Secret Wardrobe of the Duchess

Chapter 42

Edgar wanted to grab his father’s neck and tell him to stop with that nonsense.

Judging from the condition of the room, it wasn’t their first meeting. Ann had said he had been staying at the villa for more than a month… a cold smile appeared on the duchess’ face.

“You don’t love her?”

“Yes, it was just… she said she was suffering so much that she wanted to die if I didn’t meet her. So, I met her out of pity. You are the only one I truly love.”

The duke got up from the bed and was about to reach his wife.

“Filthy!”

The duchess yelled. That yell became a shriek and shook the building. However, it didn’t fade after that, and it pierced everybody’s ears. It wasn’t just a feeling. Blood truly came out of their ears.

Soon the duchess shed her skin. Then, a brilliantly beautiful creature came out. Her white hair that reached the floor glowed and her white skin was like air itself.

Moreover, her back had two brilliant wings.

‘… nymph.’

Edgar had heard about nymphs. Immortal creatures that lived on their own islands on the other side of the ocean. However, they hadn’t shown themselves on the continent for more than a century. Edgar couldn’t believe what he was seeing. On the other hand, the duke and the nurse were so calm with the unrealistic situation.

“My love, this was only a mistake…”

The duke couldn’t say more, and he was not going to say anything again. The second the nymph raised her finger to point at him, his soul left his body. His mistress met the same fate.
There was no mercy in a nymph’s rage.

The nymph made the souls of the man she once called husband and the woman who had seduced him leave their bodies and looked at Edgar. Her eyes were cold, there was no emotion in them. Then, her finger was pointed at him.

“You shall never walk again under the sunlight.”

As soon as she finished saying that, Edgar felt a severe pain under his ankles and fell. His feet started to feel numb slowly. At the time, his knees were not paralyzed. However, the numbness in his feet was enough. He couldn’t walk normally. So, he limped as he tried to reach the nymph.

“… mother.”

Edgar didn’t know what he wanted to say. Anyway, the nymph didn’t get to hear it. She turned into foam and disappeared right on the spot.

“Oh, my princess. I told you not to fall in love with a man many times…”

Then Caren took out a pendulum and put the foam in it. She had come with Edgar’s mother from their homeland. So, Edgar desperately grabbed her.

“Caren, where is my mother? Where did she go? She is alive, right?”

Instead of replying to that, Caren lightly pushed him away.

Normally that much of force would have done nothing to him, but now his feet were numb. He immediately fell. Caren was about to leave without regrets with the pendulum, but then she looked back by the door.

“Do you blame her?”

Edgar shook his head.
“If I should blame someone, I will blame father.”

He really meant it. Even though his mother had cursed him, he didn’t want to blame her. The anger, betrayal, and solitude she had felt. Edgar had felt something like that when he witnessed his father’s shame.