The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 196

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Part 2, Chapter 43

The servant stood tall. He asked back as if doubting his ears.

“Get out. Don’t come until I call for you.”

“Pardon?”

“Damn it, are your ears completely blocked?”

The distorted expression and fierce voice speaking through clenched teeth remained the same.

The elderly servant nodded his head, worried he might catch stray sparks.

“Yes, yes. Then please call me anytime if you need anything.”

Click. The door closed.

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A new guest had arrived at the Claudio Estate.

Mariyu cared for Samon with utmost devotion. Even his mother Catherine was moved by her sincere nursing.

“You’re Medeia’s maid… exactly when did you start…?”

“Sigh. Still, I’ll have to entrust Samon to you. Right now that child only insists on you.”

She didn’t like Mariyu, who had been dishonorably expelled from the Royal Palace.

However, all the caregivers who were fed up with Samon’s hysteria had fled. Even she, his mother, couldn’t handle Samon.

Mariyu was the only person who could soothe her son, who had now become a tyrant, without fear.

“Don’t worry. Being able to help him is my greatest joy.”

Mariyu answered with a clear face.

With her malice and desire gone, she now looked more peaceful than a saint.

“Leave it to me.”

She even helped support Samon, who had difficulty moving, to the bathroom.

There wasn’t a trace of resentment on her face as she wiped away sweat with her beautiful features.

Only the desire to relieve Samon’s discomfort as quickly as possible showed through.

Even a heartless person like Samon couldn’t help but be shaken by her limitless, angelic care.

‘Mother and the servants all hesitate to come near me now.’

Samon too could feel with his skin how the people around him were becoming increasingly indifferent day by day.

The fear created by his fierce shouting was only momentary, and the servants’ attendance was becoming increasingly neglectful.

‘Since I’ve been abandoned by both the 4th Princess and Kazen, they think I’m finished now.’

But Mariyu, the former lover whom Samon had cruelly cast aside, was remarkably devoted even before his most miserable state.

‘This girl accepts everything.’

Samon’s eyes, lost in thought, gleamed with a cunning color for the first time in a while.

‘Above all, recovery comes first now.’

He had to get up from bed as soon as possible and pay back that damn bitch Medeia who had made him like this.

‘That bitch pulled strings. Just like she completely deceived us three years ago, this time too she lured me in…’

If he hadn’t been locked in the basement and lost consciousness, Samon’s right leg might have been fine.

With that painful realization, Samon gritted his teeth and vowed revenge.

‘These damn bastards, I’ll make them suffer exactly a hundred times the pain I’m experiencing now.’

“What?”

Then, at the soft touch on his forehead, Samon’s eyes widened. Mariyu was looking at him with concern.

“I thought you might be remembering something unpleasant. I want you to be comfortable.”

The fact that Mariyu was foolishly pure in her love was certainly not a bad thing for Samon now.

Samon barely managed to nod his head.

She even knew her place.

While caring for Samon day and night, she didn’t expect any compensation or demand the position of wife from him.

How foolish he had been to not recognize such a useful card and try to cast her out just because she was pregnant with his child.

Though her bloodline and status were inferior, her appearance was still to Samon’s taste.

‘Where could I find another woman as pretty as Mariyu who is so devoted to me?’

His thoughts led in a chain back to the past.

‘Well, there wasn’t necessarily a need to kill the child she was carrying then. I didn’t know that 4th Princess bitch would act like this, no, it wasn’t a wrong judgment. If I hadn’t killed the child then, I would have died first by Peleus’s sword.’

He regretted the past mistakes he had let slip by.

If given another chance, he wouldn’t do that.

Why hadn’t he been clever enough to secure the Princess’s side without necessarily abandoning Mariyu?

“It’s late, but Mariyu, about the child… I’m truly sorry.”

After finishing his brief reminiscence, Samon awkwardly offered an apology.

He instinctively knew that to keep Mariyu by his side until his rehabilitation, he needed to settle the past.

“Back then, I shouldn’t have done that. Both you and the child, I was too harsh-“

However, Samon couldn’t finish his words.

He looked with surprised eyes at the hand pressing down on his lips.

“Don’t say it. It’s all in the past already. Let’s bury our past in the past.”

Mariyu smiled with gentle eyes.

“Mariyu…”

“I still love you, Samon.”

Her quiet confession of love made Samon feel proud. He nodded and said.

“Right. We’re still young, so we can have children again.”

‘Mariyu should get something for serving me like this.’

It was then that Mariyu’s face, which had been wearing a picture-perfect smile, wavered for a moment.

It was like ripples from throwing a stone into calm water.

“…Of course.”

Mariyu, who had returned to her gentle face, nodded. But her voice was stuffily blocked, like someone being strangled.

“I’ll pass on my surname to our first child. Even if Mother opposes it, I’ll definitely add them to the family register.”

Samon spoke boastfully without noticing such changes. Considering his nature, it was certainly a considerable concession.

Even three years ago when they were most passionate about each other, Samon had drawn lines, never even opening his mouth about promises he absolutely couldn’t keep.

It showed how deeply Mariyu now occupied a place in Samon’s heart.

“I’m so happy, darling.”

Mariyu made an ecstatic expression full of emotion and leaned her cheek against his chest.

“I’m grateful too. For opening your heart to me. Darling, I’ll always be by your side.”

At the sweet words scattered like honey, Samon proudly caressed her shoulder.

Soon Mariyu checked the time and got up.

“Oh, it’s already mealtime. I’ll bring it.”

“You don’t need to go. Just have a maid do it.”

Samon tried to stop her.

“No, I want to devote myself to darling.”

Mariyu walked down the corridor after closing the door. She happened to encounter a maid coming out of the kitchen.

“You’re taking this to him?”

“Yes. I was about to bring it to the master along with his medicine.”

“Give it to me.”

Mariyu looked down at the cart containing food.

“Oh my. The stew has already gotten cold. If you were a patient, could you swallow something cold? Go reheat this.”

The maid thought that now even the master’s mistress was putting on airs with her and was about to protest.

However, knowing that the master only favored this woman these days, she had no choice but to head to the kitchen.

‘What an exaggeration. It’s cooled to just the right temperature to eat.’

“…Yes, I understand.”

While the maid was away.

Mariyu confirmed no one was around, then took out powder from her bosom.

“Huh? What would a young lady use such strong medicine for?”

The suspicious gaze of the elderly apothecary came to mind.

“Remember this. You must only use as much as a pinky nail at a time. If you exceed the proper amount even slightly, you’ll become completely infertile. Then even if the goddess Hera came back to life, she couldn’t revive all the dead seeds down there!”

The colorless, odorless powder was sprinkled evenly over the food Samon would eat.

The amount of powder being generously scattered far exceeded the size of a pinky nail.

Mariyu stared at the mirror in the corridor. 

There was a soft and beautiful woman there, still captivating. 

“Another child, darling. There’s no such thing.”

Samon, you’ll never have one. Because I won’t allow it.

“Here. I brought it back piping hot.”

“Good. Thank you for your trouble.”

Meanwhile, the maid who had returned placed the stew bowl on the cart.

Hehe-hum-

In the corridor walking toward the bedroom where Samon was, pushing the cart, a light humming sound echoed.

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