Chapter 47

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“What nonsense…”

Lloyd’s hands were tense

His eyes darkened black and he rubbed his lips, but when Aria frowned, he let go of her.

The boy gritted his teeth and spoke as quietly as he could.

“There’s only one marriage in my life. You’re the first and last.”

Do you understand?

Aria paused for a moment at the question, and then slowly nodded her head.

Because he said it when he was still young.

‘When you grow up, you will change your mind’

He stared intently at the back of her hand, which was red with the handprint.

His brow wrinkled, but he looked like he was agonizing in a gaze that asked, ‘Does it hurt?’

“I have to let the world know you.”

“…..”

“You’re not a ghost, Ariadne. You exist here.”

Aria patted the back of her tingling hand, and hardened.

Ariadne.

Every time he called his name, her heart felt strangely pounding and rattling.

Is that okay?

Can he tell the world about her?

‘That…..’

Her heart raced faster when he said she wasn’t a ghost.

Not a siren, not a ghost, not Ariadne Cortez,

‘Ariadne Valentine.’

It meant accepting herself as his family, not her songs.

She was afraid. She was looking forward to it.

Contrasting emotions disturbed the regular rhythm of her heart.

‘No, I can’t.’

All the memories of her previous life flashed through Aria’s mind.

Naturally, Aria had no choice but to think about the past first.

Lloyd, who read her anxious gaze, added with a savage smile.

“I wanted to set an example for what would happen if someone dared to touch you.”

Aria looked at Lloyd’s wicked smile, and the him in the future overlapped for a moment.

With a lush rich voice, the devil who announced her revenge and plunged her into hell.

‘Ah.’

At that moment, Aria realized.

‘I like you.’

She seems to have liked him a long time ago.

Even back in time, she saw Lloyd alone and came to the Grand Duke’s residence without any countermeasures.

She wondered why she hadn’t noticed this before.

‘But I think I like you even more.’

A person who gives salvation every time for no reason.

A person who is consistent even when she takes off her mask.

A person who tells her that she can stay here even if she doesn’t prove her worth with a song.

A person who she wants to live again with even if there is another life.

‘I can’t believe I realized this now.’

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