IELNDMH - Chapter 99 < Little Bit More... Just A Little Bit More >
I Ended Up Living Up Next Door With My Ex-Husband
Meanwhile, Cedric was spending time reading books in his study. For a long time. He slowly leaned back on the sofa, massaging the back of his neck, which had already stiffened.
The hour and minute hands of the clock were pointing in the direction of 10 and 6, respectively.
'I guess I'll have to go out now.'
In fact, Rebecca's only request was to wait a little while, and it was Cedric's choice to stay in the study longer.
Unlike Rebecca, Cedric did not prefer to hang out with many people.
No, if all of them were only ‘humans’, it might be closer to something he dislike.
When Rebecca was a party animal, the level of dislike was even stronger than it is now.
However, banquets were held frequently, and Rebecca hoped that Cedric would attend them every time.
Even on days when he was not present, she would often be abusive to his employees all night long.
So Cedric became more and more distant from the banquet, and the vicious cycle continued endlessly.
On the other hand, what about now?
Now it hurts to even talk about it, but this problem has also changed significantly from the past.
'Actually, they don't seem to care about Rebecca, who has changed like everyone else.'
Cedric's eyes were charmingly curved as he smiled, touching his eyebrows with his long fingers.
At some point, Rebecca's entire behavior changed.
It felt so natural now, and what was surprising was himself.
That was the case even in the current situation.
In the past, he would have felt fortunate to have been given some time to escape from the noisy, noisy banquet hall.
He was grateful that the time had been extended, and it was clear that he made the most of every hour and minute.
But what was it like a little while ago?
He let Rebecca go first and said goodbye for a while.
Even for that short time, he felt helpless and bored, as if he had lost the purpose of his life forever.
To what extent... He even missed the noisy noise and the feast of stupid and meaningless language.
He was sure that if he were where she was, he would love them too.
Cedric had been looking at the book the whole time but left the book, whose contents he had no idea about, carelessly throwing it on the table and leaving the study.
Then he went down halfway down the stairs and searched the inside of the ballroom for Rebecca.
However, the Rebecca he was looking for was not visible, and all he could see was a scene full of onlookers gathered in one place.
'What the hell is going on?'
Cedric hurriedly walked down the stairs, frowning unconsciously.
Unknown anxiety began to creep in.
He pushed away the crowd of people with both arms and got closer to the center of the 'incident'.
Cedric didn't know why, but he had a gut feeling that Rebecca might be there right now.
Unfortunately, that prediction turned out to be exactly right.
Rebecca's cold voice was heard from a large crowd in the distance.
“I think we should leave this conversation here, father.”
Even though I spoke calmly, my excitement did not subside.
If I was alone with Duke Bold, there was no reason to calm my excitement.
All I have to do is follow my temper and distance myself from him.
But where are we now?
It was a masked ballroom that I hosted.
As the host, I didn't want to do anything that would ruin the atmosphere of the banquet.
So I was conscious of the gaze of those around me and barely suppressed my anger, but there was no way Duke Bold would understand my situation.
No, rather, he spoke at the top of his lungs, as if he had finally found an opportunity to embarrass me.
“Her Highness doesn’t even meet this old father, so when can we have this conversation if not now?”
He came closer to me, his eyes wide.
“When is that? Yes?"
The distance between Duke Bold and me has narrowed considerably.
I tilted my head slightly and whispered in his ear.
“There must be a reason why Father is doing this to me right now, right?”
It was a very small voice that only Duke Bold could hear.
Then, with his head down, he slowly raised his palm to cover his face and smiled sinisterly.
“Did you see your father doing something useless?”
That was an affirmation of my question.
After giving his answer, Duke Bold looked up at me with an unpleasant smile.
As I looked at that face, a new smile came out of my lips.
“Really... It’s disgusting.”
“Wha... Why are you saying such nasty things to your father?”
Looking at his broken speech and his eyes bending like bowstrings, I felt like I was going to get sick of him.
“So, if you had continued to be a good daughter, why would you suffer such disgrace?”
“...”
“Yeah, if that were the case... This wouldn’t have happened.”
For a brief moment, I felt something like a very subtle warmth in his eyes.
However, he was soon swept away by waves of greed and cold and he disappeared.
Soon, words with unknown meaning flowed from Duke Bold's lips.
“So in the end, it’s all your fault that it ended up like this.”
The tip of one of Duke Bold's lips curved upward.
That too for a while. He took a step back in an exaggerated manner, and his face instantly fell into disarray.
“Her Highness the Grand Duchess is treating this father like an insignificant piece of shit again!”
Duke Bold's shout rang loudly in the huge banquet hall.
“I'm being treated like a piece of shit who’s desperate to get anything from Her Highness! You must treat this father like that to feel at ease!”
“Please, stop now... !”
I couldn't bear it anymore and opened my mouth, but it was a wrong decision.
The gaze of those around me turned cold, and Duke Bold's voice became even stronger.
“As an aristocrat from a defeated country, I had such a hard time raising you to the position of Grand Duchess of the Twins, but how can you so cruelly abandon your old father? It’s truly pitiful! I'm so sad! Oh my...!”
He looked impartially at the onlookers on all sides and cried and cried like a lost animal.
The people each looked at the faces of the Twins Grand Duchess and her father alternately with surprised expressions.
It was the bitter resentment between the landlady of the northern part of the country and her father and the quarrel that arose as a result.
There was nothing like this to see.
It seemed that Duke Bold wanted to display to the world his young daughter's disrespect towards him.
Unfortunately, the warm heart of humans can actually make them foolish, making them commit the error of considering powerless things as good and powerful things as evil.
Sometimes old and crafty people took advantage of that.
Right now, like Duke Bold.
Unfortunately, his plan seemed to have worked.
The air around me gradually became colder, and cold gazes began to pierce me like an awl.
The more I did this, the more I tried to keep my back straight.
But I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach at that moment.
It wasn't until my palms touched the side of the round table that I realized that I had been moving backward little by little without realizing it.
'It's okay. Just ignore it and that's it. Anyway, it's not long until my divorce from Cedric is announced...'
That time when I turned my head and tried to ignore the scary gazes directed at me.
My eye caught the champagne glass placed on the table.
It was my champagne glass that I had left aside a little while ago before talking to Duke Bold.
At that moment, my lips were dry.
I immediately raised my glass, feeling like I had discovered an oasis in the desert.
Camilla's eyes widened as if they were about to tear.
'Little bit more... Just a little longer!'
Her eyes were always hanging on the tip of Rebecca's lips.
Her only concern now was whether that golden liquid would fit into Rebecca's mouth.
What kind of humiliation has she suffered for this one moment?
Rebecca gritted her teeth and endured the countless embarrassments and shame in social circles and the insults given by Duke Bold.
To watch with her own eyes that woman, Rebecca Twins, collapse and vomit her blood.
But Rebecca's lips were still touching the crystal, making Camilla anxious.
The golden liquid didn't even show any signs of covering her lips.
Small parts seemed magnified, and the brief moment felt like an eternity.
‘Go ahead and drink that champagne, Rebecca. Hurry... !'
It was around this time that her hands, clutching the hem of her skirt, began to sweat.
Finally, the champagne began to flow slowly down the crystal towards Rebecca's lips.
At that moment, her pupils opened bigger and bigger, and her sweaty lips began to tremble.
It felt like her body temperature was heating up with anticipation. And...
'Atlas!'
Clink!
Finally, with a harsh roar, glass shards were scattered across the marble floor.
It seemed that Rebecca, who was finally drunk, had lost her glass of champagne.
'I can't believe it works so quickly!'
However, the joy that flashed in Camilla's eyes lasted only for a moment.
"What... Hey?"
Stupid self-talk flowed out without my knowledge.
The blood that had heated up quickly cooled down.
A series of clues gave Camilla her cue before she knew it.
Her plan went completely wrong.
Moreover, the cold, low voice of a man heard one after another made it so that her premonition could no longer be a premonition.
“What the hell is going on?”
The room instantly froze at the sound of a voice that sounded like that of a grim reaper.
Cedric Twins. His words clearly had the form of a question, but they were not questions.
His gaze, which was fixed on the floor strewn with glass shards, slowly moved upward and looked somewhere.
The Grand Duke's gaze tightened like a search net.
And finally, the moment when Cedric's cool gaze stopped in one place.
Camilla's cheeks trembled as she gasped for air, frightened.
The hour and minute hands of the clock were pointing in the direction of 10 and 6, respectively.
'I guess I'll have to go out now.'
In fact, Rebecca's only request was to wait a little while, and it was Cedric's choice to stay in the study longer.
Unlike Rebecca, Cedric did not prefer to hang out with many people.
No, if all of them were only ‘humans’, it might be closer to something he dislike.
When Rebecca was a party animal, the level of dislike was even stronger than it is now.
However, banquets were held frequently, and Rebecca hoped that Cedric would attend them every time.
Even on days when he was not present, she would often be abusive to his employees all night long.
So Cedric became more and more distant from the banquet, and the vicious cycle continued endlessly.
On the other hand, what about now?
Now it hurts to even talk about it, but this problem has also changed significantly from the past.
'Actually, they don't seem to care about Rebecca, who has changed like everyone else.'
Cedric's eyes were charmingly curved as he smiled, touching his eyebrows with his long fingers.
At some point, Rebecca's entire behavior changed.
It felt so natural now, and what was surprising was himself.
That was the case even in the current situation.
In the past, he would have felt fortunate to have been given some time to escape from the noisy, noisy banquet hall.
He was grateful that the time had been extended, and it was clear that he made the most of every hour and minute.
But what was it like a little while ago?
He let Rebecca go first and said goodbye for a while.
Even for that short time, he felt helpless and bored, as if he had lost the purpose of his life forever.
To what extent... He even missed the noisy noise and the feast of stupid and meaningless language.
He was sure that if he were where she was, he would love them too.
Cedric had been looking at the book the whole time but left the book, whose contents he had no idea about, carelessly throwing it on the table and leaving the study.
Then he went down halfway down the stairs and searched the inside of the ballroom for Rebecca.
However, the Rebecca he was looking for was not visible, and all he could see was a scene full of onlookers gathered in one place.
'What the hell is going on?'
Cedric hurriedly walked down the stairs, frowning unconsciously.
Unknown anxiety began to creep in.
He pushed away the crowd of people with both arms and got closer to the center of the 'incident'.
Cedric didn't know why, but he had a gut feeling that Rebecca might be there right now.
Unfortunately, that prediction turned out to be exactly right.
Rebecca's cold voice was heard from a large crowd in the distance.
***
“I think we should leave this conversation here, father.”
Even though I spoke calmly, my excitement did not subside.
If I was alone with Duke Bold, there was no reason to calm my excitement.
All I have to do is follow my temper and distance myself from him.
But where are we now?
It was a masked ballroom that I hosted.
As the host, I didn't want to do anything that would ruin the atmosphere of the banquet.
So I was conscious of the gaze of those around me and barely suppressed my anger, but there was no way Duke Bold would understand my situation.
No, rather, he spoke at the top of his lungs, as if he had finally found an opportunity to embarrass me.
“Her Highness doesn’t even meet this old father, so when can we have this conversation if not now?”
He came closer to me, his eyes wide.
“When is that? Yes?"
The distance between Duke Bold and me has narrowed considerably.
I tilted my head slightly and whispered in his ear.
“There must be a reason why Father is doing this to me right now, right?”
It was a very small voice that only Duke Bold could hear.
Then, with his head down, he slowly raised his palm to cover his face and smiled sinisterly.
“Did you see your father doing something useless?”
That was an affirmation of my question.
After giving his answer, Duke Bold looked up at me with an unpleasant smile.
As I looked at that face, a new smile came out of my lips.
“Really... It’s disgusting.”
“Wha... Why are you saying such nasty things to your father?”
Looking at his broken speech and his eyes bending like bowstrings, I felt like I was going to get sick of him.
“So, if you had continued to be a good daughter, why would you suffer such disgrace?”
“...”
“Yeah, if that were the case... This wouldn’t have happened.”
For a brief moment, I felt something like a very subtle warmth in his eyes.
However, he was soon swept away by waves of greed and cold and he disappeared.
Soon, words with unknown meaning flowed from Duke Bold's lips.
“So in the end, it’s all your fault that it ended up like this.”
The tip of one of Duke Bold's lips curved upward.
That too for a while. He took a step back in an exaggerated manner, and his face instantly fell into disarray.
“Her Highness the Grand Duchess is treating this father like an insignificant piece of shit again!”
Duke Bold's shout rang loudly in the huge banquet hall.
“I'm being treated like a piece of shit who’s desperate to get anything from Her Highness! You must treat this father like that to feel at ease!”
“Please, stop now... !”
I couldn't bear it anymore and opened my mouth, but it was a wrong decision.
The gaze of those around me turned cold, and Duke Bold's voice became even stronger.
“As an aristocrat from a defeated country, I had such a hard time raising you to the position of Grand Duchess of the Twins, but how can you so cruelly abandon your old father? It’s truly pitiful! I'm so sad! Oh my...!”
He looked impartially at the onlookers on all sides and cried and cried like a lost animal.
The people each looked at the faces of the Twins Grand Duchess and her father alternately with surprised expressions.
It was the bitter resentment between the landlady of the northern part of the country and her father and the quarrel that arose as a result.
There was nothing like this to see.
It seemed that Duke Bold wanted to display to the world his young daughter's disrespect towards him.
Unfortunately, the warm heart of humans can actually make them foolish, making them commit the error of considering powerless things as good and powerful things as evil.
Sometimes old and crafty people took advantage of that.
Right now, like Duke Bold.
Unfortunately, his plan seemed to have worked.
The air around me gradually became colder, and cold gazes began to pierce me like an awl.
The more I did this, the more I tried to keep my back straight.
But I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach at that moment.
It wasn't until my palms touched the side of the round table that I realized that I had been moving backward little by little without realizing it.
'It's okay. Just ignore it and that's it. Anyway, it's not long until my divorce from Cedric is announced...'
That time when I turned my head and tried to ignore the scary gazes directed at me.
My eye caught the champagne glass placed on the table.
It was my champagne glass that I had left aside a little while ago before talking to Duke Bold.
At that moment, my lips were dry.
I immediately raised my glass, feeling like I had discovered an oasis in the desert.
***
Camilla's eyes widened as if they were about to tear.
'Little bit more... Just a little longer!'
Her eyes were always hanging on the tip of Rebecca's lips.
Her only concern now was whether that golden liquid would fit into Rebecca's mouth.
What kind of humiliation has she suffered for this one moment?
Rebecca gritted her teeth and endured the countless embarrassments and shame in social circles and the insults given by Duke Bold.
To watch with her own eyes that woman, Rebecca Twins, collapse and vomit her blood.
But Rebecca's lips were still touching the crystal, making Camilla anxious.
The golden liquid didn't even show any signs of covering her lips.
Small parts seemed magnified, and the brief moment felt like an eternity.
‘Go ahead and drink that champagne, Rebecca. Hurry... !'
It was around this time that her hands, clutching the hem of her skirt, began to sweat.
Finally, the champagne began to flow slowly down the crystal towards Rebecca's lips.
At that moment, her pupils opened bigger and bigger, and her sweaty lips began to tremble.
It felt like her body temperature was heating up with anticipation. And...
'Atlas!'
Clink!
Finally, with a harsh roar, glass shards were scattered across the marble floor.
It seemed that Rebecca, who was finally drunk, had lost her glass of champagne.
'I can't believe it works so quickly!'
However, the joy that flashed in Camilla's eyes lasted only for a moment.
"What... Hey?"
Stupid self-talk flowed out without my knowledge.
The blood that had heated up quickly cooled down.
A series of clues gave Camilla her cue before she knew it.
Her plan went completely wrong.
Moreover, the cold, low voice of a man heard one after another made it so that her premonition could no longer be a premonition.
“What the hell is going on?”
The room instantly froze at the sound of a voice that sounded like that of a grim reaper.
Cedric Twins. His words clearly had the form of a question, but they were not questions.
His gaze, which was fixed on the floor strewn with glass shards, slowly moved upward and looked somewhere.
The Grand Duke's gaze tightened like a search net.
And finally, the moment when Cedric's cool gaze stopped in one place.
Camilla's cheeks trembled as she gasped for air, frightened.
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