Chapter 21.5 (1/2)

Eugene’s POV

Suddenly, there was a time when he felt Hari was strange. It has been on and off since the day he stumbled upon her in the bouquet.

That feeling raised his head in an unexpected situation, embarrassing Eugene, but he thought it would get better.

It’s just that the time has been long away passed. Now, come and think about how he was once thought it’s an easy idea.

“All I have told you so far is everything I have to report.”

It wasn’t that there was a special opportunity to realize.

That day, Eugene was receiving reports from his office as usual. However, the time was a day and not a night as always.

It was still midday, but he was staying at Ernst’s mansion. At the end of the day,

“Okay. It’s enough.”

With Harry’s request, Ethan was going to take a break today. Eugene is also expected to be in the mansion today, and Hari also had no plans to go out.

It was also a work. Eugene woke up after Ethan left the room.

It was a day spent at home like that, but he was so tired that he couldn’t even rest properly.

Last night he couldn’t sleep, and he had been working all night. It seemed that he needed rest, too.

After seeing him coming out of his office for the first time since last evening, butler Hubert greeted him.

“Now you are coming out, Duke. Lady Hari

was worried.”

Eugene’s tongue was inclined.

He was the one who had been trying to make time together and aware of the fact that Hari hated eating alone.

But this morning he was insane and didn’t even know the time was going. Behind him, the sun was already hanging on top of the ridge.

“Shall we prepare meals first?”

“No. Where is Hari now?”

“She’s in the garden.”

She skipped breakfast he said, but not much.

He wasn’t deceived.

He turned to garden and think of going to see Hari first. As he stepped out of the building, intense sunlight fell over his head.

The season changed and changed, and now it was early summer.

As Eugene walked toward the garden, he recently recalled the words that poured heavily into his ears.

Eugene, who heard that the crown prince Dice was in charge of closing to Hari with his heart in mind, knew that it was a rumor, and she just laughed at him.

At least once, it seemed to be time for sanctions of Dice’s actions.

Ever since Hari, who had not been able to easily appear outside, started to engage in external activities, she quickly became in the middle of interest.

Even if it wasn’t because of Ernst’s name, people who were fascinated by Hari and wanted to build a friendship were in the stream.

Eugene knew it well.

Even in his view, Hari’s growth was remarkable.

She’s like a butterfly that had completely peeled off her shell that had wrapped herself tightly and completely spread her wings.

Occasionally, Eugene was sometimes puzzled by the distance he felt between Hari in his childhood and Hari in his memory, but he couldn’t find out where the complex subtle emotions originated.

Huft.

Eugene slowly closed his thick eyes.

His worries are so clear that he feels very trivial.

It was sunny weather. Suddenly, the leaves of the tree in dark green clothes made a thick shadow over his head.

Then, Hari asked him permission to make a bench in the flower garden.

Let’s leave Hubert to do it right today.

With such a leisurely thought, Eugene stepped into the garden. Red roses were in full bloom in the garden.

It was a flower that the gardener carefully cared for Hari. Hari is also very friendly to the servants, so everyone in Ernst like her.

Eugene didn’t like Hari getting close to the servants, but he wasn’t stupid enough to reveal that feeling in front of her.

How much longer did he should walk?

Finally, the person he was looking for appeared before Eugene’s eyes.

A white hem that shakes while leaving a pale after image among the rose bushes. Silver hair shining brightly in her waist line.

Even among the red rose flowers with purple eyes exposed under the sunlight, she was remarkably beautiful.

At that moment, he suddenly stopped walking.

He don’t know why, but it seemed that someone was choking his throat.

As he breathed in shallowly, the scent of rose infiltrated the tip of his nose.

Strangely. He was a little dizzy in front of her, it’s like he was drunk with the scent. He thought he would be blind.

Obviously, it was a person he had always seen, and it was a sight that he usually saw, but it was still dazzling.

The sharp rose thorns poked deep into his heart and deceived as if they had come to his field.

Eugene looked at the person in front of

his eyes with some sensation, for some reason without even breathing properly.

Perhaps, the next moment Hari would have stood there forever if he had not turned, but the situation ended when she found him.

“Brother Eugene.”

No, but a little more agitation was evoked than before.

She smiled brightly as she’s calling his name. It was that moment. There was a loud beeping sound in his head.

‘You shouldn’t go now.’

Eugene stepped back without even realizing himself.

“Brother?”

The young woman faced a question of his strange behavior, but he had neither the spirit to answer nor the room to excuse.

Another feeling came from hitting his throat with a different feeling than when he was watching her a while ago.

His heart was stinging because of the heat he pressed forcibly. He couldn’t stand in front of Hari anymore.

Eugene escaped from the spot almost like he fled. The reddish light of sight seemed to laugh and follow him.

It was the fear that sneaked into the box that should not be opened forever.

After that, Eugene acted casually as if nothing had happened.

Being conscious of that day’s work seemed to admit even the agitation he felt on the day, but his decision did not last long.

When he catched Hari, who almost fell in front of imperial palace, the moment when her warmth entered his arms, he felt the beeping beeping sound again and again.

At that moment, her touches like a fire, pushed him out.

“You should have been careful. You almost fell.”

He tried hard, but he couldn’t figure out why he’s like this. He didn’t want to let anyone know about his confusion.

He had to hide his face more than anyone else. Maybe it’s going to disappear soon if he don’t see her.

So Eugene started to distance himself from Hari.

“What did I do wrong to you, brother?”

But he didn’t know that it would make Hari uneasy. Eugene reprimanded as she looked at him under a crushed sunlight.

He was so stupid. Whatever the reason, he couldn’t hold the center and waved. It was his mistake that clearly showed him.

“Don’t worry. Nothing you should think about.”

Eugene wasn’t trying to make Hari look like this.

“I’m not avoiding you.”

So he could lie again and again. To reassure her. Also to make her laugh.

Then he need to start to breathing more properly.

Every time he met her eyes, and whenever he touch her fingertips, she can’t even notice his uncontrollably swaying heart as if it was a storm.

Don’t let Hari get caught even at close distances, even at close range. After that, Eugene returned to his office.

It wasn’t that difficult once she had his heart all over.

However, he suddenly felt like he was swallowing a piece of broken glass.

With the thirst that could not be resolved, he became increasingly nervous every day. Still, he suppressed all of that and stood in front of Hari.

He didn’t want to make her nervous again for another stupid reason…

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“What did you say now?”

And one day, Eugene asked Dice with a stiff voice. His gaze slipping quietly seemed to be indifferent, but when he dug into the inside, he was cold and sharp.

Dice, who was talking about Eugene’s reaction as half a joke, was embarrassed.

He thought Eugene would just scream or ignore it, but this was a chill he never thought.

Dice excuses himself with a voice that reveals embarrassment.

In fact, like everyone else, he was a little scared in front of this iron-blooded duke.

“Oh, no, I didn’t formally tell the story…. Even if it was a marriage proposal, it was not really true, as I was half joking, and she already refused it….”

Dice spoke more since then, but his voice did not reach Eugene’s ears.

He proposed? To whom…

To Hari?

In fact, there was no problem with the fact itself.

As Eugene was engaged, his sisters will always able to find a good partner and mate.

It was okay if Dice’s proposal was not to force Hari’s choice because he is a prince, as he should respect her decision too.

Eugene also had Rosabella Velontia, who was engaged to him two years ago.

The two, however, were the perfect box of perfect marriage with no feelings for each other. It did not change over time.

In fact, Eugene know that Dice was in love with Rosabella.

He knew how keen the crab was, but it didn’t matter.

Only his family was important to him, and he even thought that he did not know the heart or happiness of others.

If he had to trample hundreds or even thousands of people here to make his family could lead a peaceful life, perhaps Eugene would do so without hesitation.

In some ways, he knew himself that it was an obsession even if it was abnormal.

Obviously, he wasn’t such a nasty and relentless man when he was young.

However, Eugene’s heart was closed long ago, freezing cold in the air.

A time when he was overwhelmed by humiliation and despair, reducing his helplessness.

Also, when he decided not to look back anymore with blood as the blood directly flows on his hands.

Since then, no one has come to his closed mind.

Even if a cold rushes into a frozen heart like an iceberg, he didn’t even know it was as deceiving as it was originally.

Originally, it’s not so hard, so every time his heart weakened, he bite it even harder.

Only the desire to go back to those happy days of no danger and unhappiness backed him up.

In a way, he didn’t even know that he was more dependent on his family. Eugene was able to do anything for his siblings, which is the reason he has lived so far.

Anyone who has nothing but a straw that was originally held at the end of a cliff can be as desperate as possible to defend that one.

So if they have someone they really want, Even if it was crappy, he was ready to accept it.