I Thought You Were A Time-Limited Husband (Novel)

Chapter 14

As always, his unchanging and beautiful sleeping face greeted her.

“Good… afternoon.”

Alice muttered softly as she quietly looked at Kaillus’ face and greeted him.

“I shouldn’t get attached…. I guess I’ve grown attached.”

Seeing that the butler’s words made her a little sad, Alice swallowed her last words. It wasn’t that kind of impure feeling of being sad she couldn’t see his handsome body anymore; it was that moment that a line was drawn between the two of them, but she hesitated because she was feeling remorseful. But it was only right to draw a line between them – because she doesn’t have anything she could do for Kaillus. On top of that, she will soon leave the Duke’s house so it is better to draw at this point like this.

“Right… I am leaving this place.”

Alice kept talking even when she was feeling down, but it didn’t make her feel any better. I shouldn’t have given Kaillus affection in the first place. The problem was that you were so unrealistically handsome – I can’t help but have my attention caught by you.

She will leave Kaillus and let him die. She was trying to accept that fact, but she wasn’t confident that she wouldn’t mind if she heard that Kaillus died one day.

If a miracle can happen and Kaillus didn’t die after she left, just like the earlier appearance of Young Lady Meltain, wouldn’t Kaillus’ death be avoided? But then the flow of this world would change too much. That shouldn’t happen.

“… So I have to stop thinking.”

About you. Alice turned her head away from Kaillus’ s beautiful face with a troubled heart.

And she didn’t look back at Kaillus until she left the bedroom to clear her mind. So when Alice went out, Kaillus’ s low voice echoed throughout the bedroom.

“… You’re leaving this place?”

As he slowly sat up, he brushed over his ebony hair and looked at the door where Alice left with a strange look. He deliberately asked the butler for Alice to have more time alone with him so he can get to know her more deeply.

But he didn’t expect that she would say what was on her mind from the very first day. Did she marry with the intention to leave the Duke’s house from the very beginning? If that is the case, then it is understandable she didn’t listen to Madam Quillian’s orders.

“Leaving….”

Alice Podoori will leave the House of the Duke.

“That is….”

Kaillus couldn’t take his eyes off the place where Alice was standing with an unknown annoyance and frustration.

(T/N: Oh, I see: she falls first but he falls harder smiling evilly)

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When the sun began to set in the next afternoon.

They headed for the temple of Helios with the carriage given from the House of Duke Diorat.

Riding the carriage for the first time, Alice was quite excited. She imagined medieval carriages, but it was much better than that and the ride was the best. She couldn’t feel the shaking of the carriage at all.

Looking around in wonder, Alice met Young Lady Meltain’s gaze who was sitting opposite of her.

“You look to be in a good mood, Madam.”