I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 167

“……Clodel.”

At the icy tension that threatened to yank her away at any moment, Irena involuntarily hunched her shoulders.

Thump. Thump.

Her startled heart pounded loudly.

Yet the hand that had shot toward her with terrifying speed lost its strength just before touching her and slowly sank downward.

“Princess Irena.”

When Irena regained her senses and looked at Kai An, she was horrified.

Hadn’t Duke Temnes been famously renowned far and wide in the North—even in territories ruled by bitter enemies—as an exceptionally handsome man?

But now his disheveled hair had grown long and tangled, and his attire was bizarre: layers meant to be worn in proper order were haphazardly thrown on, over which he draped a sodden cloak and a grimy blanket around his shoulders, as if he’d just emerged from a lake.

Had she never met him personally before at Rowen or the Royal Palace, she would’ve found it impossible to believe this ragged man was Duke Temnes.

‘And he looks thinner, too?’

His once composed face now appeared gaunt and haggard.

Seeing him look worse than before made Irena’s heart ache.

She herself was no better—dressed in rough trousers and a long shirt typically worn by laborers, hastily tied at the waist with a rope, hooded, and covered head to toe in dust from riding—so much so that she’d be unrecognizable to anyone who didn’t know her.

Worry over Clodel’s safety rendered their beggarly appearances irrelevant.

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