Siena Dating Agency - Chapter 115

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115.

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A letter…?

Due to my mind not working properly, a few seconds of silence passed.

Then it suddenly came to mind.

The sentences from the letter I had struggled to write not long ago.

‘Oh, this is… damn. Shit.’

Instantly, from my neck to my ears became hot.

I hoped my face turning red wouldn’t show because of the sunset light…

‘There’s no way it wouldn’t show.’

It wasn’t even a 2-meter distance, and being this close to Lian, there was no way he wouldn’t notice.

“Ah…, th, that…”

My words got tangled.

My tongue wouldn’t move as I wanted.

I quickly retraced the letter’s contents in my mind.

‘What exactly did I say?’

I don’t remember everything, but…

[How is your body?

Did you receive treatment properly?]

I had asked about Lian’s condition.

[This is something you seem unaware of, so I’m telling you, but normally when people get hurt, they should go to the hospital.

That’s what hospitals exist for.

Understand? So don’t be stubborn about such things next time.]

I had scolded Lian a bit for not going to the hospital.

Well, this was justified nagging.

And…

[Not being able to see you… I think I’ll feel a bit empty.]

…This is really self-generated dark history.

But other than this, what…

[Don’t overdo it and rest well.

I hope we can see each other soon.]

…Ah, right.

‘I shouldn’t have written that last line.’

I didn’t think much of it at the time.

‘Of course. I had no idea I’d face Lian like this…!’

I bit my lips repeatedly in embarrassment.

Then I glanced up at Lian.

He was looking down at me with an expressionless face.

‘…But this guy, why did he really come here.’

Looking back at the letter’s contents made it even more incomprehensible.

‘I was just worried about a patient, I never told Lian to come here.’

If I had been the patient, it wouldn’t have been strange for Lian to visit Willow Manor.

With that smooth attitude of his, he would have said ‘Yeah, I came to visit the sick.’

But now it’s the opposite, isn’t it.

‘It’s a bit strange that the one gasping for breath is fine while the one who looks perfectly okay is the patient.’

I blinked slowly and replied.

“No… you came after seeing the letter I sent?”

Then Lian nodded slightly.

I narrowed my eyes.

“All the way here?”

“…Yeah.”

“Why? I just told you to rest well…”

“I had something to say.”

Lian cut it short.

His voice wasn’t light.

There was no smooth demeanor, no playful nuance.

‘Just… plain.’

It was so plain that it made my heart tighten instead.

I tried to suppress my trembling heart and answered.

“…What do you have to say?”

I asked back, but no immediate answer came.

Lian’s eyes looked deeper, tinted by the sunset glow.

So… I couldn’t read what was contained within them at all.

“…”

“…”

Time flowed quietly.

Silence stretched long over the cobblestone path.

Wind blew once, shaking the rose bushes beyond the fence.

A few petals fell between Lian and me, but neither of us paid attention.

I, who had been hesitating, finally broke the silence.

“If you have something to say, you could just… write back.”

The words came out snappily.

Even to my own ears, it sounded curt, which startled me a bit.

But it wasn’t because I really wanted to be snappy.

‘You’re still a patient.’

I could clearly see the bandage wrapped around Lian’s wrist.

Seeing that automatically reminded me of the blood that had pooled on the Center’s floor.

Coming all the way here by carriage in this condition…

‘Aren’t you an idiot, really.’

Whether you have something to say or not, you should take care of your body first.

‘That way… you’ll be able to come to work too.’

No, what am I saying.

Anyway, my tone became prickly because worry came first.

Hearing my words, Lian swallowed quietly.

Being close, I could see his Adam’s apple move slightly.

After staring at me for a while, he slowly opened his mouth.

“I have something to say… but it was too short to write in a letter.”

“…”

“And mail takes too long to reach you.”

Wind blew once more.

The sound of rose vines rustling brushed past my ears.

I steadied my breathing as if relying on that sound and asked back.

“…What do you want to say?”

Lian’s lips parted.

“I missed you.”

“…”

“I came to tell you that I missed you.”

My thoughts stopped for a moment.

‘…What?’

My brain had received his sentence but was refusing to process it.

It felt like my mind was completely blocked, like a filing cabinet that had exceeded its capacity.

“…What?”

My voice asking back was so thin I wondered if it was really mine.

But Lian didn’t repeat himself.

As if once was enough, he just looked down at me.

In his red eyes, the sunset was no longer reflected.

There was no afterimage of roses hanging over the wall either.

Only my face was reflected there.

It took 5 seconds to realize this, and another 5 seconds for my face to catch fire.

“…N-no….”

My mouth barely opened but couldn’t form words.

“G-goodness….”

I reflexively lowered my gaze.

I could see the tip of Lian’s shoes on the stone floor.

The distance between them and the tips of my shoes was less than half a step.

The sound of my heart pounding against my ribs echoed through my entire body.

‘E-excuse me, Lian.’

If you look at me with such serious eyes and say such things….

‘I think I might die of cardiac arrest…!’

I had thought all along that Lian was just playing games with me.

Simple fishing like a casanova like Chase would do.

‘But now….’

I keep thinking that might not be the case.

“….”

Meanwhile, Lian’s lips moved slightly then closed again.

His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down irregularly twice.

‘Just like he was swallowing something.’

Watching that, I suddenly realized.

This man… was unable to speak right now.

‘Lian de Vicelle.’

That guy who’s light as a balloon.

The man who never stopped talking every day was now unable to open his mouth.

‘…What?’

If it were the usual Lian, he would have already thrown out a comment by now.

‘Yeah, I came because I missed you. My darling, are you moved? You’re so touched that a tear is about to fall from those doe-like eyes. Oh my, oh my…. I can’t just watch my darling’s tears flow away. Here, let me capture this beautiful shooting star in the bottle of my heart.’

…Something like that.

‘He would have smiled annoyingly and made the atmosphere light.’

But Lian didn’t do anything.

He just stood there with an unreadable expression.

As the silence lengthened, something inside me became clearer.

It felt like all the fragments that had been accumulating were finally coming together in one place.

‘…I actually know, don’t I.’

I remembered when Lian first came to the Center.

“Hello, Center Director. Please take care of me. I’ll be looking forward to your consideration for me from now on?”

And then he ignored the seat assigned under his name and sat boldly on the sofa next to my seat.

“…Excuse me. Why are you sitting there?”

“Hm? Can’t I sit here?”

“No….”

“This is the seat where I can see the Center Director’s face well, so I sat here. Is there a problem?”

I pictured him continuously approaching me and whispering.

“You can see fine from your original seat.”

“I have bad eyesight, you see. I like to see everything up close.”

“….”

“Good things should be seen big, you know?”

There was more than that.

“Here.”

“Huh…?”

“Take it.”

The grasshopper who stuck to the sofa every day brought me coffee.

“Whether you’re hurt anywhere, however much you’re hurt, whatever happened, you’re injured. So I said you need to rest properly.”

“….”

“But you don’t listen and come out this early? Why are you ignoring my words…. No, the doctor’s words.”

At the ballroom, he got angry asking why I was already walking around when I had hurt my foot.

‘He knelt down himself and put new shoes on my feet.’

And… the voice that suddenly confessed in the carriage.

“I realized once again why I like you….”

…It was sincere.

All of it.

‘It wasn’t just playing around.’

My breath caught.

I had thought all along that this person was habitually flirting with me.

But in reality… I might have known all along.

I was just scared to acknowledge it.

‘Because if I acknowledged it, I couldn’t handle where my heart would roll to.’

I raised my head and met Lian’s gaze.

Red eyes revealed between black hair were looking straight at me.

“…Lian, do you like me?”

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