Chapter 29

I’m Scared of My Late First Love (7)

Lancelot grabbed the theater staff and had them bring the veil. The carriage was a narrow place to receive treatment, so he thought they had to move, so they covered her face. The theater staff quickly borrowed a veil from one of the actresses.

They had veils with pretty good designs, as their profession sometimes required them to run to the back door of the theater to avoid the eyes of fans.

Rowena was escorted to a room in the theater with her face covered by the veil. As she sat down with Pina, the healer arrived. She didn’t ask Rowena the question of whom she was beaten by as if she had already been told.

The bruise on her face disappeared in less than five minutes and the pain went away. The healer asked the relieved Rowena carefully.

“Are you hurt anywhere else?”

“It’s…”

“Please look at her stomach and feet. It also looks like it hurts when she walks.”

The Count’s actions were known, so Pina knew by looking at Rowena’s gait. She took off her clothes and her shoes, as directed by the healer, revealing her black, bruised belly and her swollen toes.

“Oh, my…”

With a slightly angry face, the healer hurried the treatment. When she touched her, the wound on her stomach and toes disappeared.

The healer looked like she wanted to know who did this, but she stood up without asking anything.

“Thank you for your treatment,” Rowena said, and the healer looked at her anxiously.

“Even if the wound looks like it’s healed on the surface, it’s not fully healed. Your foot seems to have fractured, so you’d better refrain from going out for a while and be careful.”

“Yes… I’ll do it accordingly.”

The healer looked pitifully at Rowena and stood up.

Women usually try to hide their wounds when they are assaulted by someone close to them. The crown prince, though foul-tempered, wasn’t the one who would touch his people, so it was probably her family.

The healer suppressed her sorrow and walked out of the room. Rowena let out a long sigh and looked at her feet.

I have to go see my father.

By the day of their engagement, Cecil would eventually send her out from the count, so she had to please the count. That way, she was safe and the people she loved were safe.

Knock, knock.

A slow knock made Pina look at the door. She thought they were guards.

“Who are you?”

When Pina asked, someone in front of the door hesitated for a moment.

“May I come in?”

Everyone knew the voice of the crown prince. Pina immediately looked at Rowena as Rowena quickly found her shoes.

She couldn’t wipe the blood from her shoes because she was focused on cleaning the wound, but she couldn’t help it. Pina quickly put the shoes on Rowena.

“Ugh…”

It was still uncomfortable, but it could not be compared to before treatment. Rowena looked back at the door with a nonchalant expression.

“Come on in!”

Pina quickly went to the wall and stood. The door opened and Cecil, with a guilty face, entered the room.

Rowena didn’t think Cecil would kill Paul.

He would have taken it out on Paul, but he wouldn’t have killed him. Rowena judged so.

Cecil stood at the door with a complex expression and looked at Rowena. Then he strode as if he had made up his mind to close his distance from her. Standing near the wall, Pina hesitated whether she should leave or not.

But!

Argghhh

As Cecil approached, he knelt in front of Rowena’s seat, and Pina was horrified and ran away from the room. She saw the crown prince kneeling! After learning about this, she was afraid that later, the crown prince would have her neck.

When Pina ran away from the room, the crown prince’s servants closed the door without a sound. They looked surprised, too.

“Y-Your Highness! What are you doing?!”

“I…”

Cecil clenched his teeth as if he was angry just thinking about it.

“I sent you back to the house. I left you in that danger. I should have known, but I…”

Domestic violence was done in secret. How could Cecil notice what Rowena didn’t say? Cecil had only known Rowena for a few days.

“It’s not your fault! That’s…”

It was Paul’s fault, and it was her brothers who knew and were neglecting her. Louis, who had no power yet, would be the exception.