Chapter 178. Quietly, without even making the sound of breathing
For tens of minutes already, Deborah was continuously pacing around the bedroom.
—That is…… difficult. He told me to absolutely not let you out, so…….
She tried requesting the man standing and guarding the front of the door to let her out, but while blinking continuously, he stubbornly shook his head.
Whose command it was, she could know without even purposely asking.
The very person who instructed to lock her away in this place.
“…….”
The steps that were moving frantically suddenly came to a stop in place.
—What…… on earth, what do you mean by that, Ray. You will…… dissolve the engagement, you say…….
Deborah was not the only one flustered in front of the unbelievable matter.
A rigidly frozen face, a heavily trembling gaze and voice.
The moment she recalled that face of the Dowager Duchess looking at her son who brought up the dissolution of the engagement.
One side of her heart sank darkly.
And was that all.
Standing without saying any word with a deathly pale face, his fiancée, Lady Constant of the marquessate, trembled violently and ended up fainting in the end.
Everything…… became a mess.
She tried thinking about how on earth he came to know that fact, but the answer could be found at a point not that far away.
Since he stormed into the cabin after the Bailey couple was invited and went, she merely guessed like that—that he probably caught on somewhere during the conversation.
To bring up…… the dissolution of the engagement, she truly did not expect.
The fact that the place he dragged her to was this mansion was one thing, but she did not even guess in the slightest that he would bring up such words in a place where the Dowager Duchess and the fiancée were present.
Therefore, she was even more anxious.
Because she could not know his intention at all, what on earth he was thinking.
First of all, she would have to at least see his face to try and catch a glimpse of that thought, but after throwing her into this place, he vanished somewhere after commanding people to monitor her so she could absolutely not come out.
Ha—
Deborah’s gaze, letting out a long breath from a frustrated heart, suddenly moved out the window.
The golden eyes looking somewhere, where the pitch-black darkness had settled, began to shake dizzyly.
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“No, let me meet him first.”
The next day.
Not long after waking up on an unfamiliar bed, breakfast came in.
Having gone through such a tremendous thing, and above all, she found herself thoroughly absurd and flabbergasted for falling asleep peacefully on this bed that was clearly his.
To the extent that the past time when she lived with insomnia felt like a lie.
However, that was that.
No matter how much it was so, she could not comfortably have a meal in this situation.
Of course, thinking about the child made her a bit concerned, but still, it was merely a single meal.
Right now, anyway, she felt that meeting him was more urgent.
Therefore, she told the person who brought the meal that she would not eat, so to take it back.
Having heard those words, the woman blinked at Deborah with a somewhat surprised look, then slipped out of the bedroom.
And before much time passed, she came back in and conveyed his words.
—Do not do useless things, and behave quietly as you are told.
At those overbearing words that came out through the woman’s mouth, she momentarily choked up, but Deborah soon soothed her heart calmly.
And then, she conveyed her intention once more.
If he did not meet her, she would absolutely not have a meal.
Of course, she did not know if that would work, but still, right now, that was the only thing capable of making the man move.
Since he had even dragged her to this place when looking at her was terrible, she felt certain that if it was this, he would meet her.
Wondering what if she had guessed wrong, at a moment when she was anxious because there was no reaction even after a long time passed, the bedroom door opened harshly.
Whether he could not sleep a single wink all night, he, who had a haggard complexion, rapidly walked into the bedroom.
Even though the one who wanted to meet was her, when she actually placed that face before her eyes like this, her speech was momentarily blocked.
“Now that I have given you the bedroom, I suppose you think you have really become a guest?”
“…….”
Unlike her, who was like that, the man who strode right up to the front of her nose snapped chillily with a ferociously crumpled face.
“You should keep your senses straight. How dare you, anywhere.”
“…….”
At the fierce threat, Deborah’s expression sank low.
‘Yes, what on earth was I expecting…….’
The man’s feelings toward her had not changed in the slightest.
No, rather, she would not know if it had worsened even more.
Deborah realized once again that the reason he locked her away in this place right now was purely because of the child.
After inhaling a long breath, Deborah slowly opened her speech, which had been closed.
“Please let me go.”
Words let out calmly.
At that moment when she stared intently at the eyebrow that twitched as if reacting to it, a sound of laughter, ugh, was heard from the man’s mouth.
“Let you go? Where to.”
She was about to answer that it was naturally the cabin, but words a beat faster than that popped out of the man’s mouth.
“Despite crawling all the way here because you have not a single place to go, you speak well.”
“…….”
Had he been…… this cruel until now?
Word by word emerging from his mouth felt just like a sharp blade.
Even though she knew all this situation was a matter she brought upon herself, her heart ached cuttingly.
Deborah clutched her fist tightly and began to slowly open her tightly shut mouth.
“So what.”
“……What?”
“Since it is a situation where I have not a single place to go, I must go and work to barely get even a small cabin to lay this one body down.”
Saying, “Though Your Grace probably does not know—” at those words calmly added, Raymond’s brow narrowed ferociously.
His mouth, which glared at Deborah’s face without a word as if to kill her, opened again only after a very long time.
“If it is your one body, even if you beg somewhere, it is none of my business, but.”
“…….”
“Because my child is in that belly.”
“…….”
“So, until you give birth to the child, stay as you are told, as quiet as a dead mouse.”
“…….”
“Do not provoke my temper.”
Deborah only then realized.
That the man she knew was no longer anywhere now.
That this man in front of her eyes, who was thoroughly rummaging through her entire heart with a tongue attached to a sword, was no longer the man she missed so much.
Suppressing the tightening in her throat with an effort, Deborah faced the man straight on.
“This child is…… my child.”
“Your child?”
“Yes, Your Grace…… it is not your child, but my child.”
Raymond, who heard all the words spoken with emphasis word by word, momentarily pulled up the corner of his lips mockingly.
“That is a matter to be known once it comes out.”
Raymond’s gaze, pulling up his eyebrow, slowly and subtly moved downward.
At the gaze that landed intently on her swollen belly, Deborah placed her hand over it as if hiding it without realizing.
At that absurd action, a bitter laugh leaked out through his teeth immediately.
After a moment, his head slowly dropped downward.
He pulled back Deborah’s arm, which was about to shrink back in surprise at the narrowing distance, and returned it to its original position.
And as if to show off, he bowed his head and whispered lowly somewhere near Deborah’s ear.
“If the child that came out of your belly resembles another bastard even in the slightest—”
A voice from which a sinister energy bloomed pierced into Deborah’s ear.
“At that time, even if you hang onto my feet, I will drag you out.”
“…….”
“So until then, do not waste useless energy and stay quietly.”
“…….”
“Quietly, without even making the sound of breathing, so that one does not even know you exist.”
Do you understand? The man’s voice letting out the cruel words ironically sounded so sweet.
That was why.
The reason the man’s words sounded even more chilling and frigid because of that gap instead.
Raymond’s blue pupils thoroughly licked across Deborah’s face, which was thoroughly frozen and unable to budge, as if scratching it.
Only after confirming the appearance of her bleeding profusely from being wounded did a satisfied laugh bloom over that beautiful face.
Only then did Raymond slowly begin to straighten his waist properly.
While pulling the front hem of his shirt, which was drawn due to bowing his waist, tautly with his hand again.
And then, as if all business was finished, he immediately turned his body and strode out across the bedroom.
An appearance having a lot more composure, so completely different from when he entered.
Deborah’s gaze followed closely behind that broad back for a long time.
Until the door closed and he vanished from her sight.
For a very long time.
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