Resetting Lady - Chapter 148

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Verdick came down with hurried steps, glaring at Karen Hyer. Karen stared right back at him.

“What exactly is your relationship with Lord Raymond? What are you doing here?”

“…”

But Karen couldn’t answer because her mouth was gagged. Realizing he had asked a stupid question, Verdick roughly tore off the cloth covering Karen’s mouth.

“Cough, cough.”

“Tell me what you’re hiding in this manor. Right now!”

Karen grimaced and coughed. Her position was uncomfortable. Her neck hurt too.

“Suddenly coming to Tess Manor when the owner isn’t even here… what kind of behavior is this, gentleman.”

“Pretending not to know me isn’t amusing, Karen Hyer.”

“My name isn’t Karen Hyer.”

Karen recalled the name she had made up last time.

“My name is Cally.”

“Put away that surname-less alias, Karen.”

“I can’t say something that isn’t true is correct. I’m Cally.”

For a moment her tongue almost got twisted. She cleared her throat and spoke again.

“Lord Raymond… saved my life. When I met bandits in the forest and lost my family, just as I was about to be killed, he saved me and let me live in this manor.”

“Those family members?”

Karen thought of Nancy and tried to make her voice sound appropriately sorrowful. They were like family, I suppose. And they did die.

“I lived with wandering gypsies. And they all died.”

“Ha!”

Verdick snorted. Then he grabbed Karen’s chin. Karen’s cheek was pressed in his grip. Verdick glared at Karen and spoke in a voice almost trembling with rage.

“You really take me for a complete fool.”

“…It’s true. I’m of wandering origins, and I received Lord Raymond’s great kindness…”

“Take off her shoes. Untie her bindings too.”

One of the subordinates behind him asked in a bewildered voice.

“Pardon?”

“Hurry up. Don’t tell me you’re going to spout nonsense about one woman being dangerous.”

“Ah, yes yes. Understood, master.”

His master was impatient.

“What, what are you doing?”

Whether Karen was flustered or not, the man removed Karen’s shoes.

“The socks too.”

“Yes.”

“Good grief… Right now, what is this…”

Pure white feet were revealed. And Karen’s white, delicate hands were exposed. Karen knew why he had done this. Since it wasn’t a proper lie, it showed immediately like this.

“Who said you were a wandering gypsy maid? With hands that have never lifted anything heavier than a book? With feet that don’t have a single callus?”

Verdick pointed to Karen’s hands and feet as he spoke.

“Lord Raymond helped me a great deal.”

“A noble helping a maid!”

“Because he’s different from you.”

Karen raised her head and stared directly into Verdick’s blazing eyes. Actually, thinking about it, there was nothing more for her to fear. And she didn’t want to be afraid either. It didn’t matter whether he believed her or not.

She thought she somewhat understood why Raymond had done such things.

Karen found it amusing that Verdick was beside himself with rage. And she had no intention of telling Verdick the truth.

“Yes. I was a wanderer, and had no one to depend on. Only Lord Raymond showed me kindness.”

Let’s hold back the laughter.

Verdick wanted to kill her right now but couldn’t lay a hand on her. Karen answered meekly. I don’t know.

“Karen, Karen Hyer. Continuing like this isn’t good.”

From behind, Linde began trying to appease Karen in a softer voice while adjusting his glasses. Trying the carrot after the stick? How boring.

“You are being deceived right now. Isella Evans, the only daughter of Verdick Evans here, has been missing for almost half a year now. The prime suspect is Baron Raymond Seyertes.”

“…”

She knew that too. Karen closed her eyes. She didn’t want to hear it.

“A suspect, I said.”

“…”

That was a lie.

Raymond wasn’t a proper suspect like they claimed. That was certain. Because Raymond was the noble of this place, and they were currently trespassing and pressuring Karen without any authority.

They had no such right. But while acting as a maid named Cally, it was best to keep stubbornly insisting rather than pointing out such facts. But thinking Karen had understood, Linde continued speaking.

“Think carefully. How would it look for just the two of you to live alone in such a grand manor. This is far from normal.”

“Lord Raymond doesn’t particularly like people.”

Though that was actually a lie.

Karen answered while giggling inwardly. But Linde didn’t seem to know that and continued speaking earnestly to Karen.

“A place like this needs about 100 people brought in to manage it properly. Also, he’s not properly fulfilling his duties as the baron of this region. Karen, fine. Cally. I understand wanting to trust Lord Raymond, but you mustn’t trust him.”

“…”

Whether Karen remained silent or not, he continued speaking. It seemed like words more conscious of Verdick behind him. If Linde wasn’t talking to Karen, it seemed like the impatient Verdick would slap Karen’s cheek immediately.

“Miss Isella was his fiancée. And one day she suddenly disappeared. Also, not long after that, all the servants of this manor were dismissed. Among them were his relatives, and even the gamekeeper who had cared for him since childhood. How can you trust a man who drove out everyone and shut himself up alone in the house?”

“…”

Raymond did that entirely for Karen’s sake.

“I think you are Karen Hyer. Because you have the exact same face as the missing Karen.”

“I’m Cally, not Karen.”

“…Cut it out.”

Verdick growled from behind. Linde urgently repeated his explanation to Karen.

“Gentleman, I’ve said this many times, but I can’t say something that isn’t true is correct. I’m not the kind of person you think I am, and Lord Raymond isn’t the kind of person you think he is either.”

Even she found it hard to believe, but Karen had no choice but to repeat those words like a parrot.

“Karen, you must be Karen.”

“Since I can’t give you the answer you want, there’s nothing I can do. Gentleman, you should go back and look for God instead.”

Linde looked back at Verdick with a troubled expression. Verdick Evans nodded.

“Tell her. That woman is definitely Karen Hyer.”

“Understood.”

The man lowered his voice.

“…Miss Karen Hyer, your father has passed away.”

Lord Hyer couldn’t overcome the grief of your disappearance. You must return.

“Miss, please answer. Are you Karen Hyer? We believe you are. And you must leave this place with us. Shouldn’t you see Lord Hyer’s face one last time before he’s buried?”

“…”

Karen pondered this unexpected story. It was a familiar dilemma after a long time. She had to think about what expression would be good here. She had to choose what reaction would be best. It was hard to know what emotions she herself was feeling right now. It was again the sensation of being separated from the world.

“…I am.”

To maintain her reaction so far, Karen had to show only the expression of Cally, not Karen. No matter how much Verdick didn’t believe her and threatened her, she had to stick to that attitude. She had to say she had no father, that she grew up in the hands of wandering gypsies, and that Raymond was her only family.

But Verdick doesn’t believe it. He’s certain that Karen is Karen. Karen knows that too. But she must continue with lies he won’t fall for. Because Raymond isn’t here now, Karen doesn’t know what to say. She can only repeat the same words over and over. Should she show her appearance as Karen again now?

But was she sad right now? But Karen wasn’t sad. It was hard to suddenly grieve her father’s death. Her father had died too often. To her, father was just text. It had been that way for too long. Grieving her father’s death was too awkward.

“You’ll fall in love and all the hard times will be over.”

She had always been someone’s lover, enemy, and bitch, not someone’s child. Karen was actually more familiar with Verdick than her biological father. What meaning did her father’s death have for Karen? How sudden. His death was just one of the means to more easily gain sympathy from Raymond.

But these men didn’t know what kind of woman the Karen before them was.

So they were treating her like an ordinary, lovesick girl who acted foolishly, perhaps a slightly crazy adolescent girl. Karen looked at Linde who was speaking to her soothingly. He was speaking as if he were addressing Isella.

“Lord Hyer passed away from grief while searching for you. This is not a lie. If you come down to the town with us and send a telegram to Hyer Estate, you’ll get an answer from there. No, by tomorrow that obituary will be in the local newspaper too. We could have them bring that.”

Karen shook her head.

“I’m not saying you’re lying right now. I’m just saying I’m not the person you think I am. I’m not Karen Hyer, I’m Cally. And the only person precious to me is Lord Raymond.”

Rather, when her father was killed by Tom last time and she lamented that her love for her mother was smaller than she thought, that seemed more pitiful. It was hard to suddenly grieve now that her father had died.

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