Becoming Number One with Confession Attacks - Chapter 28

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#28

Aiden smiled gently and looked out the window.

Sonnet also gazed blankly at the rainy scene outside. Summer rain was truly wonderful. Cool, dim, and cold.

Sonnet glanced at Aiden. His gaze was still fixed on the window.

The lingering warmth, the pouring rain, and the lake where they had swum naked. Sonnet grew to love summer even more. More than spring.

After finishing dinner, Sonnet lay down on the bed despite Aiden’s attempts to dissuade her.

Aiden seemed to want to drink, but Sonnet no longer had the strength to drink or eat anything more.

When Sonnet lay down completely, Aiden had no choice but to turn off the lights and lie down too. Strangely, the rain had already stopped and the surroundings were bright. It was because of the bright full moon.

Aiden pulled Sonnet toward him and embraced her. He held Sonnet in his arms and said.

“Come with me to the charity gala this time.”

“Charity gala?”

Sonnet was flustered by the unexpected words. Aiden spoke as if it was nothing.

“I always hated having to go there out of obligation, but I think that time would become enjoyable if I went with you.”

“Is it okay for me to go?”

Somehow Sonnet felt that the gala was like a high-class social venue where only nobles like Aiden participated. A place where someone like Sonnet absolutely shouldn’t attend.

“Why wouldn’t it be okay when you’re going with me?”

“Won’t the people there dislike it?”

“Even if they dislike it, they can’t show it.”

So that meant there would be people who disliked it after all. Sonnet didn’t think too deeply about that problem.

She was already used to people who disliked her, having experienced many of them. The problem was…

“What if I go with you and you’re not welcomed there?”

Aiden burst into light laughter. He hugged Sonnet tightly and said.

“There’s no way I wouldn’t be welcomed there.”

“Why?”

Aiden slightly lifted his upper body to look down at Sonnet. Bright joy shone vividly in his eyes.

“Because if they look badly upon me, they’ll have no way to survive.”

Though Aiden spoke with a voice full of laughter, Sonnet found his words particularly arrogant and cold.

It felt even more so because such behavior seemed natural to him, as if it was nothing special in his world.

“My father sponsors that place tremendously.”

Sonnet somehow wanted to object to those words.

“Your father might dislike me.”

Aiden’s eyebrows stiffened slightly. His raised corners of his mouth also returned to their place.

When Sonnet stared at him, Aiden tucked Sonnet’s fallen hair behind her ear and said.

“Don’t worry about that.”

His fingers loosely touched Sonnet’s ear. The fine hairs on her neck stood up.

“If you come with me, even my father will have no choice.”

There was a strange certainty in his words.

Aiden slowly met Sonnet’s eyes.

“As long as you’re by my side.”

Aiden stared at Sonnet persistently. Those eyes seemed pitiful, as if wanting something lacking.

Sonnet felt subtly uncomfortable.

He seemed leisurely as if he had everything, yet he was yearning. With hungry eyes. Whether it was about simple desire or thirsting for love was unknowable.

Aiden fixed his gaze on Sonnet and said.

“I want to be the only person who occupies your side.”

“…”

“I wish you would only seek me, only look at me, only love me.”

“…”

“Without abandoning me.”

Aiden seemed desperate as if that was all he wanted.

Sonnet somehow wanted to know the opposite too. When he spoke so desperately, she became curious whether he would really become resolute if she did the opposite instead of following his words.

“What if I…”

Strangely, her mouth wouldn’t open readily. Aiden stared at Sonnet. As if waiting for her words.

Sonnet hesitated for a moment, then continued speaking.

“What happens if I abandon you?”

“I’ll abandon you without looking back.”

The immediate answer was extremely cold. Cold enough to clear her head.

“I told you. I abandon things that don’t like me.”

“…”

“I don’t want to feel as miserable as I did when my mother passed away ever again.”

Sonnet was swept by disappointment.

No matter how much Aiden said she was the only one and gave everything to her, it felt like that love couldn’t overcome his past, like the current love was too small to overcome it.

And she also felt like an ordinary person who wasn’t special to him. Like one of the countless people who passed by his side.

‘Maybe it’s natural.’

Even as Sonnet had such thoughts, the disappointment in her heart somehow didn’t disappear.

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Throughout the holiday, Sonnet rolled around with Aiden. Of course, at first she made somewhat decent plans to study or swim in the lake, but after that, they always slept together.

Aiden never seemed to get tired. When Sonnet struggled, he seemed to gain more strength, holding her powerless body and moving more roughly.

Thanks to that, Sonnet realized that while it felt good, it was quite exhausting work.

Tomorrow the long, long holiday would end and they would have to return to school. Sonnet opened a book in the study to do some studying now.

Actually, it was also because she hadn’t completely copied the notebook that Aiden had given her before.

Aiden looked back at Sonnet without even opening any weapons or war books.

“Aren’t you sad?”

Sonnet agreed with Aiden’s words inwardly but didn’t bother to say it. Aiden watched Sonnet who was only copying notes and asked.

“Isn’t there anything you want to eat?”

She felt like she had already tried all the precious foods in this estate, so there wasn’t anything particular she wanted to eat.

Sonnet answered while busily moving her pen.

“No.”

When Sonnet only focused on copying into her notebook, Aiden watched her intently. It was when only the scratching sound of the pen could be heard.

“Aren’t you hungry?”

“Not really.”

“Still, eat while you do it.”

Aiden pulled the bell cord nearby. After a moment, a maid knocked on the door.

“Did you call for me?”

“Bring carrot cake and carrot juice.”

The maid immediately withdrew. When Sonnet looked back, Aiden gently raised the corners of his mouth.

“You ate the carrot cake deliciously before.”

Aiden seemed to observe quite attentively.

“I just kept eating it because the taste was unique.”

“Should I have them bring something else?”

“No, it’s fine.”

As Sonnet turned her head, she suddenly remembered something she had heard in passing at school before.

“The carrot cake at Solert Patisserie is really a taste that everyone should try. I don’t know about other cakes, but the carrot cake there is so good that even dead people would wake up because they can’t forget it.”

She had tried carrot cake at this estate too, but she was curious whether the carrot cake made at Solert Patisserie tasted different.

However, Solert Patisserie was four hours away from here and was located in a tourist area, making it very difficult to buy from.

I heard that by the time the patisserie opens, the line already stretches to the street and everything sells out in 30 minutes.

Sonnet said casually.

“The carrot cake from Solert Patisserie must be different from the carrot cake I had at this estate, right?”

Aiden raised one eyebrow slightly. When his eyes met Sonnet’s, he nodded.

“That place is so famous, so it is different.”

Sonnet didn’t say anything more. As expected, Aiden seemed to have tried all the famous foods. Thanks to that, her curiosity was easily satisfied.

When Sonnet focused on her notebook again, Aiden stared at her intently.

After watching Sonnet for a while, he asked.

“Are you just going to study all day today?”

“Yeah.”

Sonnet moved her pen busily without even looking at Aiden. Although Aiden would lend her his notebook anytime, she still couldn’t rest due to the guilt of not properly filling in her notes during the long holiday.

The original purpose of coming here was to see how Aiden studied and what kind of notes he took, but she got swept up by Aiden and mostly just had relations with him.

Aiden could probably get first place without studying much, but Sonnet was different. She had to work harder than others to maintain even her current second place.

Suddenly, Sonnet abruptly stopped the pen that had been diligently copying notes.

‘Being second place doesn’t bother me.’

In the past, she would have been angry and resentful thinking about Aiden who stole first place from her, but not now.

She wasn’t particularly resentful, and her heart was endlessly calm. As if it were natural. As if it had always been that way.

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