The Impact Of The Villainess' Fake Marriage On The Ending

Chapter 39

Maybe it was because she had promised not to get drunk, but Adeline just stared at the wine in front of her.

Only Kael, sitting across from her, gently grabbed his glass and shook it.

"I meant not to get drunk; I didn't mean not to drink at all."

"Ah..."

Adeline moved her eyes around for a moment, then carefully raised her glass.

She stared at the glass of wine, filled to the brim, with her light green eyes. Then suddenly, as if she had made up her mind about something, she emptied the glass at once.

"I'm sorry. It was a little cold. I'm not going to drink anymore, so I won't get drunk."

Surprised, Kael then laughed as if it was ridiculous.

Even the smallest of Adeline's actions rarely went as he had expected.

"Ahem, as I said before, I didn't come in to steal or take anything."

"I know even if you don't tell me. But it's more suspicious because you're emphasizing it."

"What? No. I'm telling you again just in case you misunderstand me further, I never did anything suspicious. I swear."

"Is that so?"

Kael gazed at Adeline, holding back the laughter that was about to come out.

Anyone could see that she was not a woman who had come in with bad intentions. He knew it well even if Adeline didn't emphasize it.

But seeing how she kept being at a loss made him want to tease her.

"The only thing I saw when I came in and approached by chance were the framed portraits..."

When she mentioned the framed portraits, Adeline stopped talking with a look of realization on her face.

Her clear, light-green eyes shook slightly.

Kael, who was looking into her eyes, only looked at Adeline without showing any reaction.

But he knew well why Adeline reacted as if she had made a mistake.

There was no one in the empire, especially not an aristocrat who lived in the center of the social world filled with all kinds of rumors, who didn't know what had happened to the Inver family.

Everyone knew how Kael lost his family at a young age.

Adeline, of course, knew it too.

"..."

Adeline, who thought she had to sort out the situation, moved her lips as if she was going to say something, but no words could easily flow out of her mouth.

Kael watched Adeline for a moment, then took a sip of the wine.

Since it wasn't easy to see Adeline look bewildered, he thought he wanted to watch her a little more, but then Adeline would be quite troubled, and he knew she would worry.

"Anyway, it's been a while. How has staying in the North been?"

Kael casually changed the topic.

He was considerate of Adeline, and he also didn't want to encroach this night into a memory he didn't want to remember even after a long time.

"Did you think about wanting to go back? With such a loud and violent blizzard raging, you must want to run away."

As soon as the topic changed, Adeline sighed.

Maybe her tipsiness was flaring out; the change of heart that Adeline would have usually hidden was clearly revealed outside.

"I don't like blizzards like the one today, but I still don't want to go back."