, and it felt like he was going to let out some vulgar curse without even realizing it. But he didn't want to delay any longer. How far have they come before this moment comes today?
Cedric immediately picked up Rebecca and headed to bed. While heading from the door to the bed, there was not even an inch of difference in the movements between the two people. Everything felt natural as if it wasn't the first time I guessed the sum. Is it because of that?
Right now, there wasn't even a tiny gap between them where Cedric's reason could enter. And the moment they finally reached the bed, Cedric looked down at Rebecca without thinking and realized for the first time that his heart could beat so fast. And that was when he was about to take her in his arms again.
"Ha, Cedric... Aren't you going to get off?"
Rebecca slowly raised her upper body and asked. Her fascinating eyes were still moist. Cedric took a deep breath and looked at Rebecca.
"... Huh?"
He just climbed into her bed for the first time in his life, and what does that mean?
Cedric looked at Rebecca with a look of confusion on his face. But she just blinked her red eyes and asked again.
"Are you not going to get off?"
The feeling of reality seeping through the cracks of a sweet dream. Cedric slowly opened his eyes without realizing it. What he immediately saw was Rebecca's beautiful forehead. Eventually, he started to see her frowning little by little, and then he could see Rebecca holding on to his shoulder and shaking it vigorously.
"Cedric, wake up!"
A completely different situation and atmosphere than before. Cedric looked at Rebecca with a puzzled expression. Then, after looking around belatedly, he realized that he was still in the carriage.
'Obviously, I was in Rebecca's bedroom just now, so why suddenly......?'
Cedric slowly blinked his still sleepy eyes.
'No way...'
His brows furrowed, and soon a lethargic breath escaped his lips. It's already been a long time since his teenage years, but he can't believe he had such a dream.
A feeling of self-destruction seeped deep into his lungs. That was when he covered his face with both hands and lowered his head.
"Cedric, are you very tired? How can you sleep so deeply in a carriage without realizing it even after waking up for a long time?"
Rebecca asked harshly. Still, she must have been worried about Cedric, so she gently grabbed his hand and pulled him.
"Do you have a headache? Did you drink a lot of champagne? Let me see."
Cedric tightened his hands and struggled to hold on.
"... It's not like that."
An innocent woman who does not know his circumstances. She will never know how dangerous that soft, worried voice sounds right now.
Cedric barely kept an expressionless face and raised his head again. And then he quickly covered his lower body with the coat he had left next to him.
"What... Just now?"
Rebecca asked with a puzzled expression. However, Cedric pretended to be relaxed, resting his arms on the window frame and clearing his throat a couple of times.
"Go first. I'm really tired today so I won't be able to take you there."
"It doesn't matter that you can't take me with you, but...."
Rebecca, who had said that, leaned her body closer to Cedric.
"It doesn't really hurt anywhere, does it?"
Cedric unconsciously held his breath as the distance between him and Rebecca became closer than he expected. In his field of vision, he kept seeing Rebecca's lips sticking out and then repeating her kiss.
"Something like that... Even if it's not."
Cedric hardened his face and turned his head. Then Rebecca glanced at him sullenly and straightened her bent back.
"Are you really going to stay here?"
Cedric answered, barely holding back a sigh.
"... I guess it would be better that way."
Rebecca, who had a puzzled expression the whole time, eventually got out of the carriage. Then she turned her head towards Cedric, who was still in her carriage.
"Then I really will go. I had fun today, Cedric."
After saying her goodbyes, Rebecca walked towards the dark mansion. Cedric watched her back in vain as she never looked back.
Then, it was only after he saw her finally enter the front door of the mansion that he let out the breath he had been holding.
"Ha..."
At that sound, a scene from his dream suddenly came to mind. Starting with that, the scenes pass by like a panorama. Cedric closed his eyes tightly and shook his head.
'You must have finally gone crazy, Cedric Twins.'
It was true that his feelings for Rebecca had changed recently. The negative thoughts that used to bloom every time he saw Rebecca had long since disappeared, and every now and then, he felt happy to see her.
He thought it was just because, after the divorce, he reset their relationship as her friends. So he thought he was finally able to maintain a decent relationship with her.
'But I can't believe I had this dream about Rebecca!'
Even during his married life where he lived like a monk, this has never happened. When he even thought about that, extreme confusion gathered in like a dark cloud again.
As he continued to press his throbbing temples, he muttered softly.
"Maybe it's because of that."
The kiss he shared with Rebecca in the banquet hall. It was fascinating enough to leave such a big aftereffect. He was lost in thought for a while.
Cedric soon realized that he had been remembering the feeling of those lips over and over again. Another wasted breath escaped his lips.
At least for a few days, It seemed like this sigh would never end.
***
One day, a few days after returning from the Dmitry family banquet.
After that day, I felt very flushed before going out for the first time in a long time.
'Maybe Adrian is like that too, right?
Because he wanted to go out with me. Is it because I was so excited that I finished preparing to go out too quickly?
When I arrived at the first-floor lobby, it was much earlier than the promised time. As I was pacing around waiting for Adrian, I heard a cute crying sound from somewhere.
Meow.
I suddenly turned my head at the sound I heard. The first thing I saw was a huge picture frame hanging in the lobby's reception room.
'Why, it's the painting I hate!'
The picture frame, which gave me an uneasy feeling every time I looked at it, was so large that it filled one wall of the living room.
'Did he paint a forest view? And that too, with the night in the background? No, why did you make such an unpleasant picture so big in the first place...'
It was a time when I naturally furrowed my eyebrows at the strangeness I felt in the picture.
'Uh? It's a cat, right?'
The cat sitting under the picture frame caught my eye later. It had smooth brown fur and golden eyes, and it sat with its front paws together and stared at me.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but it seemed like there was a subtle glow flowing around the cat's brown fur. I took a step closer to the mysterious cat, like a person possessed by something.
"Hmm... Hi?"
When we made eye contact from a little distance, the cat slowly blinked its golden eyes. Then, while smelling the scent, he gradually approached me and started rubbing his body against my leg.
I sat down on my knees and stroked his head.
"Why is there a cat here? By the way, you are very handsome."
Then he looked into my eyes as if he understood me. When I touched him under his chin, he started purring as if it felt good.
"You seem to be good at following people. You're cute."
As I was slowly smiling, a blood stain in the hallway suddenly appeared in my field of vision. Surprised, I hurriedly examined his body. Sure enough, there was a large wound on his lower abdomen. However, he seemed not to be in any pain, so he just lay down on his stomach and kept rubbing his head against my hand.
"Where on earth did you get these injuries? I'll treat you and let you go, so just wait..."
As I hurriedly got up, I heard a familiar voice coming from the central staircase.
"Your Highness, are you here?"
Adrian appeared to be coming down the stairs. Suddenly, I looked at that place, and when I turned my head again, both the cat and its blood stains had disappeared without a trace...
'What? Have I been hallucinating?'
As I slowly blinked, Adrian found me and ran to my side.
"You are here, Your Highness. When I went to the Grand Duke's Secretariat, I heard that you had already headed to the lobby, so I am on my way right here."
"Adrian, a cat was here just now..."
"... Yes?"
Adrian's smiling face was completely flushed. I can't believe he looked so happy about going out with me. I thought it would be better to talk about cats later.
"...Adrian, it's been quite a while since we've been together, right?"
"Yes, I haven't seen you since the banquet ended, so it must have been about three days."
"Yeah, I guess that's about it."
"I was worried that I might have made Her Highness uncomfortable that day because you didn't call me like usual..."
Adrian paused for a moment and smiled his usual gentle smile.
"I was really happy to know that you remembered your promise to me and called me this way."
I slowly shook my head towards Adrian.
"It's inconvenient. There was nothing like that. Just..."
It just felt unfamiliar again. After I was silent for a while, Adrian gently urged me and asked back.
"Just?"
I smiled briefly and shook my head.
"No. What did I ask for in advance?"
Today was the day when 'that item' that I had been looking at for a long time finally appeared in the futures market. So I asked Adrian to get the most up-to-date information on my investment rivals, Henry and Camilla.
Meanwhile, Adrian held out a document to me with a slightly troubled expression on his face for some reason.
"Here is the latest investment information of Henry Bart and Camilla Dmitry."
My brows slowly furrowed as I read the document Adrian handed me.
"It wasn't like this until yesterday. They doubled their investment in one day?"
I smoothed my lower jaw and pursed my lips.
"This amount exceeds the investment I prepared..."
"..."
"... It seems that our financial information has been leaked to Camilla and Lord Henry."
"I apologize, Your Highness."
Adrian bowed his head and apologized, then frowned.
"But I really don't understand. As you know, mixed-blood demon users cannot break the secret oath with the Twins family."
"...."
"But where on earth did this information leak out?...."
At this, I shrugged my shoulders.
"Well. I wonder if Camilla and Henry had something to gain when they found out about me."
"Yes?"
Adrian tilted his head as if he found my carefree appearance strange.
"Your Highness, if this continues, you may not be able to defeat Camilla and Sir Henry. Fine... Do you want to?"
Adrian, with a worried expression, asked carefully.
"It's okay."
I walked a few steps ahead and looked back at Adrian again with a small smile on his face.
"I was the one who leaked that information."
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