Chapter 76 (1/2)

Chapter 76

Meanwhile, over here

Other people’s thoughts had becoh it was in a different sense compared to Cassion’s contemplation

It was Duke Valentine and Damian

The moment Rosetta shed tears, the for with Duke and duchess Carter grinded to a halt

Quietly observing, their eyes followed after Rosetta’s retreating figure as she left

Beneath those wordless gazes, the silence that couldn’t be hidden sank further

BothRosetta cry for the first time

From the time she entered the household until this very moment, she never cried in front of Da while she was behind them

But it was the first time they saw Rosetta shed any tears At least, as far as they could recall

‘Rosetta’s crying?’

As though they were two people who had witnessed soinable, they both froze in their places, at a loss for words

Then, Da in front of her

The shock of Rosetta’s tears weighed heavily on his chest, but he soon reht now

This was Cassion Carter’s funeral

It was an occasion in memory of the departed Cassion Carter, the elder son as also known as the ‘Useless Carter’

It was a matter within the household, so he didn’t know the details However

From what he knew of Duke Carter’s nature, he could only suriven Cassion wouldn’t be too far froraceful nickname

Dah society events

This enough meant that House Carter actively let their children participate in these social functions

However, Damian couldn’t even remember the last time he saw Cassion, as older than Leo

His hair was black, and his eyes ht about Cassion’s appearance, all he could remember about him were these characteristics

Two sons had been born under this roof, both with the right to succeed the family One son showed his face freely, but as the other son hiding so thoroughly?

There was not one noblerasp what this ht Today was the funeral of that Cassion Carter

The funeral of soarded as the ‘Useless Carter’ both internally and externally

It was in such a place that he first saw Rosetta’s tears

Naturally, it was inevitable that Damian would think, ‘Perhaps’

‘Perhaps, do you think you’re sy because you think you’re in the same position as him?’

He didn’t want to admit it, but it’s obvious that Cassion and Rosetta had very similar situations

There was an obvious atte between Alicia and Rosetta when it cahters of the duchy, as well as when it cas that they were allowed However, the unbiased treatment stopped there

Hadn’t Rosetta already acknowledged his attitude towards him?

Hadn’t Rosetta already pointed out how both he and their father were uncomfortable around her? How they still were?

When she had asked hiht back then, what she said that tih to cement this fact

‘To be honest, I was lonely so Brother and Father are uncomfortable with me’

Where, then

It see in common at all

The Carter son who had been ostracized for not having any powers And, the illegitih the sins of one maid

Rosetta was a quick-witted child, so she wouldn’t have been unaware of this

Even so, doubts and thoughts that started with ‘perhaps’ hardened into conviction as time passed by

Rosetta’s tears were not shed only to mourn another person’s death, but they were shed to mourn the death of someone similar to herself

She pretended to be fine However, she must have been absolutely torn

She couldn’t bear to cry for herself, and yet, she syhis throat tighten, Daulped

But beside Damian, the duke’s expression was blank

There, a sense of guilt Of repentance

None of that could be seen in the expression he had right now Just, his pale face host

‘She resembles her’

Rosetta’s side profile

The distance between them

Her back as she had turned away

She resembled the woman he had missed so very much

It’s been more than ten years, but it was that woman The only duchess of Valentine—his beloved wife

At that e of Lilian

However, no, that can’t be… That’s ihter of that atrocious woh they were sisters, and yet that woave birth to a child out of greed

And the result of that avaricious desire was Rosetta

Lilian’s final words made it possible for that child to be entered into the household and thus treated as an esteehter of the duchy But that was all

The duke never once considered Rosetta his daughter

Even here, he still does not consider her his daughter

Right, that’s what he certainly felt, however…

Just as Lilian’s apparition overlapping with that child’s crying figure?

“Rosetta”

Unconsciously, his stiff lips opened and called her

Hearing the duke call her nah she herself was a rusty htly surprised by hiaze, one blank gaze They met in the air

“…Father?”

Rosetta was the first to speak because the person who had called her wasn’t saying anything

Only then did the awareness enter the duke’s blank gaze once htly for a moment, but he eventually spoke with a stern expression

“If you’re not feeling well, you can go back first”

It was a constrained voice

With a tone like that, you wouldn’t be able to guess that it was a father speaking towards his daughter

Even so, the words itself expressed concern Rosetta was perplexed by this