The Forgotten Field - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97
He twisted his head back, gripping her wrist with crushing force.
Talia held her ground with stubborn determination, driving her nails into the soft flesh. His face, flushed crimson moments before, now drained to a sickly pallor.
He thrashed about, emitting strangled, anguished cries. She paid him no mind, pressing her fingers deeper with the intensity of one intent on severing his tongue itself.
Then, a sharp scream pierced the air from somewhere nearby. Urgent footsteps thundered through the corridor, and someone seized her shoulder.
Talia let out a savage roar.
“Let go! I’ll rip out his tongue so he never makes that nauseating sound again!”
“Good heavens! Someone stop her, please!”
A shrill voice rang out in alarm.
Undeterred, Talia wrenched Lucas’s jaw and drove her fingers deeper still.
As her nails dug into the root of his tongue, a powerful grip seized her waist, and her feet left the ground.
Talia gasped, spinning around. Barcas held her aloft like cargo, his eyes blazing with the chill of winter frost.
“What in the name of the heavens is happening here?”
He looked between her and Lucas, struggling to comprehend the scene before him.
Lucas, who had been sitting in stunned disbelief at what had befallen him, suddenly scrambled to his feet.
“That woman just tried to rip out my tongue! Look!”
Lucas gestured wildly, extending his wounded tongue for display.
Talia’s neck flushed crimson with rage.
“Come here! I’ll tear it out by the roots!”
The boy stumbled backward in terror.
“See? See? She’s absolutely mad! Completely unhinged! Why would you marry someone like that when the First Princess was available? You should file for an annulment right now—!”
“Lucas Laedgo Sierkan.”
A heavy sigh descended upon the Corridor like a leaden weight.
Both Lucas and the wild-eyed Talia froze in place.
Barcas paused to collect himself, then continued slowly.
“What did you say to my wife?”
“I was just….”
Lucas trailed off, his expression bewildered.
Barcas regarded him with cold, unwavering eyes and spoke with finality.
“Words you would not dare speak in my presence, it seems.”
Lucas’s face drained of all color.
The boy’s eyes darted about as he whimpered with wounded indignation.
“But surely, no matter what, you don’t go this far….”
As I glared at him with murderous intent, Barcas’s piercing gaze suddenly turned toward me.
I stiffened, my shoulders tensing.
He pressed me like an interrogator in a court of law.
“Would Your Highness care to explain the circumstances?”
I looked up at him with eyes burning with indignation.
As his brother’s vile insults echoed in my mind, my entire body trembled with fury.
He wanted me to repeat them myself?
She spat the words out between clenched teeth.
“I’d rather die than agree to it.”
Barcas’s eyes narrowed to slits.
Drawing a long breath as if summoning his patience, Barcas added curtly.
“I cannot render a fair judgment without understanding your reasons.”
Lucas’s face contorted. His expression was one of wounded indignation, as though he were the victim of some grave injustice.
Talia, glaring at that face as though she might tear it to shreds, began to writhe in his grip.
“I don’t need this. Put me down.”
“….”
“Did you not hear me? Put me down.”
At last, he set her upon the floor.
Talia steadied her throbbing legs and swept her gaze across the throng of people crowding the Corridor.
Faces flushed with drink stared at them, wondering what was transpiring. Disgust washed over me.
Casting hostile glares in all directions, Talia turned and made her way toward the Bedroom. The short distance felt like a thousand leagues. She pushed open the door with effort and threw herself upon the bed.
Moments later, Barcas followed her inside.
Talia kept her face buried in the pillow, refusing to acknowledge his presence. If she did not, she feared she would hurl herself at him as she had at Lucas, interrogating him with frenzied desperation.
Is your brother truly telling the truth?
Did you really go that far with Aila?
“Talia Roem Sierkan.”
The mattress dipped sharply, and a dark shadow fell across her head.
Talia’s spine went rigid.
A rough hand wrapped around her shoulder. Her body was forcibly turned, and through tear-blurred vision, a face as sharp and finely honed as a blade came into focus.
He pressed her with cutting intensity.
“Tell me what happened. Explain yourself properly.”
“What more is there to tell?”
Talia shot back fiercely.
“You saw everything. I was about to cut out your brother’s tongue, and I failed because of you. What further explanation do you need?”
“Why would you do such a thing?”
“Because I wanted to.”
His patience exhausted by this childish bickering, Barcas’s eyes turned glacial.
He seized her jaw and spoke with oppressive weight.
“How much longer do you intend to behave like a petulant child?”
Talia’s face twisted.
Lucas Laedgo Sierkan had been the one to cross the line first. So why should she bear this reproach?
Talia knocked his hand away and lashed out bitterly.
“I merely repaid the insult I received. If you must blame someone, blame your father for raising his son to be such a wretch.”
He pressed his fingers to his temple as though seized by a headache.
“Retaliation is conducted through intermediaries, not by throwing yourself at someone like a ten-year-old brat.”
“And who would serve as my intermediary? Would you cut your brother’s throat for my sake?”
Talia let out a derisive laugh.
“I don’t expect anything from you. If someone attacks me, I’ll retaliate with my own strength.”
The chill in his eyes grew even more severe.
“Are you saying you’ll climb on top of some man and start a brawl?”
“There’s nothing I couldn’t do.”
Talia shot him a hostile glare.
“If you don’t want to see that sight, keep your brother out of my view. If that brat lingers in front of me even once more, I’ll truly end him.”
The furrow between his brows deepened.
His fingertips itched as though he were staring at some intolerable nuisance.
Talia suppressed the urge to claw at him savagely and crawled into the corner of the bed, pulling the blanket over herself.
How much time had passed?
She sensed Barcas rising from the bed. Soon after, the sound of the door closing echoed through the chamber, and a cold silence descended upon the room.
Talia cautiously lifted her head and surveyed the empty chamber.
The moment she confirmed she was alone, the tears she had been holding back burst forth like a flood.
Biting her lip to stifle her sobs, Talia buried her face in the pillow and let her suppressed anguish pour out.
At some point, she must have drifted into sleep. Waking in the dim darkness, Talia heard a rattling sound and flinched, turning her head.
Barcas had returned at some point and was arranging medicine bottles on the shelf. As she gazed up at him blankly, a quiet gaze swept over his shoulder toward her.
“Since you continued to whimper, I brought pain medication. Take it and rest.”
His composed demeanor—as though he had never shown his edge—stirred an odd sense of frustration.
Talia pulled the blanket up to the bridge of her nose.
“Never mind.”
A weary sigh escaped from between his lips. In the rough gesture of sweeping back his hair, irritation was evident.
Was this man also suppressing his anger?
Talia studied his face, illuminated by the lamplight. His face, with its overall pale complexion, had only one feature that gleamed with clarity—his lips, frozen in coldness. As she stared at them intently, the contemptible voice of Lucas Laedgo Sierkan echoed in her mind.
‘Could it be that our brother hasn’t forgotten his former fiancée?’
Talia bit her lip. The next moment, without thinking, an absurd statement tumbled from her mouth.
“If you feed it to me with your mouth, I’ll take it.”
Barcas, who had been setting down the bottle of medicine on the shelf, froze and turned to look at her.
Only upon seeing his slightly widened eyes could she realize what she had just said.

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