In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 242

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 242

Peres silently followed behind me.

I was walking as fast as I could with all my strength, but there was no way I could shake off Peres.

In the end, the carriage departed with Peres on board.

I knew he had sat down next to me, but I didn’t turn my head in his direction.

I sat pressed against the window side and didn’t look back at Peres.

I didn’t want to show him my face right now.

At first, I had no intention of speaking at all, but after clearing my throat softly, I was the first to open my mouth.

Peres’s restless gaze must have been so desperate.

“…Why did you get on.”

Fortunately, my voice sounded fine.

“You seemed busy because of a prior engagement.”

I feel a surge of emotion again.

Remembering how he rushed out like lightning as soon as the meeting ended, and then seeing him with Ramona, anger inevitably welled up.

Even though I knew very well that I had no right to feel this way.

“You should get off before leaving the Imperial Palace… *sniff*”

Ah, I’m screwed.

I had been holding it in well.

But my body’s instinct to stop the runny nose ultimately won.

“…Tia?”

Peres’s voice trembled as he moved a little closer.

And I could feel him cautiously reaching his hand toward me.

“What, what is it.”

I turned my body even more to the opposite side and answered curtly, as if nothing was wrong.

But he wasn’t fooled.

His slightly trembling hand, like his voice, gently pulled my face toward him.

In the end, Peres ended up seeing my face.

Through my slightly blurred vision, I could see his red eyes.

Eyes that were shaking as if an earthquake had struck.

Peres kept staring only at me with a shocked expression.

He remained frozen like that without any movement, then asked in a voice that sounded choked.

“…Are you crying?”

“No, I’m not crying.”

I said that while wiping my face roughly with my sleeve.

But it was no use.

“Damn it.”

Had my tear ducts suddenly broken or something?

Ignoring my desire not to cry in front of Peres, tears flowed wildly.

Was it because I was embarrassed?

“Tia, don’t cry. When you cry…”

Peres frowned and wiped away my flowing tears.

His face looked pained, as if someone had punched him hard in the solar plexus.

Even though he probably had no idea why I was crying.

“Why… are you crying.”

See, there it is.

For a moment, I was angry at myself.

Why am I crying?

It was my decision, and I had made up my mind to accept it.

“Tia, please. Tell me.”

Then, Peres gripped my hand tightly.

His always warm hand had turned ice-cold and stiff, showing just how desperate he was.

Still, I can’t tell you.

I definitely thought that.

But my body betrayed my will once again.

“Because you smiled at someone else, Peres.”

“…What?”

“You smiled in front of someone other than me.”

“That’s…”

Peres looked a bit flustered.

I quickly shook my head and struck first.

“I know too. How foolishly I’m acting right now.”

It was just a smiling face.

No matter how little Peres expresses emotions, he’s been close to Ramona for several years since the Academy.

They might be much closer than I thought.

“I know that, but still, it’s strange. My heart is strange.”

To be honest, I was scared.

“I’m sorry, Peres. But I lost confidence.”

“Confidence?”

“Confidence to watch you being with other people.”

As I said that, tears burst from my eyes once again.

Before I could even try to stop them.

“Ah.”

When I started crying again, Peres didn’t know what to do.

He wiped my tears with trembling hands while suffering more than I was.

I gripped Peres’s clothes tightly and said.

“I hate the thought of you having someone more precious than me.”

Peres’s hand, which had been constantly wiping my cheeks, stopped abruptly.

And he hugged me tightly and said.

“I swear.”

His large hand pulled me close until we couldn’t get any closer.

“There’s no one more precious than you. Not now, and never in the future.”

And his red eyes looked deeply into mine.

“Just seeing you cry like this makes me feel like I’m dying, so how could…”

Then, Peres’s gaze fixed on my lips.

“How could…”

Even his words were spinning in place.

Strength suddenly entered Peres’s hands holding me.

Then, the carriage jolted and shook once.

It seemed to be because we were passing through the main gate of the Imperial Palace.

“Ah.”

Peres blinked slowly, like someone waking from sleep.

And he muttered in a low voice.

“That was close.”

“…What was?”

But he didn’t answer.

Instead, he just looked at my lips for a moment with somewhat languid eyes and let out a short sigh.

And finally, he gently wiped away my half-dried tears with his thumb.

“So don’t cry.”

It was strange logic.

I looked straight into his eyes and said.

“You know.”

“Yeah.”

“How do you think you’d feel if I were doing this with another man inside a carriage?”

As soon as I finished speaking, Peres’s face hardened.

As if you could hear a ‘whoosh’ sound.

Like a receding tide, emotions were swept away from Peres’s face.

At the same time, I felt as if the temperature inside the carriage had dropped several degrees.

It wasn’t enough to bother me, but it was definitely killing intent.

Clatter!

The carriage shook violently once more.

It wasn’t because there was a bump on the ground.

“Whoa there, what’s gotten into you guys?”

Neigh!

I could hear the coachman’s panicked voice from outside.

The horses, who were much more sensitive to this kind of aura than humans, seemed to have gotten scared and were acting up.

I chuckled and said.

“Yes, that’s exactly how I felt.”

Though in truth, Peres was only guilty of smiling.

I decided to overlook such minor differences.

“So let’s take some time to think.”

I said, stroking his cheek once just as Peres had done.

“I need time to sort out my thoughts.”

“Tia.”

Peres said urgently.

“If it’s because of the current law that prevents someone from holding both the positions of Empress and family head…”

“I know there’s a way around it.”

At my words, Peres hesitated and closed his mouth.

“That’s exactly why I want to think about it more carefully.”

If it were other people, there wouldn’t be any reason to worry like this.

When you like someone, when you like them this much, what more thinking is needed?

“You and I are a bit different. We’re not people who can just date because we like each other and then break up.”

“…Break up?”

Peres’s face rapidly darkened.

“No, that’s not what I meant!”

Hmm.

I hesitated for a moment, then said in a very small voice.

“I like you, I really do, but if we’re going to be together, we need to prepare accordingly.”

Though I had started speaking quietly, my voice grew even smaller.

By the end, it was so quiet that even I could barely hear it.

“Ah.”

But for Peres, who had surpassed human limits in various ways, it didn’t seem to be a problem at all.

“You li-like me…”

His face turned so red it looked like it might explode.

This guy really. Making the person who said it embarrassed.

“What, what’s the big deal? It’s not like I’m saying it for the first time.”

I said, tapping his shoulder.

But my fist was quickly caught by Peres’s hand.

“This won’t do.”

He said, bringing his hot lips to my curled fingers.

And with his other hand, he gripped the chair behind my back.

Creak.

A small sound came from the chair as it tilted under the weight as he drew closer.

“Peres…”

I tried to stop him.

Because I now knew what those eyes, like glowing embers of red-hot coal, meant.

But Peres whispered in a very earnest voice.

“Just once.”

I should be used to it by now.

Yet my heart still fluttered at the sight of his face with those long eyelashes lowered.

“Tia, just once.”

His low voice tickling my ear made me feel dizzy for a moment.

His lips hovered right in front of mine, as if asking for permission.

“Please.”

Ah, I give up.

I closed my eyes without a word.

His fingers intertwined between mine.

In the end, Peres didn’t get out of the carriage until I arrived at the restaurant.

“We’ve arrived.”

The carriage stopped, and I heard the coachman announcing our arrival from outside.

Of course, I had already straightened my clothes and was ready to get out of the carriage.

Just as I was about to put my hand on the carriage door handle.

“Wait a moment.”

Peres suddenly came close and stole a kiss from my lips.

“There are still some traces of me left.”

“Ahem.”

I cleared my throat softly and deliberately opened the carriage door wide as I got out.

“Hmm? Your Highness the Crown Prince?”

“You rode together all the way here?”

The nobles who had already arrived and were waiting for me in front of the restaurant recognized Peres and whispered among themselves.

“Please take His Highness back to the Imperial Palace and return.”

I deliberately spoke to the coachman in a more confident tone.

“Well then, I’ll see you later, Your Highness.”

Then Peres peeked his face out from the edge of the open carriage door and looked at me.

He’s smiling right now!

Others might not know, but I do.

Though his face appears expressionless at first glance, I know that his eyes are slightly narrowed in a secret smile.

“Yes, thank you for today’s matter. Thanks to the Deputy Lord, I feel like my worries have disappeared. Please return safely, Lombardi Deputy Lord.”

He looked extremely dignified.

Not a single aspect deviated from proper etiquette.

It was so different from how he had been just moments before…

“Let’s go eat.”

As my face was about to turn red again, I said that and hurriedly turned around.

A persistent and somehow burning gaze followed me tenaciously until I entered the restaurant.

* * *

Peres and I met again sooner than expected.

“You’ve confirmed perfectly that there’s no one remaining inside, right?”

“Yes, Lombardi Deputy Lord.”

Today was the day to close and seal the doors of the Angenas Family Mansion.

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