“Your friend doesn’t want her father to collapse from power or die, does she?”
“That’s right. Because she’s her father.”
“Hmm. What about crossing the sea to another continent?” There’s a continent with Suin people.”
Rowena knows about the continent, but she was reluctant to send Liliana to that faraway place. The boat was dangerous, and she wondered if it would be okay to take a child who was just born on the boat.
“So far…… I don’t know if Liliana or Kian would want to.”
She should send them anywhere if they could live safely and happily, but there were kings and nobles there and new customs. Not knowing what life was like there, it was hard for Rowena to say that she should let them go easily.
Either way, you can only choose after more than a year after they have a child…… So why don’t you focus on me now?”
“I’m focusing right now.”
They sat side by side on the bed. Since Liliana was rescued and brought to the palace, the ban on physical contact had been lifted.
Cecil pulled Rowena’s hand around her neck.
“Focus more. I want you to like me more than your friend.”
“I like you.”
“Hmm. More than her?”
More than my friend? Rowena looked at Cecil with a pounding heart. Her heart leaped when she was still beside him, not in his arms.
However, liking and loving Liliana was different from this emotion, so it was difficult to figure out which emotion was greater.
“And if I say Cecil is the one I love and friend is the one I like?”
Cecil smiled as she answered carefully while looking at her.
“How’s my answer? I love you and I like my friend, too.
In fact, Cecil was nervous that Rowena would not answer. He already knew how much Rowena liked Lady Wenson.
‘Her friend may be a little annoying, but since she loves me the most, I’ll turn a blind eye to her for once.’
Cecil, holding Rowena in his arms, kissed her lips gently. A sweet smile hung around Rowena’s mouth as he skillfully undressed her gown.
* * *
It was natural to choose the street where the festival was held as their first date spot. Everywhere was noisy with the festival’s heat, so even if they went to a cafe or made a reservation for a restaurant, his eyes went out of the window.
Theo quickly realized that Catherine wanted to see the festival. Unlike the regular festival, the festival held by the royal family’s marriage was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
It’s only held when the emperor or crown prince gets married.
It is said that the current crown prince is passionately in love with the current crown prince. This festival has to be enjoyed now.
‘That is so….’
On the day of the date, Catherine’s father had business with Theo and let him go until late in the evening, and at best, when he watched the festival, he ran into a lady asking for help.
Of course, he knew it was unavoidable. The doctor she said had been mugged was someone Catherine knew, so he would have helped even someone he didn’t know.
But he didn’t expect this to happen until today.
“When I visited this morning, the doctor left the house in a hurry. What is it? It seems that the whole family left the capital without telling anyone where they were going.”
The guard said this and asked Theo for help.
Although the doctor who was attacked fled and Kian had also disappeared, the bodies of the five dead remained. The only remaining witnesses were Theo and the escort knights of the two families, so they had no choice but to cooperate with the investigation.
‘I haven’t even held his hands yet…….’
Catherine regretted that they should have danced to at least one song with her eyes closed at the last wedding ball.
Theo, who arrived late in the evening after being held by her father, asked her to go see the night market if she could.
At that time, she was only happy despite the fact that she had to drag a lot of escort drivers.
‘Now the festival will end tomorrow.’
As things turned out like this, she just resented his father who held Theo back for the first few days. It is said that he has allowed him to meet many people for the sake of just becoming a count, but it does not have to be during the festival period!
Of course, the Marquis of Rasmine had his own reasons.
It seems that Theo had a conversation with his daughter, so he wanted to see what the atmosphere was like and prevent other nobles who were targeting Theo from engaging in marriage talks.
‘If I ask him to go on a date tomorrow, will he not seem like it? Or maybe he’ll refuse, then I’ll meet up with the ladies I know and watch the festival…’
Catherine, of course, had friends of her age, but recently she has avoided meeting. This is because they keep asking about Theo.
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