I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 60

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke Episode 60

“Marine, do you know something?”

He hadn’t given permission to call her by name, yet he arbitrarily called out her name.

“Yes?”

“If Marine’s family house hadn’t fallen to ruin, we would have been engaged.”

“….”

Marine’s eyes widened as she stared at him.

It was the first time she’d ever heard such a thing. Her parents had always told her they had no intention of arranging a political marriage for her.

“Our fathers were quite close, you know.”

“Ah….”

No matter how close Father had been with Viscount Norman, he wouldn’t have proceeded with an engagement without asking for her opinion.

“Eat this well, and if you want anything else, just tell me.”

“This is enough. Thank you.”

Marine bowed once more and turned around.

She failed to notice Gobiem scanning her retreating figure with blatantly lewd eyes.

Marine looked outside the window.

From the already darkened outside, she could hear the sound of water dripping. It had started to rain.

“Catherine, I think I should go now.”

“Teacher, wait a moment. Can’t you stay just a little longer?”

Catherine, with her hair braided on both sides, grabbed onto her skirt and clung to her.

“Is something wrong today? Why do you want Teacher to keep staying?”

Marine knelt down to meet Catherine’s eyes and asked gently.

Catherine, who usually listened well, kept preventing her from going home today.

So even though it was already time she should have arrived home, she was trapped in Catherine’s room.

“Oh my. When is he really coming?”

Catherine didn’t answer her question and looked anxiously at the door.

“Who are you waiting for?”

“Elder Brother.”

Catherine looked at Marine with her big brown eyes and answered in a completely resigned tone.

“Elder Brother? Lord Gobiem?”

“Yes.”

“Catherine is waiting for Elder Brother, but why can’t Teacher go home?”

Marine asked soothingly.

“Elder Brother asked me to. He said he wants to escort Teacher home and told me not to let you go until he comes. Elder Brother is really kind, isn’t he? Oh, he said this was a secret.”

“I see. But what should we do? Teacher really needs to go home now. Mother will be waiting anxiously.”

Marine patted Catherine’s head and stood up.

“Teacher, please wait just a little longer.”

When Catherine grabbed her waist and clung to her, Marine looked down at the child with a troubled expression.

Just then, Catherine’s door opened.

“Catherine.”

It was Gobiem.

“Elder Brother!”

Catherine approached Gobiem with a delighted face.

“Catherine, did you study well today?”

“Yes! Teacher says she’s going home now.”

Catherine made eye contact with Gobiem and giggled.

Though the secret had been completely exposed, secrets were very fun for a young child.

“Is that so?”

Gobiem’s eyes lit up as he stared intently at her.

Marine pretended not to notice that gaze and said goodbye to Catherine.

“Catherine. See you tomorrow.”

“Yes, Teacher. Have a safe trip home.”

As she headed toward the door, a strong smell of alcohol wafted from Gobiem.

Marine’s expression hardened as she hurried past him.

The person who had even told his younger sister in advance that he would escort her home had come after drinking enough alcohol to reek of it?

Something felt off.

Marine suppressed her urge to run and walked with the longest strides possible.

Thud, thud.

She could hear Gobiem’s footsteps right behind her.

“Marine.”

“Yes.”

“Shall we talk for a moment?”

“It’s very late. Mother is waiting for me.”

Marine answered quickly while walking without looking back.

“How rude of you. Did your family’s ruin make you forget all noble etiquette?”

Marine stopped abruptly in place.

When she turned around with a cold expression, he was sneering at her with his arms crossed over his chest.

“Are you insulting my family house right now?”

“Of course not.”

Gobiem uncrossed his arms and raised both hands as if surrendering. He grinned and approached her.

“But you already did.”

“You need to have a family house to insult for it to be an insult, don’t you?”

Gobiem smirked mockingly.

“What did you say?”

“Isn’t that right? Here you are, a noble family’s daughter, meeting with a man this late at night, taking leftover food from our house. What do they call eating by begging? Ah, they call it living off scraps, don’t they?”

Gobiem held his stomach and giggled as if his own words were amusing.

Marine silently watched his mockery.

The position of a ruined noble family’s daughter was this pathetic.

She would face countless such incidents in the future. However, whether she would continue to endure this humiliation was her choice.

Marine looked at Gobiem with dignified eyes.

“I will quit as tutor starting today. Please convey this to Viscount Norman. Then.”

Marine spoke calmly and turned around.

But instead, Gobiem grabbed her arm with an angry face and turned her back around.

“You’re quitting just like that?”

“Yes.”

“If only your family house hadn’t fallen to ruin, you and all that family fortune would have been mine. You know that?”

Marine was at a loss for words and stared at him with bewildered eyes.

What kind of nonsense was this? Was he insane?

Even if her family house hadn’t fallen to ruin, she had no intention of marrying this man.

“So obediently follow what I say.”

He suddenly opened a door in the corridor and pushed her inside.

Marine was pushed by his force and momentarily staggered as she entered.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“Since your family house is ruined and you can’t marry, I’ll at least take you as a concubine, Marine.”

Gobiem spoke as if doing her a favor, then cupped her face with one hand and leaned down.

Marine pushed him away with both hands.

“Stop-“

Slap.

Only after her head whipped to the side did she realize she had been hit.

It was the first time in her life she had been slapped.

One cheek swelled up instantly from how hard she was struck.

“Tsk tsk. If you had stayed still, you wouldn’t have gotten hit.”

Gobiem clicked his tongue as if pitying her swollen cheek.

At that moment, her patience snapped completely.

Marine clenched both fists and glared at Gobiem.

“What? You’re going to hit me? With those delicate hands? Haha.”

Gobiem clutched his stomach laughing and took a step closer.

At that moment, Marine kicked between his legs with all her might.

It was a self-defense technique she had learned in her previous life.

“Uuugh.”

Gobiem let out a scream-like cry and collapsed to the floor.

“Worthless piece of trash. What? Concubine? I wouldn’t take you even if you brought a carriage full of gifts.”

Marine spoke coldly to him as he fainted with his eyes rolled back, then escaped from the manor.

When she stepped outside, rain was pouring down like a torrent.

Worried that the unconscious Gobiem might wake up and follow her, she ran through the rain.

While running up the mountain with no lights, she tripped over a stone and fell onto the dirt ground.

“Ouch.”

Fortunately she didn’t roll, but her scraped knees and palms stung.

Marine gritted her teeth and got up. If she rested and got caught, it would be disastrous.

Only after arriving at the cabin and locking the door could she finally feel relieved.

Marine tiptoed to her room. Roanna would obviously be upset if she saw her current state.

She entered her room, lit a candle, and turned around to find Mother sitting on her bed, dozing.

Roanna, awakened by the sound, started to smile happily but her expression gradually hardened.

“Marine?”

“Mom, were you waiting for me?”

“Marine, goodness. Marine…”

Roanna raised her trembling hands.

“I got caught in the rain and fell on my way back.”

Marine quickly approached her to comfort the shocked Roanna.

“Marine. My daughter. Your face…”

Roanna’s gentle hand lightly touched her swollen cheek.

It stung, but Marine smiled as if nothing was wrong.

“This is also from falling.”

“Marine…”

Roanna didn’t ask for detailed explanations.

Instead, she held her rain-soaked face tightly in her warm embrace.

Marine also stopped making excuses and found comfort in her mother’s arms.

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As she emerged from the memory of the past, Gobiem was glaring at her with furious eyes.

“An apology, you said? Who’s apologizing to whom? Don’t you know what you did to me?”

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