My Run Away Mistress🌸

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"Chloe Everdeen, pick one."

One of them was an admission form to a mental hospital, and the other was a consent to divorce application. Looking at her face, as if she couldn't believe it, he calmly explained.

"If you don't want a divorce, sure, you don't have to. But if you insist, then I couldn't just leave my mad wife, who has had frequent affairs with hysterics and even tried to kill herself, stay around me, you know."

He spoke slowly, but it was a threat to commit her to a mental hospital for the rest of her life if she didn't divorce him.

Killian glanced at his watch with a face that hadn't even flinched, let alone change color, unlike the other woman whose lips quivered. To him, who operated on a minute-by-minute basis, trying to adjust his pace for such a "crazy thing" was equivalent to throwing his time in the trash.

"If it's too difficult for you to choose right away, let me know through your lawyer."

Killian stood up with a bored look on his face and turned around. Behind him flew the two papers he had held out. He was about to leave without a hitch, but one name he had forgotten pulled him back.

"Rowena Philone......."

"......."

"Were you this cruel to her too?"

It was a name that hadn't come to his mind for the past five years. It was a woman whom he had abandoned a long time ago. He had to ignore it and move forward, but he was unable to move for a while, as Killian's brow furrowed in discomfort.

"What kind of nonsense is this?"

"Don't even think about denying it. You've called that name in your sleep so often! You're hiding it from me, aren't you? Isn't that right?"

"It doesn't need admitting you to a hospital to know that you're out of your mind."

'Calling her name? Talking in my sleep?'

It was a rant no longer worth dealing with.

He turned the doorknob, but even before he could take a few steps out of the room, he was hit by an intense headache that almost made him fall.

"Duke!"

An attendant hurried over and grabbed his arm.

This started at that time; he suffered from dizziness and headaches that swarmed him quite often.

"This will come back to you one day."

The face of his ex-wife, who was muttering with a wicked expression on her face, was now blurred.

Rowena Philone.

He struggled to erase this name, which tangled him like a curse. Around that time, Genok suggested.

"Why don't you go see her?"

"Who."

"Miss Philone, If you saw her again, your headache would probably stop."

The headache came whenever he heard that name, and now it came back again after a long time.

He thought it was a reasonable thing, so he sent Genok first before returning to Ethelwood.

"After making numerous inquiries, I found a clue. She settled in a remote area that has several factories. A doctor named Philip was suspicious, so we followed him and somehow found the house of a woman who worked in a textile factory. I heard she had twins, and her husband was working abroad."

'Twins? Husband?'

It felt as if someone had stabbed him in the back. He...He was filled with a fury that he couldn't understand, and everything turned red in front of his eyes.

'She's married? That man, William Jenon, was killed already. Has she been living with another man ever since?'

She was his mistress, even if he had abandoned her a long time ago. He didn't want her to live in misery, so he gave her enough money to live on... But he didn't want her to be happy either. What a selfish woman.

"I need to see it for myself."

"Duke..?"

Anger raged at the woman who had stirred his mind and disturbed his heart. The memory of the woman who tossed the money and threw it away without hesitation was still haunting him, but apparently, she completely erased him from her mind.

He shook off the useless idea in his mind and knocked directly on the door himself. He clicked his tongue at the sight of the house that seemed as if it was about to collapse while he waited for the door to open.

But the woman who opened the door was a completely different woman.

"Who is it?"

"Duk-!"

As soon as the cold eyes knew it wasn't Rowena, the attendant spotted the knife in the woman's hand and pulled out a gun. The woman, startled by the bright blue muzzle, sank into a sitting position.

"Kyaaah!"

Her death was imminent. The woman with her hair wrapped around her trembled as if she were standing in front of the serpent's fangs. Behind her, they could hear the voices of children calling for their mother.

As the attendants asked what to do, Killian helped the woman to her feet.

"Gili-Gili, Mr. Gilitars...? Is it that you're trying to catch Rebecca because of her debt."

Harriet asked as she stuttered, unable to even look Killian in the face. Killian's eyes widened as he heard her voice tremble with fear.

The misunderstanding that had filled the woman's head was now apparent. Gilitars was Genok's last name. It was also the name he put forward because he could not be at the forefront of the world due to his title as a duke.

The name Rebecca was probably an alias for Rowena.

Killian, who had finished his quick assessment of the situation, raised his mouth thinly.

"In fact, I'd say it's the other way around."

"What?"

Harriet slowly raised her head at the incomprehensible words. When he took off his hat, her pupils shook violently for some reason.

"I'm going to make a good offer for you, Mrs. Dickinson."

After that, everything went smoothly. Everything was going according to plan. The Headaches that have been bothering him all the time have also subsided since he returned to Ethelwood and discovered the woman's whereabouts.

The only thing left to do was to set things right.

"Du...Duke!"

That was when the carriage stopped in front of the hotel; a man on his horse hurriedly knocked on the carriage door.

"What's going on?"

The attendant reported breathlessly in response to Genok's question.

"The woman who had sold the ring to the jewelry store... She's been found dead!"

Rowena was in danger.

It was one of two things. Either the queen could already smell it, or there were enemies on the inside... Gritting his teeth, Killian kicked the carriage door open and climbed onto his horse that his attendants had ridden on earlier.

'Rowena... Rowena,'

"Ha!"

Genok hurriedly followed after him.