Chapter 32 (2/2)
But this child was different.
‘This child…’
She might give her heart away if they were to be together any longer. She must return to the North before that.
“Cough, cough.”
Baroness Terran suddenly coughed.
“Madam, you’ve been by the cold window for too long.”
The maid hurried after her and said.
“Get me a cup of warm tea.”
“Yes, Madam.”
“And let’s get ready to go back to the North tomorrow.”
“Already? You’ve only been with the Count for a while. Everyone will be sad if you leave already.”
“The blunt men in this family…”
Elisabeth’s face floated to mind in the head of Baroness Terran, who was laughing.
“I don’t know if that child will be sad.”
She could not shake off the thought of Elisabeth.
The next day, Baroness Terran could not return to the North.
“I won’t have a class today?”
“Yes, Miss. The Baroness has a bad cold.”
Elisabeth looked disappointed inside the drawing room.
As for the maid, she was amazed by Elisabeth who had such an incident with the Baroness yesterday, and was the same as usual and even worried about the Baroness.
‘Simple like a child, on the other hand, she’s very mature. I understand Madam’s concern.’
Elisabeth, who did not know what the maid was thinking, raised her innocent face and looked at the maid.
“May I see her face and ask if she’s okay?”
“I’ll give her your regards. The miss is too young so you’ll catch the cold. “
‘How much does it hurt to not be able to attend classes or see my face?’
Baroness Terran looked like a person of iron who would stand firm against any disease.
She was also a human being. Even a small cold had knocked her down.
‘Are you stressed because of the conversation you had with me yesterday?’
She had all sorts of thoughts. Elisabeth took a heavy step.
Baroness Terran was a strict teacher, but she felt empty today thinking she couldn’t see her today.
‘I’m so bored even when I don’t hear the Baroness’ angry scolding. It doesn’t feel empty if you look at it like you don’t like it.’
Marian then asked Elisabeth, who was playing a boring puzzle.
“Usually, young ladies and young masters like it when they don’t have classes. Why are you disappointed?”
“I know. It’s weird for me too. “
“Pardon?”
When Elisabeth answered, Marian laughed and asked. Elisabeth smiled embarrassingly.
“I feel like I have to memorize a heavy book right now, and I think I need to solve a difficult problem by groaning, but I can’t do it, so I’m bored.”
“You’ll be more bored because it’s already cloudy outside and you can’t go out and play. You have no one to hang out with, because young master Dylan is at Marquis Dalton’s.”
Victoire and Damon went to work early in the morning, and Dylan went to take lessons with Marquis Dalton.
The only person in the family who was in the house was Baroness Terran.
‘If it’s a legally connected family, then I’m the only one.’
It was a pity that she was not with Baroness Terran when they were alone.
‘If she knew I was thinking this, she’d go crazy again, right?’
How dare you pretend to be a family with me? She will be angry. When she thought of it, she wasn’t strangely scared, but only laughed.
‘She’ll be so angry and then she’ll be sorry unknowingly.’
(*t/n: lmao she got the baroness in her hands)
Although she had not known Baroness Terran for a long time, Elisabeth realized this while taking lessons from her. Baroness Terran was not a bad person. Baroness Terran always looked angry, but she was actually a pure and good-hearted person.
She had human compassion without concealing her anger.
So Elisabeth liked Baroness Terran.
“It’s frustrating to stay in my room all the time. I’ll take a walk in the mansion.”
“Shall I go with you, miss?”
“No. I’m good enough alone. Don’t worry, Marian, I won’t go outside the mansion.”
Elisabeth left the room on the pretext of boredom.
The tranquil mansion was filled with the noise of the rain.
Elisabeth quietly approached the room where Baroness Terran resided. The sound of the door opening melted into the sound of rain and could not be heard.
“…..”
The maid, who had been nursing Baroness Terran since dawn, was dozing off on a chair. Her face was full of fatigue.
Elisabeth crept up on Baroness Terran. There was a dry towel on the forehead of Baroness Terran on the bed. There was a bowl of water on the tray next to the bed.
“Ughh…”
Baroness Terran was very sick and moaned in her sleep.
“How sad.”
Elisabeth wet the dry towel and squeezed it tightly and put it on the forehead of Baroness Terran.
The groans of Baroness Terran reduced.
Elisabeth held her chin on the bed and looked at the sleeping Baroness Teran.
“Father, Mother…”
Baroness Terran talked in her sleep.
Then she made a face.
‘Does Baroness Terran suffer from nightmares like Victoire?’
The demise of the Leschine family was a terrible incident that Baroness Terran suffered as a child. Elisabeth could not forget the abuse she suffered in the Cabezo duchy, so it was natural that the brother and sister could not get out of the nightmare.
‘We are maybe alike.’
Elisabeth felt strange. At the same time, a sad feeling filled her heart.
Elisabeth held the hand of the fevered Baroness Terran.
“Mother…”
Baroness Terran smiled.