I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 8

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Chapter 8

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On the evening of the day when there had been quite a commotion.

Dana went to Viego Windsor’s office.

‘He still hasn’t returned?’

The Duke’s office was completely empty. There wasn’t even anyone who knew his whereabouts.

‘Where on earth did he go?’

Ever since she had recommended he read the letter reporting Lyos’s affair and left.

Viego hadn’t been seen since then.

Where could Viego have disappeared to?

‘I need to suggest breaking off the engagement.’

Dana leaned back against the sofa. Then she recalled Lyos’s face.

“This isn’t an affair. This is love.”

‘He said that, yet still said he would marry me too.’

There was one reason why Lyos wouldn’t break off the engagement.

‘He must covet my wealth.’

The enormous inheritance left by Danae’s deceased father, Demian Windsor.

He wouldn’t want to give that up.

‘I have to break off the engagement somehow.’

It wasn’t just for emotional reasons, like finding that bastard disgusting to look at.

‘I can only get my hands on the Sacred Relic if I break off the engagement.’

It was precisely to claim the Sacred Relic.

‘To be exact, I need to take it away from Uncle Karl.’

That thing that always gleamed on the finger of Karl, the deputy head of the family.

That ring wasn’t an ordinary ring.

Since it had an ancient spell cast on it, it couldn’t be easily removed and put on like a normal ring.

‘It can only be removed by performing the ritual of stepping down from the position of deputy family head.’

Or by cutting off the finger.

Only through those methods could the ring be claimed.

‘So, to get that ring, I need to push Uncle out of the deputy head position and claim it myself.’

However, simply removing Karl, the current deputy head, wouldn’t be enough.

The engagement with Lyos had to be completely broken off as well.

They wouldn’t hand over the deputy head’s ring to a woman who would leave the house through marriage.

So.

‘I’ll declare my intention to remain unmarried.’

Breaking off the engagement, and declaring celibacy.

If I could reach that point, I should be able to smoothly take the deputy head position.

‘I just need to help the family that much.’

Dana knew what kind of business difficulties Viego was struggling with.

She also knew how to solve them, and moreover…

‘I have plenty of information that could benefit the family.’

If she presented them one by one like throwing out bait, Viego would acknowledge her.

Viego Windsor was a thorough meritocrat.

‘Why else would he have met with me, whom he found disgusting to look at, once a week to give me work?’

A bitter smile emerged.

Viego really, truly despised her terribly…

“Miss.”

Just then, the secretary approached cautiously.

“You haven’t forgotten about tomorrow’s banquet, have you?”

“Yes. Of course not.”

“That’s a relief. You seemed so busy that I thought you might have forgotten.”

Dana smiled silently.

How could she forget that?

Tomorrow, her medal ceremony would be held at the Imperial Palace. It was to recognize her achievements in purifying the Corrupted Land.

And she was the first woman in the Empire to receive a medal.

‘Yes, the timing works out well.’

Since she was thinking of becoming the first female deputy family head, the medal would add credibility to that process.

Just as she was thinking that.

Knock knock, along with the sound of knocking came a servant’s voice.

“Miss, His Highness the Crown Prince has sent a messenger.”

Her heart suddenly sank with a thud.

Lyos? At this late hour?

“I apologize for the late hour.”

Shortly after, an attendant who entered the room bowed his head with great remorse.

“His Highness the Crown Prince said he had something urgent to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“His Highness the Crown Prince…”

Could it be that he was trying to apologize, even if belatedly?

“He asked that you refrain from attending tomorrow’s banquet.”

What?

For a moment, she felt stunned as if she’d been slapped.

“He said he plans to hold an engagement ceremony with Lady Alice Windsor at tomorrow’s banquet.”

“…”

“Since it would be uncomfortable for the Duke’s daughter, he asked that you please refrain from attending…”

Saying that, he held out a purple box and opened it with a click to show her.

Inside the box, a golden medal was gleaming.

“I will present the medal to you here and now.”

“…”

“So please do not attend tomorrow’s banquet. This is an order from His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“…I refuse.”

After a brief silence, Dana spoke.

“I refuse, so take it back.”

“If the Lady refuses, His Highness the Crown Prince told me to convey this message.”

“What is it?”

“If you’re going to refuse, come and do it in person.”

“…”

“That’s… what he commanded me to tell you.”

The attendant’s face barely contained his embarrassment.

“He said he won’t accept any other refusal. It’s, it’s an imperial command, he said.”

He’s insane.

Really completely insane, Lyos Grants.

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Dana headed to Lyos’s Palace, absolutely furious.

“Kyaah!”

Lyos’s bedroom, which she entered with an attendant’s guidance.

“D-Dana? Why are you here…?”

Alice was startled and pulled the blanket to cover her body.

‘What is this?’

Dana stopped like a statue.

Why is Alice in the bed?

And Lyos is…

“…”

Lyos was leaning back leisurely on the sofa, smoking a cigar with his shirt off.

Looking at Dana’s face with an extremely indifferent gaze.

“Wh-why did you come here?”

Dana didn’t answer. She just calmly surveyed the room.

‘He’s insane.’

She reached the conclusion once again.

Insane.

Lyos Grants is completely insane.

Did he deliberately call me here to show me this debauchery?

“Sis-sister?”

It seemed Alice didn’t know she was coming.

‘But Lyos knew.’

There were four freshly burned cigars placed on the crystal ashtray. So…

‘He was waiting for me.’

Anger bubbled up. Heat rushed to the top of her head in an instant. And—

‘This is what Lyos wants.’

She judged coldly.

This is a situation orchestrated by Lyos.

He must have some intention. Probably hoping she’d get angry—

‘No need to get caught up in it.’

She had no intention of dancing in Lyos’s palm.

“Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

So she showed a completely different reaction from what he wanted.

Smiling lips as usual. But a voice mixed with boredom. With indifferent eyes containing slight disgust.

“You sent a messenger.”

She only stated her business.

Sure enough, Lyos frowned. He must have wanted her to get angry after all.

“You came, Danae Windsor.”

Danae Windsor.

He always called her Dana, but now he called her Danae.

His intention was clear. Accept the changed relationship. That must be what he meant.

“It seems you didn’t understand what I said the other day.”

He gestured toward the flustered Alice.

“I said Alice is my love.”

He inhaled the cigar and exhaled it with smoke.

“Where does this arrogance come from, believing you’ll be safe after tormenting my love?”

At that moment, Dana was certain.

This is a show meant to hurt her.

‘Wicked bastard.’

Dana put strength into her lips that were about to twist.

After hearing about the humiliation Alice suffered today, Lyos must be furious.

So now he’s punishing her.

‘He must be planning to completely break my spirit so I can never torment Alice again.’

She was amazed by his ruthlessness.

That man had loved her madly for the past few years.

That love was so intense that sometimes it was suffocating. It was like that until just a few days ago…

“The three of us will be married in the future. Shouldn’t we get along well?”

How can such a man change so drastically?

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