“Did you talk well?”
As Lady Han left, Tanya rushed over with a curious expression. However, Adel, holding a teacup, sat silently with a vacant look for a while.
“Miss?”
Judging by her expression, it seemed like she heard something unpleasant.
‘Could there be any problem with the pregnancy?’
“Don’t worry too much. Both of you are healthy, so it will be fine soon…”
Suddenly, Adel stood up from his seat, roughly opened the door, and went out.
“Miss! Where are you going?”
Based on what the maid had told Lady Han earlier, she continued, “Judging by the traces from the bedroom, it seems that the master does not want a child.”
“What’s that…”
“Didn’t you really know anything?”
…!
Adel, who arrived in a hurry, found himself in the underground laundry room.
The maids, who were carrying laundry, quickly lowered their heads when she suddenly appeared.
But Adel seemed not to notice anything else. With an anxious expression, she rummaged through the laundry and asked, “Where is the laundry from my bedroom?”
“I manage that separately.”
The head maid seemed to have expected her arrival and was waiting.
“I need to confirm it with my own eyes.”
“Please follow me.”
After a while, Adel, who had disappeared with the head maid, returned.
Everyone was wondering what had happened, and Tanya quickly approached.
“Miss, are you okay?”
“Tanya, tell Henry to prepare the carriage. I need to meet the Count.”
She seemed calm, but her voice couldn’t hide the tremor.
“The Captain is not here right now.”
When Adel arrived at Kristin’s office, the guards blocked her way.
“When will he be back?”
They looked puzzled.
“Today’s password is… but…”
It was strange that Adel, who lived with Kristin, didn’t know this fact.
“Get a hold of yourself. He went out for something important today, and I forgot.”
Adel smiled as if she had just remembered.
“What about Lieutenant Zimmer…?”
“Lieutenant Zimmer also has the password.”
“Oh, of course. Lieutenant Zimmer also has the password, so we went out together. I just wanted to make sure if you knew.”
Adel, who answered swiftly, extended a basket of snacks.
“Thank you.”
“And keep it a secret from the Captain that I’ve been out. I don’t want to look like a scatterbrained woman.”
“Don’t worry!”
Adel laughed until the end as she turned away.
But when she arrived in an empty place, her expression darkened.
It was confusing.
She assumed that the refusal of the date invitation due to busyness meant work duties, as usual.
‘Was it really a password?’
Of course, since it was an exceptional password, there could be personal matters involved.
‘But why keep it a secret?’
Moreover, if Zimmer was also taken along, it might not be a simple matter.
Adel was perplexed.
So far, she had thought of him as nothing less than her doppelganger. He understood and accepted her thoughts and feelings better than anyone else. He was the person who felt her pain more than she did.
Adel also believed that she understood him better than anyone else.
‘But was it not the truth?’
He didn’t want a child, and there was something he was hiding.
He disliked her curiosity about the Silver Wolf. She knew how much hatred he harbored for the wolf that killed his mother.
On the night the Silver Wolf killed the guards… Was he really in the office?
‘What am I thinking!’
Adel shook her head in disbelief.
Kristin and the Silver Wolf couldn’t be related, right?
Even if he was hiding something, it must be for her sake.
He was her reliable ally, her man.
‘Yes, I’ll trust you until the end, Chris.’
Adel earnestly hoped that this trust would not be shattered.
“We need to take a short break. The words are too exhausting!”
Zimmer, who was chasing after Kristin, shouted.
The two of them hadn’t rested for a moment, leaving Sword Greenhill before dawn.
“Let’s take a short break.”
Kristin reluctantly pulled the reins, bringing the horse to a stop.
It was still 10 AM.
But they had to arrive at Oswald’s villa in Bluegale before noon. They had to return to Marble Palace before the sunset.
“This is really an unreasonable schedule. A round trip to Bluegale in just one day.”
Zimmer grumbled, loosening the reins at the water’s edge.
“We only have one day.”
It was his password for today. Taking advantage of the rare free time, he decided to visit Oswald’s villa, where Stone’s wife had died in a fire.
It was tight to make a round trip in a day, but there was no choice if he wanted to keep it hidden from the Emperor and Adel.
‘I hope we can find some small clues.’
He had a special reason for hurrying to Oswald’s villa.
Stone’s wife died in a fire there, and the former Earl Oswald, on his way back from the villa, was attacked and turned into a zombie.
Was it a mere coincidence that Stone’s wife and the former Earl were involved in an accident on their way to the villa?
Perhaps there might be some hidden secrets there.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
