Chapter 116: [Chapter 116] I still miss you deeply
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"Olivia is a common name. It might not be her."
"But it's rare for someone with the same name as your nanny to be looking for Bliere."
Roardness said, as if seeing through my anxiety, and slowly got out of bed.
"Roan!"
"Yes?"
The sunlight pouring through the window cast a stark shadow on his back as he headed for the door. The shadows of his perfectly muscled body deepened.
"Clothes!"
"Ah."
His bright blonde hair, unlike my own tangled mess, shone calmly as if nothing had happened.
Roardness roughly brushed his hair back, gave me a dazzlingly charming smile, and walked to the door, grabbing his own blanket and wrapping it loosely around his waist.
I heard one of the servants who had come to deliver breakfast gasp. He took the tray and began setting it up on the tea table.
"Come on, Adrienne. Let's eat."
"But I need to tell Lord Victor that I'm going to Elacon as soon as possible."
Ignoring the aches all over my body, I tried to get up, but Roardness was already in front of me.
The blanket, barely covering him, revealed his prominent hip bones.
My face flushed, and as I turned my head, I was lifted up.
"I already sent someone yesterday."
"What?"
Before I could reply, Roardness, who was carrying me easily, sat me down at the tea table.
I hugged the blanket tightly and only exposed my shoulders, and Roardness chuckled and ruffled my hair.
"Epero will take care of all the troublesome preparations, so just eat. I need to fatten you up."
He pulled a chair from the opposite side and sat next to me, pushing a bowl of soup and a slice of white bread in front of me.
"You were planning to send me to Elacon? From the beginning?"
I asked him while washing my hands in the bowl of water.
"If you weren't going to go even if I told you not to, I wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble."
"I'm surprised. I didn't expect things to move so quickly..."
"I'm good at what I do."
Roardness used a napkin to carefully wipe my hands.
I flinched at the memory of his touch last night, and he held my hand tightly, wiping it clean.
"While I'm in Elacon, I might as well meet this Olivia or Olive, whoever she is."
He kept a close eye on me to see if I was eating and took a whole bottle of wine and drank it.
Every time he tilted his head back to drink, I looked away, remembering last night. His thick throat as he swallowed the wine was irritatingly stimulating.
I quickly drank some water and started to eat the bread aggressively. Roardness had spread butter on it, and the buttery flavor filled my mouth.
"Anyway, Epero and his people will pack everything, so you can just go as you are."
"Are you really coming with me?"
Roardness stared at my worried face and took another sip of wine.
"I told His Majesty that I would go to check on Elacon in case they try to do anything after my brother's death."
"But won't His Majesty be worried about both heirs leaving the country?"
Roardness chuckled.
"With only Epero and me left as heirs, what does he have to worry about if I provoke him?"
"But it's more worrying that both heirs are leaving the country."
I pushed away the empty plate and rinsed my mouth. Roardness handed me a napkin.
"Anyway, I'll go with you. I can't stand that guy calling you his type or whatever nonsense he said. And that Elacon guy is always following you around like a puppy."
Roardness muttered angrily, then picked me up again.
I didn't know what to say, and then I suddenly remembered that Epero's group might arrive at the mansion soon.
"I should get ready. I don't know when they'll arrive..."
"No need. You just need to go as you are. Everyone in this mansion knows we're leaving on a long journey."
"So that means we have some time."
Roardness added, casually gathering the blanket I had been wrapped in and climbing onto the bed.
"Roan, I told you yesterday was my first time..."
"...Mine too."
When he held me, I realized what the thumping sound was.
When I glanced over, his blanket was lying on the floor.
"It's my first time too, Rien."
A much lower voice than before soaked my entire body. His shadow completely covered me.
His hot and hard body felt so real that I flinched, and Roardness's lips kissed my eyes, cheeks, lips, and finally my nape soothingly.
The scent of the strong wine he had just drunk lingered all over my body.
"I still crave you..."
"Ah."
"Do you know how cute your mouth is when you eat? If you knew, you wouldn't tell me not to."
With a deep sigh, he finished his words, and his hot lips captured mine.
Me too.
I wanted to say, 'Actually, I wanted to kiss your neck when you were drinking the wine like it was water'.
But I didn't have the chance.
I felt like the wine he drank was flowing into my mind, erasing my thoughts.
The blanket he had taken from me covered both of us.
It felt like a sweet and bitter wine barrel, and I was completely immersed in it. It was a morning as sweet and bitter as the wine.
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Bianca, who had attended the Crown Prince's funeral, felt strange.
"Ma'am, are you alright? Is something wrong?"
Ever since the welcoming ceremony for Prince Epero, where she had represented the Eastern region in place of the busy Gregory, she had been feeling a similar sense of déjà vu.
"Lily. Do you remember Prince Epero's welcoming ceremony?"
"Yes, ma'am. We were both so surprised. How could the imperial family, who had never been interested in the Eastern social scene, have prepared such an Eastern-style event?"
They said it was planned by the late Crown Prince Bardenaldo, or rather, his aide. And when she found out that the aide was Bliere Akasia, that woman she despised so much, she had been furious.
But knowing the inner feelings of the Central nobles who were wary of the East, Bianca couldn't openly confront the woman at the Duke's mansion.
She had planned to simply stay quietly until the Emperor's birthday and then leave after making a symbolic appearance at the imperial event.
But when she attended the funeral due to the sudden illness and death of the Crown Prince, she was so startled by the woman standing beside Prince Epero that she almost screamed.
'Adrienne!'
She wanted to call out Adrienne's name and run towards her, but she managed to hold back.
She couldn't take her eyes off the woman throughout the funeral.
When she later asked who the woman beside Prince Epero was, everyone naturally said it was Bliere Akasia.
The witness who had seen the Crown Prince Noevian's murder and the aide who had almost been killed with him.
But Bianca couldn't accept it.
That woman was clearly Adrienne, not Bliere.
From the time Adrienne was a child who had just started to read books, Bianca had visited the Pireta mansion and watched her grow.
In that household without a mother or sisters, Bianca had cared for Adrienne in ways that even her brother Gregory couldn't.
Perhaps Bianca was closer to Adrienne than her own father or brother.
No matter how much Bliere looked like her, and no matter how much she tried to deceive people by dyeing her hair blonde, she couldn't fool Bianca.
Even though she had seen Adrienne's dead body and attended her funeral, Bianca felt an urge to check again.
"Ma'am! Ma'am, please! I'll do it instead!"
"Out of my way, Lily!"
"Digging up a royal corpse, even for a grand duke like the Pireta, is punishable by death!"
On the night of the funeral, Bianca couldn't sleep and sneaked into the Trovika family cemetery.
A few guards, believing that the grand duchess, a member of the grand duke's family, wanted to pay her respects in private, willingly stepped aside after a little persuasion and some money.
"Even if I receive the wrath of the gods for desecrating a grave, and even if the royal family punishes me for this... just say that Bianca Pireta is simply a madwoman who did this. If I'm the only madwoman, at least I won't harm the Pireta family."
"Ma'am, ma'am, please. If the young master finds out..."
"If he saw her, Gregory would understand me. No, he would have searched this place too."
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Haunted by the loss of her only brother, Gregory often went to Adrienne's room to be alone.
Gnawing her lip, Bianca picked up the shovel.
It looked rather monstrous for a noblewoman to wield, but she didn't care.
The maid, Lily, stood guard, nervously watching for anyone approaching.
After some time, a chilling laugh escaped Bianca's lips as she dug into the grave.
"She's not here... she's not here, Lily!"
"Ma'am?"
"The body is gone! Rien is gone! Someone stole Rien! Didn't I tell you something was wrong?"
Bianca climbed out of the excavated hole.
Lily helped her up.
Bianca's dress, which had been soaked by the previous day's rain, was now covered in mud from the fall.
"I have to see Bliere Akasia again."
Despite being warned to stay away, she had to meet that woman.
No, she needed to meet her.
The next morning, news spread that Elacon had specially invited the Second Prince and Bliere. Bianca felt a sense of urgency.
Hearing that the group from the Duke's mansion was about to leave for Elacon, she mounted her horse without even properly fixing her hair.
The carriage, surrounded by several layers of guards, had already left the north gate of the capital.
Bianca chased after the carriage frantically.
The guards, who had been on high alert for assassins after leaving the capital, were surprised to see a small woman chasing the carriage.
The carriage finally stopped, and a woman with honey-colored hair emerged.
"...Adrienne."
It was definitely Adrienne.
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