Chapter Ten
.Chapter Ten.
“Here it is. I took Rena here.”
It was an old wooden building that looked empty, but Jed easily opened the door with the key and headed inside.
“Of course, since we have a replacement for Rena in your palace, your father will think that everything has been settled meticulously. How are you impressed?”
When Jed asked with a laugh, Bernard nodded with a smile.
“Thank you. Please I will never forget this beauty. These are not empty words. You are my savior.”
Rena cannot be made safe just by saving her. If there was a trick to make his father think Rena was dead, it was the best.
However, as he pondered the words, Bernard realized that something was strange.
“By the way, what do you mean by this Rena substitute?”
He laughed hard and wandered.
His red eyes stared at Bernard as if he was measuring something.
Some parts of him are strangely immature, and although his immaturity is difficult, his pride that he cannot bend because of him is sometimes another headache, and sometimes you look at him and find him standing quietly because he is different from you.
At a time like this, I'm sure telling the truth will make things difficult.
Because that's Bernard.
Bern's eyes became black and stubborn with a strange insistence, even in this difficult situation. He insists on understanding with all intensity.. It is this part of him that picks up the smallest things intelligently and stares, Ah....... I hate him, but I love him too.
Jed replied with a smile.
“Of course it’s a corpse that looks like Rena.”
Bernard was very surprised.
“A corpse?”
“Yes. I worked hard to save her.. but there are more important things than those little things.”
Jed thought as he led Bernard to where Rena was with light steps.
He liked it, then frowned uncomfortably and stepped back.
I am not completely sure of the person walking in front of me, but is it possible that the impression is only positive, and I get rid of the negative impression that I feel, is it possible that it is only crushed?.
Jed said as he opened the door to the room where Reyna was.
“Something very bad has happened.”
Bernard's eyes were swollen.
Rena was standing in the room.
There were two bound and terrified men next to the pale Rena.
They were dressed as Demetrius, the knights of their family.
Bernard was stunned for a moment, but he realized in the next moment.
Yes, my father and the knights came out of the house to harm Rena, and there may have been some major struggle to save her.
Sure, make it more clear.
"These two men saw the real Rena. It's their bad luck as well. I made great efforts to find a body that looked like Rena and steal it to present to your father. My efforts couldn't be in vain, so... I locked them up because chaos would ensue if one person said that the body wasn't Rena's."
Jed said, running his thumb across his neck coldly.
“The best way is to kill them.”
At that point, Jed shrugged.
“First of all, I can't deal with your family's knights. I'll leave it up to you.”
Then he moved his gaze between the two knights who were tied up and unconscious and Bernard.
At first, Bernard didn't catch a glimpse of what Jed was talking about.
But he finally realized why he was looking at him and them.
Knowing what he had to do, Bernard's heart began to beat quietly and then violently.
Jed looked at Bernard's frozen face instantly, looking sorry.
“Of course, I understand your situation, but as someone from another family, I shouldn’t lay my hands on your family’s knights, so I thought I would ask you when you come.”
Jed asked nobly: “I will accept her whatever she chooses.”
"Are you going to kill them? Or do you release them? Of course, you can trust your secret between two knights from your family. I think it's Sekou."
8n is enough to keep the secret if they take the knight’s oath correctly and I release them.”
Bernard opened his mouth slightly, then closed it tightly. His eyes trembled as he passed it between his knights and his lover.
“Ah…...”
And in Jed's eyes as he watched him, a secret expression of satisfaction shone.
Of course, it was okay if you were holding Rena's life in your hand… but it was plain, boring, and stupid.
Moreover, Jed did not know how much pain and weight the intangible love between lovers must bear.
That's why he wasn't stupid enough to think about something as incredible as love.
Moreover, Bern wouldn't hate him.
He didn't hate Bernard's grandfather. No, he loved him.
So choose this method.
Bernard stood in awe and thought. It was as if something was pulling you to the bottom to drown.
'But he can't escape. Rina is here. He must protect her.
Just that thought kept him going.
Jed said that it was okay to save the knights, but of course they both knew that such comforting talk was just nonsense. Although it was a dramatic perception that had nothing to do with reality, Rena knew that too.
“If you release the knights, no matter how long it takes, Rena will die one day...”
Bernard's lips were crushed between his teeth.
Attacking is easy and defending is difficult. This was especially true because his father was the opponent.
It didn't work unless he was surprised once. The same method never works twice.
She seemed to be trying to keep her mouth shut, but Rena's lips trembled.
“Bernard....”
It must have been extremely painful to stand still while others were balancing your life between you and others, so Jed saw the tears coming out of her mouth.
In this dark room, pain piled up against the background of low screams from the mouth of a man who could not even beg for his life.
“Grandpa, take her out of this room...”
At Bernard's words that came out after a long silence, Jed carefully took Rena away.
After a while, Bernard walked out of the room with blood on his white glove. The smell of blood was pouring out of the room he came out of.
Bernard calmly walked towards Rena and lowered his head into her arms.
He hugged her with his blood-stained hands. There were long blood stains on the edge of Rena's waist.
“Okay. Rena, don’t cry. I will protect you.”
Rena couldn't help but hug him.
“Sorry. Sorry… sorry.”
A pale voice whispered above her fallen head, as if she were praying.
Against the backdrop of his endless apologies to Rena, Jed said in a casual tone as if he suddenly remembered something.
“Ah, I was there. In fact, Rena is a substitute. She wasn’t a doll. She was a living person. Are you okay though?”
Then he smiled and continued with red eyes narrowing in the darkness.
“Are you going to help me bury those bodies, anyway?”
The spring sun was hot, as it was the season of transition from spring to summer.
The clouds were scattered in the sky like lace, the air was filled with warmth, and the ground smelled of grass and earth.
Inside the wooden cart, I looked at my mother.
In the capital, the roads were paved with stones, so it was not fashionable to use a wooden cart.
Maybe my mother noticed that I was looking at her, so she said.
“The road to the countryside is not as smooth as it is in the capital. Maybe you are a little rough. Just get some sleep.”
Accepting her mother's suggestion and going to the hot springs together to recover was both embarrassing and exciting.
So, of course, she couldn't sleep.
What's more, my mother who said like the road was really uncomfortable and bumpy sat elegantly with her back straight and her chin pulled in, like someone with an iron heart.
If it were not for the carriage's shaking, the view would have been so quiet that it would have looked like a painting.
Then my mother turned her gaze to me.
“If you have something to say, say it right.”
I thought I was looking at her a little out of the corner of my eye, but my mother's eyes seemed to see it all.
I felt embarrassed and my ears were red and the fact that my ears were red made me feel even more ashamed.
At this level, my shyness would be obvious even to my mother. She bowed her head.
“No. I didn’t have anything to say.”
My mother, who was about to say something else, stopped talking and looked away.
It was great care from her.
Aside from that, I wanted to escape from this carriage immediately out of shame.
But why do I feel so comfortable when I'm with my mother?.
How much time has passed? I think I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was sitting with my head slightly lowered.
I woke up, looked outside and saw the sun setting. My mother was on the other side reading a book.
It was a book with something like tangled vine leaves on the cover.
Even though I knew I was going to be rude, there was no way to suppress my curiosity.
… Let’s see the title… ….
I secretly kept my head still and only rolled my eyes. Imperial Palace... I read part of the title. Is it the laws of the Imperial Palace? Is it the same book? My mother was also the manager of the palace.
At that time, my mother was startled and closed the book.
“What...are you awake?”
Thanks to that, the title was clearly visible.
.
It was a title that seemed to have a romantic tone. I felt like I saw something I shouldn't have seen.
I nodded in confusion.
“Yes…yes…….”
My mother quickly put the book in the storage compartment of the car.
There was another awkward silence.
By this time I was realizing. Why does my mother hate being with other people?.
She's uncomfortable...just her personality like that.
She feels uncomfortable around people, even her children.
By the way, do you like romance novels? I was confused. It was truly an unusual hobby for my mother.
Aren't you the type who isn't very passionate or doesn't like people in the first place?.
I was wondering, but my mother, who was looking away, suddenly said, “I know it's rude to read a book like that.”
Startled by her unexpected words, “Ah…no!” While looking at it, my mother's ears were turning red.
Yes… …. I knew where I got the red ears from when I was feeling embarrassed.
I quickly averted my gaze and spoke softly: “I just wanted to read it. I also wanted to read romance novels, but I didn’t have the chance.”
It's a lie. In fact, I didn't read it because I didn't like it.
There were many young girls who wanted me to read romance novels, but I couldn't find any interest in them.
Especially after playing a villain who is an obstacle to love in someone else's romance novel.
Duty, responsibility and common sense were more important than love. Isn't love an indulgence?.
Of course, I'm not talking about when I fell in love and married a man I was sure was my negligence.
I was stupid when I was young.
Then my mother suddenly asked me: “Do you want to read it?”