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

Chapter 19

The thing she was looking for was obviously not in her pocket. She violently turned the pocket, but there was nothing.

“Where did it go?”

Did Maris take it while I was washing? If Maris took it, then she would go straight to Madam Quillian. If that’s the case…. Alice felt her blood go cold as she imagined that.

“No, no, let’s think calmly. She couldn’t have come inside my room so suddenly.”

Maris was the type of person who wouldn’t knock on her door unless necessary. She wouldn’t have suddenly barged into her room today. She also saw her earlier today with Hans, walking with him arm in arm and giggling.

Hans was the man Maris was working on, so Alice is probably not in her mind tonight. So, it shouldn’t be Maris. So where did I drop it…?

It was definitely with her in the carriage, even when she got off. Then she met Madam Quillian in the lobby… then she went to see Kaillus. If it fell out in the hall, someone would have seen it with the number of people there. But no one said anything…. The only place left is Kaillus’ bedroom.

“Ah, uhm….”

Being at a loss, Alice glanced at the clock and narrowed her brows. It was already past midnight. But she was worried about looking for it tomorrow. If a servant who cleans Kaillus’ bedroom finds it and tells Madam Quillian… she will undoubtedly be questioned.

“… Let’s go now.”

Alice was troubled for a short time.

She cautiously went out of her bedroom with a thin shawl over her pajamas. She walked up the stairs silently like a cat, checking the deserted hallway, and headed to the Duke’s bedroom. She had already expected that no one was there. Kaillus’ bedroom was almost deserted except for the present butler. And now’s the butler’s time to return to his place.

Click! The sound of the door echoed in the hallway as Alice opened it.

“Haa, good grief. There’s nobody here too.”

She still wondered if she was that unlucky to have the butler turned back, but there was no one in the bedroom – except for Kaillus lying in bed.

Patting her chest in relief, Alice looked around the candlelit room.

“Where is it….”

Alice looked around the floor with her hawk eyes. Then, a white piece of paper caught her eyes.

“Found it!”

The application form for the priest fell on the floor and was under the bed. So you were here. She shook off the dust on the paper; her shoulders flinched when she heard a weak voice.