I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 110

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 110

“Right. You’ve done nothing wrong. You’re just standing there while men go crazy.”

“Did I mishear you?”

Marine looked at the Duke with wide eyes in surprise.

“You’re too dangerous.”

“Did I mishear you?”

“Why do you keep mishearing? I’m speaking so clearly.”

The Duke’s voice changed to that of a cranky demon king.

“Gerald keeps saying nonsensical things. That I make men go crazy just by standing still— Pfft haha.”

Marine started repeating the Duke’s words but couldn’t hold back and burst into loud laughter.

Then the Duke suddenly looked around warily, wrapped his arm around her shoulder, led her to the terrace, and drew the curtain shut.

The terrace, used as an intimate space for lovers, became so dark when the curtain was drawn that it was hard to see ahead.

“Why?”

Marine, who had tears in her eyes from laughing, took a deep breath and asked.

“Don’t laugh carelessly.”

“Because men might go crazy?”

“You understand well.”

Marine burst into clear laughter again.

The Duke’s joke was quite high-level.

Or perhaps his acting of pretending to be jealous because he loved her too much was quite high-level.

The moment she thought of this, Marine’s face hardened stiffly.

Ah, right. Acting.

I was fooled again. Like an idiot.

They had to act together to deceive people, but she was being deceived along with them.

Thinking that the Duke truly loved her.

Her heart, which had been beating wildly, lost its strength and beat slowly.

A cold wind blew through her disappointed chest.

Her head naturally dropped down.

“Why?”

“Pardon?”

“Why do you suddenly look disappointed?”

He really can’t see but he’s like a ghost.

Marine kept her head down and deliberately made her voice sound bright.

She didn’t want the Duke to notice her feelings that even she couldn’t understand.

Fortunately, it was dark inside the terrace, and since the Duke couldn’t see, she didn’t need to fake her expression.

“I’m not.”

“Why are you lying?”

The Duke asked as if he couldn’t understand.

“I’m not lying.”

“That’s another lie.”

“I said I’m not! When I say I’m not and you talk like that…”

If he keeps insisting it’s true when I keep saying it’s not, then it becomes true that I’m disappointed.

I shouldn’t feel disappointed. We’re just pretending to love each other.

Marine quickly raised her head. The Duke’s face was shrouded in deep shadows.

But for a moment, it seemed like the Duke was looking at her, so Marine unconsciously took a step forward toward him.

“Gerald, right now…”

The Duke’s eyes, seen up close, were closed as usual.

It must have been her imagination.

“Right now?”

The Duke repeated her words.

“Ah, I think we’ve been here too long. Dia should have a chaperone by her side.”

Marine quickly changed the subject and stepped away.

At that moment, the Duke firmly grasped her hand.

“Tell me first why you looked so disappointed. Then I’ll let you go.”

How on earth does he really know?

“I told you I wasn’t. If you keep pushing like that, even a heart that wasn’t disappointed starts to feel disappointed…”

Marine’s voice caught momentarily and she dropped her head again.

“Who’s making you disappointed? Who’s making you cry?”

Cold anger appeared in the Duke’s voice.

You! It’s you!

Marine held back the words she wanted to shout and pulled her hand free from the Duke’s grasp.

“I have to go.”

But the Duke firmly grasped her hand again without any gap. She could see their fingers intertwined tightly like roots.

“Don’t let go.”

“Pardon?”

“Don’t let go of my hand. I don’t like it.”

The Duke’s voice was rough as he spoke through gritted teeth.

Marine looked up at him with a puzzled expression.

His appearance, gripping her hand tightly with his brow furrowed, looked almost desperate.

Marine bit her lip with a dazed expression.

His appearance, as if letting go of her hand would be agonizing, filled her vision.

Why? Why does he look like that? Why does he keep making me misunderstand?

“…Because we have to pretend to love each other?”

I shouldn’t have asked.

When her true feelings finally slipped out, Marine deliberately turned her gaze aside to hide her reddened face. A long sigh scattered into the night air as she waited for his answer.

There was no answer from the Duke.

Marine couldn’t bear the anxiety that kept tightening her chest and turned her eyes back to him.

The Duke was frowning as if he couldn’t understand her question.

Marine lowered her gaze and stared at his red lips.

Even though she already knew the answer, she wanted confirmation through his response.

Finally, the Duke seemed to understand her question and opened his mouth after a long while.

“…Yes.”

A bitter smile settled on Marine’s lips.

“I see.”

“So love me for real.”

Suddenly the Duke stepped closer.

“Wh-what do you…”

Marine unconsciously stepped back with a confused expression.

“Aren’t we officially a couple in love? To pretend to love me, love me for real.”

Startled, Marine blinked rapidly.

What is he saying right now?

So to appear as lovers to others, he’s telling her to truly love him? What kind of nonsensical logic is that?

She looked up at him with an absurd expression at this sophistry she’d never heard before.

“Marine, love me.”

The Duke commanded again, taking another step closer.

Marine instinctively stepped back.

Tap.

Her flesh-colored shoes hastily struck the marble floor.

But as much as she retreated, he drew closer again.

Behind her thin dress, she could vividly feel the cold stone wall of the terrace railing.

Even though there was nowhere left to retreat, the Duke took another step closer. His broad chest was right before her eyes.

“Wh-what kind of talk is that? To truly love for the sake of acting.”

The Duke placed both hands on the terrace railing with her between them.

Marine felt helplessly trapped by him.

She could see the Duke slowly lowering his head near her face.

Beneath his thick eyelashes, his prominent nose and handsome lips were revealed.

The Duke smiled, lifting the corners of his mouth.

“It’s not difficult, is it?”

Marine, gazing at the Duke, gulped.

The man before her was a wolf.

A very seductive one at that.

She felt like a lamb barely a bite’s worth standing before a wolf.

“Right?”

He continued slowly.

Marine unconsciously trembled her shoulders and looked at the Duke with wavering eyes.

“Marine, remember this.”

He added in a low voice.

“…What?”

A voice that sounded choked with tension barely came out.

The Duke slowly lowered his head. His red lips slid sideways at a distance so close they seemed to touch her face.

Marine stopped breathing altogether.

Soon his husky voice echoed in her ear.

“That you must love me.”

Marine’s pupils shook wildly. What kind of situation is this?

“H-how is that possible?”

The Duke’s expression as he raised his head had changed to something displeased.

“Marine, why are you always so negative? Your wrists won’t grow. Your height won’t grow. You can’t love me either.”

Marine looked at the Duke with an incredulous face.

“It’s because you keep demanding impossible things!”

As the Duke, who had his eyes closed, frowned even more, deep lines formed between his brows.

What’s with that disappointed expression? Is my wrists not growing really that hurtful?

Soon his face turned cold.

“If it can’t be done, make it happen. That’s an order.”

After speaking coldly, he straightened his body that had been close.

Marine turned her head and let out the breath she had been holding.

This man really is dangerous. I thought I was going to suffocate to death.

And when she looked up at his face again, he looked lonely.

Why does he have that expression?

Marine unconsciously called out to him.

“Gerald.”

Bang bang bang!

At that moment, brilliant fireworks burst and her voice was drowned out.

The terrace curtains opened all at once and people’s gazes were drawn.

Marine also turned around and looked up at the sky.

Bang bang!

White firefly-like fireworks drew long lines high in the sky and exploded. Pure white clusters of light poured down from the sky like a waterfall.

“How beautiful.”

It was her first time seeing a fireworks display.

“…Yes. Beautiful indeed.”

Suddenly feeling an intense gaze watching her, she turned her head this way and that, but there was no one around.

Except for the Duke with his eyes closed.

But how does the Duke know the fireworks are beautiful when his eyes are closed?

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