She Became My Friend’s Mother-In-Law - Chapter 52
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Chapter 52. The Disgrace Falls to Rosena (2)
But it was already too late.
“Now, the Duchess is here… Huh?”
Nancy, who had entered excitedly, stopped in her tracks.
The situation inside was different from what she had expected.
While she was trying to understand the situation with a bewildered face, the noble ladies behind her began whispering in shock.
“Oh my!”
“Countess Devlin, what you said you’d show us…”
“Good heavens, look at the Young Duke!”
“How disgraceful!”
Screams erupted from the noble ladies.
Evan was sprawled on the floor with his shirt half undone and his pants not properly adjusted.
No explanation was needed to understand what kind of situation this was.
Evan frantically pulled up his pants as he stood up.
“E-everyone! It’s not what it looks like—!”
“Kyaa, kyaah! Don’t come near me! Pervert!”
“Evan! Sit down! Sit back down!”
Evan stood up to explain himself, but only ended up showing more embarrassing aspects.
The noble ladies covered their eyes in an uproar, and Nancy just rolled her eyes stupidly.
Rosena was screaming with a face mixed with shame and anger.
Then, a low and cold voice cut through the surroundings.
“That’s enough.”
The inside of the tavern fell into momentary silence.
Rainer slowly approached Evan and Rosena.
“Well, this is quite an ‘interesting spectacle.'”
Rainer looked down at the married couple and sneered in a low voice.
Evan and Rosena sat slumped on the floor, unable to say anything.
“I think you need to explain this.”
Rainer turned to look at Cecilia, who had been standing quietly beside him.
“That is…”
Cecilia hesitated for a moment, closed her eyes tightly, then slowly opened them again.
A sigh escaped through her lips.
“I’m sorry, Rainer.”
Her gaze turned to Evan, who was slumped on the floor.
Her eyes held cold contempt.
“I tried to handle it quietly on my own as much as possible. But it seems I only created misunderstandings.”
“Handle? Handle what?”
“I knew Evan had been behaving inappropriately lately. I knew you wouldn’t like it if you found out, so I tried to quietly scold him myself.”
“L-lies!”
Rosena shouted.
“You were meeting that actor! Behind your husband’s back!”
“Rosena.”
Cecilia didn’t even blink.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Right now, the one who met someone else behind their spouse’s back is your husband.”
“Wh-what?”
“Why? Do you want to deny it even after coming all the way here? But your husband right before your eyes is…”
Cecilia shook her head as if she didn’t want to say more.
Eyes half-glazed with alcohol, lipstick marks remaining all over his body, a shirt he couldn’t even button up properly.
It overlapped with the disgusting sight of Evan she had seen just before dying in her previous life.
Except this time, it wasn’t Cecilia who was shocked, but Rosena.
‘How does it feel to receive exactly what I received?’
Cecilia looked down at Rosena with mocking eyes.
Rosena’s face was one of utter dismay.
“Rosena.”
When she called again, Rosena’s shoulders flinched.
“Why couldn’t you just wait a little? If you had stayed still, you wouldn’t have suffered this disgrace.”
“Th-that can’t be…”
“You dug everything up with your own hands, so I can’t help it either. What should I do now.”
It was a tone that sounded genuinely regretful, but mockery was buried beneath it.
Cecilia looked around.
Nancy and the other noble ladies were unable to do anything.
Cecilia laughed mockingly.
It was amusing to see them all gathered here to peek at someone else’s scandal.
But the person who would be disgraced today was someone else entirely.
“I don’t think I can do anything more about this, so you’ll have to handle it yourself, Rosena.”
Cecilia left the people behind and turned to leave.
Behind her, she could hear Rosena shouting and getting angry at Evan.
She stepped outside the building with a victorious smile.
“What an unpleasant place.”
Rainer, who had somehow followed beside Cecilia, said.
“It can’t be helped. It’s not a place I chose, but one Evan picked.”
Cecilia shrugged her shoulders.
“But you know…”
Soon Cecilia looked up at Rainer with sly eyes.
“At first you said to go easy since it was just for show, but how could you corner someone like that in the corridor?”
“Since we were doing it anyway, I wanted to do it properly.”
“Even so.”
When Cecilia spoke in a sulky voice, Rainer smiled slightly and snapped his fingers twice.
“Didn’t I give the pre-arranged signal as promised?”
In fact, the cold atmosphere between the two had been entirely intentional acting.
After the meetings with Michel backstage had failed a couple of times.
Cecilia eventually confessed the entire situation to Rainer.
It seemed like this would become a long-term affair, and she wanted to prevent unnecessary misunderstandings in advance.
‘—So I think I’ll need to keep trying to talk to that actor for a while. I hope you won’t misunderstand.’
‘Misunderstand? What misunderstanding?’
‘Never mind. From your reaction, it seems I was worrying for nothing.’
Cecilia did sigh at Rainer’s playful response.
But while Rainer acted nonchalant, he didn’t let his guard down regarding Rosena.
‘That woman seems to think only of you and only look at you. I’d believe it if you called that love.’
After hearing Rainer’s words, Cecilia decided to use Rosena’s spying to her advantage.
She had already heard from Wendy that Evan was living in taverns from broad daylight.
‘I have a good idea.’
And that prediction hit perfectly.
Not only did she follow Cecilia, but she even brought people with her to cause today’s incident.
“What a tenaciously leech-like woman.”
“Yet it’s funny how she can’t let go of living with a pathetic man like Evan.”
Cecilia sneered.
Evan, who couldn’t help himself around women and made a fool of himself, and Rosena, who caused all sorts of trouble trying to have such a man.
They were truly a matching pair of insects.
“Anyway, now I can approach that actor again with peace of mind—”
“Hey there! You wealthy folks!”
Just then, they heard someone calling to them from over there.
“Come, come this way! You won’t regret it!”
The one calling them was a tout grinning unpleasantly.
Only then did Cecilia truly realize how low-class this street was.
Even in broad daylight, a dim and gloomy atmosphere pervaded the area.
The tout approached closer with a sly smile.
“Are you two married? We have a nice place for married couples at our shop—”
“Not interested.”
Rainer pulled Cecilia close, protectively embracing her shoulder.
“Get away from my wife.”
“Eek! My apologies!”
At Rainer’s fierce glare, the tout quickly retreated.
Even after he had gone, Rainer was still holding Cecilia in his embrace.
“…Rainer?”
Cecilia suddenly realized just how tall he was.
She was quite tall herself, yet she had to crane her neck up to look at him like this.
Looking at his face, she suddenly remembered what Mary had said.
‘If someone living with the most handsome man in the Empire said such things, everyone would be green with envy, wouldn’t they?’
The most handsome man in the Empire…
She had laughed it off casually at the time.
But somehow, those words felt much more vivid and real now.
“Come to think of it.”
Rainer looked down at Cecilia.
When their eyes met, Cecilia hastily looked away.
Her heart pounded, wondering if he might have caught her thoughts, but she tried to maintain a composed expression.
Rainer tilted his head for a moment, then returned to the main topic.
“The thought of you continuing to chase after that actor doesn’t sit well with me.”
“What? Why not?”
“It bothers me.”
Rainer pulled Cecilia closer to him.
“I think I’ll end up having the same concerns as The Prince.”
“What did you say?”
Cecilia’s eyes widened.
She recalled the joke about The Prince being anxious that the Crown Princess might take a handsome lover.
Rainer chuckled softly.
“But even if I tried to stop you, you wouldn’t listen anyway.”
With those words, he released Cecilia.
Cecilia realized that her heart had been racing the entire time.
She wanted to ask why he would have such concerns, but.
“Your Grace! Over here!”
The coachman’s call from over there made her miss the timing.
Until he escorted Cecilia into the carriage, Rainer said nothing more.
“By the way.”
Once they were seated and the carriage had started moving, Rainer spoke again.
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