With his arms crossed and his gaze fixed on one spot, it seemed as if he was about to go hunting.
“That red-haired man over there?”
Noah narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing Carson’s ominous atmosphere. As he said, the man standing in front of Ines did indeed look familiar.
“I think I’ve seen him... I don’t know.”
“No, I definitely know his face.”
The two people standing facing each other talked about this and that for a long time. Ines was smiling the whole time.
“Judging by his clothes, he seems to be preparing to become a priest.”
“Are I saying that because I don’t know?”
“What I’m saying is... whoever it is, he will become a priest.”
“But?”
“Priests don’t form families anyway.”
“Did I ask that now?”
Noah nodded and immediately shut his mouth. For now, he decided that was the better choice. At that moment, the man standing in front of Ines approached her a little closer. Noah felt as if he was walking on thin ice.
However, as if the thin ice was slowly melting, Noah thought that the two men and women looked very natural and well-matched.
In the past, Ines had smiled with a face that seemed like she wanted to die.
Now, the woman, who had learned to smile comfortably, showed no signs of wariness toward the man. As if they clearly did not meet here.
At that moment, a leaf fell on Ines’ head. The fallen leaf settled on her golden hair without any weight.
The man could not fully look at the sight and blushed.
“Ha, a priest... does not form a family?”
This time, Noah wisely did not say anything.
The red-haired man moved his hand cautiously as if embarrassed, and extended it over Ines’ head. At that moment, Noah secretly peeked at Carson’s fingertips trembling.
Fortunately, Ines noticed his actions first. The other person smiled without feeling bad, slightly twisted her head, and avoided his hand.
When he glanced down, he saw Carson take a deep breath and close his eyes. A satisfied smile appeared on his lips.
In addition, Noah’s heart continued to beat comfortably. Even after everyone had gone inside the building, Carson remained in that spot.
“Are you going to stay here?”
“Why, do your legs hurt?”
Of course, his legs naturally hurt from standing still.
“Then you should sit down too. Since the weather is nice, consider it a vacation.”
It was extremely difficult to sit next to your boss, and not just any boss? It was extremely difficult to think of yourself as a vacation, sitting next to your lord, a member of the royal family, and a great lord. However, this man, who had been arrogant since birth, would never know that.
“Yes, thank you.”
Noah sat down obediently next to him. It seemed that Carson would be his future fiancée’s shadow all day today.
As the midday sun set a little further, people began to swarm out of the training center. Noah quickly adjusted his comfortable posture and stood up from his seat.
Since they had promised to meet after this time, it seemed like they would be together from here on out. However, the expressions on the people’s faces were a little unusual.
The murmurs and mutterings clearly showed that something had happened inside. Furthermore, Ines did not show up even after everyone had left and no one was coming out of the building anymore. The problem was that she was not the only one who did not show up.
“I’ll go in and check.”
“No, let’s go in together.”
He sat motionless and stood up. Noah let out a ‘hush’ and followed him, hoping that nothing would happen.
When he opened the tightly closed door, a large auditorium was revealed.
Only three people remained in the training center. Charlotte, Ines, and the red-haired man.
He had taken off his ceremonial robes, which were draped over Ines’ head. Charlotte stamped her feet as she watched Ines, who could not get up from her chair, and the man grabbed her wrist and held her breath.
At that moment, Carson immediately realized what had happened.
“Ines!”
When he shouted, Ines, who had been hidden inside her clothes, suddenly got up. She jumped up, holding onto one of the desks with her hands. It took only a moment for his long legs to reach her.
Carson’s hands grabbed the man’s clothes, and Ines’s body immediately turned around. She seemed to have disappeared into his arms.
“Get out!”
The people quickly moved away at the chilling command. In a short while, the red-haired man politely bowed to Carson.
His appearance seemed familiar, but he couldn’t judge it now.
When he looked into his arms, Ines bent her slender neck back and rolled her eyes.
“Ines.”
When he called her again, strength filled the hand that held Carson’s collar. The gasp, the gasp reminded him of the scene at the hunting festival.
With the sound of the door closing, Ines looked up at him with unfocused eyes.
However, he was only a moment away, and her green eyes that saw Carson quickly became firm. Her eyes, which sparkled so fast that it was almost believable even if he said it was a lie, were filled with relief and surprise at the same time.
“My lord...”
“Yes, it’s me.”
“My lord? Are you really my lord?”
“Yes, so come to your senses, Ines.”
“Really... it’s you.”
Carson carefully examined Ines’ face and continued to answer her call. Your lord is here.
After a while, she even smiled faintly.
“It’s really amazing. I can’t believe it. As expected...”
He kept rubbing Ines’s flushed cheeks and waited for her breathing to calm down.
“I’m okay now. I’m fine.”
But he didn’t answer, just looking around at her body. Ines slowly placed the back of his hand on her cheek. Then Carson’s actions stopped abruptly.
“Ines... are you really okay?”
“Yes.”
Carson took a deep breath and tightened his chest at the sound of the woman’s clear answer. He quickly took off the priest’s robe that covered Ines’ body and took off his outer garment. He draped the garment over Ines’ shoulders and lifted her up in his arms.
If it had been normal, she would have kicked and screamed for him to come down, but seeing his tightly shut lips and tensed chin, Ines couldn’t bring herself to say that.
Carson carried her to the room he was staying in, holding her in his arms as if he were hiding her.
He didn’t say anything even as they walked the long way up to the third floor. People passing by glanced at the two, but neither Ines nor he paid any attention.
It was still light outside, but darkness was already falling inside the room. He laid Ines down on the bed. Silence hung between them for a moment.
“Are you... angry? I’m really fine.”
There was no answer to his cautious question.
Carson had no idea what he was feeling right now. He couldn’t decide whether he was angry at himself for feeling possessive over this woman, or at her for still telling him that she was fine.
Carson stared blankly down at her and pulled out a chair to sit across from her. Just like yesterday, the wooden chair creaked as if to reflect his feelings.
However, he managed to force a smile and gently squeezed Ines’s cheeks.
“Didn’t you say you don’t have nightmares anymore?”
“Yes.”
“Then what did I just see?”
Even though he wasn’t questioning her, Ines found an excuse. As she rolled her eyes, Carson tightened his grip on her face.
“Tell me the truth.”
“It’s true. I don’t have nightmares anymore. Sometimes I have seizures like before. It’s not like I feel scared like in a bad dream. I just can’t breathe.”
What Carson had just seen wasn’t just a brief inability to breathe.
“You’re not scared?”
“I’m not talking about that kind of fear. I’m talking about not feeling like someone is chasing me like in a dream.”
Ines tried to explain to him as calmly as possible. No one had been able to give her a proper diagnosis for her symptoms. But she thought to herself that her mind had won, but her body hadn’t forgotten its memories.
“Is that different from nightmares?”
“Of course, the symptoms might look the same. But it’s definitely different. This is a fight with myself.”
He made a face that said he didn’t understand her explanation.
“Let’s see the doctor.”
“My lord, all the Edmont priests study medicine. They become the best doctors in the empire. They haven’t found the cause of my illness.”
“Then, in such an urgent situation like before, there is no medicine?”
“Medicine?”
At the word medicine, Ines stared blankly at him.
Then she thought back to what had just happened. Her seizures lasted a very long time once they happened. Ines’ panic only ended after the moment when she felt like she was going to die.
If experiencing it while sleeping was mental, this was even more physical. It was never easy to always live with the pain that could strike at any moment.
However, the moment she saw Carson, Ines had an absolutely miraculous experience.
When his name was called, the thin air rushed in all at once.
When Carson approached and grabbed her arm, her trembling body calmed down in an instant. The moment she smelled Carson’s scent that she had missed, her vision immediately came back to the unfocused world.
Just like that day when she had fallen into the water.
Was it okay for her to call him medicine? She decided to hold back her words because it felt a little disrespectful.
‘How can you be my salvation even at a moment like this?’
Looking at Carson’s face with new eyes, she saw that it was still radiating a faint light in all directions.
While she was thinking that his aura was beautiful, she suddenly realized that he was too close. No matter how close Carson came to her, she felt a strange emotion that she had never felt before.
As their exhalations mixed, Ines took his hand off her cheek and sat back a little.
Noah narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing Carson’s ominous atmosphere. As he said, the man standing in front of Ines did indeed look familiar.
“I think I’ve seen him... I don’t know.”
“No, I definitely know his face.”
The two people standing facing each other talked about this and that for a long time. Ines was smiling the whole time.
“Judging by his clothes, he seems to be preparing to become a priest.”
“Are I saying that because I don’t know?”
“What I’m saying is... whoever it is, he will become a priest.”
“But?”
“Priests don’t form families anyway.”
“Did I ask that now?”
Noah nodded and immediately shut his mouth. For now, he decided that was the better choice. At that moment, the man standing in front of Ines approached her a little closer. Noah felt as if he was walking on thin ice.
However, as if the thin ice was slowly melting, Noah thought that the two men and women looked very natural and well-matched.
In the past, Ines had smiled with a face that seemed like she wanted to die.
Now, the woman, who had learned to smile comfortably, showed no signs of wariness toward the man. As if they clearly did not meet here.
At that moment, a leaf fell on Ines’ head. The fallen leaf settled on her golden hair without any weight.
The man could not fully look at the sight and blushed.
“Ha, a priest... does not form a family?”
This time, Noah wisely did not say anything.
The red-haired man moved his hand cautiously as if embarrassed, and extended it over Ines’ head. At that moment, Noah secretly peeked at Carson’s fingertips trembling.
Fortunately, Ines noticed his actions first. The other person smiled without feeling bad, slightly twisted her head, and avoided his hand.
When he glanced down, he saw Carson take a deep breath and close his eyes. A satisfied smile appeared on his lips.
In addition, Noah’s heart continued to beat comfortably. Even after everyone had gone inside the building, Carson remained in that spot.
“Are you going to stay here?”
“Why, do your legs hurt?”
Of course, his legs naturally hurt from standing still.
“Then you should sit down too. Since the weather is nice, consider it a vacation.”
It was extremely difficult to sit next to your boss, and not just any boss? It was extremely difficult to think of yourself as a vacation, sitting next to your lord, a member of the royal family, and a great lord. However, this man, who had been arrogant since birth, would never know that.
“Yes, thank you.”
Noah sat down obediently next to him. It seemed that Carson would be his future fiancée’s shadow all day today.
As the midday sun set a little further, people began to swarm out of the training center. Noah quickly adjusted his comfortable posture and stood up from his seat.
Since they had promised to meet after this time, it seemed like they would be together from here on out. However, the expressions on the people’s faces were a little unusual.
The murmurs and mutterings clearly showed that something had happened inside. Furthermore, Ines did not show up even after everyone had left and no one was coming out of the building anymore. The problem was that she was not the only one who did not show up.
“I’ll go in and check.”
“No, let’s go in together.”
He sat motionless and stood up. Noah let out a ‘hush’ and followed him, hoping that nothing would happen.
When he opened the tightly closed door, a large auditorium was revealed.
Only three people remained in the training center. Charlotte, Ines, and the red-haired man.
He had taken off his ceremonial robes, which were draped over Ines’ head. Charlotte stamped her feet as she watched Ines, who could not get up from her chair, and the man grabbed her wrist and held her breath.
At that moment, Carson immediately realized what had happened.
“Ines!”
When he shouted, Ines, who had been hidden inside her clothes, suddenly got up. She jumped up, holding onto one of the desks with her hands. It took only a moment for his long legs to reach her.
Carson’s hands grabbed the man’s clothes, and Ines’s body immediately turned around. She seemed to have disappeared into his arms.
“Get out!”
The people quickly moved away at the chilling command. In a short while, the red-haired man politely bowed to Carson.
His appearance seemed familiar, but he couldn’t judge it now.
When he looked into his arms, Ines bent her slender neck back and rolled her eyes.
“Ines.”
When he called her again, strength filled the hand that held Carson’s collar. The gasp, the gasp reminded him of the scene at the hunting festival.
With the sound of the door closing, Ines looked up at him with unfocused eyes.
However, he was only a moment away, and her green eyes that saw Carson quickly became firm. Her eyes, which sparkled so fast that it was almost believable even if he said it was a lie, were filled with relief and surprise at the same time.
“My lord...”
“Yes, it’s me.”
“My lord? Are you really my lord?”
“Yes, so come to your senses, Ines.”
“Really... it’s you.”
Carson carefully examined Ines’ face and continued to answer her call. Your lord is here.
After a while, she even smiled faintly.
“It’s really amazing. I can’t believe it. As expected...”
He kept rubbing Ines’s flushed cheeks and waited for her breathing to calm down.
“I’m okay now. I’m fine.”
But he didn’t answer, just looking around at her body. Ines slowly placed the back of his hand on her cheek. Then Carson’s actions stopped abruptly.
“Ines... are you really okay?”
“Yes.”
Carson took a deep breath and tightened his chest at the sound of the woman’s clear answer. He quickly took off the priest’s robe that covered Ines’ body and took off his outer garment. He draped the garment over Ines’ shoulders and lifted her up in his arms.
If it had been normal, she would have kicked and screamed for him to come down, but seeing his tightly shut lips and tensed chin, Ines couldn’t bring herself to say that.
Carson carried her to the room he was staying in, holding her in his arms as if he were hiding her.
He didn’t say anything even as they walked the long way up to the third floor. People passing by glanced at the two, but neither Ines nor he paid any attention.
It was still light outside, but darkness was already falling inside the room. He laid Ines down on the bed. Silence hung between them for a moment.
“Are you... angry? I’m really fine.”
There was no answer to his cautious question.
Carson had no idea what he was feeling right now. He couldn’t decide whether he was angry at himself for feeling possessive over this woman, or at her for still telling him that she was fine.
Carson stared blankly down at her and pulled out a chair to sit across from her. Just like yesterday, the wooden chair creaked as if to reflect his feelings.
However, he managed to force a smile and gently squeezed Ines’s cheeks.
“Didn’t you say you don’t have nightmares anymore?”
“Yes.”
“Then what did I just see?”
Even though he wasn’t questioning her, Ines found an excuse. As she rolled her eyes, Carson tightened his grip on her face.
“Tell me the truth.”
“It’s true. I don’t have nightmares anymore. Sometimes I have seizures like before. It’s not like I feel scared like in a bad dream. I just can’t breathe.”
What Carson had just seen wasn’t just a brief inability to breathe.
“You’re not scared?”
“I’m not talking about that kind of fear. I’m talking about not feeling like someone is chasing me like in a dream.”
Ines tried to explain to him as calmly as possible. No one had been able to give her a proper diagnosis for her symptoms. But she thought to herself that her mind had won, but her body hadn’t forgotten its memories.
“Is that different from nightmares?”
“Of course, the symptoms might look the same. But it’s definitely different. This is a fight with myself.”
He made a face that said he didn’t understand her explanation.
“Let’s see the doctor.”
“My lord, all the Edmont priests study medicine. They become the best doctors in the empire. They haven’t found the cause of my illness.”
“Then, in such an urgent situation like before, there is no medicine?”
“Medicine?”
At the word medicine, Ines stared blankly at him.
Then she thought back to what had just happened. Her seizures lasted a very long time once they happened. Ines’ panic only ended after the moment when she felt like she was going to die.
If experiencing it while sleeping was mental, this was even more physical. It was never easy to always live with the pain that could strike at any moment.
However, the moment she saw Carson, Ines had an absolutely miraculous experience.
When his name was called, the thin air rushed in all at once.
When Carson approached and grabbed her arm, her trembling body calmed down in an instant. The moment she smelled Carson’s scent that she had missed, her vision immediately came back to the unfocused world.
Just like that day when she had fallen into the water.
Was it okay for her to call him medicine? She decided to hold back her words because it felt a little disrespectful.
‘How can you be my salvation even at a moment like this?’
Looking at Carson’s face with new eyes, she saw that it was still radiating a faint light in all directions.
While she was thinking that his aura was beautiful, she suddenly realized that he was too close. No matter how close Carson came to her, she felt a strange emotion that she had never felt before.
As their exhalations mixed, Ines took his hand off her cheek and sat back a little.
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