Chapter 7 (2/2)

“For now, we’d better get out.”

The Monster Lord hurriedly took the lead with his lamp.

After locking the door back, I walked in the dark and returned to the study room.

The air had become a little chilly. He put some firewood in the furnace and then looked at Leticia.

“Why haven’t you had a new one? Isn’t there a mansion in the capital besides the countryside? Then, is the aristocratic family framed up?”

“That’s right.”

“So your parents tend to be mean to their children?”

“It’s not that.”

Leticia replied.

It didn’t add up to what he heard. I wonder how strange it sounds to the Monster Lord.

Although he is fifteen, he has a sense of lordly hypocrisy.

‘I don’t understand, so you have to make me understand.’

He used such an attitude unconsciously and naturally.

Leticia knew she couldn’t fool him anymore.

“To be honest, I’m a foster daughter.”

She gave up and told him everything honestly.

“Count Grey now is my uncle, not my father. My uncle and aunt didn’t want to send my two cousins north. So he made me his foster daughter and sent me here instead.”

“How could it be?”

He was startled.

“Your parents allowed that?”

“My parents aren’t here. They passed away 10 years ago. Right here in the north. They visited this area for business and they accidentally came into the devil’s land.”

“What? That’s even worse. Then you wouldn’t want to be here anymore, would you?”

“That’s right.”

“But why did you obey your uncle? I don’t think he was ever nice to you. You didn’t take the child support money, did you?”

“I did, but my uncle thinks he has to pay back a huge sum of money to my family. My family invested all my family’s wealth in the mine, which was inherited from my grandfather. But when he died, he lost the certificate of ownership.”

“That’s nonsense! Did you let your uncle make such an absurd claim? Aren’t there any relatives who’d help you? Did no one help you until you ended up being sent here in the north?”

“There’s no one on my side.”

“Then you should have run away!”

“I tried too, but—.”

Leticia hesitated.

‘I ruined it because I didn’t want to marry you.’

It’s the relay of the story that is the problem. The threat of my uncle and aunt is also a problem. Even in her young heart, she was ashamed of her family.

But I couldn’t leave that part out.

This Monster Lord was quite sharp. His ability to discern reason is as good as most adults. She couldn’t deny it.

“It’s embarrassing, but my uncle and aunt threatened me. If I don’t do my part properly, I’m going to lay a hatchet on the graveyard where my deceased parents rest.”

“……”

He remained silent for a long time.

Leticia just stood still.

It was rather pleasant to talk about all the embarrassing stories.

Her tears were cool a while ago. Now she thought she could accept any fate that might come.

“It was really bad of me to deceive you with my identity. You have no choice but to be sent back to my uncle’s house, right?”

“I was going to.”

He said.

“As I told you before, by the time the count’s daughter arrives, I was going to take the form and send her home after a fake marriage and divorce. But I changed my mind.”

His voice was filled with anger that he couldn’t contain it.

“Your uncle and aunt don’t deserve to raise you. They’re not human beings. They are demons in human form. We, Halstead, don’t hand over any humans to the devils. It’s been like that for a hundred years now.”

He declared proudly.

“You asked me for protection. So you can stay in my castle as much as you want. I guarantee it under the name of the Lord. Now that I’ve said this, no one would dare defy me. Not Even your uncle and aunt, they can’t touch you in front of me.”

There was no difficult word or formal expression in his declaration. But there was dignity and grace in his words.

There was also confidence and arrogance. She couldn’t believe that a 15-years-old boy would be able to say that. Anyone won’t have a choice but to obey.

Leticia was able to breathe out in relief.

Ever since I heard threats from my uncle and aunt, I have always felt pressure in the corner of my mind. It was like there was a terrible nightmare that gnawed and tormented like a snake in the back of my mind.

But it was driven out far, far away, without a trace.

‘Now I’m alive.’

I was shaking and suddenly I felt like I was given a big and warm blanket.

Leticia pondered out of relief for several times.

But that wasn’t the end yet.

“Come here.”

He called Leticia to his desk.

She approached him without a thought and found a very cute book on top of books.

It was a picture book full of rabbits living in the rabbit village. made her neck stuck out.

He was glad to see Leticia likes books.

“Wow, that’s really cute! Whose book is it?”

She shouted casually and then hesitated.

That’s the sight she saw as soon as she entered the study room, which was neglected in her head like a lantern.

The Monster Lord was reading a book. Then when Leticia came in, he put the book down on his desk.

So that was the book…?

It is too late to deny it.

There was already an awkward atmosphere between the two.

The Monster Lord spoke solemnly.

“It’s a research book.”

“Ah, yeah…”

I see.