Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 109

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Epilogue 1. My Obsessive Husband Follows Me Around (2)

Edelaine discovered the conspicuous red bruises and bite marks around her collarbone and neck area and inwardly swallowed her tears.

They only looked bad, but actually didn’t hurt that much.

Shane seemed to have mastered the technique of leaving marks skillfully. Even when he couldn’t control his excitement and nibbled away, he would quickly pull back if Edelaine frowned even slightly.

The problem was that it was in a place easily visible to others.

Tomorrow she was supposed to go for dress fittings, so she had to meet Rachel and Emma. Even if she could somehow hide it from Emma, avoiding Rachel’s eyes would be impossible.

“I told you not to leave marks.”

“I couldn’t control myself. It felt too good.”

How ridiculous. Edelaine snorted.

She clearly remembered making eye contact with Shane right before he bit her neck. He had the nerve to lie shamelessly when she remembered him quickly baring his teeth after noticing she was about to say no.

The one who couldn’t control themselves wasn’t Shane, but Edelaine.

Even while thinking ‘this won’t do,’ she couldn’t stop him. Of course, he probably knew all that when he moved.

Shane embraced Edelaine’s shoulders from behind. He gathered her long hair to one side and kissed her exposed sternocleidomastoid muscle.

“Sorry. Are you angry?”

“And yet again! You’re biting me again! Again!”

“Hahaha.”

As if anyone would fall for that.

As if speaking sweetly and giving kisses would make everything okay!

Edelaine burst into a tantrum and grabbed Shane’s head. She pretended to pull at his hair, but worried it might actually hurt, so she grabbed his ears instead.

Even when she pulled his ears to either side like a monkey, Shane just kept grinning. What was so good about it.

“Rachel teases me about it. Asking if it’s really that good.”

“Be confident, Edelaine. Just tell her honestly.”

“Tell her what honestly?”

“That it’s good.”

“…”

“What’s there to be embarrassed about?”

It’s embarrassing that you act like this…

Of course Edelaine liked Shane too, but broadcasting their married life to the whole world was a slightly different matter. Rachel would smile subtly and ask, “Is it still that good?”

Then she would sell dresses designed to cover the neck and shoulders.

“If you don’t like exposing your neck and shoulders, then tell me instead of biting.”

“That’s not it though.”

Shane broadly caressed the area around Edelaine’s collarbone and shoulders.

Her well-shaped shoulders where delicate bone structure showed beneath cream-colored skin, and her long, elegant neck like a deer’s were among Edelaine’s many attractive features.

“Pretty things should be shown off, not hidden.”

“Then why do you do this?”

You’re an obsessive but cute husband, not some supreme male lead from another genre. Like the men from that family, you’re handsome and excellent but you don’t act like you’d devour people…

“You’re so pretty that when I look at you, I want to chew you up and eat you.”

“…”

I thought you wouldn’t.

Shocked, Edelaine turned her head to look at Shane.

Did I… marry a cannibal instead of an obsessive husband?!

“I’ll try to hold back.”

“Please do. I want to live a long life…”

This is a life I barely got back. I’m just now starting to enjoy hobbies and such…

‘My thrilling life.’

It’s fun…

Edelaine sniffled and swallowed her fear.

*

Edelaine was a confirmed introvert who got her energy drained by outside activities.

Not only was being conscious of people’s eyes tiring, but Shane coming to pick her up wherever she was made her twice as nervous.

Shane said he did it because he could, but knowing how busy he was, she felt unnecessarily sorry when he came to get her every time. But when she told him not to come, he would visibly deflate.

“Separation anxiety.”

When she consulted about what to do, Jeff sneered with a rather disgusted expression.

“…There might be a little bit of that tendency.”

“If you’re apart for more than two days, he might start showing vomiting symptoms.”

“…”

“That was a joke, so deny it, Edelaine. Your husband may look like that, but he’s human, not a dog.”

Even if he didn’t vomit himself, he’d probably cause vomiting symptoms in the adjutant who assists him.

When Shane heard this story, he laughed and said,

“Maybe not vomiting, but I’d probably get irritated.”

“…”

“Don’t feel burdened, Edelaine. I’m not trying to restrict you. You can go anywhere you want to go. Naturally.”

“I know.”

If you wanted to restrict me, you would have done it more properly.

“It just seemed strange not to go when I could visit you. If it’s burdensome, I’ll try to hold back.”

Why hold back to that extent.

Edelaine felt sorry for him, but it wasn’t like she disliked it enough to make him endure it.

The best compromise for both of them was to reduce outings.

When Edelaine started spending all her leisure time in the vegetable garden, people naturally gathered around that area.

“Since you won’t come out, I have no choice. I have to come.”

“I need to see Lady Edelaine at least once a week to survive.”

Emma and Saint Genevieve were regular members.

Jeff, who stayed at the Blancarde Estate rather than the Bertrand Estate before and after trips, and Rachel who came to see Jeff were also regular members.

Unfortunately, Patrick had returned to his estate and couldn’t come often, but when he did come, he visited with Mia.

Unofficially, Edwin and Lucian also joined from time to time.

‘Couldn’t we conquer the Empire just by killing everyone here?’

Around that time she realized something was going strangely, but it was already too late.

The vegetable garden gatherings became more luxurious by the day.

Edwin built a red-roofed gazebo saying the sunlight was too harsh, and Saint Genevieve brought loads of regional specialties every time she went on expeditions.

Perhaps feeling competitive with Saint Genevieve who mainly brought food, Jeff and Lucian also brought loads of things, not to be outdone.

With so much food, naturally they ended up having meals too.

The vegetable garden Edelaine tended was as small as a retired elderly person’s balcony garden, but the area around that small, humble garden had transformed to rival a luxury camping site. The crops from the garden were just potatoes, herbs, tomatoes and such.

Rachel said,

“You know what? People are calling our gathering the Garden Club.”

“What? That name sounds like some gardener’s association…”

It sounded like a very suspicious gathering.

Saint Genevieve chimed in.

“Oh, I heard that too. Is it because we often gather here? We got a name that sounds like we’re plotting something.”

“It looks really suspicious, right? When in reality it’s just an overeating club. Ah, I’m in big trouble because I’ve been gaining weight lately.”

The reality wasn’t impressive at all.

Watching people who just ate seasonal food and chatted made her worry whether it was okay for the Empire’s core to be gathered so leisurely like this. Even their conversations were utterly childish. Who ate more of what, I brought that…

Rachel removed a well-grilled potato from the skewer and placed it on a plate. She picked herb leaves to garnish it, making the whole roasted potato look like a fancy dish.

‘At first it seemed like she came to see Jeff’s older brother.’

It was incomprehensible why the outstanding aesthetic sense of the capital’s most successful designer was being applied to something like whole roasted potatoes. This is what you’d call a waste of talent.

Though she herself seemed satisfied.

‘Right. If she likes it, who’s going to say anything.’

Even if a designer grilled whole potatoes, the Pope cut cheese, the Prince drank wine, and a Duke and Duchess pulled weeds, there wouldn’t be any particular problem.

There are no problems, so there’s no responsibility on my part either.

There won’t be any.

Edelaine stroked her lower abdomen and swallowed the words she wanted to ask.

You all do actually work, right…?

In the future, this gathering would become the most famous private organization in the Greenwinsor Empire, but the true nature of its reality was never passed down.

That was fortunate.

*

Watching Edelaine sleep was one of Shane’s daily routines.

Shane sometimes wanted to gaze at Edelaine endlessly, but when she was awake, she seemed to find it burdensome. Because she wanted to do anything he desired.

It wasn’t that he wanted Edelaine to do something for him.

Even after holding her greedily, even after hearing “I love you” dozens of times, the desire to simply watch her wasn’t satisfied.

It was also different from the anxiety of not knowing when she might disappear.

It was just that sometimes he couldn’t bear how much he wanted to look at her.

I’m happy that you have many precious things now.

I’m even happier that I’m one of them.

Everything you love will become shackles that bind you to my side, so I can gladly accept even your love for things other than me…

If only you had told me your secret earlier, I could have protected you. That one thing was regrettable.

If you were anxious about being driven away or killed by the female protagonist, I would have killed that woman whoever she was, and if you feared being killed by a mage, I would have killed even innocent ones who hadn’t yet committed crimes.

If you suspected I might look at other people, I would have immediately plucked out my eyes and offered them to you.

I would have done whatever it took to make you feel at ease.

I would have made sure you never had nightmares, and it was regrettable that I couldn’t do so despite being by your side.

‘Now there’s nothing left to disturb your sleep, Edelaine.’

Shane had cut Keith’s throat today. He hummed a tune while kissing each of Edelaine’s fingertips.

Our happy ending is perfect.

It will be so forever.

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