Chapter 3

<b>Mini Things to Note:</b>

I denied it many times since it couldn’t possibly be right, but I knew the truth.

I was abandoned.

—I’ve never seen a parent who said that they’d return.

Moreover, the Duke of Paeraton made no promises to me.

‘An abandoned child can never truly become a child again.’

The iron door that had been coldly closed in front of my eyes in my previous life was reflected in the window.

“Young lady, that is…”

The maid opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but held her tongue as if it had dried up.

I continued to wipe the top of the frame as if trying to erase the illusion from the window would work.

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“What are you doing here?”

At the sound of the cool voice from behind my back, I stopped washing the windows and turned around.

Under the afternoon sun, I saw a handsome man that looked as if he belonged in a picture.

It was the Duke of Paeraton, my father by paper.

‘It’s rare, but it looks like he came back early today.’

I asked him where he was many times while staying here, but every time, I was only given the answer that he was absent.

“I’m good at cleaning.”

Although it was originally clean, it is so transparent now that it seems as if the glass window did not exist.

I was confident.

But the Duke’s eyes were sharpened

“Who told you to do this useless thing.”

Useless?

“I said, I’ll pay for the meal— ack!”

“You’re still struggling.”

The Duke of Paeraton lifted me up before I even finished speaking.

He looked at me as if he was actually facing a decent thing, and then took a few steps with it.

I got nervous almost immediately.

No way, just because it’s useless, you’re trying to throw me out like this!?

But instead, where I arrived was at a dining hall.

“Eat.”

If I don’t eat, I will be killed.

It was definitely a tone that seemed to sound such a threat.

My stomach became as small as a bean, but I stretched my hand toward the plate anyways.

The Duke was staring at me while I was eating—it felt like a struggle to keep living.

His eyes are so sharp, ‘If I don’t eat, he might really kill me!’ That’s what I was thinking in that moment.

I wanted to put the bread in my mouth without care of where it would end up later.

But I also had my limitations.

“Can you eat all that?” The Duke asked, as soon as my hands stopped.

It was such a cold voice that even my bones were freezing.

I once again, stretched out my hand to the plate, but couldn’t put any food into my mouth.

It’s not a lie, it really seemed like I was going to burst because of how full I was.

“Would you be able to eat more?”

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Is it intimidation?

Are you thinking of killing me by making my stomach burst!

‘This, this devil……!’

《Chapter 3 – End》