Raising My Fiancé With Money
Chapter 56
Until When Are You Going To Deceive?
TL: Jasmine
Lilia looked at Karhan through the carriage window. When Karhan, who was getting farther and farther away, finally disappeared, Lilia closed the curtains. With a light sigh, she lowered her gaze. A book in her hand came into view. It was a book that Karhan himself took out earlier.
Lilia fiddled with the cover. Since the last meeting, she has been subtly uncomfortable. Karhan wasn’t uncomfortable, but her restless mind was the problem.
Continuing her meeting with Karhan, he became somewhat likable to her. She couldn’t help but be shaken by the way he looked at her and the polite and friendly attitude. If it remained like this, favor would sprout in a different direction.
After noticing it, Lilia often imagined being in a real relationship with him. It would be a ticklish and fresh relationship. But…
I’m not dating.
Lilia muttered to herself. She couldn’t even dare to try again because of her first relationship, which only hurt her. The wound, which she pretended to be okay, but the betrayal by the man she loved remained deep in the heart.
Lilia locked her heart tightly, covering the wound. She vowed, as if brainwashing herself, that she would not open it to anyone.
And she was not confident in loving someone with all her might as before. She didn’t want to be shaken. So, this distance between Karhan and herself was appropriate.
After travelling for a while, the mansion slowly got closer. When she finally arrived at the front door of the mansion, her carriage stopped.
When a disturbance came from the outside, Lilia moved the curtain. And she found Richard, who was scuffling with the gatekeeper.
“You can’t.”
“Tell her I’m here!”
As the gatekeeper kept repeating ‘You can’t!’ like a parrot, Richard blindly tried to go inside. The gatekeeper could not restrain Richard, a nobleman, and was focused only on stopping him.
Richard turned his head toward Lilia’s carriage.
When she met Richard’s eyes, Lilia closed the curtain, Since he hadn’t seen her in awhile, she thought he was determined to come. Lilia got off the wagon after much thought because he would be like that all day if she ignored it.
“Lilia.”
Richard frowned and called Lilia.
“Talk from there.”
Richard stopped when he was told not to come closer With a certain distance, Lilia looked at Richard silently
He swept his red hair to the side and was staring straight at her. It was the first time she saw him since they quarreled over the broken engagement at a tea house.
The letters from Richard had all been disposed of before they even fell into her hands, so she didn’t even see his name. Richard, who was looking at Lilia as if searching for something, once again approached.
“Long time no see.”
She thought she had forgotten, but the moment she heard his voice, the familiarity came. The expression on Lilia’s face faded like the coast where the waves swept by.
“I’ve been sending you letters. Haven’t you read, them?”
It was a friendly voice, but what was hidden inside was a subtle reprimand. Richard was good at making the situation advantageous by making his opponent feel sorry. Even when she was dating him, she always fell for that artful way of speaking and blamed herself for making a mistake again.
Recalling her foolish past, Lilia answered coldly.
“I don’t know because I threw them all away.”
His eyebrows rose faintly and then came down.
“Is that all you had to say?” (Lilia)
“Wait. Talk to me!” (Richard)
As Lilia tried to walk off, Richard grabbed her wrist at once. Frances and Malek warned Richard,
“Let go of her hand.”
He was about to pull out the sword, but Richard did not back down. It was because he knew they couldn’t do anything about it without Lilia’s order anyway.
“Why are you acting like a stranger? Our relationship is not over yet.”
“You’re the only one who doesn’t think it’s finished.”
When Lilia shook her hand, Richard gently let go of her wrist. Lilia looked at Richard face to face.
He was once a person she really loved. She thought it wouldn’t be a waste to give up everything. Even when the affection at the beginning of their relationship disappeared, and when he, who used to say thank you, started to accept it as if it were natural… Because she loved him, she pretended it was all okay.
And the result was betrayal. Lilia looked at Richard with cool eyes. His face was covered with lust and greed.
“I was sorry then. If you forgive me this once, I’ll do really well in the future…..”
“Did you run out of money?”
At Lilia’s blatant question, Richard stopped talking.
“You don’t want to restore your relationship, you want to restore your lost fortune. Isn’t that what happened?”
“…..What do you mean by that?”
“Don’t say you regret it in front of me. I’m the one regretting it.”
She felt like she wanted to rip her hair after saying, several times a day, that she liked this kind of motherf*cker. There was only one reason why Richard was sincerely regretting it. It was that he missed the golden fish swimming in his fishing pond.
“You just liked my money.”
“That can’t be true.”
Richard immediately denied it. As he came closer, he whispered with such desperation that she felt uncomfortable.
“I thought you and I were meant to be.”
Richard brought up the fate he used to mention often. Obviously, it’s a romantic word, but the fate he spoke of sounded like a worn-out word. Whether he knew it or not, Richard said more sadly,
“And even now…… I really love you.”
Her heart, which was infested with anger, froze at once. The wound that she thought healed ripped open. Even after coming here, the disappointment that remained in his lying appearance disappeared,
“How miserable are you going to make me feel?’,
The love that he easily spit out to escape his situation was worse than a stone on the side of the road. Lilia exhaled slowly. Her throat tingled as if her breath was frost and not air.
“Is that all you’ve been thinking about so far? I don’t need that kind of love, so get out of my life.”
Richard changed his expression at the insulting remarks.
“What do you think is so different about the young Duke?”
Richard asked sarcastically if she thought karhan would love only her for the rest of his life.
“It looks like you only trust the Young Duke and act arbitrarily, surely you won’t regret it, right?”
He sounded confident as if he knew something. It was no longer worth listening to, so Lilia took a step to walk away.
“I’m not done talking!”
Richard rushed forward to catch Lilia. Then someone held Richard’s wrist from behind. Richard screamed reflexively at the strong force that made him feel as if his arm was about to fall off.
“What are you doing?”
When a low voice was heard, Richard turned his head, Karhan was looking down at Richard with fierce eyes,
Arriving in front of Bloden’s mansion, Karhan watched Lilia and Richard. He stopped trying to approach them. The two were talking with serious faces. He couldn’t decide if he was in a situation where he could intervene.
Karhan saw Lilia’s face. Where did her soft expressions go, and she had a cold face even though she was expressionless. His heart skipped a beat at seeing Lilia’s face look like that for the first time.
Karhan cautiously approached the two. Then the conversation between Lilia and Richard came.
“And even now I really love you.”
At Richard’s words, Karhan stopped breathing. And Lilia, who had been shooting cold looks until just now, closed her lips with a hurt face.
His fast-running heart seemed to have dropped sharply. He felt like his whole body was bleeding. As if someone was stabbing his body, it was throbbing everywhere. It didn’t seem to hurt this much even when he was shot by an arrow in the battlefield.
Karhan barely rolled up his immobile fingers and clenched his hand. He was very resentful of Richard for making her look like that.
If he were Lilia’s real fiancé, he would have really cherished her. He’d cherish her and embrace her…… He would’ve only given her good things. When he thought that far, his frustrated heart tightened. He choked up and his emotions flowed back from the inside.
“Is that all you’ve been thinking about so far? I don’t need that kind of love, so get out of my life.”
Lilia, who belatedly came to her senses, put on a harsh face and swore. Richard decided to quit being desperate now, but he ran into trouble.
“He seems to be doing whatever he wants, but he’ll definitely regret it.”
When Lilia ignored him and turned her back, Richard tried to force a hold on her. At that time, reason was cut off, and his body moved first. When he came to his senses, he was already holding Richard’s wrist.
“What are you doing?”
With a short scream, Richard hardened like a piece of wood. Richard’s surprised face was filled with fierce eyes.
“Ugh…!”
Richard swallowed his groan of pain as karhan seemed to twist his wrist. However, Karhan did not relax his hand. Richard barely held back his scream and looked up at karhan.
There was a shadow on Karhan’s face, he was about half a span larger than Richard. The raised eyebrows and narrowed forehead made the impression ugly, However, there was no time to look at his face in detail.
Suppressing Richard with such a terrifying energy that his skin stung. Richard bit his lips hard because he was sweating all over his body.
He was a little distracted by the tingling pain. His wrist hurt as if it would break, but he couldn’t step back from here. Because he knew the secret of the Young Duke.
“Until when are you going to deceive?”
The force that had been gently pressing on Richard’s wrist stopped. Richard spoke confidently so that Lilia could hear him.
“You’re not even the real successor.”
P/R: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
T/R: perfect way to start/end your day 20