Chapter 14 (1/2)

“…what?”

At Lennox’s words, I raised my head in amazement. Lennox was a little surprised to see my eyes facing him, but soon he continued with his words.

“Actually, there was a room that I didn’t show you before. I don’t know if you can remember it.”

The words naturally reminded me of a door that we passed by. There was another door next to my mother’s office.

“Re, I remember.”

“That’s going to be your room in the future.”

“…..”

I was really surprised this time. I was so surprised that my hiccups burst out again. Lennox, embarrassed by my reaction, hurried to hand me warm water.

“I, I thought I didn’t have one.”

As I held my breath and barely managed to stop hiccups and stammered, Lennox smiled, saying that it would never happen.

Because that smile was so sweet, unfamiliar, and I felt happy, so, like a fool, I thought, even if that smile was a lie, I am happy at this moment.

After a simple evening meal together, I decided to get my hair trimmed as Lennox suggested.

“Your hair will be shorter, but it’ll be much cleaner.”

“Lennox is good at trimming, right?”

“So, you mean you will believe me?”

Lennox smiled at my words and picked up scissors. I agreed to the word that he would clean up my messy and irregular hair, but I was nervous about what it would be like.

“Woah.”

In spite of my nervousness, Lennox really deftly moved his hands to arrange my hair.

“It’s over. How is it? It didn’t take that long, right?”

Looking at the mirror Lennox prepared for me, I saw a curly white hair just below my ear.

“It’s really short.”

“Do you like short hair? It seemed like you cut it yourself.”

“I cut it roughly, since no one cut my hair.”

When I finished my words, he stopped doing what he was doing and looked at me. His gaze reached towards me, but I continued to talk because I didn’t care about it.

“I cut it myself because I didn’t want to hear people swearing at my hair color when they cut my hair. Anyway, everyone hates me.”

I was going to continue talking, but I couldn’t keep talking because Lennox suddenly hugged me tightly.

It was because I could see his eyes turning red like he was holding back his tears.

I don’t know why he was sad.

“…You must have been scared.”

“I thought it was just a little bit worse than usual…”

Was it scary?

I slowly recalled the time I tried not to think about it.

Did they say I was poisonous? Did they say they didn’t want to see me? Did they say I was mean?

As I listened to words, full of malice in so many different ways, all words mixed up so I couldn’t remember it in detail.

Therefore, my voice was calm.

“But, well, it was worth holding on.”

And at the words, Lennox burst into tears.

“Heug.”

Tears streamed from Lennox’s eyes. The tears that burst did not stop, as if he were the one feeling it, and soon, I felt his tears seeping into my shoulders. Rather than sighing at the damp clothes, I thought that the priority was to comfort Lennox, who did not know why he was crying.

“Don’t cry.”

Pat Pat

It seemed a little strange to pat a man who was taller than me, and as if Lennox felt it too, he cried even more sadly.

“Heug-heug.”

“….”

Are you really crying because of me?

The movement of the patting hand slowed down.

A child he met for not even a month, also, a child who could threaten his position, and above all, when he found out that she was the daughter of a wicked woman whom everyone despised…

Lennox was very friendly.

And I was very unfamiliar with his kindness.

To the extent, that I wanted to reject it.

“Lennox.”

“…yes, Daphne.”

“Why are you crying?”

“…..”

Lennox breathed in for a moment, wiped away his tears in a hurry, and smiled graciously with his red eyes.

“I think there’s dust in my eyes.”

“I don’t think so.”

“I guess it’s gone now.”

Look at this. How sweet he is, in turning words around like this. So, I decided to bring up something that I must say here.

Unlike the smile before, he smiled as if he didn’t want to worry me. And then, a cold voice came out.

“You don’t have to be so sweet to me. We’re tied up in a contractual relationship anyway, and I’m…”

I took a breath and put a word in my mouth that I did not want to say to the friendly Lennox.

“I’m a greedy child. I don’t want to lose what I once gained. That’s why, don’t be nice to me.”

There was no word between us after that. When I said I wanted to take a rest, Lennox carefully brought me to the room, just like before.

“Call me if you need me. Take a good rest, and I’ll be back at dinner time.”

After saying that, Lennox left the room.

Sitting on the bed, I stared blankly at the clean room. The room that I thought was good, when I was suddenly left alone, I immediately felt bad.

He looked tenderhearted, but he wasn’t hurt, was he?