“I think my father wanted to see me” The marquis, laughing as if amused, put Edmund down.
Then, Edmund took a small step towards Raymond. Standing eagerly in front of Raymond with a small step, Edmund reached out to him.
“Your Majesty,” I slowly turned towards them, and at that moment I saw Raymond grasp Edmund’s hand. Edmund’s face was filled with a playful smile while my heart was burning on the hand that the father and son had held.
“Your Majesty, dance with my mother,” Edmund exclaimed loudly. The music is so loud that it pauses for a moment.
It was slurred, but not to the point of being unintelligible, so all the nobles who heard the child’s mouths shut their mouths for a moment. It is common for a beautiful man and a beautiful woman to dance at a party, but the good man and the beautiful woman are Raymond and Lizena.
And it wasn’t normal for me to be in front of them.
The divorced ex-wife and husband’s first love, as well as her husband’s child. It was the center of a messed-up relationship.
The interested eyes of the nobles were focused on us. At that moment, when no one could easily open their mouths, Lizena’s voice rang out.
“Eddy, you can’t do that. Don’t put your Majesty in trouble,” Lizena said in a stern voice toward Edmund.
Edmund wiped off his smile and put on a teary eye.
“……can’t you and Your Majesty dance? Mom said that, at the ball, you dance with the people you love. Eddie wants mom to dance with your Majesty,” Edmund spoke with a slow tearful voice.
Edmund took Lizena’s hand and led her into Raymond’s. Then, with a gloomy gaze, he looked at Lizena and Raymond alternately.
I watched Raymond’s black eyes glisten with embarrassment. But even so, he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes, unable to shake off the child’s hand, and couldn’t do anything.
As I was trying to turn away from standing in this situation, Lizena called me.
Why me all of a sudden? when her green eyes turned at me, I had a bad feeling.
“If it’s okay with Young-ae, can I do Edmund’s request?” And as if the hunch was not wrong, Lizena involved me in this situation.
It was a matter of no need to ask permission from me who divorced. It was right to ask for Raymond’s permission, not mine.
But Lizena asked me as if Raymond could not dance with her because of me. Again, there was a sharp blade hidden in her soft words. I stared at her quietly, not immediately answering.
What the hell do you get by tying me up like this? It was Lizena who had already gained the position of the Empress and the position of Prince Edmund……. But I don’t need to know whatever it is.
I stopped thinking about making it complicated. Even if she gets me involved in this situation, I’ll just cut the tie. I won’t see them anymore anyway.
I drew a deep smile as I looked at Lizena, who was waiting for an answer with an anxious expression.
“If you really need my permission, I’ll answer it. Your Majesty and I are no longer in a relationship, so do everything as Lizena Young-ae wishes.” I answered her and turned to Raymond, who has been keeping his eyes on me for some time.
His black eyes met mine. Raymond’s black eyes shone.
He stared at me with subtle, frowned eyes, then turned his gaze to Lizena first.
Raymond reached out to Lizena. “Sios Young-ae I ask you to dance.”
With a low, pleasant voice, Lizena held Raymond’s hand with a smile like a flower in bloom. “It is an honor, Your Majesty.”
As the two went up to the dance floor, a soft waltz resonated through the hall. And I could feel the sympathetic gazes of the nobles toward me, who looked like an abandoned person.
But I couldn’t get out of here. It would be like running away from them. No matter how much I said I would leave the empire, I didn’t want to be remembered this way.
I pretended to be carefree and straightened my back. As if it doesn’t matter to see two perfect couples.
“Beautiful Young-ae, if it’s not rude, may I dare ask for a dance?” I stopped my hand at the voice of a stranger, who naturally threw his hand over a glass of champagne.
I don’t know when the hell he came in front of me, a man was bowing on one knee in front of me. I looked down at the man’s strange platinum-colored hair.
His platinum blonde hair, as if soaked in the soft sunlight, glistened under the bright light.
Ah, Where have I seen it?… For a moment, I don’t know why, but I thought I’d seen shiny platinum hair somewhere.
But I couldn’t think of anything else when the eyes of the man soon looked up at me. Golden-colored amber eyes. The moment I met that gaze, I opened my eyes wide.
“……you.” The man was the mysterious man who helped me in front of the salon not long ago. Although I don’t remember the face exactly, the mysterious jewel-like eyes of a man remained in my memory.
There was a time when I wondered who it was because of the strong impression.
But I never thought I’d see you again in a place like this. The man opened his red lips with a smile on his handsome face.
“Beautiful Young-ae, please don’t reject my request” When the man finished speaking, I heard the nobles murmur.
“What noble family is he?”
“If you’re that good-looking, no one would know… It’s the first time I’ve seen him.”
There was a lot of murmuring, but not a single one knew who the man was.
A man with an extraordinary aura. It was clear that he was a man who would not be easily forgotten, but that was all. Because I didn’t have a hobby of dancing with a man I didn’t know.
But the moment I was about to say no to him, my eyes met a persistent black gaze.
Raymond looked at me, or, more precisely, at what’s happening to me. Looking at me, he slowly lowered his gaze.
I looked at the man in front of me. Raymond’s eyes suddenly turned fierce when he saw the hand the man gave me. as if to be deeply displeased. The moment I saw it, I didn’t care about anything else.
I moved my lips impulsively at the man who politely extended his hand. “I accept your request.” I grabbed the hand of a man with a glistening amber eye and a glamorous smile.
The man’s hand was full of calluses, perhaps holding the sword for a long time. But contrary to the rough feel of his hand, the man gently held my hand and raised his body.
“Shall we go, beautiful lady?” It was a word that might sound a bit cheesy. However, it just felt light whether it was because the man’s amber eyes were full of playfulness or because the man’s appearance was likable.
I followed him with a light smile. As I went up on the dance floor with him, I could feel the eyes of Raymond and Lizena turned towards us. But it wasn’t even that close in distance, so I lightly ignored their gaze.
As I smiled at the man without deliberately looking at Raymond, the man’s hand touched my waist.
“Because I’m not very good at dancing. Please understand my lack of skills. Young-ae.”
I narrowed my brows slightly to his antics. “It’s difficult for people who don’t have the skills to dance.”
“It’s not that I can’t dance at all… ah You were joking.” When I looked at the embarrassed man and laughed, the man straightened up as if he had noticed my joke.
His embarrassed face was worth seeing. I spoke quietly to him with a pleasant smile.
“Don’t worry about your dancing skills, I’m good at it.” I was born as a nobleman, and as an empress. I learned perfectly how to dance and as a nobleman.
Surprised by the bold remark, he soon smiled as his amber eyes grew slightly larger.
“Then I look forward to your kind cooperation. Young-ae.” Our bodies gently moved along the waltz. Unlike when he said that he couldn’t dance, the man was leading me very skillfully.
I looked at the man’s amber eyes with a sense of wonder.
When he appeared in front of the salon, I thought it might be a mercenary from a distant Eastern country. However, seeing that he was using the imperial etiquette and dance so perfectly today, he was absolutely not a mercenary. It’s not something you can achieve just by practicing.
In the first place, his appearance is not from the East. The appearance close to the East is rather Raymond with black hair and black eyes.
I blinked slowly at the sight of Raymond rising from the end of my thoughts to get rid of his face.
“You’re thinking of something else. As expected, my dancing skills must not be good.”
The hand of the man who was holding my hand was a little tight. Like it wants me to focus on myself.
When I got out of my thoughts and looked at him again, the man smiled as if painted.
I looked at the handsome face of the man and opened my lips.
“………Are you curious about me?”
“I’m just curious because I encountered you twice.”
“Two times, we must have met for the first time today.”