Episode 59. Where are you, Chris?
The silver wolf was looking down.
With its bewitching and cool blue eyes.
Those eyes seemed as if they would swallow and break her.
But she didn't know why her heart was pounding and her body was burning.
Was it because of fear?
And why did those eyes look so familiar? It felt like she'd seen them somewhere...
At that moment, a voice suddenly came.
"The silver wolf that hurt your mother, you know, might be very close."
"Huh!"
Adele opened her eyes in surprise.
The dim fireplace light. She could tell from the familiar smell and texture that she was on her bed.
Ha, it was a dream.
She felt relieved, but also anxious.
Chris...
She stretched out her hand, looking for him as if she were whining, but she couldn't touch anything.
"Where are you... Chris..."
Instead of an answer, the sound of the wood crackling in the fireplace sounded like a lullaby.
Adele fell into a deep sleep again, as if swallowed by water.
***
At the same time.
The Oswald family mansion.
Bang!
A black shadow on the roof flew lightly and landed on the balcony by the window. It looked like a huge bird, but it was Christine.
He opened the window of the balcony without making a sound and went inside. This was Stone’s bedroom. However, he knew that this was an empty room without an owner. The smell of Stone was faint.
As expected, only the faint flame of the fireplace illuminated the empty bedroom. He started searching Stone’s bedroom with his footsteps silenced. It was to find out more about Stone’s secrets.
While investigating Adele’s case, he found out almost everything about Stone. However, he had no idea that the thing was a member of the same wolf clan as himself. That’s why he suffered a great defeat today.
However, there was also a harvest. Now that he knew that Stone was a member of the wolf clan, he could easily understand the questions that had been unsolved.
The reason why the thing smelled so bloody.
Stone clearly enjoyed hunting.
And the reason he was obsessed with Adele but didn't hug her was because he had already gotten married over ten years ago.
According to the investigation, he lost his wife in a fire at the villa a few months after their marriage. Given the nature of the clan, which allows them to sleep with one spouse for their entire lives, it would not have been easy for him to hug Adele.
So he would have had to be content with carving his mark on her body or tormenting her.
And another important thing.
The Oswald family may know a lot about the Wolf Clan.
He heard that the background of the Wolf Clan's disappearance from the world a long time ago was the Vatican and the Council of Nobles.
So it would not be a coincidence that Stone, a member of the Wolf Clan, is the head of the Oswald family.
That was actually the reason he visited the Oswald family at this late hour.
However, no special clues could be found in Stone's bedroom or even in the study in the living room.
'Is the answer in that blank document?'
According to Adele, it was a document that the deceased Marquis Oswald cherished.
And it was something the Emperor wanted to get his hands on and burn.
There was a high possibility that secrets related to the Wolf Clan were written there.
However, the document was sealed with magic, so the priority was to find a top-level wizard who could break the seal. They had already been looking around, but it wouldn’t be easy to find it right away.
‘I guess I should go back today.’
Since he had already looked at Stone’s room, he thought it would be better to come back and look around somewhere else.
Christine erased all traces of his entry and turned back to the balcony.
At that moment, his eyes lingered on a painting hanging on the wall. This painting had been on his mind for a while.
Stone’s room was filled with the best items, with his initials engraved on them from top to bottom. However, the painting hanging next to the bed was a cheap landscape painting that was easy to obtain. It definitely felt out of place.
In the end, Christine shouted without realizing it as he took the frame out and took out the painting.
“Adele?”
On the back of the painting was a portrait of a woman. A woman with black hair and green eyes. But upon closer inspection, it wasn’t her. It was just another woman with a similar overall feel.
But the rest of the space, except for the face in the portrait, was filled with eerie graffiti.
That was...
It’s all your fault! Die!
She seemed to be Stone’s wife, who died in the fire.
Could it be that his wife was killed by Stone? The reason might be because she found out his true identity.
That might be why he was obsessed with Adele, who resembled his wife. He killed his spouse, who was supposed to be with him for the rest of his life.
***
Adele opened her eyes to the warm hand stroking her face.
It was morning, and the bedroom was filled with bright sunlight before she knew it.
She smiled naturally as she met his deep-seated blue eyes.
“Chris...”
“Sorry, did I wake you up?”
He was sitting on the edge of the bed in his neat uniform with his hair neatly combed back, not knowing when he had woken up.
His silver hair and blue eyes were refreshing and dazzling in the morning sunlight streaming in through the window.
Adele felt embarrassed when she thought of sleeping in front of him in such a disheveled state.
“No, I have to get up.”
But she almost screamed as she rubbed her eyes and got out of bed.
She had completely forgotten that she was naked. Plus, her whole body creaked and ached from the aftereffects of the hot and intense exercise last night.
“Hey, could you turn your head over there?”
She said, quickly pulling the sheets over the bed to cover her body.
“Are you embarrassed?”
“Of course I would.”
Christine leaned in closer and whispered lecherously.
“It’s a new feeling. Who was it that kept me awake last night, clinging to me so aggressively and provocatively?”
“When did I?”
“Don’t you remember? Yesterday, you made me do this and that, in this and that position, wanting this and that from me...”
“What are you talking about! When you tried to do this and that, I suggested that this and that were better. But you didn’t stop at that and did something completely weird...”
Then he opened his eyes dimly and laughed.
“I don’t understand a single thing you’re talking about, so please explain in clear instructions. What do you mean by this and that, and what do you mean by something completely weird? Could it be that I was going to...”
“T, stop it!”
Adele covered his mouth with a reddened face.
“Pfft!”
Christine finally burst out laughing.
Crunch!
“Really, from the morning!”
When Adele got angry and hit his shoulder hard, he groaned and held her shoulder. He happened to hit his injured left shoulder.
“Uh, sorry! Does it hurt a lot?”
Adele, who had been angry, quickly became worried and fidgeted.
That was funny, so Christine joked around a lot like he was about to die.
“I don’t know. I think the wound might have opened again.”
“Just take a look.”
“It’s okay. It hurts, but it’s bearable. I’ll ask the royal doctor to take a look when I get to the main palace.”
“Are you okay until then?”
“So-so.”
In fact, his wound was almost healed. However, it seemed like he would need to keep the bandage on for a few more days. It wasn’t a wound that would heal easily for a normal person.
“Make sure to get proper treatment. Yes.”
“Don’t worry.”
Christine lightly kissed Adele, who still had a worried expression, so much so that it made a kissing sound.
Adele felt a little sorry about that... This is crazy!
“It’s regrettable, but there’s nothing I can do. If I kiss you now, I feel like I’ll want to put you back in bed.”
“What a shame! Don’t frame people!”
Christine grinned and got up from the bed. His face looked like he had read Adele’s mind.
“Then get ready and come down to the dining room.”
Boom!
When he closed the door and left, Adele slyly glanced at him and smiled faintly.
When she was with him, she really felt like she had become that girl from ten years ago. Those days when bickering and joking were the norm. Those happy, carefree days.
Looking back, it was the happiest moment.
Was last night all a dream?
After dreaming of the silver wolf, no matter how much she called him, she was alone in the wide bed.
She thinks she cried a little in her sleep because it made her so sad.
'I've become a real brat now.'
Before she met him, she had endured all those terrible things.
***
Adele wore a dress with a refreshing peach color and chiffon lace to change her mood. It was a gorgeous dress with voluminous puff sleeves. She wore a green ribbon that Christine had given her on her neatly combed, loose hair.
When she went down to the dining room, he was waiting and personally pulled out a chair for her. In the bedroom, he used to tease her with dirty words and embarrass her. However, in the dining room where there were servants, he looked quite dignified and majestic.
Adele sat down lightly in the chair like a dignified lady.
“Thank you, Count.”
“You are not at all, Miss Adele.”
Soon, the servants, under Henry’s direction, began to bring out the food.
Golden pumpkin soup with cheese-filled potato croquettes, a salad rich in fresh vegetables, buttered turkey, well-cooked steak, tarts decorated with strawberries and cream, chocolate pudding, and so on, filled the long table without stopping.
“Henry?"
“Yes, Miss Adele.”
“I think this is a bit much for breakfast.”
Henry answered with a bland smile.
“I was just following Master's instructions. He told me to take special care of Miss Adele’s nutrition.”
“I see. Understood, everyone, please leave.”
“Yes, if you have any orders, ring the bell. We will stand far away.”
“You don’t have to stay that far away. We just need to talk for a moment.”
“No, my master’s privacy must be protected.”
“What is that?”
Christine waved his hand lightly as Adele struggled to understand what he meant.
“Go and take care of business.”
“Yes, Master.”
As Henry led all the kitchen servants out, Adele picked up her fork and knife with an indifferent expression and asked.
“Is it my imagination that Henry and the servants look at us with such strange expressions?”
“Could it be that they imagine the things we do every night?”
Adele’s face flushed as she watched Christine casually say such things. However, she felt like she was losing if she felt embarrassed.
“Oh my, what do we do every night, Count?”
“If you don’t remember, I could reenact it here, Miss Adele?”
Adele’s face turned bright red.
“Let’s eat quickly, Count!”
But Christine rested her chin on her hand and smiled faintly. As if tempting her...
“Miss Adele, I’m suddenly hungrier. What should I do?”
Adele lifted her knife and smiled sinisterly.
“I’m holding the knife, Count. Please concentrate on your meal.”
“Tch!”
Just as Christine was picking up his fork with a look of irritation on his face,
“Eat this."
Adele held out a plate of sliced turkey and steak.
"You hurt your shoulder, so it's hard for you to use a knife."
"Oh, right... That's right."
"Here, have this too."
After that, she continued to pick up this and that and put them on Christine’s plate. At times like this, she really acted like a guardian.
“It’s delicious.”
“Then, who cut it for you?”
The two ate while chatting about this and that.
Soft sunlight streamed in through the curtains by the window, and their table was filled with the sweet smell of food. Every day they shared together was happiness.
However, that happy time was soon shattered.
“Gyaaaaah!”
A sharp scream came from somewhere.
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