CH 159

“Marin, are you in there?”

I was in my chain of thought, when I heard Chelleno’s voice. I quickly dabbed the tears off my eyes with a handkerchief. I would be embarrassed sleeping at night if others saw me, and I cried. I looked into the mirror to check on myself and opened the door.

“What’s up?”

“Oh… Er, I brought you something to eat.”

There was a box full of cookies in his hands. Where did he get this? I knew that it couldn’t be Beth or Mion because I knew as a best friend, they hated sweet things. But then… it must mean someone had brought them along on the trip. My eyes grew large, and Chelleno grinned.

“You like sweets.”

How did he know? I never showed my taste preferences at my uncle’s house, so I was even more surprised. My mother hates being picky on food, so if she found out that I have a sweet tooth, she would be furious. That’s why in fear of getting the word out to my mother, I refrained from showing my preferences at Uncle’s house. Did Chelleno really bring this here?

As I was becoming curious, he said, “I should get going then.”

I was even more shocked to find Chelleno just leaving like that. He would never leave so easily. What’s wrong? I closed the door, grabbed the box of cookies, and took one into my mouth. My god- This is so delicious! It was so delicious that it just blew my sadness away.

‘Ugh, I would get fat… but who cares. I won’t even get married.’

Ever since I realized my feelings for the Crown Prince, I gave up on marriage. Honestly, I don’t think there will be anyone else who could make my heart pound harder than him in my life. Now that I’ve accepted my feelings, I would rather live single while working under my loving, handsome Crown Prince instead of getting married to some a*sh*le and living miserably. Of course, nothing will return even if I give all my feelings… I’m hungry. I was so hungry that I emptied the whole box in the end.

Now that I filled my belly, I felt tired. I went immediately to my bed, closed my eyes, and put myself into a drowsiness that overwhelmed my entire body.

Chapter 4. Breaking Out of the Crisis

I opened my heavy eyelids and saw the sun had gone up. I glanced at the clock and realized I fortunately hadn’t overslept. I quickly washed up and dressed myself. That’s when I heard a knock.

“Milady, it’s me.” She didn’t show much presence until now, but it was Daisy who followed me silently. I opened the door for her. “I thought you’d be awake by now. You’re awake early as I expected.”

“Yeah, it’s a habit.”

Daisy smiled and began combing my hair. “Yes, I think it has become my habit as well. I automatically woke up at the same time as you.”

She certainly is my maid, after all. It’s like we resemble each other the more we stay together.

“Anyway, you should eat something today,” Daisy said. It wasn’t like her to be nosy, but she smiled and said something that made me confused. “You’d never know. It was a mess yesterday.”

“Mess? What do you mean? What happened?” I asked her, looking at her, confused.

She turned my head back around and replied as she worked on putting up makeup on me. “Hmm… Shall I say, a storm went through that made everyone else quiet?”

I rolled my eyes to glare at her for the idiomatic phrases that weren’t like her at all.

Daisy just grinned, “So you must join breakfast today. I’m not sure if the storm will come today as well, but my guess is that it will be awfully quiet.”