“However, thinking about the difficult times you’ve been through, I’m trying hard to endure and understand.”

Aaron looked at Regina’s hair, which sparkled in a unique way.

Due to her deeply bowed head, the golden hair, tinged with light, was even more prominent.

Yeah. It’s fortunate to be alive anywhere.

Compared to the time when life and death were uncertain, the present was a grateful time.

After several nights of agonizing, he barely managed to control his emotions.

But seeing her trying to build walls and distance herself like that made his nerves sharp, and it couldn’t be helped.

“But if you provoke me any longer, I don’t know how I’ll act.”

In Aaron’s words, subtly warning her, Regina took a step back.

“I haven’t provoked you. Your Highness, I really don’t understand why you’re doing this to me.”

The faint emotion in Aaron’s eyes disappeared due to Regina’s rejection.

“I want to ask. Why are you treating me like this?”

“Your Highness, I haven’t done anything. I’ve done nothing, just stayed still.”

Feeling his slowing heartbeat, Aaron stared at Regina.

From her, he couldn’t find the dazzling Delia who shamelessly and confidently demanded things.

Like any other nobles.

Under Aaron’s gaze, Regina, who lowered her head and twisted her hair nervously, looked terribly pitiful.

“If Your Highness wishes, I will continue to stay still in the future. I will breathe like the dead. So please, return the veil and let me step back.”

Aaron earnestly looked at Regina, who desperately wanted to escape from him.

Frozen for a moment, Aaron slowly extended the veil with a gentle touch.

The white veil in Aaron’s hand fluttered in the autumn wind.

Regina, breathing thin, reached out towards the veil.

“Thank you.”

The moment Regina’s hand was about to touch the veil.

Aaron swiftly wrapped the veil around Regina’s back.

Softly and cautiously, but inescapably.

Aaron also grabbed the other end of the veil and pulled it.

Regina’s scent and breath, trapped in the veil, were drawn to Aaron.

“Don’t you know?”

A dense breath infiltrated Regina’s ear.

Chills ran down her spine involuntarily.

To an extent where she couldn’t escape, all her senses were overwhelmed.

“Do nothing. Just doing nothing to me.”

Aaron, holding the veil firmly to support Regina, whispered.

“That’s the problem.”

Regina turned her head away from Aaron and opened her eyes.

Long and dense eyelashes were trembling.

“Instead of hiding so tightly, you should come to me and meet my eyes.”

The hand without a ring was gripping the empty air.

Regina’s red lips were tightly sealed and didn’t know how to open.
“I have to grab your hair and kiss you.”

A line of light flowed from the thin neck to the shoulders.

As if nervous, Regina’s chest fluttered with irregular breaths following the barely connected respiration.

“I have to bite my chest and use force to get what I want.”

The sensations engraved in Aaron were so vivid, yet she acted as if there were no memories left.

“How dare I, how could I do such a thing to Your Highness.”

“That’s all the actions you took against me.”

“Your Highness, you misunderstood. I am not the person you are looking for.”

“Del, don’t do this.”

“As I greeted you a while ago, I am Regina. Regina of the Countess de Carlier.”

Stronger pressure entered Aaron’s hand, holding the veil.

There was no place where they touched each other.

Nevertheless, Regina had no choice but to be helplessly dragged by him.

“Stop being stubborn and let’s leave. Staying here will only make it harder for you.”

“I’m doing very well right now.”

Through the veil held open by both hands, Regina’s trembling could be felt.

“Lies. You’re shaking like this.”

“That’s because Your Highness is threatening me like this… I don’t know what to do.”

After hesitating for a moment, Regina opened her mouth with difficulty.

“I am a guest of Her Majesty the Empress. If you continue like this, I will report it to Her Majesty the Empress.”

Aaron chuckled at Regina’s words.

Aaron tightened the veil even more with his hand and asked relentlessly.

“Do you trust my brother?”

“…Yes, I trust him.”

“No matter what my brother said to convince you, it’s better not to trust.”

“I am grateful to him. Since there was nowhere else to go, he allowed me to stay in the palace as a nun.”

“You can’t possibly live comfortably here. Let’s leave before it gets harder for you.”

“I’m living comfortably, why do you think I’ll have a hard time?”

“There will be a victory ceremony soon. A victory party will be held. Leave with me before that.”

As a noble, he had fulfilled his responsibilities and obligations; that was enough.

He never cared about victory ceremonies or victory parties.

Compared to the woman trying to escape in front of him, such honors meant nothing.

“Why me? Why should I leave with His Highness before the victory ceremony? I don’t want to.”

As Regina repeated her refusal, Aaron’s voice became rough.

“The victory ceremony commemorates the empire’s victory. The victory party celebrates the destruction of Iorenti.”

As soon as Aaron finished speaking.