Chapter 57 (1/2)
Chapter 57
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Aubrey was the youngest daughter of Count and Countess Jordyn. She was a 15-year-old girl who was still a child when she last met Cedric.
And he had more vivid memories when she was 7 and 8 years old.
“Aubrey? You?”
Cedric was startled.
“You’ve grown a lot.”
“Yes, Your Grace. I’m an adult now. I’m 18 years old.”
Aubrey looked up as she clung onto Cedric.
Cedric gently shook his arms and pushed Aubrey off. When he was young, he loved her like a younger sister and she was cute, but this was the age that he shouldn’t indulge such behavior.
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Aubrey was shocked. It was the first time he didn’t hug her when she clung onto Cedric.
Margaret quickly grabbed Aubrey’s arm and dragged her to the side. And she lowered her head.
“I’m sorry. Your Grace. I didn’t raise my daughter very well.”
“No. It’s been a long time so she was excited to see me. Aubrey’s already grown like this, I can’t believe how long I’ve been away.”
“Your Grace has changed a lot.”
Aaron stepped in and laughed to avoid making the mood awkward. Cedric laughed too.
“Three years ago, I was a kid.”
“Your Grace, even when you were only twenty, you were not an ordinary child.”
“Does that mean I look older?”
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Cedric stroked his cheek. And he looked back at Artizea with a sneaky glance.
Artizea tilted her head.
“Why?”
“Nothing.”
Cedric scratched his slightly red cheeks with his index finger. Then he reached out his hand to her with a soft face.
“First of all, go to the room. I’ll give you a guide to the castle after warming up and resting. I’ll think about it tomorrow whether to have a greeting or having a reception.”
“I heard It’s still Autumn.”
Artizea smiled.
“Not me, but you. You’ve been on the boat for over a month, that your lips have turned white.”
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“I’m not so tired.”
As Artizea said so, she put her hand on Cedric’s hand.
Then Cedric flipped his hand and grabbed Artizea’s hand.
Artizea flinched. Her embarrassed fingers flinched and scratched Cedric’s palm.
Cedric succeeded in maintaining his normal expression, but his earlobes reddened.
The people of the Grand Duchy who saw it silently glanced at each other. The words they wanted to say, but no one took it out of their mouth.
Alice, Sophie, and Rize smiled happily with satisfaction.
Artizea turned her gaze to the wrong place. Her hands were cold, and Cedric’s hands were hot.
Strangely, however, she had the illusion that even her own hands were hot.
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It was a lie that she got used to it. Rather, it was getting strange, so even touching his fingertips made her head white.
For no reason, she was breathless. She kept reliving the memory of his embrace that she felt through her thin pajamas.
It was not known when the memory would disappear from her skin.
“Let’s go in.”
Cedric whispered into Artizea’s ear with a lower voice than usual.
Artizea lowered her head. Cedric pulled her hand and she folded her arms.
However, he did not let go of her hand.
Aaron took the lead in a hurry.
“I’ve cleaned up the Grand Duchess’ room. I did it on my own, but there is a limit to what I can do here. I was worried about it being unsophisticated, so I did not decorate it. How about doing it yourself?”
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“Okay.”
Artizea pretended to be calm on the outside, trying to press down her clamoring heart.
She then suddenly felt a gaze and looked back.
Aubrey was staring at Artizea without even thinking of hiding her roaring expression of hatred.
‘This.’
Artizea got embarrassed.
This is difficult to handle.
She couldn’t pretend she didn’t know, though. If Aubrey was trying to hide her emotions, then she would have never known. However, she carried an expression that blatantly exposed her hatred. Leaving such a defiant distracts the family.
Cedric shook her hand lightly to make her focus on him.
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Cedric smiled as she looked back at his gaze.
***
Artizea’s bedroom was next to Cedric’s bedroom. It was said to be a space used as a bedroom for the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess from generation to generation.
There was a door between the two rooms, so it was possible to go back and forth without going through the corridor.
“You can lock both sides. The keys on both sides are different, so if you lock on one side, you cannot open on the other side.”
At Aaron’s explanation, Artizea laughed.
“Is it for a couple’s fight? So, to spread the distance and arrange a room….. Oh, was the door for in case of an emergency.”
“The retreat is on the side of my room. I’ll show you how to open it later.”
Cedric said so.
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“Isn’t it a secret passage?”
“It’s no secret how to go from inside to outside. It’s prepared for emergencies. Since there’s no one to communicate with Karam, anyone knows the passages.”