Published at 21st of November 2020 06:13:17 PM
Chapter 59: 59
What happened now? The two men thought the same thing . It was fortunate that Liam’s father and the Emperor didn’t participate here .
“Why, you want to say that because of my bad behavior I got divorced and act like a wild horse?”
“······I never said that . ” Serus wiped his face with a napkin . His face was stony with embarrassment .
“Didn’t you learn that from your brother?”
“I’m not close to my brother . ” Serus said . But, his sincere answer made Rebecca very irritated .
“Hah, do you think that I’m now talking about your relationship?”
At her question, Serus blinked his again . Because in truth, he had little contact with his older brother since he grew up as Fabian’s close friend since he was a child .
“People in Perth say, if you drink alcohol, you will lose your memory, is it true? ” Rebecca asked with a cold voice .
Serus had little interaction with his family since he joined the Black Hawk Knights, so this situation somehow was so unfair to him .
“Oh! It’s because you don’t have a girlfriend . Which damn lady do you like, or do you like an opera theater singer as well?”
Her ex-husband had been such a bad memory to Rebecca . He blamed her for her slowness, but he bravely enough not to hide his affair . She was profoundly offended by the fact that Serus, who knew everything about his affair, dared to lift his head and sit in front of her like nothing happened .
“It was my mistake to call your name recklessly . I apologize if you were offended . ” Serus raised himself up, and there was no more anger in him . “And I… really didn’t learn anything from my brother . Honestly, I didn’t want to learn anything from him . ”
Rebecca suddenly became awkward . She wished at first that she could get mad at Serus, as she did with her ex-husband . Serus’s calm reaction, however, made her look like a crazy woman .
“I’m sorry for your divorce . I know it’s my brother’s fault . ” Serus still wiped the wine’s drip and quietly said it . “My mother, Duchess Perth, and everyone in the world knows who’s to blame . If there are rumors that annoy you, it’s a fool’s word, so don’t mind it . ”
Rebecca was now looking at Serus, frowning her eyebrows .
“At least, if my mother and I hear the false rumor, we promise to correct it . ”
Liam had already kept an eye on the late situation, seeking to find the right timing to interrupt .
“The bad one is my brother . I know it well . ”
Rebecca suddenly had lost her vocabulary .
“I apologize once again for being irresponsible in calling your name . ”
Besides, the longer Serus spoke, the more he was able to block people’s mouths . To the point that Rebecca felt it was her fault to be called by that name .
“However, since it is my task to serve His Majesty, I can’t leave his side… So I hope you understand . ” Serus bowed his head to Rebecca . He was the Emperor’s close aide, the head of Black Hawk Knights, and Perth’s son . Nevertheless, he lowered his head gently to Rebecca without any hesitation .
“Then, ······ . ”
What’s more shocking was that instead of leaving, Serus sat back in his chair . He finished using a napkin to clean the wine and picked up the dishes .
“I’m sorry, the dinner interrupt because of me . Let’s keep eating . ”
Liam nearly opened half his mouth wide . He felt lost, and with a side glance, he looked at Rebecca . If Serus had protested something, he would have been angrier, but he couldn’t say anything about him when he behaved like this .
“Liam, I’m not feeling well, so I’m going back . As a Duke, you should entertain our guests . ”
Rebecca barely said that . She then turned around and disappeared . There were only two men left for this wrong dinner, and Liam deeply regretted the meeting .
“Sir Serus…… what the hell are you thinking?”
“Yes?”
“No, I do not understand, no matter how hard I try . Is it possible to eat now?”
“Can you not?”
Serus wasn’t sarcastic, but purely asking back . He was a strong enemy that Liam had never encountered before .
“She’s my sister, but a while ago, she did too much . I’m sure you’ve got feelings . ”
But Serus remained calm, “Oh, … . . It’s all right, I lived as His Majesty’s aide, and there were a lot of humiliating moments, and I’m used to it because there are so many people who are upset about my brother already . ”
“That much?”
“He’s a very competent man as a Duke, but in his private life he’s a very ‘noisy’ guy . ”
It was as if he were talking about the story of someone else .
“The fact I was born after him can’t be helped … . ”
“Well, you weren’t born that way because you wanted to . ” Liam silently whispered to himself, and their eyes met .
“I understand, there is a lot of unfairness in the case of my brother . ”
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“Sir Serus… . . You’re different from people’s prejudice . ” Liam turned his head . But there was no sign of Rebecca .
“I can’t help it . People’s prejudice against me because they see me as half-my brother and half-His Majesty . ”
That was one of Serus’s sufferings . His older brother, who had already made Perth’s son’s image, become bad . As Fabian’s close friend, he also had no choice but to give the impression that he was a cold-blooded man .
“That means you don’t want to . ”
“Well …… I honestly don’t mean anything . ”
Unconsciously, Liam nodded his head in sympathy for his situation .
“I think it’s best to stay in the Empire as it is . All I can do is hope that His Majesty will return quickly this time . ” Serus confided after he heard Liam’s encouraging response .
“In that respect, I agree, our hopes are the same . ”
“Is that so?”
“Sir … . . If I can do anything to help, please tell me . ”
“Then, one thing that you can do is pay attention to………”
So, the interests of the two men, which resembled water and oil, were balanced unexpectedly .
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As Fabian had said, the trade routes with the Empire had returned to normal . There was also good news from Agriculture in the southern country that the medicines supplied by Fabian had succeeded in eradicating crop diseases . While it was not a good thing, it was lucky Fabian was able to stop here .
Above all, Evelyn’s quick judgment was able to procure scarce food from the East, so this year would pass safely . And she also released an order, as finance minister, to exclude the affected farmer from taxes .
“I can feel relaxed now ……”
“Thanks to you, many people must have relieved from their worries . ”
The day after having dinner with Serus, Rebecca left the Duke’s residence and remained at the royal palace . She was regarded as a member of the Royal Family from the very beginning, so it was normal for her to go back and forth in the palace .
“But Rebecca . Is it alright if you’re not going back to the Duke’s residence?”
“Are you tired of me?” Rebecca’s face clouded at once .
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‘No, I like you… . . , but I’m a little worried about people who coming from the Duke of Akshire twice a day to find Rebecca . ’
And it was burdensome . But Evelyn couldn’t say that to Rebecca .
“It’s all right . Don’t worry about it . ”
“That…… Sir Liam is looking for you…… . ”
“Oh, you can ignore him . ”
Suddenly it occurred to her that she didn’t see Liam these days . Evelyn was sure that he must feel like dying every day since he needed to take care of Fabian and Serus, the two most troubling men .
“Do you feel uncomfortable with Sir Serus?”
“Why me? He’s the one who should be uncomfortable not me . ”
“Ah yes, yes, you’re right … . ”
Evelyn wondered, what the hell had happened that day? Because Rebecca stayed in her place for two days without opening her mouth .
“Did Sir Serus……have done something wrong? Oh, for him to go to the Duke of Akshire was already rude . ”
“You think he’s rude? He doesn’t have feelings , emotions, no principles, no pride!”
Evelyn simply didn’t have a good impression of Serus . He was always like Fabian’s shadow . In front of Evelyn, the Empress, he never spoke or disclosed his personal thoughts .
“I don’t know what kind of person Sir Serus is . How many times I will say that I have no idea whatsoever . ”
“That’s what I mean . Oh, my God, I poured wine on his face and I hated his expression . What kind of man is he?”
Evelyn’s eyes shook all of a sudden . What’d happened at dinner on earth? What was Rebecca doing?
“He apologized easily . And he admitted that his brother is a bastard . ” Rebecca’s words were harsh, but her expression didn’t seem angry .
“I think he’s a better person than I thought . ”
Rebecca glanced at Evelyn’s cautious words and bit her lower lips . “I’m pissed about that . ”
It was also true that Rebecca’s temper was terrible and that she acted rude sometimes . However, she wasn’t a ‘hard’ woman nor a woman who didn’t want to admit her mistake .
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“I thought he was the same bad guy as his brother, because he’s a son of Perth, but he’s not!”
“Because the brothers are not all alike . ”
” … . And thanks to him, I think I’ve become a crazy woman . ”
Rebecca muttered in despair . As time went by, her head cooled down, and her prejudice was cleared . She realized that she had committed something dishonorable . But Serus’ reaction was kind, and It was proof that he was totally different from her ex-husband .
“I need to apologise, right?”
“Maybe Sir Serus doesn’t care at all . ”
“It looks like that . But I don’t want to be the same person as my ex . He was a human who didn’t apologize when a knife got in his neck . He didn’t even think about, or admitted he was wrong . I thought all men in the Empire were like that . ”
Evelyn had often believed so . Even Rebecca’s ex-husband didn’t know his fault and didn’t even want to think about it . But Fabian, whom she met not long ago, wanted to know his faults . And he tried to fix it .
“That’s right . Sometimes we don’t really know about a person . ” Evelyn patted Rebecca on the shoulder . Rebecca nodded as if she had decided something .
“I have to apologize for being mad . Of course, only for the rudeness!”
“It was… . only wine that you poured?”
Rebecca, who noticed Evelyn’s worries about whether abuse might have happened, looked at her with a sweet expression .
“The only person I hit is Liam . ”
“Oh, I see . ”
The hot temper Rebecca, she was already getting ready to go back to Duke’s residence .
“God, I hated it because when I went to my house, I had to see that awful thing . ”
In recent days, when Evelyn talked about the Duke, Rebecca said she didn’t want to go back because she didn’t want to see something terrible .
“But you now know that Lord Serus is not a bad guy,” Evelyn said . But Rebecca opened her eyes wide, “What? Sir Serus? I wasn’t talking about him . ”
“Don’t you know? That creature that I hate right now… ···· Oh, it’s terrible . It’s terrible anyway!”
Evelyn obviously misunderstood the situation a little bit .