I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 128

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 128

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The next day, as she headed to his office at the Duke’s summons, Marine looked down at the contract in her hands with troubled eyes.

It was the Employment Engagement Contract.

The contract stated, ‘The contract will be terminated once Dia’s Debutante Ball is safely completed.’

Since Dia’s Debutante Ball had been safely completed, there was no longer any need to continue the fake engagement.

Even knowing this, a cold wind blew through her chest.

Honestly, she wanted to continue maintaining this fake engagement. She kept growing greedy.

However, she couldn’t just push forward with her one-sided feelings.

If the Duke could see, she might be able to confess her feelings.

But if the Duke’s eyes continued to remain unseeing, the Female Protagonist was his only hope.

Marine arrived at the office with a bitter expression.

“Come in.”

“You called for me?”

Marine forced her voice to sound bright. She didn’t want to be caught looking dejected in front of the Duke.

“Yes.”

“Before you speak, may I go first?”

The Duke nodded silently.

Marine silently placed the Employment Engagement Contract she had been holding onto his desk.

“What’s this?”

“Our engagement contract.”

The Duke’s brow furrowed.

“It’s over, is that it?”

“Yes. Thank you for all your hard work acting during this time.”

Marine forcibly pulled herself together as her mood kept growing melancholy.

“…Right. Good work. The wages you were supposed to receive have been sent directly to the bank.”

“Yes.”

Marine looked down at the Duke with complicated eyes.

Ah, what should she call him now? Back to His Grace?

How should she tell others that the engagement was over? Could she continue staying here?

She had earned much more money than planned. She could quit anytime now.

As she stared blankly down at the engagement contract, the Duke pulled out another paper from his desk drawer and slid it over.

Reading it, she saw it was her Temporary Employment Contract.

“Why this?”

“This is why I called you. See? Your signature.”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t Oliver say you should read contracts thoroughly?”

“Huh?”

Marine wondered what he meant and carefully scanned the contract with her eyes.

“Huh?”

Temporary employment cannot end without the Duke’s permission.

What is this?

Marine’s eyes widened at this clause she had never heard of in her life.

“Do you understand?”

“Huh?”

“It means you cannot leave without my permission.”

“Was this clause in the contract?”

“That’s why you should have read it thoroughly when signing.”

“Did you read it all properly? It would be better if you checked it thoroughly.”

At that moment, she remembered Oliver’s worried words.

“But Geral- His Grace doesn’t really need me to read reports to him anymore.”

“That’s right. But I need you when I sleep. And what was that form of address?”

“Why?”

“Why are you calling me His Grace again?”

His voice grew coolly lower.

“Well, because the employment engagement is over.”

Marine spoke with dignity despite the stinging in her chest. Well done, myself.

“Even though our contract is over, officially we’re still engaged. The people around us don’t know yet.”

“That’s right.”

“So until we make an official announcement, call me the same as before. So the nephews won’t be surprised.”

“Yes, I understand. Then when will you make the official announcement?”

“I’ll think about it.”

The Duke answered curtly with a displeased expression.

“Then when can I quit my temporary job?”

“When I allow it.”

“When will you allow it?”

“Why do you keep rushing me?”

The Duke frowned and raised his head toward her.

Marine pressed her lips shut.

Her gaze naturally went to his closed eyes. The Duke still couldn’t see, yet she was tormented by her pathetic heart that kept growing greedy toward him.

“…Alright. I won’t rush you.”

When Marine spoke in a deflated voice, he continued with an ‘oh right’ expression.

“Didn’t you say you wanted to bury your bones at the Duke’s Castle?”

“I did.”

“If you’re burying your bones, that means you have to live your whole life here.”

“Does it?”

“It means living until you die.”

“Yes, yes.”

Marine answered half-heartedly and held out the engagement contract to the Duke.

“Please dispose of this properly, Gerald.”

“I will.”

The Duke took the contract and put it in his drawer.

She could see him quickly putting the Temporary Employment Contract in there too, as if someone might steal it.

“Then I’ll be going now…”

Just as she was about to bow and turn around, the Duke suddenly turned his head toward the door and spoke.

“Come in.”

The visitor to the office was none other than Oliver.

“Duke, I have brought a guest.”

Oliver’s voice sounded somewhat excited.

“This is a disciple of Count Namuryan, the master of Herbology. We couldn’t invite the Count himself as he has been in a Foreign Country, but one of his disciples happened to return to the Empire and has come to visit.”

“I see.”

The Duke answered indifferently.

He had reported about the Count to the Duke several times, but it seemed he didn’t remember at all.

During this time, they had invited all the famous doctors in the Empire. Count Namuryan was the only one they hadn’t been able to meet. They had wanted to bring even his disciple, and now she had come to visit.

Meanwhile, Marine’s mouth went completely dry from nervousness.

Finally, the Female Protagonist had appeared. In the novel too, the Female Protagonist had come after receiving Oliver’s contact.

But why did she come so early?

No, since it’s spring, was it time for her to appear?

Marine clasped her trembling hands tightly together and stared intently at the door.

To think the Female Protagonist was beyond that door.

She felt more nervous than when she first met the Duke.

“Then I’ll bring her in.”

The Duke silently nodded in response instead of speaking.

Marine placed her hand over her tightly constricted chest.

Soon the door opened wide and a person with a slender build wearing a brown robe entered.

Her face wasn’t visible due to the deeply pulled hood.

“This is Duke Gerald Vines.”

A white hand removed the hood, revealing her face.

Brown hair cascading down to her chest in waves, warm brown eyes. A kind smile gracing her lips.

Overall, she was a woman with a gentle appearance.

“Hello. I’m Reia Rozin.”

“No way…”

Marine muttered unconsciously with a shocked expression.

She wasn’t the Female Protagonist.

The Female Protagonist’s name was Modriana Landa.

She had blue eyes that anyone would fall in love with at first sight and pink hair.

“Pardon?”

Reia looked at Marine with a puzzled expression.

Marine slowly approached her with a pale face.

“Do you know Lady Modriana Landa?”

“Oh my. You know Modriana?”

A sad light quickly appeared on Reia’s surprised face.

“Yes. A little…”

She wasn’t sure if it was okay to say she knew the Female Protagonist whom she’d never actually met, but she needed to hear the reason why a different person had come here instead of her.

Reia wasn’t the Female Protagonist, so would she be able to cure the Duke’s eyes?

Anxious thoughts flashed through her mind.

“Ah, so that’s why you said that earlier.”

Reia nodded as if understanding and continued speaking.

“You said ‘no way’ when you saw me, right? Originally, Modriana was supposed to come here instead of me.”

At her explanation, Marine found herself nodding unconsciously.

“Modriana recently went to Nairon Territory to gather medicinal herbs, but she met with misfortune from a demon beast and departed to the sky.”

Tears welled up in Reia’s eyes as she slowly continued her explanation.

Marine collapsed to the spot with a pale blue face.

This can’t be!

The Female Protagonist died in Nairon Territory?

“What could happen to old folks like us. Since the place that was about to become an abandoned mine is under development, many people come and go, so there have been some incidents and accidents. Recently too, some Lady met with misfortune—”

Suddenly, the words the Lord’s Wife had said came to mind.

The Lady who met with misfortune back then was the Female Protagonist?

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