Stolen Crown Princess (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 75

“If Layton were here, he might have been with me in the territory. Then there’d surely be memories I could recall through him.”

“Do you even realize how unsettling his gaze is every time he looks at you?”

“What nonsense are you spouting? Layton has protected me since we were children… Ah!”

A sharp gasp escaped Ibelia’s lips mid-sentence as she tried to explain, flustered. It was because Caliph had suddenly tightened his grip on her hand.

Startled by the abruptly shortened distance, Ibelia blinked in surprise. His scent instantly flooded her nostrils, making her heart—previously beating pleasantly—pound wildly.

“I alone am more than enough to protect you.”

“Huh?”

“It’s uncomfortable hearing you talk as if you need to rely on someone other than me.”

“That’s not what I meant at all.”

Ibelia began to protest against the sudden surge of injustice, then abruptly clamped her mouth shut. She instinctively knew that nothing she said would make a difference.

Even when she’d known him as Liurian, he’d occasionally shown possessiveness bordering on obsession. Back then, perhaps because he was hiding his true identity, he’d seemed somewhat restrained—but ever since revealing himself, he’d expressed it so bluntly.

If she so much as made eye contact with another man, he seemed to bristle instantly. No matter how many times she insisted it wasn’t like that, he simply wouldn’t understand.

Perhaps he didn’t even want to understand. His current expression alone made that clear. Even if she explained, he wouldn’t bother listening.

Instead of offering another hollow excuse, she glanced toward the closed bedroom door and spoke to him in an uneasy voice.

“…Pailin will be here soon.”

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