Chapter 15 (1/2)
Translator: Wawaa
Editor: WilsonWilson
“Divorce me. That’s the most husbandlike thing you can do now.”
The air in the study turned sharp like broken glass. The secretary spoke to Lara—who tried to get inside and protect her mother—in a calm voice.
“It is all right.”
“Pardon?”
“Milady, just go back to your room and pack your things.”
He gently stretched out one arm and pushed Lara on the shoulder. He was telling Lara to go back downstairs.
Lara looked at her mother’s secretary full of doubt.
“Trust Lady Isadora.”
His words were very strange. His tone seemed blunt like her mother, but he sounded friendly. He was a stranger whom she felt awkward around but was reassured with him.
“Mother…”
“Just get your important things. Then, I will go downstairs with Lady Isadora soon.”
Oh, I see.
Lara realized why he can be so calm and relaxed. He had faith in her mother, he believed and followed her, he respected and was loyal to her. He thinks that Isadora can stand up to the Marquess of Bailey. On the contrary, he looked at Lara as if she were a child. Although she was already an adult, he was still being careful with her, as if she was an adolescent girl.
Lara could no longer listen to the conversation in the study. She did not know whether it was because her father lowered his voice or because the two were not saying anything.
She trusts her mother.
Her father could never be a match for her mother. That was a fact that even Lara knew.
“Milady, let’s go.”
Lara was pushed back by Konny and returned to her room. While Konny was packing her things, Lara sat on the sofa and ate the warm soup.
She felt weird.
It felt like she was floating in the air.
On the first day she went back to the past, Lara remembered what she had unknowingly brought up in her mother’s carriage.
“Get a divorce from father.”
Her mother made no response whatsoever. She did not say whether she would get a divorce or not. She just stared at Lara as if she was trying to find out the real intention from Lara’s words. Lara wondered why her mother would not get a divorce in her past life, but now, she wondered why her mother suddenly wanted to get a divorce.
The answer was simple.
Because Lara told her to do so.
Something hot rose in her chest.
In her previous life, Lara’s mother did not divorce the Marquess of Bailey until the day Lara died. They hated and ignored each other, but they did not get a divorce. Lara realized that it was because of her.
“She was afraid I would be angry and resent her… That’s why she did not do it.”
“Pardon? Milady, did you say something to me?”
“Nothing.”
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Lara shook her head and got up.
There was still more than half of the soup left, but she stopped eating because she had lost her appetite. If she had a chance to meet the past herself, she wanted to slap her in the face until she came to her senses.
“I am so glad Her Ladyship came. I did not expect that she would come here as soon as I told her that milady wanted to leave this manor.”
“Konny, what exactly did you tell mother?”
“I told her that not only did The Marquess hit and starved you but that he also confined you.”
“You didn’t tell her about the reason father did that?”
“She already knew about that.”
Konny smiled with a bright face.
“She already knew that the slave’s name is Demian and that milady had bought him with 2 gold.”
Lara immediately closed her mouth.
The air in the carriage was hot.
Before she left, Lara did not know how hot it was because it was still in the morning. But once she had packed up and got on the carriage, the air outside became hot. Wearing the red dress that she wore on her first day after going back to the past, along with a hat with a brim, she sat across from her mother.
Meanwhile, Konny—looking nervous—got into the second carriage with Isadora’s secretary. Because Lara said how she wanted to take Konny, the brave maid followed her master and got to change her workplace.
In the gently wobbling carriage, Lara’s mother, Isadora burst into laughter.
“2 gold, huh?”
“Pardon?”
Isadora asked a question and Lara asked her back. She did not understand the meaning of the question her mother asked.
2 gold.
Lara, who was agonizing over what it had meant for a while, recalled Demian’s face and hurriedly opened her mouth again.
“Mother, about that…”
“It’s okay.”
Isadora did not listen to Lara’s excuse. In fact, she did not have any intention to scold her. She asked her daughter what she was most curious about when she heard the news.
“I heard he was such a shabby slave that no one bid on him, but you were the only one who showed interest in him. Moreover, just in a day, he showed up looking so charming that it was as if he was a different person entirely.”
Not only that, he even blew away his opponent with a single kick.
“How did you know about his value?”
Isadora was most curious about that.
The Lara whom she knew was someone who had never been to such a place and had no interest in such people. But one day, she had suddenly changed like a different person. She told Isadora to divorce her father, went to the arena, recognized a slave—whom no one knew of his value—and bought him dirt cheap with her pocket money. Moreover, she even got beaten up by her father while standing up to him. Isadora heard that she did not shed a tear at all.
She was the same now.
Lara found it difficult to deal with her mother, but she was not afraid of her. She was able to face her mother confidently, but gently at the same time. The reason for her late answer was not because she did not know how to answer it, but because she was carefully choosing what to say.
Lara had such a cold and firm gaze.
In Isadora’s view, it was the eyes of a successful person who rose through the ups and downs of life. It was also a way for the person with pain to cover up their wounds.
“Lara.”
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“Yes.”