She Became My Friend’s Mother-In-Law - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90. Last Struggle (3)

“Rainer! What’s wrong!”

As soon as the door opened, Cecilia rushed in.

She didn’t notice the study that had become a complete mess.

Nor did she see Tira standing there with her face pale as a sheet.

Her gaze was fixed solely on Rainer, who was breathing heavily and suffering in agony.

Without hesitation, she approached and embraced Rainer’s body.

‘My goodness, his whole body is burning up like that time.’

It was exactly like when he had nightmares shortly after she came to this house.

‘But they said he had gotten much better…’

Just then, Rainer showed signs of struggling again.

Cecilia tightened her arms around him and patted his back.

“It’s okay, Rainer. Calm down, there…”

She whispered in his ear with a gentle voice.

He instinctively buried his head in Cecilia’s shoulder.

She could feel his ragged breathing breaking against her shoulder.

“Fi, fire…”

“Rainer, there’s no fire. This place is safe.”

As those words reached him, Rainer’s breathing began to gradually calm down.

Soon he fell asleep, breathing evenly.

“Phew…”

Only then did Cecilia catch her breath.

Only then did she notice Tira, who had been sitting collapsed on the floor.

“…You.”

Tira, who had been in a daze until then, flinched and trembled.

She should have run away long ago.

Belatedly grasping the reality, she tried to get up in a hurry.

“Wait! Where do you think you’re going?”

Cecilia shouted urgently.

She couldn’t let her escape like this.

But with Rainer slumped in her arms, she couldn’t move away from him.

“Where are you trying to go!”

Just then, Harry burst in with other servants.

He roughly grabbed Tira’s arm.

She screamed and twisted her body.

“Let go! Let go of me! Why are you grabbing me!”

“Are you stupid, or are you really asking because you don’t know?”

Harry asked with an incredulous expression.

“Did you think we wouldn’t know you drugged His Grace?”

“I, I—!”

“Hey! Report this to the police station! On charges of attempting to poison His Grace!”

Tira’s eyes widened.

Poisoning!

A duke, no less!

This was on a completely different level from just being humiliated in front of a few people.

“Mu, murder is slander! I only tried to give him sleeping pills—!”

“Oh ho, are you confessing to using drugs right now?”

“…!”

Tira’s eyes widened.

She covered her mouth belatedly, but it was already too late.

The air in the study turned coldly still.

“Everyone heard that, right? This woman saying she drugged His Grace.”

“Yes, Sir Harry! We heard it clearly!”

“Arrest her immediately!”

“No, no! It’s not true! I said it’s not!”

Tira struggled, but.

The servants roughly grabbed her arms and dragged her out just like last time.

Tira’s voice crying out her innocence faded away down the corridor.

“Phew…”

As the situation was resolved, Harry wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand.

Even until then, Rainer remained slumped in Cecilia’s arms, fast asleep.

“Um, Harry. Could you help me?”

Cecilia called Harry with difficulty.

“I need to lay Rainer down properly first. It seems impossible to do alone.”

“Oh my! I understand.”

Cecilia and Harry supported Rainer together.

His large frame was completely limp, making it difficult to hold him up.

“Careful, be careful!”

The two of them struggled and barely managed to lay Rainer neatly on the sofa.

Cecilia sat beside him and covered him with a blanket.

“Good grief…”

Harry shook his head.

She had assured them it was just sleeping pills so he would sleep peacefully, but look how he suffered from nightmares.

It seemed to be a side effect of the drug.

“If I had known this would happen, I would have stopped His Grace to the end…”

“You would have stopped Rainer?”

Harry, who had been grumbling carelessly, belatedly shut his mouth.

An ‘oh no’ expression appeared on his face.

But it was already too late.

“Harry, what do you mean by that?”

“Ah, that is…”

Cold sweat ran down Harry’s back at Cecilia’s interrogation.

Other excuses wouldn’t work.

Finally, Harry hung his head low.

“His, His Grace… knew that Miss Tira was plotting something.”

“He knew?”

“Yes, so…”

Harry confessed everything that had happened with a resigned expression.

Tira’s visit to Elise.

What he had overheard.

And even the decision Rainer had made.

“…”

Rainer, who had actually orchestrated all of this, slept with an oblivious expression.

Cecilia’s expression darkened.

She stood up from her seat.

“Ma, Madam! Everything was because His Grace was worried about you!”

Harry, sensing something was wrong, hurriedly stepped forward.

But Cecilia’s expression didn’t soften easily.

Even so, this was too much.

He could have told her from the beginning, couldn’t he?

Of course, if that had been the case, she definitely would have stopped him.

‘What woman would give permission saying it’s fine when her husband wants to take sleeping pills.’

On top of that, hadn’t he even had nightmares.

Until just a moment ago, her heart had sunk with worry that something might happen to Rainer.

“….”

But now.

The moment she saw his face sleeping without knowing anything.

Something surged up from within her chest.

“I’ll be going now.”

Cecilia turned her back.

“Harry will handle everything from here on.”

“Huh? Madam, I—”

Harry tried to say something with a troubled expression.

But Cecilia left without answering.

“Wow, this is really bad….”

Looking at the firmly closed door, Harry scratched the back of his head vigorously.

He had a feeling that when Rainer woke up.

He would face a mountain bigger than Elise or Tira.

* * *

Three days later.

“What the hell is this!”

Elise shouted while leaning against the headboard of her bed.

After Tira was captured.

Sensing that things weren’t going well, she had pretended to be a patient.

At first, it seemed like she was getting away with it.

“From today, we will serve you, Dowager Duchess.”

Armed knights burst into her bedroom.

The sturdy knights stood in a row, blocking the entrance.

On the surface, it was under the pretext of protection.

But in reality, it was no different from confinement.

“How dare you bastards—!”

“Mother, please don’t scold the knights too harshly.”

Just then, Cecilia appeared at the entrance.

The knights all bowed their heads in unison to show respect upon seeing her.

Cecilia held her head high and walked confidently inside.

“You, you….”

Elise couldn’t continue her words and pointed her finger at Cecilia.

Cecilia lightly ignored this and sat on the edge of the bed.

“Tira Russ keeps saying strange things at the police station.”

Cecilia spoke in a gentle voice.

“Something about how Mother gave her medicine to harm Rainer?”

The captured Tira had mentioned Elise’s name, thinking she wouldn’t die alone.

But there was no proper evidence.

Testimony alone couldn’t dare interrogate a great noble.

When Elise simply lay down in bed, the investigation had essentially fizzled out.

‘As if I’d let anyone slip away?’

Of course, Cecilia wasn’t one to just let this slide.

She looked at Elise with a calm smile.

“Everyone already knows well that Mother is unwell. It’s nonsensical that someone who isn’t mentally sound would order someone to poison another person.”

“Hah….”

“That’s why I became more worried.”

Cecilia made an expression of genuine concern.

“I was afraid strange people might cling to Mother while she’s weakened.”

Cecilia placed her hand over Elise’s wrinkled hand.

And squeezed it tightly with force.

“Rainer personally requested protection personnel from the Royal Court. This place will be guarded more securely than any fortress in the Empire, so you don’t need to worry anymore. So….”

Cecilia, who smiled sweetly, leaned close to Elise’s ear.

And whispered so only the two of them could hear.

“Don’t do anything foolish from now on.”

“…!”

Elise’s eyes trembled at the cold voice.

Cecilia, who pulled her head back, put on the mask of a loving daughter-in-law again and smiled.

“You understand what I’m saying, don’t you, Mother?”

* * *

“Cecilia.”

When she came out of Elise’s room.

Rainer called to her from the other end of the corridor.

“I have nothing to say to you.”

But Cecilia coldly turned her back and walked in the opposite direction.

There was still resentment about the sleeping pill incident.

She had treated Rainer like an invisible person for three days.

“Cecilia, we need to talk today.”

This time, Rainer didn’t give up either.

He strode over and blocked her path.

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