Chapter 118 (1/2)

Chapter 118: Chapter 118

My eyes welled with tears at her touching voice. She turned me back and gave me a small box hesitantly. She looked at me blankly, urging me to receive it quickly.

It was a light green box with a green ribbon. There was a colored hair tie in the box.

“This…. ”

“I was wondering if there was anything I could give you as you set out on a long journey. As you tie your hair all the time, I thought you might need it. ”

Touched by her warm consideration, I reached out to her in spite of myself. The moment I tried to pull her small, soft body to me and hug her, I stopped. My reason ordered me not to get close to her, warning me that she and I would have a hard time if I did.

I withdrew my hands in a hurry. I took my eyes off her as she looked away with an awkward expression and looked back at the hair tie. I had a lump in my throat when I saw my initials embroidered at the edge of the tie.

‘I tried to kill you with this, but you gave me this out of so many other things, and that with my name embroidered beautifully.’

Suddenly, I wanted to tell her everything honestly, such as the darkness and madness that boiled inside me, my crooked affection for her, the past days when I tried to ruin her life and my murderous intent, for she had the right to know. I was afraid that she might look at me critically, but I thought I should tell the truth even now, because she wouldn’t know if I didn’t tell her now.

“Tia.”

“Huh?” Tia was still looking at me with trust.

I hesitated for a while, but I didn’t have the nerve to confide in her.

‘I don’t want to be hated by you. I don’t want to betray your pure trust in me. Even if I am remembered as a crazy person and a bad guy to others, I want to be remembered as a warm and friendly man in your memory.

‘Forgive me, Tia. Forgive me for deceiving you to the end out of my selfishness, my lady. ‘

When I refused to reply when she repeatedly asked me if I would come back, she turned helplessly, and I felt heartbroken.

“Hey, Allendis, what’s going on?” said Carsein.

“Why are you here?”

“I heard you’re going as a member of the delegation to the Lua kingdom. You also resigned, right? ”

“Yes.”

“Were you dumped?”

The day the delegation departed, I was busy packing my stuff when Carsein stormed my office and cut to the chase.

‘Man, he has smelled a rat already?’ I turned with a frown.

“Dang it. I hated you from the beginning because you caught on quick from the beginning.”

“Tut, tut. Hey, Allendis, how can you be so stupid when they call you the genius of the century? How can you propose to her at this time? Nothing comes out if you do it this time.”

Clicking his tongue, he tapped my shoulders gently as if he comforted me.

I was agonized over whether I should thank him for his empty words, but at the moment, he was smiling sarcastically. Obviously, he would be happy without me as he also knew I was interested in Tia.

‘Damn it. You are so happy because one of your rivals is out, right?’

“Hey, Carsein?”

“Why?”

“You don’t have to be happy. You will grow nervous as time goes on. If you stand looking at her like that, you will be sticking around her all your life.”

“Well, I am not like you, stupid man. I’m more like an intuitive hunter. ”

I giggled when he confidently spoke.

‘I was going to visit you once, so it’s good you came to see me, Carsein.’

I threw something at him, which I had prepared in advance. Stunned by a long sword thrown at him, Carsein barely caught it and said angrily, “What the heck are you doing, Allendis? Are you asking for a duel?”

“No, take it.”