Episode 137. Take that filthy wench and get out of my house right now.
He thought something must be wrong.
Even after seeing that signature written on the marriage vow with his own two eyes, he thought it couldn’t be, that this was surely something wrong.
Was it not so?
How could such a thing happen, how could that woman do such a…….
For even a moment, he felt so sorry for being shaken by a piece of paper like this and doubting the woman.
Therefore, unable to wait until Charlotte arrived, he called Robin and gave the order to bring Deborah immediately.
He hoped that she would come and end this nonsensical situation.
He hoped she would pour out resentment and criticism toward him, asking how he could doubt her by believing only the words of such crazy people, and if he had spoken of eternity while his trust in her was only that much…….
While his head was throbbing with such thoughts, he heard the sound of the door opening.
It was a point not long after Robin had left the study.
The woman was standing where he looked back.
Wearing a pale cream dress, she appeared pure and elegant, catching his eye particularly uniquely today.
As she entered with a face full of tension, her gaze discovered him, and soon the line of her mouth curved softly.
Watching that flower-like appearance, Raymond felt relieved.
Yes, there is no way.
A woman who smiles so beautifully, the gentle and kind woman he knew, could not have hidden such a huge fact and deceived him.
There was nothing more to confirm.
To think he had summoned the woman here after being swayed by such crazy talk…….
It was the moment Raymond, feeling guilty for harboring suspicion even for a very brief moment, was about to stretch his foot forward.
“You, you! You rat-like wench!”
A voice full of agitation sliced through the air inside the study.
The man suddenly charging like a bull toward the entering woman, and Raymond blocking such a man, all happened in an instant.
“Aaagh!!”
A pain-filled scream flowed from the mouth of the man whose arm was twisted back, but Raymond paid no heed and put even more strength into the hand that held him.
“How dare you, and where.”
As the wrath-filled voice dripped from that mouth, a paroxysm-like shout soon burst out from the trembling man’s mouth.
“That, that thing right there is that very wench!”
The man’s venom-filled pupils were shining intensely, emitting a vivid blue light.
With his shoulder blade twisted and while dripping with cold sweat, the man moved his mouth without resting.
“That wicked wench who conspired with the orphanage director, swallowed my entire fortune, and ran away as soon as the wedding was over is that very woman!”
The words shouted at the top of his lungs like a demon made his head dizzy.
He should just throw away the madman talking nonsense and leave this study, but…… for some reason, he could not move at all.
A strange feeling where his vision momentarily became distant and his ears felt muffled.
Only after a long while did Raymond’s gaze slowly move in the opposite direction.
Toward the side where the woman he loved—the one who was smiling at him a moment ago—was standing.
“…….”
The moment he discovered the woman standing at the end of that gaze he turned toward like a salvation, Raymond’s breath was choked.
Turned white as a sheet, she was trembling uncontrollably.
Watching that face filled with terror as if looking at a horrific sight, he was seized by a feeling as if the flow of time was passing slowly.
“Since she signed the marriage vow with her own hand at a wedding officially approved by the church, that wench belongs to this Godric Pollock no matter what anyone says! Therefore, it means Your Grace has been coveting another man’s woman all this time!”
“Th-this man, Godric! Can’t you stop it!”
At the man’s out-of-line behavior after losing his reason, the priest rebuked him with a face turned pale blue.
However, all those situations felt to Raymond like something happening in a different world.
The hand that gripped the arm of the man pouring out relentless vitriol slipped away at some point.
The man who tumbled to the floor made a beast-like sound while clutching his twisted arm, but Raymond stepped right over him.
One step, two steps…….
The moment he finally approached her front, Raymond reached out and tightly gripped Deborah’s arm.
“…….”
“…….”
The moment their gazes met, not a single word came out for an instant.
After realizing that the woman’s body felt through his hand was trembling more severely than he thought, the anxiety latent in his heart began to rush in like a flood.
The time that seemed like it would last forever ended because of a single short word that came from Raymond’s mouth.
“……It’s not true, right?”
I’m sorry for calling you to a place like this, I was just briefly swayed by a madman’s crafty tongue and was not in my right mind, not because I couldn’t trust you.
All the words in his head that he had prepared to say when the woman came disappeared, and that one phrase slipped out.
At that short remark, her golden eyes wavered greatly once.
Her tightly closed lips only trembled, and she could not say any word or excuse.
That made Raymond feel even more suffocated.
Even more violent force went into the hand clutching Deborah’s arm.
“Tell me it’s not…….”
“…….”
“That everything that crazy bastard says is all nonsense…… that he’s a person you’re seeing for the first time today…….”
The words Raymond was saying now were all words he hoped would come from the other person’s mouth.
She was a woman he wanted to obtain even by going against every conviction he sought to protect.
While knowing clearly that the path would be arduous and difficult, she was a person he loved enough to willingly accept even that if he thought of it as the process of obtaining her.
A person he was drawn to from the first moment he saw her, to the extent that he could assert there would never be another like her in his life.
At the sight of the woman who was still silent, a blue flame began to surge in Raymond’s eyes.
“Speak! Say it’s not! Say it’s something you don’t know!”
The appearance of Raymond shaking her while clutching her arm looked like a madman.
That was how desperate he was.
If only those words—that it wasn’t true, that she didn’t know—would come from that mouth.
Then, he felt like he could…… cover it up like this.
Whatever the truth hidden behind it was, at this moment, he felt like he could cover it all and just leave together.
Even if it were a lie, it was fine.
A single word saying that she had never deceived him even once from the beginning until now…… would have been enough.
However, with that pallid face that looked like she might faint any moment, the woman ultimately did not say a single word.
The moment the streams of water shimmering in her golden eyes trickled down, Raymond felt something he had been barely holding onto snap apart.
“Look! What on earth could be the reason that wench cannot make any excuse! If everything I said were a lie, there’s no way she would be keeping her mouth shut like that. Is that not so?”
As if one side of his arm was dislocated, the man let out a spiteful shout even while sweating profusely.
The priest standing by his side tried to stop him again, but there seemed to be nothing that could stop him who had already lost his reason.
“That whore-like thing intentionally approached from the beginning and played with Your Grace.”
Revealing his yellow teeth, the man smirked while pouring out crude words that were hard to even mention.
As if reacting to those words, Deborah’s body flinched.
At the moment everything was revealed, she was keeping her mouth shut thinking she could no longer deceive the man, but she could not tolerate those words.
That she intentionally approached from the beginning.
That she played with him.
Even if she were to receive any punishment for this, she wanted to say that it was not that.
“No—”
It was the moment Deborah, who was shaking her head frantically, was about to open her closed mouth.
As if his strength had failed, the man who had shown no reaction suddenly raised one hand and tightly gripped Deborah’s neck.
Choking and coughing sounds flowed from Deborah’s mouth, but the strength of the hand strangling her neck grew even stronger.
The man’s expression as he watched her face distort in pain was chillingly calm.
“……Wait, ugh.”
Due to the immense strength tightening around her neck, Deborah unknowingly struggled with all her might to pull that hand away in order to survive.
However, no matter how much she pulled with both hands and scratched with her fingernails, the man’s hand did not budge in the slightest.
Even while watching Deborah’s face turn pale blue, the man’s expression showed no change whatsoever.
At that moment, finally, his mouth opened.
“That mouth, shut it. Don’t even breathe, don’t say a single word in front of me.”
“……Ah, ugh…….”
Even in that moment when her breath was fading away with a choke, the blue eyes of the man he saw looked so sad.
The rage contained in the chilling words the man spat out was felt so vividly.
“Try uttering a single word. I will kill you right then and there.”
“…….”
Therefore, she could say nothing.
In front of a man so enraged, in front of a man so saddened, she could not bring herself to say any word.
Raymond, who remained like that for a long while, only released his gripped hand as if throwing her to the floor just before Deborah’s breath gave out.
As if startled by that chilling appearance, the man who had been silent for a long time opened his mouth as if he had been waiting the moment Raymond was about to turn his body.
“Th-then, that wench!”
Flinching for a moment, Raymond’s gaze slowly landed upon the man’s face.
The man, cowed by that blue aura, slowly moved his mouth with downcast eyes.
“……Can I take her with me now.”
Even in this situation, a hollow laugh flowed at the words that he would take her since she was his woman.
For a moment, Raymond’s gaze turned toward Deborah, who was prostrate on the floor.
However, that was only for a split second, and soon cold words dropped from that mouth.
“Take that filthy wench and get out of my house right now.”
That was all.
Raymond ended with those words and left the study with his back turned.
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