The silver wolf was looking down.

With sultry yet cold blue eyes.

Its gaze seemed to swallow and shatter oneself.

But she didn’t know why her heart was racing and her body was heating up.

Was it fear?

Moreover, this gaze, why is it so familiar? As if seen somewhere…

At that moment, a voice suddenly sounded.

“The silver wolf that harmed your mother may be very close.”

“Gasp!”

Adel was startled and opened her eyes.

The dim light of the fireplace. She knew she was on her bed from the familiar smell and touch.

Ah, it was a dream.

Relieved, but anxiety came flooding in.

Chris…

She reached out to find him, but touched nothing.

“Where are you… Chris…”

Instead of an answer, the sound of the fireplace burning was heard like a lullaby.

Adel once again was swallowed into a deep sleep.

(This is a time separator.)

The same time.

Oswald family’s mansion.

Thud!

A black shadow lightly flew and landed on the window balcony above. What looked like a giant bird was Christine, male.

He opened the window silently and went inside. This was Stone’s bedroom. But he knew that this room was empty. The scent was faint.

As expected, only the flickering flames of the fireplace illuminated the empty bedroom. He began to search Stone’s room silently to find out more about him.

There was something to be gained from investigating Adel’s affairs and learning almost everything about Stone. However, he didn’t know that Stone was of the same wolf clan as himself, which led to a big failure today.

But there was a harvest too. Knowing that he was of the wolf clan, the unanswered questions were easily understood.

Why the stench of blood was coming from him.

Stone clearly enjoyed hunting.

And why he didn’t marry Adel despite being obsessed with her.

He was already married over ten years ago.

According to research, he lost his wife in a fire at the villa a few months after marriage. Given the clan’s trait of sleeping with only one partner for life, he wouldn’t have been able to easily marry Adel.

So, he had to be content with marking her body or tormenting her.

And another important thing.

The Oswald family might know a lot about the wolf clan.

He had heard that the reason why the wolf clan hid from the world a long time ago was because of the Vatican and the nobles’ council.

So, it wasn’t a coincidence that Stone, a wolf clan member, was the head of the Oswald family.

He had come to Oswald’s house at this late hour for that reason.

But neither Stone’s bedroom nor the study in the reception room had any special clues.

‘Is the answer in that blank document?’

According to Adel, it was a document treasured by the late Lord Oswald.

And something the emperor wanted to burn so badly.

The possibility of secrets related to the wolf clan being written there was the most likely.

But the document was sealed with magic, so finding a toplevel mage to unseal it was a priority. He was already looking but it wouldn’t be easy to find soon.

‘I need to go back today.’

Since Stone’s room was checked, it would be good to look elsewhere next time.

Christine turned back to the balcony, erasing the traces of entry.

At that moment, his eyes rested on a picture hanging on the wall. He had been bothered by this painting.

Stone’s room was filled with topgrade items bearing his initials. But the painting hanging next to the bed was a cheap landscape that could be easily obtained. It was definitely out of place.

Eventually, Christine took off the frame and took out the painting, unknowingly exclaiming.

“Adel?”

On the back of the painting was a portrait of a woman. A woman with black hair and green eyes. But on closer inspection, it wasn’t her. Just another woman with a similar overall feel.
But the rest of the space, except for the face in the portrait, was filled with eerie scribbles.

It was…….

STSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTST

It’s all your fault! Die!

She seemed to be Stone’s wife who died in a fire.

Could his wife have possibly been killed by Stone? Perhaps because she found out about his true identity?

So, he may have been obsessed with Adel, who resembled his wife.

After all, he had killed the spouse he was to spend his life with.

(This is a time separator.)

Adel opened her eyes at the warm touch stroking her face.

It was a morning filled with bright sunlight.

She naturally smiled as she met the deep blue eyes looking at her.

“Chris…….”

“Sorry, did I wake you?”

He was sitting on the bed in a neat uniform, his hair neatly combed, looking all the more crisp.

The morning sunlight streaming through the window made his silver hair and blue eyes fresh and dazzling.

Adel felt embarrassed, thinking about how disheveled she must have looked in front of him.

“No, I have to get up.”

But as she rubbed her eyes and tried to get out of bed, she nearly screamed.

She had completely forgotten that she was naked. Moreover, her whole body was sore from the hot and intense exercise of last night.

“Can you turn your head away?”

She quickly pulled the sheet over her body to cover herself.