The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 257
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Chapter 257. An Unexpected Proposal (6)
How did he get here?
I hurriedly opened the window.
Fortunately, Emilia was fast asleep.
“Prince Kaiden, what on earth…”
“May I come up?”
“No, I’ll come down.”
It would be troublesome if Kaiden entered the Princess’s bedroom and woke Emilia.
“What is it, exactly?”
I silently climbed down the railing and landed softly on the ground.
Kaiden was staring at me wordlessly.
“How did you enter the Imperial Capital? Security must have been strengthened…”
“If I set my mind to it, there’s nowhere I can’t enter.”
How impressive.
I frowned as I looked at Kaiden.
“But what exactly is this about? Weren’t you supposed to be in Adamant? Coming here at this hour without any notice…”
“It seems you lied to me.”
“…Excuse me?”
I lied to Kaiden?
That couldn’t be. Moreover, when dealing with adults, I only tell lies that won’t be discovered.
‘Even if I were caught, I haven’t told any lies so serious that Kaiden would fly from Adamant to the 3rd Prince’s Palace.’
I looked up at Kaiden with a puzzled expression.
“What lie did I…”
“About getting married.”
Kaiden looked at me with accusatory eyes.
“You told me you had no intention of marrying.”
“What? No, what do you…”
“Don’t play dumb. I came here knowing everything.”
The young king continued speaking with a consistently serious expression.
“I heard you’re marrying the noble you had a matchmaking meeting with.”
“What? There’s some misunderstanding, no, but how did you know I had a matchmaking meeting? I only found out when I got there myself.”
I had received the letter from Brown County a few days ago, but I too only learned today when I arrived that a suitor was waiting for me. It seems he doesn’t know that my matchmaking partner was Ian, the fake eldest son of Count Molton’s family and my enemy.
“…Don’t tell me you have someone watching me?”
Kaiden neither confirmed nor denied my question.
He just frowned and clenched his fists tightly.
“Prince Kaiden.”
“…It’s not you, but The Prince I have watched. Can’t I even look after my nephews’ safety?”
His eyes, which gleamed brightly even in the darkness, somehow held a desperate light.
“So please answer me first. Are you really going to marry that man?”
“…May I ask just one thing before I answer?”
I looked at Kaiden with incredulous eyes.
“You came all this way just to ask about something like that? Alone?”
The large man silhouetted against the moonlight took a step closer to me.
It wasn’t threatening, just desperate and cautious steps.
“Rachel Brown, you choosing another man instead of me is not ‘something like that.'”
Kaiden hesitated for a moment, then suddenly embraced me with both arms.
I felt neither the moon’s radiance nor the night’s darkness. Only Kaiden’s body heat enveloped my entire being.
“…You haven’t contacted me once since I left this place.”
Though it sounded like a complaint, his voice was infinitely calm.
“Even when I felt hurt and angry, I suddenly had this thought.”
The sound of unknown insects chirping could be heard from the thicket.
In the noisy silence, Kaiden’s low voice echoed in my ears.
“After parting from you for the first time, I dreamed of you every day.”
Kaiden’s breath touched my nape.
“In those dreams, all the wishes I had longed for came true. Thanks to you.”
Each time his excessively hot and dry breath touched me, I felt my pulse beating in every corner of my body.
“But when I look at you, when I touch you, I keep getting greedy.”
Kaiden murmured lowly while holding me in his embrace.
“Even knowing you won’t accept me completely, even knowing I’m the kind of person who would wickedly suggest you could at least be my mistress…”
“Your Majesty.”
“I keep thinking about you.”
A trained assassin can control their gaze and breathing at will.
But no matter how harshly trained an assassin might be, they cannot control their feelings for someone. Love was such an uncontrollable and dangerous emotion.
“On sleepless nights, while eating, while washing, while working, while meeting other people, I can’t stop thinking about you.”
While meeting other people, he said.
I remained quietly in his embrace and spoke softly.
“I heard Your Majesty was also having matchmaking meetings, but it seems they didn’t go well.”
“You do remember. I thought you had completely forgotten.”
“Why would I forget that?”
“I thought you had no interest in me to that extent.”
Kaiden slightly raised his head.
He pressed his forehead against mine while still embracing me.
“You like me enough to sleep with me, but you’ve never once said you truly love me.”
“Lo…”
I was about to say I loved him right away, but Kaiden covered my mouth.
He finished a light kiss in an instant and shook his head slightly.
“A confession that isn’t sincere is worse than not hearing one at all. Don’t force it.”
“…My feelings for Your Majesty are sincere.”
“But you don’t want to marry me.”
“Is marriage to me that important? Isn’t it enough to just be by your side?”
“It’s enough. But I don’t understand why being a mistress is fine while being a wife isn’t.”
“I think I’ve explained that reason sufficiently. And that’s a choice for Your Majesty’s sake, not mine. I’m doing this for Your Majesty…”
“If you truly loved me, if you truly cared for me.”
Kaiden smiled somewhat bitterly.
“You would never have said such words.”
I didn’t quite understand.
As I was pondering deeply about what he had said, Kaiden spoke again.
“But that doesn’t mean I have any intention of begging you. Nothing becomes as pathetic as love the moment you start begging for it.”
Kaiden embraced me with one arm and tucked my hair behind my ear with the other.
“Instead, I’ve decided to persuade you until the end.”
“…Persuade?”
“Yes, you said so yourself. That given time, you might be able to love me.”
The young king grinned.
“So I’m going to persuade you by any means necessary until I’m certain you love me.”
Whether by sweet words or physical seduction.
Kaiden promised to seduce me using everything he had, without regard for methods.
“I cannot give my body or heart to any woman other than you. So I will never marry another woman.”
“Your Majesty, that’s…”
I wanted to ask if this had been discussed with Adamant’s retainers, but I couldn’t.
Because Kaiden immediately added more words.
“But I can’t force you not to marry another man. You said you still can’t love me completely.”
So that’s what he meant by not begging for love.
I stared at Kaiden in a daze.
“So it’s not you.”
Kaiden smiled confidently while holding me in his arms.
His handsome face bathed in moonlight shone brilliantly for a moment.
“I should become your lover instead.”
A young king who founded a nation said he would become a lover himself.
I was momentarily speechless, unable to say anything.
“…You would become my lover without even marrying me?”
“Yes.”
“Your Majesty is the king of a nation.”
“I know. But if you’re not by my side, it has no meaning.”
Kaiden spoke with a nonchalant expression.
“The reason I became king was to meet you.”
His eyes showed no hesitation or doubt whatsoever.
I could only place both hands on his shoulders and look down at Kaiden.
“If I had to step down from the throne to be with you.”
His eyes, which seemed to hold starlight, gleamed with a vivid light as if they would never let me go.
“I would do that.”
A person ready to give up everything he had gained for love. It was like seeing my past self.
‘I once wanted Ian to say something like that to me.’
I silently gripped Kaiden’s collar until it wrinkled.
“…How reckless of you.”
“Rachel?”
“…I’ve never seen anyone more reckless than me.”
After taking a moment to steady my breathing, I raised my head again.
The moonlight touching my unconscious smile felt warm.
“First, I think I need to correct Your Majesty’s misunderstanding. I have absolutely no intention of marrying the man I met for the arranged meeting.”
Kaiden looked surprised at my words.
“So Your Majesty won’t need to become my lover.”
He opened his mouth with a bewildered expression.
His expression mixing embarrassment and awkwardness was quite cute.
“However.”
I embraced Kaiden’s head as he was.
“I will also try to become certain of my own heart.”
May the day come when I can confidently confess that I love you, that I have come to love you. May I be able to fully accept your heart then.
Thus we made promises to each other under the fading moonlight.
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“How dare you come here! How dare you!”
2nd Empress Helena, or rather she who had now become a deposed empress, screamed at the guest who had come to see her.
“Please calm down, Lady Helena.”
“Do I look like I can calm down! Because of you, my father! Our family! Look what happened to my son…!”
“Oh my, I don’t think that’s my fault.”
The man standing before her smiled broadly.
“But I’ll help you for old times’ sake.”
“Hah? What could you possibly help with now…”
“Surely you haven’t already given up on putting Prince Lloyd on the throne?”
“What do you mean…”
“If Lady Helena helps me, I will help Lady Helena too.”
The man who introduced himself as the eldest son of Count Molton smiled from ear to ear.
“I mean I will fulfill your long-cherished wish with my own hands.”
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