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

Chapter 20

“Haa, ha….”

An enormous flash of light filled the room and disappeared after; Alice sighed and opened her eyes. What she saw first was Kallus’ face. His pale face regained its color, as well as his blue lips turned red. He was no longer groaning in pain.

“I knew it… it would work….”

Alice suddenly felt her body become heavy. She couldn’t stand at all as if a great amount of her power was sucked out of her system.

I have to go back to my room. She thought with her hazy consciousness, but it was her limit. Stumbling dangerously, Alice eventually lost consciousness and fell flat on the bed.

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As he was wandering in an endless pain, Kaillus saw a tremendous flash of light in the darkness where there was no end in sight. The blinding light enveloped him. And at that moment, the pain tormenting him disappeared like it was a lie. The warmth he felt for the first time in his life – Kaillus didn’t want to let go of this miraculous warmth. He even thought that he wanted to live with this warmth for the rest of his life.

Just then, he felt a heavy weight around his waist. With his keen instincts of being on the battlefield, Kaillus opened his eyes. He tried to take out the knife hidden under his pillow. It was until he saw the pink hair scattered over his blanket.

Kaillus slowly blinked his eyes at the woman who was lying over his body. The woman who was lying on his waist wearing thin silk pajamas as one of the noble wives, was something he had never seen an assassin wear before. Her fine pink hair laid across his blanket.

Kaillus slowly reached out to the woman. He then lifted her shoulder slightly to the side. The hair covered the woman’s cheeks. He carefully laid her body in a straight position and swept away the hair covering her face. Then the slightly pale face of the woman was revealed.

She wasn’t a very beautiful woman, but she was quite cute with her dense facial features. Who on earth are you? Kaillus narrowed his eyebrows as he thought of a person.

“… Alice Podoori.”

Kaillus’ eyes widened when he realized that the woman who fell on his body was her. He had only heard Alice’s voice but never seen her face in person. He only knew from the butler that she had pink hair and golden eyes.

“… So, this is what you look like.”

He once imagined what she looked like after he heard her voice. But strangely, the picture in his head wasn’t that very good.

Kaillus slowly scanned Alice’s eyes, nose and mouth – as if he wanted to memorize her features.

He then suddenly realized – the fact that she shouldn’t be here at this time. He was in pain after taking the antidote and it was now well past one in the morning.