If You Wish For Something Useless - Chapter 34
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Chapter 34 – A Way To Get Close To (5)
After the play, Evelyn went into town accompanied by Liam and started spending her money while wandering around expensive stores. It was to attract attention by showing off her wealth. The constant refusal to not show who she was was bound to catch the nobles’ attention. She had already stopped by the jewelry store, and this time she was looking for dresses. Evelyn was going to spend enough money to make noise.
“How about this?”
Evelyn had just changed her dress and turned around in front of the mirror.
“You look beautiful.”
“That’s lip service, isn’t it? It’s time for me to get bored with…”
Hearing Liam’s reply, which came out without a moment’s hesitation, she put her hand on her waist and turned to look behind her. Liam was sitting on the sofa watching her and raised the corner of his mouth away as he said,
“I mean it though?”
Evelyn’s eyes, still covered by the veil, lit up. Liam had never smiled like that in front of her. He always showed only a smile that was made to evoke favorability from others…
‘Did you decide to take off your mask…? Or was it a mistake?’
It was an unrealistic assumption. Liam wasn’t the type of person to make a mistake in such things. Her worries were brief. It was time to take a gamble.
“It’s much nicer to look at than that sly smile.”
She pointed out his mask as if meaning that she had never been tricked by it. At the same time, it meant that she believed that the smile she was seeing was Liam’s sincere emotions. If he had been lying to Evelyn, her suspicions about him would only have grown stronger. But on the contrary, if he really meant what he had just said, he could have fooled her more perfectly.
‘How are you going to get out now?’ Evelyn waited for Liam’s response. And when she heard a snort and giggling, she was relieved inwardly. At the same time, she felt an exhilarating sense of triumph. The previous words were really Liam’s sincerity.
‘If I had gotten into gambling, I would have been in disgrace.’ Evelyn turned around, reflecting on the thoughts she had often had since childhood. Her steps as she went back to change her clothes were light.
As she left the shop after stocking up on all the dresses she would wear when she met Cesar, she saw Liam’s carriage. It was a wagon with a magic treatment for shock reduction and soundproofing. That was the kind of carriage Evelyn intended to buy.
She took Liam’s hand, climbed into the wagon, and delivered the destination to the coachman. Then, as Liam sat across from Evelyn, the carriage set off.
“There is one thing I would like to ask you.”
“Mmh?” Evelyn had been watching the scenery pass through the window and turned her head.
“I think you’d be willing to give me an answer today, so I’m being greedy.”
“Try it.”
Liam peered at her closely and spoke in a lower tone than usual.
“…Can you really see the future?”
Evelyn had been answering Liam’s questions all day long, but this time it was different. Instead of answering, she asked back.
“Will you believe me if I answer you?”
Before Liam could open her mouth, Evelyn reached out to him. Pulling his collar, Liam was meekly drawn toward her. When they got close enough to touch each other’s noses, Evelyn whispered in a very low voice.
“I really saw it.”
In her previous life that ended with a tragic death, obviously. Evelyn gave Liam an answer with no lies mixed in, and then let him go. However, as she tried to push him back, she couldn’t break the distance that was close enough to feel each other’s breaths. It was because Liam grabbed Evelyn’s hand, which had fallen away from him, and pulled it. Evelyn was immediately drawn to him.
“Then you must have seen a future where you couldn’t escape from me until the day you die.”
[tl/n: not me blushing here- it’s not that I like those psycho ML at all…no no no… okay just a bit]
Liam, revealing the madness and viciousness that had been hidden thus far, ripped off Evelyn’s veil. However, his efforts were meaningless, and the veil that covered her face remained the same. Instead, a blue electric current fizzled and burst.
Instead of panicking, Liam gave a dissatisfied look and clicked his tongue briefly. It didn’t look like it was something he had expected at all. Evelyn did not react much either, even as he held her in his large grasp. Liam gave up on the veil and drew even closer and deeper.
“If you can really see the future, I have no intention of letting you go.”
His hand flowed down slowly after releasing its strong force then reached the nape of Evelyn’s neck. Quick excited breaths mixed with the voice whispering in her ear.
“If it were any other, I would have broken it at once…”
Liam clasped her cheeks as if affectionately, and locked Evelyn’s delicate body in his arms.
“It seems I can’t do that to you, so what do I do with you?”
Pftt- There was something soggy in the laughter that followed. At the same time, the corners of Evelyn’s mouth curled.
“You’re arrogant.”
This time, Evelyn’s whispers penetrated Liam’s ear. His hand, which was still holding the nape of her neck, relaxed. He slowly released Evelyn from his arms. What settled in his blue eyes was the figure of her still wearing a veil.
Evelyn wasn’t frightened by Liam’s provocation and did not back down. Reaching out her free hand, she swept Liam’s cheek with her finger.
“What do you think you can do to me?”
Short words mixed with blatant ridicule. Evelyn looked at him with dark, dangerous eyes–everything about Liam was laughable.
Cesar, Liam, and even Etrada, too. Without the protection of the original work, all of them would have crumbled into Evelyn’s hands.
But he dared to? To threaten her, who climbed up to this point even though she didn’t receive the protection of the original. Was the feeling that made her heart shake just pure anger?
‘No.’
Evelyn asked herself, and also answered herself. Perhaps there was also a mixture of inferiority and envy toward those who have lived under the protection of the original from birth.
If Evelyn’s cheek was sunken before, this time it was Liam’s forehead that wrinkled.
‘Did you think that threats would frighten me and cause me to shrink?’ If so, it was unfortunate.
Evelyn wouldn’t be afraid of anything like Liam. She gently rubbed his distorted forehead and softly stroked his cheek as if seducing him. The strange silence came to an end when Evelyn’s hand, which had descended gradually, touched Liam’s chin.
“Let go of such vain thoughts.”
Her voice was obviously hoarse but strangely sweet. Evelyn whispered as she pulled his chin closer.
“Because the role given to you is just to be swayed by me.”
Evelyn accepted the provocation with provocation. Then she tapped Liam on the cheek to let go of her wrist, which he was still holding. She didn’t hit him hard enough to feel pain but forceful enough to feel unpleasant.
Liam’s chin bulged out. She noticed it and spoke again.
“If you touch my body one more time, I will cut off your fingers.”
Evelyn’s self-possession was too great to succumb to the slightest threat. Of course, she couldn’t take Liam’s attitude lightly as he looked at her thoroughly with his mask completely removed.
‘It seems that his true nature is slowly coming out, so I have to hurry.’
Liam’s succession should be moved up a little bit earlier.
Today, he only tried to remove the veil, or he suppressed her body for a while with a force she could not win. But what was next? Isn’t there a law that says you can’t ever leave well enough alone and must continue to build?
In order not to be crushed and swayed by his power, she must attract a force to keep him in check.
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