Surviving as the Adopted Daughter of the Genius Duke (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 109

“No.”

Her voice carried a certainty it had never held before.

When she thought she’d lost Kirian to the fire, she finally understood—she couldn’t live without him.

No, perhaps she’d known it all along. She’d simply ignored it out of fear of being honest with herself.

“It’s not just because you’re my younger brother.”

She struggled for a long while over where to begin, how best to express these feelings. Kirian quietly waited for her.

“At first, I misunderstood you and only saw you as someone frightening.”

The original story’s male protagonist—and the one who would later kill her.

“I always felt you’d eventually harm me.”

Kirian’s hand twitched. His gaze remained warm as it held hers, yet somehow it looked fearful.

Fear? Of all emotions, none suited Kirian—the strongest of them all—less. Yet the longer she took to choose her words, the more the emotion shimmering in his crimson eyes truly seemed like fear.

Unable to bear it, she reached out and gently placed her hand over Kirian’s, which had clenched into a fist.

“But now I’m certain—you’re not that kind of person.”

His red eyes scrutinized her carefully, as if searching for any trace of falsehood, hesitant to believe her words outright.

“You’ve always treated me far too kindly. Yet I doubted you, thought you’d change. I was foolish.”

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