Chapter 27 (1/2)

Eugene’s POV

“Welcome back, brother.”

As soon as he entered the mansion, a thin voice like any other rang in his ear.

Eugene stopped walking as he saw Hari, who had met his eyes.

This was the first time he faced her face since the night four days ago. The very next day, Eugene is going at dawn.

He left the mansion and stood before her again today.

His black pupil slowly passed through the person in front of him.

Hari was dealing with him in the same way as usual, as if a few days ago could have been a dream or a fantasy.

It seemed that she decided to treat him as if nothing had happened between them.

Did she really think that it will make nothing happen that night?

Eugene tilts his head at an angle and lifts his face facelessly for a while.

He saw it. Even in the summer, Hari was wearing clothes to cover her neck.

Perhaps there was a trace of what he left behind because he couldn’t stand his greed. Like a small scar on her lips.

In the silence that remained, her white hand gently grasped the hem of her dress.

Looking at it, Eugene opened his mouth slowly.

“I’m back.”

Even though she was nervous like that, she stood in front of him during the day when she was still struggling.

So first, he decided to match the pros and cons as he wished.

“How have you been while I was away?”

Hari paused for a moment when he asked, and replied.

“Yes, nothing happened.”

Her answer continued as if she had practiced several times in the meantime.

“Erich came briefly on the weekend and then went back to the academy, and today I am on my way to see the crown prince.”

“He asked to see you first?”

But Hari’s nerve seemed to be focused elsewhere. So Eugene sent a glance to the people around her and made them retreat.

“Yes, but it wasn’t any special story, it was just….”

“Okay.”

He stepped up and approached Hari. She seemed to notice his presence only after Eugene approached her very closely.

The next moment, Eugene lifts Hari’s chin to him and just kissed her red lips.

Ah, yes, the feelings of satisfaction filled his heart.

After all, it was not enough to just keep watching her.

When he touched and kissed the person he faced in person like this, he felt like he was going to breathe and live now.

It is clear that the limit that has been endured for a long time will now have no boundary, so Eugene was satisfied with this and raised his head.

Then he faced Hari’s face, which was frozen.

She never seemed to have imagined that he would do this again.

Even where they stand now, it was not the terrace that they had left alone, but the open ground floor.

“I miss you.”

At his whispering voice, her purple eyes in front of his eyes slowly flowed. The trembling movement was pretty and lovely.

He was even glad that her beating rhyme was the result of that.

“You’ve healed a lot since before. It must have been quite painful.”

Perhaps Hari thought that if she pretended she didn’t know what he had done a few nights ago, he would probably do the same.

If she had expected that, he was sorry.

In fact, it was because of his selfish and bad thoughts that Eugene left Hari for a few days.

Because he wished she only thought of him all day.

Over and over again about what happened that night, thinking again and again, what was the meaning of his actions at that time, what kind of facial expressions and how to look in front of him when they meet again.

And he hoped that she would be confused and contemplated how their relationship would change in the future.

It was so sweet just to imagine that Hari’s head was full of only one person.

“I went to see your face for a while before I went to the Imperial Palace. I have to go out again right now.”

And now he see Hari’s face, Eugene’s wishes seemed to be alone all over her for days.

That fact could be so satisfactory.

Eugene grabbed Hari’s still hard hands and raised them to his lips.

The he kissed her with full affection.

“Then I’ll go. Wait for me.”

He thought it would be good if the time stopped while holding her like this.

“I think the duke was involved in this, right?”

Inside the wagon to the Imperial Palace, Rowengreen narrowed his eyes and asked toward Eugene.

“How long since you have met his highness quite often? And you have visited Velontia more often than before? Then you suddenly annulled, and this time, they have announced the engagement of Lady Velontia and His highness the crown prince.”

Eugene didn’t answer, but Rowengreen realized that what he just said is true in the next moment when looking at Eugene’s face that came into his sight.

In fact, it was right to say that it was a lead rather than an intervention.

He didn’t want to make Hari care about his fiancé, Rosabella Velontia.

Even a few nights ago, Hari uncovered the story of Rosabella in front of him. Looking at that, he thought his judgment was moved.

Besides, he left Hari alone, apart from him. And he didn’t want to hide Hari in the shade.

But Eugene is old-fashioned so he didn’t bother to explain it to Rowengreen.

“Is it because of Lady Hari?”

Meanwhile, Rowengreen, who had never voiced it before, finally brought out his long-old doubts.

As soon as the duke returned from La Sousss, the duke headed to Ernst’s mansion instead of the Imperial Palace, and Eugene, who went in and out, was peculiarly soft (of course, if Eugene heard these words, he would have a gruesome glance).

He was also very suspicious of the atmosphere.

Of course, Rowengreen’s doubts wasn’t just because of today’s work.

“If you say that?”

Surprisingly, Eugene seemed to have no intention to hide.

Even though the cautious question was colorless, the back note of a harsh tone came back.

Upon hearing that, Rowengreen was amazed and opened his mouth.

“Oh my God. No, of course, your attitude toward the lady is unusual in the first place, even if I look at it, I was still surprised…”

It was different from just being suspicious by Rowengreen himself and having the suspicion confirmed by the duke.

However, with Rowengreen talking alone, Eugene opened the door of the carriage as soon as he reached his destination, leaving Rowengreen alone.

“I don’t have time. I’ll listen to you later, so please follow me now.”

“No, is there anything urgent anyway?”

“Hari is waiting.”

Once again, the duke left Rowengreen behind, and Eugene moved ahead toward the palace.

Actually, when he said it was an inspection report, there was nothing very important, so the story is not so urgent.

Then the meeting finally finished.

“Duke Ernst!”

On the way from the Emperor, Eugene met Dice.

He shouted as he saw Eugene and rush to him well, discussing ‘what to do with Rosabella’s anger when he rush to hurry to announce their engagement’ and how to fix it.

Perhaps because Eugene was the ex-fiance of Rosabella, so he seems to think Eugene knows how to solve her anger.

But Eugene is not a person who would have known such a thing.

He couldn’t have known.

Apparently, the reason Dice called Hari to the palace today seemed to be in order to discuss this little thing.

Although it was an engagement made without personal feelings, Dice still asked Eugene, her former fiancée, that Eugene couldn’t find out if he trying to find out if Eugene is cheating on him or just trusting him.

Perhaps because it was Eugene that Dice relied on him to check each other’s minds and as he help them to become one in the present relationship.

Either way, it was just like a poem for him.

Eugene suddenly left the palace without saying anything to Dice.

What he was interested in was the process until the engagement of the two people, so it wasn’t matter what happened after that.

Dice expressed his resentment as if he felt like Eugene was dumping him, but Dice wasn’t a kid one or two years old, as Dice should to take care of his own affair with his fiancée alone.

Then Eugene headed back to Ernst.

This time, he left the annoying burden named Rowengreen.

His eyes swallowed by the darkness sat low.

During the past four days, Eugene wasn’t just as comfortable.

Of course, he did not regret that night’s work. A smile, like a broken piece of glass, glanced across Eugene’s face, recalling the past.

Okay. He’s sorry, he didn’t regret it.

He had never been so full of satisfaction as he was now.

For the first time, he want to do what he want, and while he covet, he felt that the empty space in his chest, which was not filled, was being fulled at a rapid pace.

He still thought he was a little impatient, but it wasn’t enough anymore, and if he endured more than this, it was clear that he was probably choking.

After a while, Eugene stepped into Ernst’s mansion.

“What are you thinking?”

When he finally came face to face with her again, Hari asked with a voice screamed at him.

She probably sat in a dark room with no lights on, as was the case when Eugene left.

Still, the room was not completely dark due to the light leaking from the window.

Eugene stood at the door and looked at Hari’s face dyed with a soft light, then moved his steps and approached her.

Then he slowly opened his mouth and answered her previous question.

“I thought it would be nice if you were full of me.”

Of course, it didn’t seem to be the answer that Hari wanted, but a new suprised for her. It seemed as clear as the one that gave her the answer.

“Brother… Weren’t you drunk that day?”

For a while, a voice that had been suppressed leaked out of her mouth, which had been silent for a while.

“Unfortunately, I don’t remember drinking too much.”

So Hari thought he did it that night because he was drunk.