Chapter 29 - Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Another woman.

The moment I heard those words, my body stiffened involuntarily.

My expression also turned cold, and my face reflected in the window looked angry.

My blood ran cold, and a chill seemed to freeze my hands and feet.

Only my heart raced hot and fiercely.

The emotion I was starting to feel at this moment, I could define without difficulty.

It was jealousy.

Or rather, a fierce emotion that seemed to be a tangle of obsession, anger, and all sorts of negative things.

While this version of myself felt unfamiliar, it was also a bit absurd.

Strictly speaking, Ruwellin Rashiane wasn’t my man—wasn’t he the heroine Sierra’s man?

Yet, it was none other than me who had taken Ruwellin from Sierra.

Of course, it wasn’t my fault since I hadn’t intended it and Ruwellin had liked me without my knowledge.

Regardless, I had broken up the original couple.

As a result.

‘And yet jealousy......’

Thinking about Sierra Oscar, whose face I didn’t even know, suddenly appearing one day, capturing Ruwellin, and being held in his arms, made me angry.

If that was the natural order of things, I knew I should step back, but I didn’t want to.

I had grown to not want that.

I knew Ruwellin Rashiane was a dangerously crazy man, but what could I do?

I didn’t want to yield him to any other woman.

“......!”

As I unconsciously hugged him tightly, Ruwellin flinched.

I too was surprised by my own action and hesitated, but in the end, I didn’t release my arms from around his waist.

“Rose......”

“......”

“You don’t like it, do you? The thought of me in someone else’s arms.”

To his question, I affirmed with silence.

Ruwellin slid his hand through my hair, stroking it gently.

He lowered his head and kissed my forehead, eyelids, cheeks, and then my lips in turn.

A gentle smile appeared on his lips.

“I too dislike having deep relations with anyone other than you. So I cannot bear to be apart from you for even a moment.”

At his tempting whisper, I again felt as if I was under a spell.

But this was no time for this.

Pulling myself together, I grabbed his wrist and led him to the bathroom.

Then I turned on the faucet, filled the basin with water, and said.

“Wash up and get dressed first, quickly.”

“Hmm...... Very well.”

While Ruwellin obediently agreed and washed and changed in the bathroom, I dashed to another bathroom, roughly washed my face, and tidied my appearance.

Thinking Adrian wouldn’t suspect anything at this rate, I looked in the mirror and spotted a serious problem.

Namely, the red marks Ruwellin had left all over my body.

‘Damn...... What do I do about this?’

There was no such thing as a spell to erase hickeys.

A healing spell to treat bruises might work, but that required holy power.

I didn’t have holy power, so naturally, I couldn’t use holy-attribute magic.

Thus, the only option was to make these marks invisible.

In other words, I had to cover them with clothes.

‘A lace dress with long sleeves and a high neck...... I think I had something like that.’

I went up to the attic and hurriedly rummaged through the wardrobe.

I made a mess of it because I had rummaged so thoroughly, but there was no time to tidy up.

Finally finding the lace dress, I let out a joyful cheer and quickly changed into it.

Standing before the mirror, the dense lace covered everything from the neckline to the shoulders and wrists, hiding all the red marks.

And the length went down to my ankles, covering even the marks Ruwellin had left on the inside of my calves.

Why on earth did that man leave marks on my calves of all places......

Anyway, I changed into the perfect outfit and tied my hair neatly before heading to the room where Ruwellin was.

When I arrived, he too had finished preparing and was sitting obediently on the sofa, waiting for me.

He looked just like a dog waiting for its master, and I almost laughed.

Pushing away the familiar that kept loitering nearby with my foot, I approached Ruwellin.

He smiled at me and said.

“That outfit suits you well, too.”

“I’m wearing this because of you.”

“Ah, so you’re wearing it to show me?”

At his absurd misunderstanding, I raised an eyebrow and retorted.

“Because if Adrian sees the marks on my body, he’ll freak out.”

“Ah......”

Ruwellin narrowed his eyes, his expression somehow peculiar.

I didn’t bother trying to understand his dark inner thoughts and got straight to the point.

“When Adrian comes, we need to get our story straight.”

“......Get our story straight?”

“You came to Brindos because you were concerned about the sea monster in the southern sea, then suddenly collapsed from a mana rampage, and I happened to save you. That’s all. And we only held hands, we didn’t do anything else, right!”

“......”

Ruwellin looked at me with a dissatisfied expression.

Pretending to frown, he said as if greatly troubled.

“Then, to stay true to that story, we would have to only hold hands from now on as well.”

“......!”

I hadn’t thought of that loophole, so I blinked in embarrassment.

Only holding hands with Ruwellin...... That was a bit......