Resetting Lady - Chapter 198

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“Honey.”

“There’s no choice.”

The couple agreed for the first time in a long while. Let’s quickly pretend to go along with Isella’s wishes and get her married. Though not as satisfactory as Raymond, it wasn’t such a bad choice. Sion’s shortcomings could easily be filled with money.

Verdick looked at Sion, who was restlessly pacing near Isella’s room, and spoke.

“I’ll allow your marriage to my daughter.”

“Pardon?”

“I won’t ask twice. Will you do it?”

Sion looked somewhat bewildered, but gave the answer he desired.

“…If Miss Isella agrees, I would be grateful.”

“Good.”

Verdick looked down at the young knight.

As quickly as possible, they had to marry her off and bury all these facts. Isella had never been kidnapped or anything of the sort.

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“I wasn’t harmed. Are you satisfied? There’s another woman who was harmed in my place.”

“Isella!”

Isella raised her hand to cover her eyes.

She loved her father. She respected her father. She didn’t deny that everything she had was thanks to her father. But Isella felt her body gradually growing cold at this side of her father. Even though she was warmly dressed.

“Father, you have connections with Prince Guize, don’t you?”

Isella remembered that Verdick had connections with the royal family. Though Verdick didn’t tell Isella detailed stories, he liked to boast during meals by sharing business talk. She recalled that Verdick had bragged about establishing connections with Prince Guiz and brought up the topic.

“Prince Guize kidnapped Karen and me. Because we were young women who witnessed something.”

“…Selina, please check if there’s anyone outside the door.”

Selina quietly stood up and checked outside the door. Then she firmly locked it.

“No one’s there.”

“That’s a relief.”

Verdick took Isella’s hand. Isella looked down at her forcibly held hand and listened to his words.

“How did you get involved in such a terrible incident?”

“I was taking a walk with Karen and we went too far. Then we witnessed people disposing of a corpse… We were captured and when I opened my eyes, I was in the royal palace basement.”

She felt nauseous.

“Karen pleaded to stay in my place, so he released me. But actually, he didn’t release me. He was trying to kill me.”

“…Prince Guize wouldn’t do such a thing. A servant must have misunderstood. It was just an accident.”

“Do you really think so?”

“Yes.”

Verdick wasn’t surprised. He just denied it. Prince Guiz wouldn’t do such a thing. His own daughter had been dragged away and returned, yet he called it just an accident. That wasn’t an accident. Isella couldn’t understand. Just an accident! How could he dismiss her being dragged away and returning as a simple accident?

Isella understood only after a moment.

That Prince Guiz wouldn’t do such a thing didn’t mean he wasn’t that kind of person. It meant he wouldn’t do such a thing to Isella, his daughter.

“…Father, so… you knew?”

“…Originally, royalty has many… unpleasant hobbies…”

For the first time in her life, Isella felt disgust toward Verdick. Just as she was about to say something more to her father, he spoke first. It was an intentional interruption of the conversation.

“This won’t do at all.”

Isella stared in disbelief at her father who was actually scolding her, but Verdick threatened even more strongly.

“Your marriage to Sion Electra will have to be postponed too. As you said, you’re too young to marry.”

“Father, that’s not the issue right now.”

Verdick intentionally ignored Isella’s words and continued.

“Isella, you’re forbidden from going out for the time being. Whether it’s one year or two years, you won’t be able to come out until you come to your senses.”

“What? Several years?”

“Yes. Go back to the family home immediately and slowly think about your mistakes.”

Isella felt like her heart was dropping. Not just a few days, but several years? This was no different from confinement. Isella asked back in disbelief. The joy of reunion disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“What did I do wrong?”

“Isn’t leaving the house your mistake! If you hadn’t gone out of the house on your own in the first place, nothing would have happened!”

“What?”

Verdick was treating this entire incident as a simple case of running away from home. He turned to his wife.

“Selena, it would be good for you to stay with Isella for the time being. I think I should visit Prince Guize. With gifts, to apologize for the trouble and express gratitude.”

“That person is a madman!”

“Be quiet! You saw it wrong! Where do you get off spouting such nonsense!”

Verdick was about to strike down a vase within reach in his anger, but stopped. Veins bulged in his forearm, but he desperately gathered his remaining self-control.

“Isella, you… saw it wrong. That person wouldn’t do such a thing. How much money have I given him… To accidentally kidnap and kill my daughter… That’s impossible. A room with corpses piled up, your head must be wrong… Please, Selena.”

“I understand. Isella, let’s go down tomorrow.”

“Father!”

“I’m leaving first.”

Bang.

Verdick deliberately slammed the door hard and left.

“…Good heavens. Mother, what is Father…”

Isella stared blankly at the door in disbelief. She knew her father wasn’t such a good person. She guessed that more than a few people had died because of Verdick.

But she thought that was something more distant from herself. She thought it wasn’t something Isella herself needed to worry about. However, after experiencing it directly, it was on a completely different level from what she had vaguely imagined.

When Verdick’s selfish side was directed at her, Isella found it very uncomfortable. Verdick didn’t even try to listen to her words. The biggest reason she had run away wasn’t anything else. Though Raymond had been the catalyst, it was because her father’s high-handed attitude was suffocating.

The family that had seemed harmonious for a moment quickly returned to reality.

“There’s no choice, Isella. Getting involved with the royal family is dangerous. Never speak of it again.”

“…Karen Hyer… because of me.”

“It can’t be helped. Just forget about it. I’ll make sure Karen’s father receives adequate compensation. Lord Hyer will see his estate develop like never before.”

She would repay the family with money. But her family would never know why they received such compensation.

Isella doubted whether Verdick would even provide compensation. Her father was someone who didn’t give rewards he couldn’t take credit for. The Hyer estate would be fortunate not to be ruined, let alone developed.

“Would Father really do that?”

“Isella, if your father doesn’t do it, I’ll do my best to provide compensation. It’s a promise between women. But… let’s withdraw from this matter now.”

“…Compensation? If I had died, would you have received compensation from Prince Guize too, Mother?”

“Don’t be sarcastic. We also have limits to what we can do. This is as far as we can go.”

But a person was kidnapped. This country’s crown prince is a serial killer. They’re just going to bury such a matter and move on?

Isella still felt like her throat was tingling. And the corpses, corpses, corpses hanging all over the wall. She was supposed to be hung there too. Karen might be hanging there by now.

“Isella, you heard your father say he was going to Prince Guize when he left.”

Selena held her daughter and defended her husband.

“Wouldn’t your father naturally be angry that you almost died? But your father can’t show anger to Prince Guize. He’s royalty. Rather, we’re in a position where we have to give him gifts and ask for his mercy. File a complaint? Against whom? Save whom? We can’t do it. Isella, we can’t.”

“I almost died…”

“Because you almost died.”

Isella felt strength enter her mother’s hands holding her.

“We can’t lose you. We must acknowledge that before royalty, we’re just wallets that produce money. Isella, we’re not in a position to help others right now… We should be grateful just for preserving your life. Accept your father’s limitations.”

Would Karen Hyer die like this because of her? Isella regretted why she had told Karen she would come back to save her. Who was going to save whom? When she couldn’t even handle herself.

“Please, I beg you… stay still…”

“Mom…”

“I’m begging you.”

Tears were forming in Selena’s eyes.

Isella found it difficult to say anything more to her mother. But forgetting Karen was also frightening.

‘Karen must have a baby in her belly.’

That thought made Isella’s heart even heavier.

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