Growing Feelings (3)

It will be difficult to hide it, the dowry amount Adelia has paid will eventually come as news to people

Previously, Paul had been trying to sell his daughter for money in search of a marriage partner with an age gap, so the dowry problem was heartbreaking.

But it was okay because the opponent was the royal family.

I hope Rowena doesn’t know about her brothers. Matthias will also get a place in the country, and so will Theo and Louis. Even nobles will bring me money to do a favor!

Already, the nobles were opening their wallets to Paul. As he began to receive hospitality wherever he went, his worries disappeared due to the fantasy.

Theo, on the other hand, was very worried. In the past, he didn’t worry about Rowena as his brother or father did. He knew his father treated Rowena unfairly, but she was lucky to be born a girl, so he wondered what she was worried about.

Leading the family and worrying about the family situation were all men’s problems. He thought it would not be difficult for a woman because she only had to manage what was given.

He was the second son of a powerless count. His older brother would inherit the family, taking everything, and when his older brother got married and his father died, he would be abandoned on the road.

Louis seemed to have no thoughts because he was still young, but Theo was worried about the future. He was angry at the thought of his future. Even Rowena was the one who would eventually marry into another family. Even if he cared, he felt that it was his loss.

But the current person involved was different. The crown prince. His father and brother were happy, but the crown prince was a man of poor reputation.

She could marry the crown prince and be killed at his will.

So far, Rowena had been listening to her father in moderation, but Theo knew it wasn’t Rowena’s sincerity.

Rowena was a child whose thoughts were stronger than his father knew. It seemed that she often went to the temple to relieve her stuffy stomach, but he guessed that even that was not true.

If he had told his father this, Rowena would have been severely beaten, so he just kept his mouth shut.

Theo had her in mind.

Theo thought of Rowena who was following the crown prince’s hand without saying a word. For the first time, he sympathized with her situation.

* * *

The place where Cecil met Lady Adelia was a brightly blooming garden. He told the people in charge of the garden to move the table and make a couple of chairs.

So it was the drawing-room that connected to the garden that Cecil now entered holding Rowena’s hand. He went inside through the open glass door and asked,

“I forgave Marquis Wenson as I promised. Is there any prize for that?”

Rowena was at a loss for words. Her thoughts were in chaos from the moment she met him. It occurred to her that the wedding date was too early, but she couldn’t say a word in front of Paul. She would be scolded the moment she went back home.

If he had just yelled at her, she would have taken out a word, but Paul gave her a beating where it was not visible. Paul thought there was no discipline without force.

She couldn’t open her mouth when she thought about herself wearing her engagement dress because her back and thighs were black and bruised.

However, it might overturn things as everything will be canceled. She didn’t know whether to appreciate it or to be miserable.

“What do you want?”

“There’s a lot I want.”

Cecil turned and raised Rowena’s hand. Rowena’s face flamed up because his eyes were simply strange, kissing the back of her hand.

She shook out her hand, but Cecil let go and laughed. Rowena was a little surprised, nervous that Cecil might be angry.

The man she knew would quickly get angry and threaten her with a little pet peeve of hers.

“… Excuse me.”

“I’m the one who should be saying excuse me. The Lady has nothing to apologize for.”

Rowena was confused because his smile and staring face contained full goodwill.

There was a time when she thought she should risk her life just by persuading him.

It wasn’t that different from the treatment Rowena got from Paul, so it eventually became something to be considered familiar with. It was different now.

“I don’t know Your Highness.”

“What’s the difference?”

Cecil wanted to close his distance from Rowena, but he didn’t rush close. It was because he remembered her sitting calmly at the meeting.

That’s what she looked like when she was with Count Adelia and her brothers. She seemed to have killed herself as if she had no words. Cecil saw a kind of resignation in that figure.

He thought she wouldn’t have had a chance to date if she had grown up among those people.

Isn’t Rowena uncomfortable with men?

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