Grand Duke, Please Stop Obsessing Over Your Wife! - Chapter 56
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56.
A knocking sound came from the terrace connected to Annelize’s bedroom.
Someone was tapping on the terrace window.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and got up from her seat.
When Annelize lifted the curtain, something was standing there. However, it was too dark outside to properly identify it.
There was clearly a full moon up, so why was it so dark?
Annelize lit a candle to check outside with the light and was flustered.
“Your Highness?”
Standing outside the terrace was the Duke.
Was she still dreaming?
Annelize rubbed her eyes and looked at him again.
No matter how she looked, that person was definitely the Duke.
There couldn’t be another man in the world who was so tall and unnecessarily imposing.
“What are you doing there?”
He could just come through the main gate.
More than that…
‘How did you get up here when this is the third floor?’
Annelize held back her question.
Duke Aperhis had disheveled hair, which was unlike his usual appearance.
Unknown dust clung to the hair that had fallen over his forehead, and there was even a wound on his cheek.
“Are you alright?”
Annelize was surprised and approached the Duke with a handkerchief.
She opened the window to let the Duke inside and brought the handkerchief to the wound on his face.
The Duke was still in a dazed state.
He extended his hand to Annelize.
A grayish-blue, bumpy, round stone that gave off a subtle light.
“What is this?”
She couldn’t guess what it was. Could it really be just a stone?
Did he pick it up from the garden?
But was there such a stone in the garden? It didn’t seem like an ordinary stone.
‘It’s small but it’s giving off light.’
“Your Highness. Where did you pick this up?”
The Duke blinked his eyes.
His mouth opened.
“The moon.”
“Pardon?”
“You said you wanted it.”
“This is the moon? You’re joking…”
The melon-sized stone had one smooth side and the other side was bumpy with craters.
Annelize looked at the bluish-gray sphere with a curious expression.
“Ah.”
Annelize blinked her still sleepy eyes.
She definitely seemed to have had such a conversation with the Duke.
“Thank you.”
The Duke observed Annelize’s expression.
“How is it?”
“What do you mean?”
“I brought you the moon.”
“I’m grateful.”
Annelize decided to generously overlook the Duke’s appearance of bringing some stone under cover of night and insisting it was the moon.
‘…Surely not. It can’t be, right? This can’t be real, right?’
If it were real, Annelize would become a crazy person who had sweet-talked the Duke into stealing the moon from the entire world.
‘Let’s stay calm. No matter how the Duke is, he can’t be that out of his mind, right? Surely he wouldn’t bring the moon just to convince me, right?’
Right. Thinking from such a common-sense perspective, her mind settled.
Annelize expressed gratitude for the Duke’s gift.
“Thank you, Your Grace.”
It was just a stone, but a gift was a gift.
After all, sincerity is the most important thing about gifts.
He sat in the chair. He casually rested his head on Annelize’s shoulder.
‘Leaning on me will only make him more uncomfortable.’
He’ll get a neck disc at this rate. Annelize guided the Duke’s arm.
The Duke blinked his eyes. His face looked tired somehow.
He reached out with a vacant expression and touched Annelize’s cheek.
As if touching dimples hidden on her cheek that couldn’t be seen, his thumb moved near Annelize’s mouth.
It felt ticklish.
He muttered with a voice full of dissatisfaction.
“You haven’t been smiling at all lately. You look anxious.”
Annelize rolled her eyes.
Well. Most of the reason for that would be this man in front of her.
Did the Duke really not know?
He didn’t stop his hand. The Duke’s hand was still on Annelize’s cheek.
He gently pulled Annelize’s face toward him.
Forehead met forehead.
The Duke’s body temperature was slightly higher compared to hers.
She could feel the warm heat on her skin.
“You?”
“Yes?”
“Do you also think that enduring difficult and hard things is the measure of one’s heart?”
“That’s what ordinary people think.”
“And you’re also a person.”
“I am like that too. It would be nice if there were such a person, right? At least I wouldn’t dislike it.”
After watching the Duke disappear to his room a moment later, she lay back down on the bed.
After closing the terrace window, she was about to lie down when she remembered the stone.
Annelize placed it on the nightstand.
The round, circular stone gave off a subtle light.
“It really does look like the moon.”
Annelize muttered as she lay on the bed.
“Where did he pick up such a similar-looking stone? He’s quite skilled.”
Whether it was because of the stone or not, she had a very pleasant dream that night.
* * *
Morning came. Annelize got up from bed and discovered the stone placed on the nightstand.
“I thought it was a dream, but I guess it wasn’t. The Duke really came and gave me some stone. Good heavens.”
She examined the stone carefully and then quietly put it back in its original place.
Since the giver had good intentions, she should use it as decoration. That was about the extent of her thoughts.
That night.
It was a day no different from any other.
No. It should have been.
That was the case until she looked up at the sky after sunset.
“What is that…”
Annelize could only open her mouth in a daze and be horrified.
There was no moon in the night sky.
As if someone had stolen the moon hanging in the sky, the place where the moon should have been was left with nothing.
‘No way.’
Annelize’s nape grew cold as it sensed an ominous feeling.
‘Crazy. Don’t tell me that rock in my room was.’
She didn’t know whether she should laugh or not.
A hollow laugh escaped her.
This was the first time someone had actually plucked the moon when asked to bring her the moon.
Annelize held her throbbing head and cursed at the Duke, who was the source of all these problems.
“Crazy bastard….”
This wasn’t the time to be doing this.
‘The moon has disappeared from the world.’
The moon wasn’t just a decoration hanging in the sky for show.
It surely had its reasons, purpose, and operating principles.
But what if that moon suddenly disappeared?
‘I need to put it back quickly before enormous problems arise.’
“Your Grace! Pamine, where is His Grace?”
Annelize set out to find the Duke, carefully carrying the moon chunk under her arm.
* * *
“Your Grace!”
The Duke stopped when he saw Annelize running toward him urgently.
Annelize was still adorable today as always.
10 out of 10 points.
No wait, such a score could never contain the value of Annelize’s existence.
Annelize lifted up the moon she had been holding in her hands.
“Is this really the moon? Did you give me the moon as a gift?”
“Obviously, you can tell just by looking.”
Annelize often asked questions about obvious facts.
“Why?”
“You said you wanted it.”
The Duke’s answer was simple.
He could bring the moon, and Annelize wanted it. So he brought the moon to earth.
Annelize clutched her forehead at the Duke’s nonchalant voice.
“I thought it was a joke. Asking you to bring me the moon was just something I said casually.”
No matter how tremendous and powerful someone was, how could she have thought he could actually pluck the moon.
‘Is it my fault for not considering the possibility that the Duke had the ability to bring the moon? Or is the Duke just an existence that transcends common sense.’
Annelize wore a complicated expression.
The Duke spoke with a confused face.
“Then you didn’t actually want it? Was it a test?”
“No. No.”
“Tell me honestly what you want. I can bring that too.”
The Duke was sincere.
Seeing that he had even brought the moon.
He really could fulfill everything Annelize wanted.
‘What I want is just one thing – to put the moon back in its place.’
Annelize broke out in a cold sweat.
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