“Lillian’s heart, what exactly is that?”

Rebecca’s eyes showed no signs of hesitation.

“Can you tell me too?”

Meanwhile, Cedric was inwardly puzzled by the situation.

‘Rebecca directly mentioned Lillian’s heart.’

Throughout their continuing married life, Cedric thought she pretended not to know about Lillian’s heart.

And he believed that the change in Rebecca’s attitude after the divorce was because she finally gave up on obtaining Lillian’s heart.

‘If not, even if the affection faded… she wouldn’t divorce the man she once obsessively clung to so easily.’

However, now Rebecca was acting as if she truly didn’t know the identity of that object.

Was that all?

Her subsequent words were enough to surprise Cedric once again.

“Marquis Bold pressured me several times, saying that I must obtain that object from you.”

“….!”

A massive shockwave spread over Cedric’s blue eyes.

Rebecca, wanting to gain control through the imprinting, and Marquis Bold trying to obtain Lillian’s heart by using his daughter.

That was indeed the fundamental reason why Cedric resented Rebecca throughout their married life.

But the fact that she admitted it in such a composed manner was shocking.

Rebecca, always left alone there, what emotions had she truly felt?

“….”

Finally changing places to gauge her feelings, Cedric found himself unable to continue speaking afterward.

No one wanted him, and there was nowhere for his heart to lean on.

A life where he knew the sea would eventually kill him, yet he struggled and persistently drank it.

All those feelings she experienced turned into a sharp blade that cut through Cedric’s heart.
Finally, let’s reverse the roles and try to gauge her feelings. However, since then, I couldn’t bring myself to speak.

A life where no one desires oneself, and nowhere to lean the heart. Even while knowing that the seawater would eventually be the death of oneself, there was no choice but to struggle and continuously swallow it. The desperate sentiment that must have prevailed.

All the emotions she felt turned into a belated dagger, sharply cutting through Cedric’s heart. How did that small woman endure the long and intense hours of loneliness? If she parted her lips even a bit, it seemed that a bitter noise would flow out.

He kept stroking his throat, which seemed to keep tightening. Her actions, dismissed only as obsession and malice. Maybe all of that… was her desperate plea to be seen properly.

Rebecca, who endlessly waited for answers that never returned, eventually twisted and crumbled into a mess. ‘If, at that time, I had reached out my hand even just once.’

At that time, she never once looked back at herself. Now, the indifference began to ache to the bone.

Then breaking the current silence became even more difficult. It felt sinful even to casually address her.

A considerable amount of time passed in the static between the two. Rebecca’s voice finally broke the stifling atmosphere.

“Indeed, you probably can’t tell me.”

Cedric, at her composed tone, slowly raised his head to look at her again. Finally pulling his lips apart.

“It’s not like that.”

“…….”

“…I’ve just realized that I’ve never seen you properly all this time.”

Rebecca, silently watching him, spoke slowly again.

“But you, even now, don’t see me properly.”

Her tone, saying such things, felt unexpectedly tender, almost cold.

“Perhaps the thought of wanting to regain my heart was just a passing breeze.”

“Rebecca, it’s not like that…”

“Ah, it’s just a light sway, you know.”

Interrupting Cedric’s words, Rebecca said decisively.

As if, without that, she couldn’t endure this moment, she seemed almost regretful.

Cedric resented Rebecca for denying his feelings. However, he also knew that any slight resentment she felt toward him was shameless. Denying his true feelings now would ultimately… be the punishment for not responding to her heart.

“Although we couldn’t be together till the end, still, thanks for inviting me today.”

“Rebecca…”

“I’ll be going now.”
However, he also knew that any slight resentment she felt toward Rebecca was shameless. In the end, denying his true feelings now…

Because of the punishment that he never properly responded to her heart that she didn’t answer in her heart.

“Although we couldn’t be together till the end, still, thanks for inviting me today.”

“Rebecca…”

“I’ll be going now.”

With those words, Rebecca stood up from her seat.

Cedric also stood up following her, but resolutely lowering his head, he couldn’t bring himself to stop Rebecca leaving.

She walked away like that for a long time.

“…Actually.”

Rebecca’s red shoes briefly stopped in front of the door.

“The ‘heart’ you want to regain is not here anymore.”

“…….”

“So even if I wanted to give it back, I can’t.”

Behind Rebecca, who slightly lowered her head, it seemed like the sound of her lamenting could be vaguely heard.

“Because now… I’m not the Rebecca from back then.”

At a similar time, in the reception room of the Twins Princess.