I’ll Be the Heroine’s Competent Divorce Partner - Chapter 107
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Chapter 107
‘What should I do!’
My face was burning uncontrollably, and I couldn’t dare look directly at the Crown Prince.
I quickened my steps as if fleeing, but the Crown Prince approached my side in an instant.
Then he matched my pace and peered down at me curiously.
“Princess.”
“Yes.”
I tried my best not to look back at the Crown Prince.
However, the Crown Prince didn’t mind at all.
“What you just said. That everyone likes receiving attention—is that really true?”
“There’s no reason for me to lie about it, is there?”
At that curt answer, the violet eyes looking at me sparkled like stars.
I gulped and swallowed my dry saliva.
Did I understand correctly?
The type of affection the Crown Prince is showing me right now is definitely…
“Then Princess… would you.”
The Crown Prince, who had been hesitating for a moment, asked me very carefully.
“Would you be happy if I took an interest in you?”
“…”
My mouth went completely dry.
But I could no longer lie.
“Yes.”
…Because I want to continue changing the future.
Along with that, a smile spread across the Crown Prince’s handsome face.
It was a bright smile as if he had gained the whole world.
* * *
Deep within the Lavantes townhouse, the Duke’s bedroom.
The air was thick with the pungent smell of ointment.
David, who had returned from the courthouse, immediately threw a fit demanding his personal physician be called.
The physician who rushed over urgently gave him the opinion that ‘you must not use your arm for the time being.’
It wasn’t broken or cracked, but it would be better to be careful.
And so, currently.
‘How did things end up like this?’
David was grinding his teeth furiously.
He had definitely thought everything would go well.
He had paid a fortune to bribe the jury members and was confident they would absolutely lead the trial to victory.
However.
‘What the hell is this? A loss!!’
Right after the trial ended, David immediately chased after the jury members.
The jury members desperately avoided his eyes.
‘We’re truly sorry. But we alone weren’t enough.’
‘The other jury members’ opposition was too strong, and the judge was extremely stubborn in his resolve.’
However, the answers he received were unsatisfactory.
It was frustrating that he couldn’t press them further because of watching eyes.
‘I’ll have to visit them again soon.’
The amount of money he had poured into those jury members so far was considerable.
Then they should somehow take responsibility for this situation!
Moreover.
‘Why did the Crown Prince have to interfere there!’
David frowned deeply once again.
Of course, at the time, he had acted somewhat roughly because his head was so heated.
Still, that much was close to a head of household disciplining his family.
But the Crown Prince had looked at David as if viewing an insect and separated Elodie from him.
‘An elder brother can scold his immature younger sister, what’s wrong with that!’
While he was fuming, unable to contain his anger.
David finally remembered the ‘gift’ that Elodie had left behind.
When she handed over the envelope, the strange smile Elodie had worn lingered in his mind.
‘What on earth is that?’
Unable to overcome his curiosity, David groaned as he raised his body.
Leaning against the bed headboard, he tore open the document envelope with irritated hands.
And.
“What is this?”
David’s eyebrows stiffened with tension.
When he turned the document envelope upside down, a letter fell onto his lap first.
Besides that, thick documents were also contained inside.
“Hmm.”
David decided to open the letter first.
<To my dear Elder Brother.
Since we’re not exactly on friendly greeting terms with each other, I’ll get straight to the point.
Elder Brother, do you trust Marisa?
It wasn’t Mother, but Marisa.
A form of address that clearly showed the distance between them.
<I’m talking about how Elder Brother became involved with the daughter of House Scofield.
Was it really Elder Brother’s choice?
What I mean is, didn’t someone guide Elder Brother and Catherine into that kind of relationship?>
A guided relationship?
David’s eyes shook violently.
Of course, it was true that he had met Catherine through Marisa’s introduction, but…
<Marisa planned from the beginning to set Elder Brother up with the viscount’s daughter.
If Elder Brother developed a good relationship with Sister-in-law, she was afraid of losing the domestic affairs she had been controlling.
Does what I’m saying sound like lies?
If so, think carefully about who has been controlling and manipulating the family’s domestic affairs all this time.>
“…No way.”
David clenched his molars tightly.
He had never even thought that Marisa could have such sinister ulterior motives.
No, to be precise, he had never even considered Marisa’s intentions.
There had been no need to do so.
After all, she was just a mere woman.
How could that woman possibly harm the head of House Laventess, no matter how she acted?
And Marisa had effectively exploited David’s such complacency.
<The attached documents are evidence proving how Elder Brother’s complacency has been eating away at House Laventess.
Still, as your younger sister, I’m telling you this as my final duty.
The judgment, well, that’s up to Elder Brother.>
The letter ended just like that, without even a proper farewell.
“What kind of nonsense is this?”
David furrowed his brow and began flipping through the documents.
They were documents related to the dowry of the previous Duchess Laventess, the birth mother of the two siblings.
“This is supposed to be evidence? Just like a girl, such an overactive imagination.”
But that sneer was short-lived.
David’s expression gradually became serious.
The businesses that Marisa had invested in until now.
But not a single one of those businesses had succeeded.
And the investment funds that had been siphoned off under the pretext of business were flowing to House Scofield through Marisa.
Not only was there a summary that clearly showed the flow of funds.
But evidence materials proving that Marisa and Catherine had collaborated to embezzle money were also attached.
“Wh-what is this…?”
The hand gripping the documents trembled violently.
He could almost hear Elodie’s triumphant voice in his ears.
‘What to do about this? Even those two people you trusted like a rock were stabbing Elder Brother in the back?’
The imaginary Elodie wore a mocking smile across her face.
‘How naive.’
At the same time, his grip on the documents tightened with force.
Crunch!
The documents crumpled miserably.
“Damn it all!”
Unable to contain his anger, David roughly hurled the document folder at the wall.
“Elodie, that damned wench!!”
He could see right through her intentions in revealing this only now.
If she had given him advance warning, David could have prevented Marisa and Catherine’s corruption.
Her intention to absolutely never do anything good for David was crystal clear.
“Ugh… Ughhh, AAAAHHHHH!!”
Unable to control his rage, David screamed wildly.
As he violently tore at the soft pillow, goose feathers scattered everywhere through the torn fabric.
“Y-Your Grace!”
“What’s happening?!”
Startled by the commotion, servants came running frantically.
David glared with bloodshot eyes, growling savagely.
“Where is Marisa, that woman?!”
“Pardon? Do you mean the Madam?”
The flustered servants hesitated and asked.
David’s neck veins bulged with rage.
“Bring her here right now, right now!!”
A moment later.
Marisa entered the bedroom hesitantly.
“Y-Young Master. Why on earth…?”
Instead of answering, David immediately threw the documents at Marisa’s face.
Marisa let out a shrill scream.
“Kyaah!”
“Is this real?”
Marisa looked at David with a face full of terror.
Her cheek stung from the paper cut.
David intimidated Marisa once again.
“Did you really embezzle the assets!”
“….”
For a moment, Marisa pressed her lips tightly shut.
After a brief silence that felt like an eternity passed.
Marisa let out a cold sneer.
“What if it’s true?”
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Nina
Lol. The dumb f. I wouldnt be mad if the stepmother just walked off with his money and he became ruined.