Became the Step-Mother of the Rabbit Female Lead (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 71

The situation he had always feared had finally come to pass.

Gloria’s eyes, gazing up at him with her hands bound, were utterly clear.

Grayan often thought that her eyes held the essence of a season—the clearest skies of autumn.

He had never deliberately chosen a favorite season, yet whenever he looked into Gloria’s eyes, he often found himself favoring autumn.

He even began to look forward to the autumn that would return after a long while. When that time came, he thought, he would finally be able to tell her—pointing to the deep blue sky—that her eyes resembled it perfectly.

“…Back then… those words…”

Grayan wrestled inwardly, struggling with his answer. Should he confess the truth, or cover it with a plausible lie?

The latter would be deceiving her—he knew that well. Yet even knowing it, he couldn’t bring himself to speak the truth outright.

Everyone has flaws. Grayan Salisbury accepted this undeniable truth without difficulty.

Precisely for that reason, hadn’t he endured thus far without significant wavering, quietly repeating to himself that he would accept whatever fate eventually came his way?

But when someone becomes special—

when a singular being appears, irreplaceable by anything in this world—it simultaneously made him stronger and weaker.

It was paradoxical, yet true.

He wanted to grow stronger for the sake of someone precious, yet feared revealing his own shameful secrets to her.

He also dreaded the thought of her looking at him with changed eyes.

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