My Ex-Husband Came Back Crazy - Chapter 81

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Episode 81
Chapter 9. Remnants (1)
He stepped closer, raising an eyebrow before letting the words fall sharp and cold.
“Come with me.”
The command in his voice—glacial, biting—made Celia’s lips part in shock. This bastard?
“Evandor, you’ve lost your mind. I thought having an heir meant you’d grow some sense—”
“Come, Lucius Windmere.”
……Him?
Celia had half-risen from her seat, but she froze. Her twisted lips smoothed back into place even as Evandor stepped in front of Lucius.
He braced his hand against the armrest of Lucius’s chair and leaned in.
“I’ve got something to say to you. Get up.”
The crooked, immense shadow he cast seemed to swallow Lucius whole.
“Better move before I drag you out.”
Celia’s eyes darted rapidly between the two men.
Evandor’s gaze glinted with open hostility, while Lucius met that force head-on with an oddly unhurried calm.
Soon enough, Lucius set down his glass without a word and rose from his seat.
“You could say it here. I’m listening.”
“Want to humiliate yourself in front of everyone?”
Each word cut like a blade.
Celia squeezed between them and shoved at their solid chests.
“What are you two doing?”
Evandor’s gaze flicked to her for a moment before sliding right back to Lucius—as if she didn’t exist. Blood rushed to Celia’s temples.
“Evandor Brickwell. Are you ignoring me right now?”
“……That’s not—!”
That was when Lucius seized her wrist and pulled her into his arms. Both siblings’ eyes went wide.
A large hand covered her eyes just as they began to flush, and he spoke in a voice pleasant to hear.
“Seems my brother-in-law has something he wants to discuss.”
Brother-in-law……
The unfamiliar word drained the fight from Celia’s eyes. In that moment, a taut tension stretched between the two men like a drawn bowstring.
Celia twisted free from his grip, regaining her senses late.
…………
…………
Evandor’s eyes burned with intensity, while Lucius received that force with unhurried ease.
Standing side by side, the two tall men made breathing feel tight and difficult. If Evandor was like a sharp, wild beast, Lucius was a relaxed and colossal predator.
“Evandor. Lucius.”
For a moment, they simply stared at each other in heavy silence.
Lucius broke the stillness first.
He smiled as though nothing had happened, then turned to look at Celia. His knuckles gently traced her cheek. At his familiar touch, her shoulders—stiff with tension—went limp.
Evandor, meanwhile, jerked back as if he’d been told to confess to a crime.
“Who the hell are you touching?!”
His brows twisted savagely. He looked ready to strike Lucius down on the spot.
Just as worry shot through Celia that there might be a scene at the Foundation Festival, Lucius withdrew his hand.
But the problem was that he withdrew slowly, tilting his head and letting his gaze slide toward Evandor.
Celia knew his type well—she had a similar nature herself. He would never tolerate such indifferent, dismissive behavior.
“How dare a Windmere—”
“Evan.”
Celia grabbed both his hands urgently.
Others would think they were simply holding hands tenderly, but they wouldn’t notice her heel grinding painfully into his foot beneath the hem of her dress.
…………
“Close that mouth. Father is here.”
Her whisper worked like magic on a well-trained hound. Evandor, who had been baring his teeth, went still.
“Don’t you dare cause a scene. And if you’re planning to drag him off and mouth off at him, don’t bother taking him at all.”
Evandor’s lips twitched rebelliously. As Celia watched his eyes twist in anger, her heel came down on his foot again, and his jaw clenched visibly.
It was then that Lucius, who had been quietly observing the tangled shadows, spoke.
“I’ll be back soon, Celia.”
The words rendered her efforts to soothe Evandor helpless.
Lucius gave Evandor’s shoulder a light pat, then turned toward the Corridor. Evandor bit his lip and followed.
“What conversation could you possibly need?!”
As the two tall men’s figures receded into the distance, Celia let out a small sound of frustration.
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A hymn echoed faintly through the shadowed Corridor.
The holy chant that had dyed the festival ground seemed to ring out here as a grotesque dissonance.
Much like their relationship.
Bang!
“Tell me, Lucius Windmere.”
The moment Celia and the eyes of others vanished, Evandor shoved Lucius hard against the wall ahead of him.
Lucius’s face was suddenly flooded with Evandor’s blue eyes.
Blue eyes like those of a woman he loved, longed to gaze upon, desired to possess—and sometimes wanted to devour whole.
“What gives you the right to stir up trouble trying to break my engagement to Lady Cloe Larendel?”
Only then did Lucius understand why he’d been summoned.
Recently, Lucius had moved with considerable diligence to honor his promise to Celia.
House Larendel had once covered up a massive loss from a land reclamation project in the Northern Region several years back by secretly borrowing against timber harvesting rights in the frontier and portions of their territory—without imperial sanction. And the Debt Document from that transaction was now in Lucius’s hands.
‘I don’t remember acquiring it, so I’m not even sure why I have the damn thing.’
What mattered was that he held leverage over the Marquis in his grasp.
Lucius had intended to use it to push through the Breaking Engagement, and Evandor had apparently discovered his plan.
When Lucius let out a heavy sigh at the headache of it all, the dimple at the corner of Evandor’s mouth twisted in contempt.
“Can’t even make an excuse, huh?”
“There’s no excuse to make. Maybe start by letting go?”
“Shameless bastard…! Did you think I wouldn’t notice you sniffing around the Marquis’s house lately? Or—is that rumor about you and Cloe Larendel being lovers back in the day actually true?”
Evandor’s eyes went sharp and cold.
“When my sister’s marriage was decided, I thought I’d go mad, but there was only one reason I didn’t destroy your wedding.”
Before Lucius could speak, Evandor’s grip tightened.
Even as breath was squeezed from him, Lucius kept his steady gaze fixed on him, listening. At those narrowing black pupils, Evandor’s teeth clenched hard.
“Even if you ignored my sister, mocked her, jeered at her—I believed you were the kind of bastard who would never cheat, debase himself with some woman, or lay a hand on her like that!”
He slammed Lucius against the wall again. The dull sound echoed through the Corridor.
“And now you’re pulling this crap trying to get back together with your ex? What the hell is wrong with you?”
As Evandor raised his fist to strike—
Lucius twisted out of his grip, wrenching free.
Their hands locked in a fierce, brutal clash for an instant. Evandor, who had been trembling with force along his forearms, finally lost his footing and was driven back against the wall.
“Evandor Brickwell. Don’t talk nonsense.”
A rough rasp came from Lucius, who had been so calm until now.
“I don’t know what you think is happening, but I would never do such a pathetic thing where Celia is concerned.”
“What? You want me to believe that? Then what reason would you have to break off my engagement—”
“Because Celia wished for it.”
At his words, Evandor’s pupils trembled violently.
“If that’s what Celia desires, then I’ll do it, whether you agree or not.
He pulled his hand away from Evandor’s and added quietly.
“If the misunderstanding is cleared now, I should get back, don’t you think? You know your sister hates being alone in a place like this.”
There was no request in his tone; Lucius turned his back without hesitation.
At that arrogant, infuriating back, Evandor’s voice cracked with outrage.
“Don’t make me laugh, you deceiver! You lose a little memory and suddenly you’re kind and gentle to my sister? New feelings emerge out of nowhere? That’s insane.”
Lucius stopped and turned his head over his shoulder.
“You know what? You actually liked my sister even before you lost your memory, didn’t you?”

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