Even after ten years, her whereabouts remained mysterious.
Now it was time to gradually uncover why she had become a maid of the Empress.
“Have you felt like saying anything now?”
“Ugh!”
Owen glared fiercely at Kaern with bloodshot eyes.
“Or do you plan to continue in silence? If so…”
The words had not finished, but Owen roughly raised his head.
“If you keep acting foolishly, you know what will happen.”
Casting a brief glance at the restless Owen, Kaern sent another meaningful look to Jace.
Understanding Kaern’s intention, Jace immediately tore off the gag that sealed Owen’s mouth.
“Ugh! Kaern Laverion!”
As soon as he could speak, Owen snarled at Kaern.
On the other hand, Kaern wore an exceedingly composed expression.
“Why not? Even if you figured out my identity, how did you reach Sierra?”
Thrown into prison, and the first question he asked was only that.
I wonder why he’s so curious about how he found out.
Regardless of what it was, the fact that he found out remained unchanged.
Feeling pitiful and frustrated at Owen’s appearance, Kaern opened his mouth to personally provide an answer.
“I also have connections with mercenaries, you know.”
It was natural.
For someone who spent almost the majority of his time on the battlefield, mercenaries were familiar comrades.
“And unlike you, I have subordinates who keep their mouths shut and are excellent.”
In response to Kaern’s suggestive remark, Owen immediately retorted.
“What does that mean?”
“In fact, it wasn’t that easy to know your identity. But do you know what came out of the belongings of one of your deceased subordinates?”
Kaern took something out of his pocket and threw it on the cold, hard floor.
Owen’s eyes followed his hand to the floor, and at the end of his gaze, a key fell with a sound.
It was the key to the inn where they had stayed.
Owen, looking at it, finally understood the meaning of what Kaern had said with dizziness.
Despite the crackdown on leaving traces for the subordinates, it ended up getting caught like this.
“The one with this key must have been quite careless. If the survivor wasn’t you but someone else, it would have been easier. Unfortunately, it’s you.”
He said that, but nowhere in Kaern’s expression did it feel like he regretted it.
“So, what are you thinking of doing?”
Owen asked Kaern with a resigned tone.
“That’s what I want to say. From now on, you must answer my questions without a single lie.”
As Kaern’s words ended, Logan quickly brought a chair next to him and placed it in front of Owen.
It was an urgent situation now.
He had to gather all the information before Owen collapsed from exhaustion.
Sitting in the chair, Kaern began questioning Owen again.
“Oh, before that, let me ask one thing.”
Although he said that, it wasn’t a question asked out of curiosity.
Anticipating how Owen would react, Kaern spoke immediately.
“Do you know that Sierra Hasper is currently imprisoned in the palace dungeon?”
“What did you say?”
As expected, the reaction Kaern anticipated erupted from Owen.
Owen Rayman had no idea what was happening in the palace right now.
And perhaps that was natural.
Owen Rayman had been trapped here since the events at the temple.
Still, Kaern wanted to test if Owen knew anything about what Sierra Hasper had done, but as expected, he was clueless about the incident.
“What are you talking about? Sierra is in prison!”
The chair shook loudly due to Owen’s excited movements.
“What do you mean!”
Sierra being in prison. This was different from the promise he and the empress had made.
Owen couldn’t control his rising anger and continued to protest to Kaern.
“Kaern Lavereon!”
Thud!
Eventually, the chair couldn’t withstand his movements and fell to the floor.
The pain of hitting the stone floor must have been significant, but Owen didn’t care about his own suffering right now.
Bound to the chair and sprawled on the floor, he continued to call out to Kaern.
Until he heard Kaern’s story, he had been resigned to accepting his death, but now he was struggling to break free to escape this place.
However, he was tightly bound, and he couldn’t move at all.
He didn’t trust the empress!
If Sierra was also wrong, there was no more hope for him.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
