Chapter 49

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After that, she chased Owen, who had a fairly wide distance, and shouted at once.

“Your Highness!”

When Marianne called him with a sharp voice, Owen stopped walking and turned his head with a clear look of annoyance.

Marianne was offended by the indifferent and cold gaze, but she tried to calmly look up at him and ask.

“Where are you going? You’re not going back to the Imperial Palace, right?”

Owen laughed coldly at the question, making a deflating sound, and replied.

“There would be no reason for me to stay here any longer.”

“What do you mean by that? Are you telling me to attend tonight’s party without Your Highness?”

After all, it was the Empire’s custom for the two parties to waltz at a party held on the second night of Bridal Shower.

It was a place to dance the waltz. It’s the first connection before marriage, to enjoy the blessings of those invited to the party, and declare to them that the two have officially become couples. However, to ignore the custom and return to the Imperial Palace first, Marianne was speechless.

Wasn’t it Owen, who was forced to attend last night’s party, gave her a tiara made of diamonds and rubies, and left within 20 minutes.

That’s why the noble wives, who were already talkative in Grace’s attire and attitude, were so loud about Owen’s attitude.

Marianne is furious at Owen’s desire to embarrass him tonight for not only what made her the poorest lady in the world last night.

She has endured his indifferent and cold attitude all this time, but she couldn’t stand it anymore. Marianne shouted at Owen with full disappointment.

“Your Highness, you can’t do this! Even if you don’t have a heart for me, you have to do your duty as a fiance!”

“……Duty? I think I’ve done my duty just by attending that tedious party last night.”

“Your Highness! How can you say that? Really, I feel so sorry for you!”

“What do you mean?”

At Owen’s question as if he didn’t know why she was doing this, Marianne became even more enraged and raised her voice.

“Ha! Are you really asking because you don’t know? You’ve been being cold to me all this time! And you’re blatantly avoiding me!”

“…….”

“Until now, until the official engagement process was delayed under the pretext of the academy as an excuse, I tried to be patient and put up with it. Because I thought it was necessary for Your Highness to become a great emperor of this Empire! That’s why I am the one who waited eagerly for Your Highness to return home. But how can you disappoint me like that?”

“…I’m not sure what part of me Lady is so disappointed about.”

“Are you avoiding me and pretending not to know? Okay! Then I dare ask you, despite the shame.”

“What is it?”

“…….Your Highness, I don’t think that’s possible, but Grace, do you have any deep feelings for her?”

Marianne’s last question distorted Owen’s expression, who had only listened to her protests in a cool manner so far.

The easy-to-understand attitude made Marianne burst out laughing.

‘…..At the very least, do you have a heart for that incompetent person? More than me?’

It was a difficult situation for Marianne to accept. She shouted, glaring at Owen with a blue face and poisonous gaze.

“No wonder it kept bothering me! Is that why you called Grace ‘Lady Grace’ instead of ‘Duchess Felix’ all along?”

“Whatever I call her, I don’t know why it’s important to you.”

“Your Highness! What are you talking about?  I’m your fiancée! Of course, I have the right to say this to you, Your Highness!”

However, Owen’s expression listening to Marianne was indifferent as if there was no need or reason to understand her feelings at all.

In this situation, it should be him, not herself, who should be shy and be sorry. But rather Marianne was shocked by Owen’s attitude of treating her as an insensitive and unreasonable protester.

“……..rights?”

However, Owen suddenly burst into a pick laugh as if Marianne’s attitude was funny.

Soon he took a step closer to her, glaring at Marianne with his cold eyes. Then he growled, bringing his lips to her ears, whose ends were ripe red with rage.

“When did I give such rights to you, Lady?”

“……!”

Marianne was suddenly at a loss for words at Owen’s disrespectful words against her and the eerie hatred underneath.

Owen whispered in a harsher tone than a winter snowstorm in Marianne’s ear, which had hardened like ice.

“Lady and the Lady’s family, Duke Alberton and my father, wanted from me a formal marriage with you, not love, right? What Lady also wanted from me is power.”

“…..You-, Your Highness.”

“Then you’ll only have power, why are you greedy for my heart? Huh? Why? Because if you have my heart, it’ll be easier for Lady to get the power she wants?”

“…I-, is it wrong for a wife to say she wants to receive her husband’s love and attention?”

Owen’s force, which drove her with the utmost relentless cruelty, like a beast with prey in front of her, Marianne stuttered and retorted with difficulty.

Upon hearing that, Owen snorted and asked back.

“I want to ask you a question. Do you really want to receive my love?”

“… Of-, Of course. All of it. Absolutely.”

“You were disgusted by my ‘real self’ and gave up after swearing, isn’t it?”

“….that, that thing!”

Marianne argued back with difficulty, but at Owen’s words that followed soon, she was at a loss for words again.

Is that all? Marianne trembled with her complexion pale blue and stepped back without realizing it.

Yeah, she forgot. That horrible look.

Marianne was sick again with disgust when she recalled the “day” when she learned all the secrets from her father, Duke Alberton.

[T/N: What’s the “day”? Is he a real monster or something? (´･ω･`)?]

Owen sneered coldly at the vivid disgust on Marianne’s face and her trembling with fear.

“You’re still so disgusted when you think about what happened that day, but you want to have my heart? Indeed, your greed knows no bounds.”

“…Your-, Your Highness.”

“You don’t have the ability or the heart to handle it. I’m so disgusted at the sight of you vying and being greedy for everything.”

“……”

Owen was constantly sarcastic and chasing after Marianne, who was taking a step back from him.

Marianne was frightened by the overwhelming appearance and stepped back faster. Meanwhile, Marianne stepped on the hem of her long, draped dress and stumbled uncontrollably.

Owen then grabbed Marianne with one arm. Thanks to this, she avoided the embarrassing fall, but Marianne’s face, which was firmly captured by Owen, was contemplated.

Owen laughed at her and whispered low in her blue ears.

“I want someone who will love even my real self. And that’s not you.”

“……”

“So don’t be greedy or nosy about useless things. Because I have no intention of giving you and your father anything more than the ‘contract’.”

With those words, Owen pushed Marianne away. The push was too polite, but just as cold.

“Then excuse me, Lady Marianne.”

After that, Owen greeted Marianne in a polite tone, as if he had never threatened her, and then completely turned around and walked away.

Marianne liked Owen’s back getting away with a complex gaze mixed with fear and hatred. Considering the resentment that she had yet to shake off, she wanted to quickly chase him and shout one more time, but she was too afraid of ‘his monster’ to do that.

Soon enough, as Owen was no longer seen, Marianne sat down, utterly stunned, and burst out laughing like a madman.

“Ha ha ha ha ha…….”

With the glow turned off in the blue eyes that always have an arrogant light, Marianne burst out laughing. And then raised her hands decorated with various jewels and covered her face and burst into tears.

She resented.

She couldn’t stand the breakdown.

Now, because of someone, the Imperial family is being maintained in good health. But she hates the Crown Prince who doesn’t even know the ball and dared to laugh at her and her family.

Nevertheless, it was extremely annoying that she had to please that person until she became the Crown Prince.

‘Alright, let’s wait and see.’

If she becomes the Crown Prince and gives birth to a successor, she can pay back the humiliation she received now. Marianne gritted her teeth and burst into tears.

“Ma-, Marianne!”

At that sad cry, Duchess Alberton rushed out.

Duchess Alberton sat down next to Marianne, who was slumped ungainly without even pulling the hem of her dress. She asked while stroking her daughter’s tears-soaked face as if it were pathetic.

“My baby, why are you crying? Huh?”

“Mo-, mother. I’m really upset and sad that I want to die right away.”

“What are you talking about in front of your mother, my baby! Why would you want to die? Huh? Why is our precious daughter, who will soon become the Crown Prince?”

“Ugh.”

However, the more Duchess Alberton comforted her, the more she cried. Duchess Alberton, who was even more saddened by the sight, asked, stroking Marianne’s crouched back.

“Did the Crown Prince say something harsh to you?”

“……Mother.”

“Yes, my pretty Marie.”

“I don’t want to but I really hate him. I loathe him. He’s a monster among monsters! I hate him for persecuting me as a benefactor and ignoring my family implicitly. Do you think that’s it? He doesn’t like me. He said not to expect anything like love. How can he do that? I’m the person who will officially be his wife, but he said not to ask for more than the contract. Just how can he say that? How?”

“……That can’t be helped, Marianne, the Crown Prince didn’t like you from the beginning, did he? In addition, the use of ‘Love Potion’ caused side effects, which amplified his hate for you.”

“I know it too! I know! I yielded a hundred and a thousand times, and until that point, I said yes. But, mother, you saw it, right? Where was Your Highness’ gaze all the time?”

Digging into the arms of her mother, Duchess Alberton, who comforted her, Marianne grinded her teeth in anger.

For money, power, and family honour without love, marrying by arrangement and having a lover behind them was as natural as breathing for the royal family or nobles, so that was okay.

It didn’t matter. When the use of the love potion went down the drain, she already gave up on winning his heart. For now, Marianne honestly didn’t care how many lovers the monster had as long as he gave her a successor.

However, the story was very different if the object of his affection was Duchess Grace Felix. Marianne cried out in a piercing voice, hitting her stuffy chest with her hands.

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