“Sharing a bed in the same space is quite natural for a couple.”

Watching Cedric say that, a bitter laugh escaped involuntarily.

‘No matter how secret our divorce is, it shouldn’t come to this, right?’

I shot him a glare, but Cedric just smiled leisurely.

His gaze turned once again to Chief Deven.

“Isn’t that right, Deven?”

Meeting Cedric’s eyes, Chief Deven’s eyes widened momentarily.

For a moment. His eyeballs rolled slowly in different directions.

“What? Uh, yes… I suppose so?”

Chief Deven’s response seemed puzzled even to himself.

Rebecca, who clung to Cedric like a madwoman.

Cedric, who was visibly shaken even being in the same space with her.

Chief Deven, who had witnessed their long-standing discord as the butler of the Twins family.

For him, Cedric’s words, ‘Isn’t it natural for a couple to stay together?’ might have felt unfamiliar.

And I felt the same way.

Only Cedric, with a natural face, got up from his seat hurriedly.

“We should see where our couple will stay.”

It was an attitude that seemed to preemptively block my objection.

While I was letting out a bitter laugh, I turned my head back to Chief Deven.

“No, Chief Deven…”

Sadly, Chief Deven, too, got up from his seat as if he hadn’t heard me, following Cedric.

‘What on earth is happening?’

I urgently grabbed Chief Deven and shouted to both of them.

“That… that can’t happen. I’ll use the same place as my maids, so Cedric, you comfortably stay in that cabin alone.”

Just as Cedric, who seemed ready to leave right away, slowly turned around.

“The cabin is quite small. It would be impossible for the Duke and the maids to stay together there, right, Chief Deven?”

When Cedric’s gaze reached Chief Deven, Chief Deven nodded his head slowly with a bewildered expression.

“Yes… yes, probably that… is the case.”

Cedric’s smirk became more pronounced as one corner of his mouth curved up.

“Is that so?”

From Chief Deven’s house, it took about five minutes.

The horse, which had been slowing down, finally stopped in front of a cabin.

“It seems to be here.”

Cedric, who said so, got off and extended his hand to me.

Grabbing his hand and getting off from the horse, I slowly looked around.

Looking around, all I could see near the cabin where we would stay was the forest.

‘Chief Deven, why did you choose such a secluded place for our accommodation?’

Letting out a sigh as I looked at a distant village, I glanced at Cedric with a sidelong glance.

“Why did he suddenly suggest us using one cabin?”

Cedric asked.
“Then what should I have done?”

Cedric continued speaking with a natural expression.

“People might think we’re a couple. It’s not like we can reveal our divorce at this point, right?”

I let out a bitter laugh.

“Cedric, we never spent a night in the same space even when we were actually a couple. Even if we stay separately here, no one will suspect anything.”

“Oh, did we do that?”

Cedric, tapping his own chin, asked playfully.

“Well, even if we did, it was then, not now.”

“…?”

“I don’t have the slightest intention of refusing Chief Deven’s suggestion to stay together in one space now.”

“Why are you suddenly acting like this?”

“I wish it were just a whim, but unfortunately, it’s not.”

I looked sharply at Cedric as he spoke casually.

Cedric chuckled softly, and I turned to the cabin, leaving him behind.

The interior was smaller than half of the smallest room in the Grand Castle.

However, considering it had been empty for a long time, it was neat, and there was suitable furniture in the living room.

“I’m used to it, but I don’t know if you’ll be uncomfortable.”

“I’m fine. But why did you… say you’ve stayed here before?”

In response to my question, Cedric nodded with a somewhat darker expression.

“Yeah, I did. Sometimes when I wanted to be alone.”

It was only then that I realized it was when he wanted to be alone away from Rebecca.

Again, I wondered why I felt so sorry for him…

“Oh… Now we just need to check the bedroom. Is it over there?”

I continued to act like I was intentionally talking to myself while looking around.

Then, when I lifted a long curtain leaning against one wall.

My complexion turned earthy.

‘Darn it, how did I not think of this?’

Blaming my complacency, I stood frozen like ice at that moment.

“Oh, did I not mention it?”

Cedric, slowly approaching me, said.

“There’s only one bed in here.”

I looked at Cedric in astonishment.

Just one bed in the cabin.

Does that mean I have to share a bed with that man I didn’t even want to touch with a fingertip?

‘No, that’s absolutely not allowed! If I accidentally give the wrong impression and end up being seen as a strange woman obsessed with sleeping arrangements, what will I do?’

Considering Cedric’s recent whims, it seemed possible.

I awkwardly laughed and stepped back quietly.

“Haha… Cedric, do you really need to stay here too?”

“What’s all this sudden talk about?”

“I’m staying here out of necessity, but you don’t have to.”

I said, bending my hand a few times as if shooing away a fly.