Liar and Liar - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59

When their eyes met, Frederick lightly raised one hand and smiled. He looked strangely pale, but there was no feeling of anger at all.

“Angry about what? He’s exactly the same as usual.”

“Your Majesty still doesn’t know her boyfriend well. I should slip away for a bit~”

Joshua Roder was the type to rush toward anything like a moth to a flame just because it seemed interesting, but when he unusually slipped away and took a side path, Danielle felt uneasy instead. For now, she had no choice but to keep walking forward. Even if it felt like walking into a shark’s mouth.

Male students were standing near Frederick.

When Danielle approached while trying her best to hide her hesitation, Frederick straightened up from his locker. Then he pulled Danielle into his arms.

“Honey. I missed you.”

“Kyaa!”

Danielle’s feet instantly left the ground. Several of the male students looked Danielle up and down repeatedly with subtle gazes.

“But everyone’s gotten way too interested in you, right.”

“They’re staring more because you’re doing this…! Put me down.”

Frederick’s eyes, seen up close, were dead, and his lips were also dry. Like someone who hadn’t slept for almost a week.

Danielle wanted to reach out, but she was trapped in Frederick’s arms and couldn’t move. Finally, Frederick set Danielle down on the ground. His arms moved up slightly to tightly embrace her shoulders.

“Are you sick somewhere…?”

“Honey.”

The voice that settled sharply by her ear was unusually low. Danielle felt like she’d been caught by the police. Even though she hadn’t done anything wrong. I’m not a criminal.

“Sit here comfortably! It’s uncomfortable sitting like that.”

I mean, it’s not like I cheated or anything…

“Should I remove it? Or do you want to go to the dormitory and check?”

“What? You can remove it?”

She swore to heaven that she had no personal feelings for Chris whatsoever.

However, the moment she thought about how it might have looked to others, Danielle shrank as well.

But there’s no way Frederick could have seen that…

“Should we add just one rule to our relationship?”

She couldn’t complain about why he was having such a conversation in front of other people. The arm wrapped tightly around her squeezed Danielle’s shoulder heavily, and the voice touching her ear was too ominous.

‘Don’t cheat? Don’t get involved with other men?’

What did I do, hold hands or hug someone?

Being bound by rules was also annoying. In the end, it just felt like conditions that were good only for him, for the bet. But Frederick’s following words were completely different from what Danielle expected.

In a creepy voice like scraping the bottom of a cave, he said this:

“Let’s agree to forgive each other for whatever we do to the things that get too close to us.”

Things that get too close… ‘things’?

Whatever we do…?

‘What kind of things?’

It felt like blue paint was staining her arms and neck. She could see the male students in front looking away in confusion. Danielle turned her head to check Frederick’s expression.

The same gentle smile as always hung on his lips, but what was contained in his gray eyes—

Was clear madness. It shone like the eyes of a beast. Danielle was flustered.

“Fred…erick.”

“I looked it up yesterday. In ancient times too, in the Middle East too, men killed other males. Because wives are beings to be protected, and the problem is the intruders.”

The hand embracing her shoulder brushed around Danielle’s cheek area. The touch was delicate and affectionate. Like stroking a small chick.

The male students who had been rolling their eyes suddenly remembered they had things to do and disappeared in an instant, and Danielle found herself trapped between Frederick and the lockers as he gently pushed her. Just like the evening before.

This was actually better. Thanks to Frederick’s build, her view was limited so she didn’t have to be conscious of other students’ gazes.

However, due to the pressure, Danielle’s hand unconsciously fumbled for the locker touching her back.

“…Why are you suddenly saying such things?”

“I wasn’t stalking. I received an anonymous text.”

Frederick readily showed his phone. Two people, a man and woman who could be considered lovers, were looking at each other affectionately under the moonlight.

It was a common romantic photo. There would be no problem with it. If only those two people weren’t Danielle herself and Chris.

Danielle went cold.

‘Who would send something like this…’

She could finally understand Frederick’s reaction. Especially after she had said she was sleeping because she was tired. To anyone, it looked like a scene of infidelity.

Danielle frantically thought of excuses. Just by chance, it was nothing special, the photo just looked that way. She had plenty to say.

“Frederick, so—”

“It’s okay, honey. I have no intention of interrogating or blaming you. I also think what you said before was right.”

“What did I say?”

“When you said that if you think of Chris instead of me when there’s a problem, then naturally it’s my fault.”

That wasn’t something she had said with this kind of situation in mind.

Frederick had already become absorbed in staring at his phone screen. It was more burdensome to have him stare intently at her in the photo than to look at her real face.

Possessiveness? Or was his pride hurt?

Why exactly are you reacting like a different person…?

“You look comfortable. I didn’t know you had this kind of expression.”

“…”

“What’s so different between Chris and me? Of course I know we’re different in every way from one to ten, but I’m wondering why it’s Chris Fassbinder specifically.”

Danielle couldn’t define the madness contained in Frederick’s gray eyes. What he was thinking, what he wanted.

And in the end, his gray eyes inevitably stirred up hope within Danielle.

‘Maybe…’

Could he have developed even the slightest feelings for me?

So, something like… genuine feelings…

‘Like maybe he liked my changed appearance even a little…’

When Danielle slowly reached out one hand to gently rub around his cheek area, Frederick’s gaze, which had been focused only on the screen, returned to Danielle. Danielle swallowed dryly.

“Do you think I would ask just anyone to kiss me?”

As if reacting to the word kiss, Frederick leaned his upper body forward. Danielle’s arms were pushed back and her hands ended up pressing against Frederick’s chest.

“Right, I’m not just anyone… You wouldn’t say things like asking for a kiss to Chris.”

Kiss, kiss, kiss.

That word repeated continuously drove Danielle crazy.

Still, Danielle was embarrassed by that word. Both saying it out loud herself and hearing it formed by Frederick’s lips.

“I don’t do that…”

The moment Frederick’s lips softly touched near Danielle’s eyes, Danielle closed her eyes as if shrinking.

It seemed like just a few months ago she was glaring at couples doing all sorts of things in the hallway…

Now she was in that same position. Though it wasn’t quite a kiss.

‘…I wish you would just go crazy instead.’

Then I might be able to believe your feelings.

Frederick, supporting Danielle’s back with one arm, rubbed his head against Danielle’s shoulder.

“Honey, I’m sorry for saying scary things… Chris is your new friend.”

…Was what we talked about scary?

“I got excited for a moment.”

It would be normal to feel relieved. But Danielle unconsciously let out a short sigh.

It was like high tide and low tide. Everything was in its place, the ocean was just there. Getting sad when the ocean moved away, getting excited when the ocean approached. That’s what she was doing now. Like someone who had definitely gone crazy somewhere.

While blaming herself, Danielle missed one important fact.

Though he seemed to back down and act repentant, in reality Frederick Bastia had never retracted his statement.

The rule had been established.

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