Rosenia didn’t know why, but the maids looked at Llewellyn with flustered expressions as if they had seen a ghost.
She tilted her head, wondering why the maids were so shocked, but before she had any time to realize it, Llewellyn was in front of her. Looming, looking down from his height.
He was a very tall man, so she had to lift and raise her head to see his face. When their eyes met, his emerald eyes curved like crescent moons.
“You took a bath.”
“Oh, yes … My body was dirty from all that dust earlier during the fight.”
“It smells like lilac.”
“That, Duke …”
He held a handful of her hair in his hand and breathed in its scent, while Rosenia stared at him feeling embarrassed. Adrian might also be watching them right now.
Rosenia tentatively glanced towards the mirror, only to see Adrian seething with feral air that resembled a demon king from hell.
She knew it wouldn’t take too much effort, so she smiled brightly and put aside her small worries. However, she couldn’t look straight into Llewellyn’s eyes and slowly opened her mouth.
“Duke, if…”
“…”
“If one day someone who can turn you into a complete divine being…”
“…”
“Just like what you did with me, with that person–”
“Rosenia.”
Before she could finish her words, Llewellyn’s cut her off. He sighed softly, slowly closed his eyes, and then opened them again. His unusual expression made Rosenia cringe back her shoulders and grip the hem of her dress. Her heart pounded unsteadily.
“The notion of anyone besides you … I …”
“…”
“I wouldn’t feel the same things that I feel when I see you.”
Llewellyn spoke in a calm voice. However, behind his curtain of steady calmness, behind those deep undulating eyes, was something dynamic and restless, threatening to break out.
It wasn’t hard to figure out what it was.
“The feeling when you see me, this …”
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“Yes.”
She moved her body instinctively and leaned back. As if running away from him again. However, she could not move a single inch and she soon found herself trapped in Llewellyn’s arms.
With his hands on both her sides, he slowly leaned over and looked at her. Her heart churned, making her avoid eye contact. The air seemed to have thickened in an instant.
At last, Llewellyn whispered from such an intimate distance that she could even make out the fine lines from his irises.