Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 142

“A body hit by a carriage has been found.”

It was the messenger’s report of Anika’s death. Ophelia swallowed the nausea rising in her throat and asked,

“Are you certain it was Marchioness Rohos?”

“We confirmed her face.”

The royal messenger sent from the palace recognized Anika’s face.

Even so, unable to believe it, she remained silent—until the messenger pulled something from her bosom and held it out. Upon seeing the ring she presented, Daheel murmured in a trembling voice,

“It’s Marchioness Rohos’s ring.”

“It was found on the body.”

With even the ring worn by the marchioness on the corpse, there was no denying it any longer.

Staring at the stained, soiled ring—preserved exactly as it had been at the scene—Ophelia asked,

“…What was done with her body?”

“The servant accompanying her couldn’t identify the master, so we entrusted the remains to the servant. The news will soon reach the Rohos estate.”

Thinking who might be at the Rohos estate, Ophelia recalled that Anika had seemed especially close to her mother.

When speaking of her mother in the garden, Anika’s tone and eyes had been filled with affection—a sparkle only someone who gives and receives love in equal measure could show.

Moreover, Anika was the only daughter of the former Marchioness Rohos. Ophelia couldn’t even imagine how dearly that mother must have raised such a daughter. Precisely because she herself knew nothing of parental love, the weight pressed upon her all the more sharply.

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