Chapter 70

Chapter 70

“Selena.”

The name echoed in the steam-filled bathroom. When Lucas heard the name echoing back, he plunged his face into the water.

After quite a long time, the face came up with a gasp. After taking a deep breath for a moment, Lucas slowly tilted his head.

Drops of water that hadn’t flown down on his chin were shaking precariously.

Drip, drip.

The water droplets fell into the still water of the bathtub, disturbing it and creating ripples.

“Selena.”

Lucas’s red lips curved into an arc as he spoke her name again.

Actually, Lucas had noticed a strange confusion in his mind lately.

Confusion secretly lurked in his mind and gradually grew in size, taking over his head.

It made him act impulsively.

He held out a handkerchief to Jacob, chased him and made him want to split his leg…

Then, he wanted to see Selena in a dress, so he suddenly visited the place where she was making hers.

Seeing her making Aiden’s clothes made him feel uncomfortable, so he insisted that Selena’s partner was him, and even grabbed Selena who was going to see Aiden.

What this strange, confusing, and impulsive emotion was, Lucas only found out today.

The moment he saw Selena’s hand slipping out of his with the view of her back walking down the stairs without any regrets, the moment her hair swayed. Lightning struck his heart.

Lucas let out an empty laugh and then slowly closed his eyes. Although it was dark with his eyes closed, he could see the sky-blue eyes and hair.

“What is this?”

A small murmur echoed through the bathroom.

Why was it that it took so long to notice one of his emotions while he had been so good at taking advantage of situations with other people’s emotions? …Lucas found it funny and was fed up with himself.

Now he understood why he was so tired of Aiden asking him what he thought of Selena.

He growled as if he was some kind of traitor.

Another face appeared in Lucas’s mind as he recalled the past. He spent the longest time with Selena, and was the person who had now risen to status.

Aiden.

Lucas was a little slow about his feelings, but he was quicker than anyone else to notice others’. Naturally, he noticed that Aiden liked Selena, as well.

Until now, he had just been wondering… It was finally confirmed today.

Seeing Selena coming down from the stairs, he smiled with such a happy face, how could Lucas not notice it?

“Still…”

As the closed eyes slowly opened, the eyes that flashed with desire revealed themselves.

Lucas knew his feelings, and he was unwilling to give them up.

“Selena.”

In the air submerged underwater, Selena’s name came up and scattered again.

***

The four young people of the Duchy were gathering together and drinking tea. Selena, Aaron, Lucas and Aiden were a strange combination that could not have been imagined in the past.

“I was thinking of leaving Aiden as an escort…”

Selena opened her mouth and Aaron glanced over at his friend.

There was no change in his expression… Would it really be the same inside?

Thinking that his friend’s insides were boiling, Aaron felt a sense of pity at the same time as thinking that this was troubling for some reason.

Even though he said he wasn’t, Lucas was quite fond of Selena.

Lucas was always looking at his sister with twinkling eyes, while excusing himself by thinking of Selena as just a sister… In fact, there were times when Lucas didn’t do so in strange situations, so it could be that he really didn’t know his heart.

‘Well, who wouldn’t fall for Selena?’

Aaron’s thoughts ended with pride towards his sister.

“Aiden doesn’t know escort etiquette yet, so this time he’d better just follow along as a member of the Duchy.”

With Aaron’s calm voice, Selena closed her mouth in thought for a moment, then nodded her head. She listened to Aaron, because she felt like he was well-versed.

“That would be better.”

Selena, who changed her opinion as simple as flipping her palm, sipped the tea. Aiden looked at Selena bitterly, and also took a sip of the tea accordingly.

Thinking about it, he wasn’t good enough to be an escort for the Miss. He was glad he didn’t become a shame for the Miss… Still, it was unavoidable and there was nothing he could do about it.

He had just become a wizard, but somehow he felt an endless greed.

“I’ll be Selena’s partner again this time.”

Lucas smiled softly.

“I think so. If you want to do that…”

Selena responded to Lucas, and she added some small words. There were only four people gathered in the space, so even though it was a small voice, everyone could hear it.

“Yes, I consider it a family honor.”

Lucas, who responded like so, raised the teacup as if toasting.

***

‘Oh, clothes.’

After the discussion about the party in the guise of a short tea time, we returned to our room.

It was so exhausting just talking about it, how hard was it on the party day?

A sigh came out of my mouth. Then, a large box on my table caught my eye. Aiden’s clothes arrived with the dress I would wear on the day of the party.

I should have delivered this yesterday, too, but I took the cake with me inside. What I ate, too.

“Well… Jane.”

“Yes, Miss.”

Jane, who returned to the room with me, answered with a smile.

“Give this to Aiden. And I’m going to sleep, so you can do your business.”

“Yes, Miss.”

Jane took the large box and bravely left the room. I watched Jane close the door and wriggled into bed.

I had to work hard to stock up on energy for the party day.

It was really hard to live.

I pulled up the duvet all the way to the end of my neck, but it was so hot that I just kicked it with my leg. The smell of summer wafted in with the breeze through the cracks in the slightly opened windows.

As I was falling asleep in such a pleasant atmosphere, someone came to my room. What timing.

I thought for a moment whether I should just pretend to sleep, but then I got up.

“Come on in.”

The door opened and it was Lucas who came in. ‘Yes, I already knew.’

“Were you going to sleep?”

“I thought I would close my eyes for a moment. What happened?”

Lucas looked at my messy appearance and slowly closed the door. As the door closed with a thump, it felt like the hot air was trapped in the room.

Lucas’s eyes widened pleasantly.

“I came to make my wish.”

He looked really happy. After all, I owed him a wish. If it wasn’t for that damn five-in-a-row. I think it had been a while since I said it… but I nodded because I was not unscrupulous.

Lucas pulled out the tea table chair and sat down. He looked so natural that anyone would think it was his room.

“What is your wish?”

For some reason, I thought that it would be unusual for Lucas to make a wish. Lucas’s fingers tapped the table uniformly.

The momentary silence made me even more worried. For some reason, he was the male lead, but there was no one like that who would come to the boss villain to make a wish.

Lucas’s mouth, which had been closed for a while, was opened.

“A cut, please.”

Lucas was sitting at my dressing table. He spread out an old piece of cloth and spread it on the floor, and put one over his shoulder.

As if he was at a hairdresser’s.

“Is it really okay?”

“Yes, of course.”

Lucas met my eyes through the mirror. He didn’t look nervous at all, even though he left his hair to me.

Lucas’s wish was that I cut his hair. Making a wish for something like this… For the resourceful Lucas, it was incomprehensible.

Well, it was fine with me.

Thinking that it was a good thing, I held his long, shiny hair in my hand. Why did he want to cut his hair all of a sudden?

“Why are you cutting your hair?”

I just asked. If there was some serious reason, he wouldn’t have left his hair to me.

Lucas looked at me intently and then closed his eyes. A smile lingered on his lips.

“The person I like says that she doesn’t like men with long hair.”

Wow. It was a more dramatic story than I expected. He would cut his hair because someone he liked wanted it… Haha, in the original story, he was pretty innocent.

As if it was flowing through Lucas’s remarks, I suddenly hardened while thinking of the original story.

The original story… the original story. The romantic Lucas of the original story liked… Princess Ariel.

By the way, Princess Ariel was now Brother’s fiancee, and the two were in a loving relationship, dating in such a fantastic situation where there was only the blessings of the people around them and no interference from the villainess.

To put it shortly, unlike in the original story, Princess Ariel wasn’t disappointed by Brother, and would never meet this man. But, at this point, if there was someone he liked… No matter how much I thought about it, the only one that came to mind was Princess Ariel.

Oh my gosh. What a shameless thing to do? To have a crush on his friend’s fiancee and ask his sister to cut his hair… People would be at a loss for words.

I looked down at the scissors in my hand. They weren’t sharp-ended scissors, but the light on the sharp side of the scissors was reflected by the sunlight and sparkled.

Maybe, with this…

“Selena?”

As Lucas asked, I raised my gaze looking down at the scissors.

“Oh, I’ll cut it right away.”

It felt like I was caught committing some kind of crime. To be honest, I was just imagining it, and there was nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, sure.

I fixed the scissors properly and held Lucas’s fluttering hair in my hand. The gentle feeling tickled my hand.

As I was doing this, I was reminded of the past. I often cut Eunji’s hair.

Eunji spent most of her time at the hospital, so she didn’t have many opportunities to go to the hairdresser.

On a summer day, I would make it short enough to show the nape of the neck, and in winter, the ends were only trimmed a little, and when she was on strong medicine treatment, I had to shave her hair.

In the end, Eunji’s hair never exceeded her shoulders.

Eunji always burst into tears when I cut or shaved her hair.

I slowly moved my hand and cut off the tip of Lucas’s hair a little. His hair fell to the floor like rain.

I moved my hand a few more times, but the hair showed no signs of shortening.

I had never cut hair this long before.

I hesitated, wondering if I could be a little bolder or not, so Lucas, who was watching me, laughed softly.

“You can be bolder.”

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