I’ll Be the Heroine’s Competent Divorce Partner - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

“Well, didn’t His Grace say it was just a misunderstanding? That it was merely the baronet’s daughter’s one-sided claim, and that he absolutely never had any improper relationship.”

That was the official position of the Laventess Ducal House.

All of this was merely Catherine’s transgression.

David had absolutely not committed even the slightest wrongdoing, they said.

“Well, we know that too.”

“That’s what he said, but……”

But they couldn’t stop the strange smiles spreading across people’s faces.

Just then.

One gentleman lowered his voice and whispered.

“More importantly, isn’t Baronet Scofield’s daughter the Duchess’s niece?”

“Yes, that’s right?”

“Then that means.”

The gentleman’s voice became even more secretive.

“Could the Duchess really have been unaware of their inappropriate relationship?”

Instantly, people looked as if they’d been struck on the head.

“Oh, that’s right?”

People widened their eyes and looked at each other.

“Besides, the Duchess was famous for doting on her niece.”

“The Duchess and the young lady frequently exchanged visits with each other, as I understand.”

“Well, she might have truly been unaware, but……”

That would be tantamount to proving her own incompetence as an elder of the family.

Shouldn’t she have properly managed the family’s internal affairs to prevent such unseemly incidents from occurring in the first place?

And if Marisa had already known about their relationship……

“Well, how could we know the inside story?”

The gentleman who had first brought up the topic just shrugged his shoulders at that point.

But once suspicion bloomed among people, it had no intention of easily dying out.

* * *

“Damn it, what the hell!!”

Unable to contain his anger, David violently kicked the table leg.

Bang!!

Objects scattered across the floor making loud noises.

David breathed heavily with ragged breaths.

“That damn bitch, stabbing me in the back like this?!”

Catherine’s bombshell statement alone was giving him a splitting headache.

And now Isabel was filing for divorce too!

Isabel had even packed her bags and returned to her maternal family.

David had swallowed his pride for the first time in his life and tried to hold onto his wife.

‘Your Grace no longer needs me, do you?’

Those quiet green eyes.

Facing that calm expression that seemed to hold not even a grain of remaining emotion.

David felt a strangling sense of crisis for the first time.

“……Damn it all!”

David couldn’t hold back any longer and trampled on the broken teacup scattered on the floor.

The teacup fragments crumbled with crunching sounds under his feet.

But then.

Knock knock.

A brief knock sounded.

David, who had been furiously stomping on the teacup, suddenly lifted his head.

“Who is it!!”

At that irritated shout, the door opened cautiously.

The person who quietly poked their head through the door crack was……

“Oh, my son?”

It was Marisa.

Marisa’s face turned pale instantly upon seeing the completely devastated room.

But that was only momentary.

Marisa forced a smile and stepped into the room.

“I heard you skipped your meal today.”

“……”

David stared at Marisa with sharp eyes.

Marisa carefully extended her hand toward David.

She was trying to caress his cheek.

“You’ll damage your health like this. Even now your cheeks are sunken in, you know?”

Smack!

David roughly swatted away Marisa’s touch.

“Don’t touch me.”

“……My son?”

Marisa’s eyes trembled violently.

Marisa, who had been biting her lips, continued in a soothing tone.

“I understand your feelings a hundred, a thousand times over. That Isabel, not knowing gratitude!”

That attitude of trying to somehow shift the blame to Isabel was ridiculous.

This whole mess happened because of Catherine’s nonsense after all!

“Yes, it’s true that Isabel doesn’t know gratitude. But.”

Meanwhile, at that excuse, David’s blue eyes darkened.

“Are you in any position to be spouting such nonsense right now, Mother?”

An openly sarcastic tone.

Startled, Marisa quickly bowed her head.

Marisa’s groveling attitude looked more like a maid facing her master rather than a mother facing her child.

“Our, our Catherine!”

Marisa raised her voice frantically while glancing at David’s expression.

“Our Catherine probably didn’t mean any harm by it.”

“What? No harm?”

David looked at Marisa with an incredulous expression.

Marisa, who usually fawned like a tongue in his mouth.

But now even Marisa’s sweet words made him sick to his stomach.

“Of course. Catherine loves our son so much that……”

That damn cursed love!

Suddenly he felt something snap in his head.

David couldn’t hold back any longer and burst into a roar.

“Is that something to say here right now?!”

Blatant informal speech.

David had now abandoned even basic courtesy toward his legal mother.

Marisa, shocked, called out to her precious son with a trembling voice.

“Y-Young master, I am…….”

But David went even further.

“Don’t irritate me and get lost!”

Spitting out curses, he hurled a desk frame toward Marisa.

It was a frame with the entire Laventess family painted on it.

The violently thrown frame grazed right past Marisa’s ear.

Crash!

It hit the wall directly and shattered into pieces.

A large crack appeared across Marisa’s face, who had been sitting close to David with a bright smile.

……As if symbolizing that their family had already been torn apart.

“Kyaah!”

Frightened Marisa collapsed onto the floor with a thud.

“Get out right now, right now!”

David shouted with veins bulging in his neck.

Marisa felt an intense sense of crisis.

And rightfully so, since she had never seen David this furious to the top of his head.

At this rate, she might really be cut off by David.

‘That can’t happen.’

Marisa quickly lifted her head up.

“Young master, I have something I must tell you.”

“What’s there to listen to?! If you’re going to spout more nonsense……!”

“I fully understand your anger, young master. I also deeply regret my failure to properly control Catherine.”

Marisa continued desperately.

“But we can’t just sit here and take this, can we?”

At those words, David’s excitement subsided somewhat.

Marisa’s eyes sparkled.

“How about we try this instead?”

Marisa whispered something to David.

David, who had been listening with a sullen expression, crossed his arms and tilted his head sideways.

“Fine, let’s hear the details.”

It seemed he was at least willing to listen to what Marisa had to say.

Judging by how his speech had returned to respectful language.

Marisa stroked her chest in relief and carefully opened her mouth.

“Well…….”

* * *

Inside a dark room without a single ray of light.

Catherine was blankly staring up at the ceiling.

Her once beautiful face was only haggard now.

Her lips were severely swollen.

Her tear-stained eyes were rough and dry.

Even her red hair, which David had once loved and called pretty, and which she had carefully maintained, was completely disheveled.

She no longer had the energy to indulge in luxuries to comfort herself as before.

The events from the harvest festival kept coming to mind.

‘I could even give my life for you, Duke.’

‘You know well, don’t you, Duke? How much I love you.’

It had been sincere without a trace of falsehood.

Catherine had loved David that much.

She believed her honest confession was the way to maintain their love in the long term.

But.

‘I have no idea what the young lady is talking about.’

The cold voice piercing her ears.

The deeply furrowed brow.

Eyes filled with contempt, as if looking at filthy refuse.

Facing that merciless attitude, Catherine realized to her very bones.

‘The Duke has decided to abandon me.’

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