Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 59

Essela stared at the closed door.

Though no presence could possibly be sensed beyond the thick door, she somehow felt Conrad was still watching her door.

“My lady, please come quickly and have your meal.”

Veronica called to her from behind, but Essela shook her head.

She felt sorry for the chef, but her stomach was so unsettled she couldn’t even finish that light salad and soup.

Both of them knew—but neither could bring themselves to speak of it.

How had she and Conrad ended up in such an awkward relationship? He had been part of the family she loved most—the perfect one.

No, scratch “perfect.” Essela swallowed a bitter feeling and looked toward the wall.

The portrait hanging on the wall of her room—a place neither her father nor her older brothers could enter—had been taken from the family portrait that once hung in the parlor.

Now she could see that her sister in the portrait wasn’t smiling from tension and discomfort.

And since there was little she could do right now for her sister, Essela deliberately let out a light breath and turned to Veronica.

“Veronica, where did we leave off?”

“We’d just covered how to hold a teacup… but my lady, you’ve already mastered all the social graces, haven’t you?”

Veronica, daughter of a vassal house serving the Madelaine ducal family, was quite familiar with high society—unlike Essela. Yet even though Essela had never appeared in society, she could already perform the manners Veronica had learned with practiced ease.

Veronica spoke hesitantly.

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