Chapter 32 (1/2)

A little girl as small as a rabbit strangely looked too big.

“I think it’s because Baroness Terran loves her family more than anyone else and is affectionate. Right?”

“Okay, enough. Stop asking useless questions.”

Baroness Terran avoided Elisabeth’s eyes first. It felt strange. She felt like she was being caught by this child.

“I like my family, too. As much that I want to sacrifice.”

As soon as Baroness Terran was in a hurry to get up, she stiffened at the words of Elisabeth.

She slowly turned her head and looked at Elisabeth like a rusty spring doll.

Elisabeth was speaking with a small smile.

“I’ve never seen anyone so warm to me since I was born. Neither my biological father nor my sister did this to me.”

“Everything the men in this family are doing is all acting. To use you!”

“Still, it doesn’t matter. In the past, there was no one who treated me kindly even with such acting. But it’s different here. Even Baroness Terran compliments me on my assignment.”

“…..”

“It was my first time. For something like that.”

There was joy in Elisabeth’s eyes. Baroness Terran could not believe that the child could even laugh at this moment.

“If I can stay with my family like now, anything else will be fine. I’m happy now.”

“It, it’s because you’re young. That’s why you can’t tell the difference. You should stay away from this family!”

“If I die eventually, I want to live happily then die. “

I meant it.

After all, it was my fate to die.  Whether I die of illness, executed, or sacrificed for the revenge of the Leschine family.

If so, I wanted to live happily for the rest of my life.

Not just ‘safe’ but ‘happily’ with them.

‘Like Baroness Terran said, it’s possible that I could not discern.’

Elisabeth was an ‘impure blood’. She could not give blood and sacrifice for them. But in her heart, Elisabeth thought she could do it if she had to sacrifice herself.

Elisabeth thought she had become a little bit strange. She liked these people so much that it felt strange because she was so happy to be loved.

“Go back. Today’s class ends here.”

Baroness Terran turned her head. Her voice trembled slightly.

Elisabeth turned and stared at the back of Baroness Terran.

‘I wanted to tell her more.‘

But now was the time when it shouldn’t be.

“I’ll be back in class tomorrow.”

Elisabeth greeted Baroness Terran’s back and left the drawing room.

“Gasp!”

It was the moment when she opened the door. Immediately, Dylan and her eyes met.

“Since when have you been standing there?”

Without an answer, Dylan pulled Elisabeth out of the room and closed the door. He glared angrily at the closed door.

“What did my Aunt say?”

“She just told me a funny story.”

“I could hear you from outside.”

Elisabeth smiled with embarrassment. Dylan stared at the girl with an angry face and sighed.

“If you say that one more time that you sacrifice for our family, I’ll chase you out again.”

Then he said firmly.

“Don’t say that again and don’t even mind it.”

Elisabeth stared into the boy’s face until she was determined.

“Then Dylan should promise he won’t sacrifice himself.”

“Huh?”

Dylan asked back at the unexpected answer. Elisabeth held out her pinky finger.

“Promise me.”

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“You’re not going to make a promise?”

Elisabeth looked up at Dylan quite fiercely. Dylan was in anguish with an expression saying…

‘Do I have to do this at this age?’

…. Then ended up hooking her little finger awkwardly.

“Hey, I promised, so keep it.”

“I got it. Does Dylan keep his promise too?”

“I hate being in pain.”

Elisabeth looked at Dylan, who blushed with shame, with a smile.

‘Lies.’

Dylan was not as enthusiastic in revenge as Victoire or Damon was, but he loved his family. Elisabeth could feel it. As Baroness Terran said, he wouldn’t hesitate to step up for his family.

‘If it weren’t for the Cabezo family, these people wouldn’t have been hurt.’

I naturally remembered my biological father’s face. However, I no longer felt sadness or distress like before. I just hated it. I hated them for making their fate like this.

‘Dylan, whatever fate awaits you, I wish you all well as long as we can live. A little happier.’

Elisabeth took Dylan by the hand. Dylan looked at Elisabeth in surprise.

“Let’s go play!”

“Where are you going to play in the rain?”

Elisabeth smiled silently and walked forward with her hand.

The rain grew stronger in the evening.

‘I have got to go back to the North.’

Baroness Terran stood by the cold window and looked outside.

‘I can’t be with that child anymore.’

Elisabeth was a really unexpected child.

No matter how harsh she tried to be, she laughed lightly, saying that she was grateful to her for being nice. She said she liked it here even though the Baroness told her a secret for her to cry and fall as she was a child.

But she didn’t blame Baroness Terran for telling her the scary truth.

‘That child is the blood of the Cabezos. It can never be connected to my family.’

But her mind kept moving. Every time she pushed Elisabeth away to shake off her affection, she was strangely fond of her.

Polia, whom Baroness Terran met outside, was the Cabezo that she thought of itself. So she thought that Elisabeth would be the same.