If You Want A Cheeky Seductress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 42

Floyd could provide Roxiana with a fine room, beautiful clothes, and delicious food, but he wouldn’t consider moving an entire nation for her sake. Likewise, Roxiana could promise that wolf tasty meat and a cozy bed, but she wouldn’t go so far as to stake her nation on it.

‘So I must make the Grand Duke feel inclined to help me, at least once.’

She didn’t ask for anything grand.

All she needed was to find the remains of her family, abandoned somewhere in the Kingdom of Khanta, and send them back to God’s embrace with Adelia’s blade. Since Adelia’s weapon was hard to obtain, she absolutely needed Floyd’s help for this part.

‘Sending my family back to God’s embrace is my top priority. Once that’s done…’

From then on, it would be Roxiana’s duty alone—she wouldn’t need anyone else’s help.

Because this bitter hatred and resentment all belong to me.

‘I’ll personally seize your necks myself, Lucas, Elise.’

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“Hah!”

Elise gasped sharply as she opened her eyes. Though clearly awake, she still felt trapped within a nightmare.

Ever since that day, not a single night passed without those forest-like green eyes following Elise. Whenever they did, she felt as if she were running endlessly through the woods yet never escaping them.

A dark forest so densely packed with trees that not a sliver of sunlight could penetrate. Within the shadows of the trees lurked an indistinct presence, murmuring, whispering, rustling—reciting accusations.

‘No. You’re already dead.’

She still breathed, yet was as good as dead. The moment she heard Roxiana had thrown her family into the well, Roxiana’s eyes lost their light. Elise had clearly witnessed those once-clear green eyes extinguished completely.

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