Chapter 4.1

I looked back at Gerald, trembling in frustration.

No matter how much I decided to end my marriage with him and break up with him, it wasn’t as though we wouldn’t see each other forever.

This is because the Logan and Leander families were contributors to the empire for a long time. The Logan family protected the empire with pens and the Leander family with swords.

Oh. Alexid did nothing but train and he was all brawn and no brain . . .

It’s okay, Louella. Gerald is Gerald even when he’s young.

I’m sure he’ll react differently from other eight-year-olds. He’s not the type to tease me about peeing in bed.

“Do you want to have these cookies?”

Gerald smiled and asked softly. I noticed that he was pretending not to hear any words coming from my older brother because he didn’t want me to feel ashamed.

He had been precocious since he was young.

He was more mature than his peers due to courtesy and consideration, and of course, I fell for him, too.

I could only nod with a red face.

“Okay. Let’s exchange plates.”

Gerald exchanged my empty plate for mine.

The amount of snacks given to me always left me with a stomach ache, so Gerald used to give me all the snacks even when I was young.

I could’ve lost eight years of age.

But now I’m an adult who falls for these cookies.

The cookies are good, but . . .

I’m not falling for you, Gerald Logan.

I made a new resolution.

“Is it good?”

Crap, the body of an 8-year-old.

It tastes good, but I won’t fall for you!

“I’ll bring almond cookies next time I come. You like that, too, right?

I like that, but I won’t fall for you!

“Drink milk, too. You’ll get indigestion.”

I won’t fall for you even if I drink milk!

Gerald, who wiped my mouth, smiled indifferently.

Ah.

He was still the same.

A normal eight-year-old kid would actually jump up and down from happiness with his actions, but I was looking at him as a 30-year-old mature woman.

Even if I decided to divorce or not marry him as of today, my heart still fluttered and my heart beat faster because I had lingering feelings for him.

I knew it was really foolish, but the history between us was too long to erase him at once.

Gerald Logan.

The silver hair glistened more brightly under the light and his gorgeous sea-farer purple eyes. It was fascinating and mysterious enough for me to be bewitched yet again. 

There was a reason why he was nicknamed as a unicorn of the empire from an early age.

It’s so pretty.

How annoying.

I pouted my lips and retorted.

“But I already told you that I hate you! I won’t get engaged with you!”

I’m saying that I’ll make myself clear. I don’t know why you’re acting all kind to me now but it won’t work anymore.

My ideal type in this life is a man who works well at night, someone who could give me passionate love that I have been longing for. Unicorn, you’re out.

“Okay.”

Gerald nodded. As if it was the most natural thing to do. Feeling defeated, I dabbed the cookie crumbs on my mouth.

There was a lot of sunlight on my doll-like face.

Mom, what’s wrong with him?

“I don’t like you! I said that already!”

“Drink milk, then say it.”

What is this? Why does he seem more mature than me?

I drank milk in a chaotic situation.

More than expected, meeting Gerald happened. I think it was like this in the past as well.

That sucks.

My mother glared at me as I leaned on the chair grumpily.

As expected, I should only be friends with Gerald. If I can’t break the relationship, it would be better to draw a line clearly.

If you’re swayed by him again in this life, Louella, you have to change your last name.

I really have nothing to say even if I have to live with Alexid, my older brother, for the rest of my life.

“Dad! Look at her. He’s stealing all of Gerald’s cookies, you see that? What if she becomes a pig? Oh my god!

“Why can’t you even speak kind words to your younger sister?”

Oh, please . . .

Alexid, you know you’re going to get hit and deserve a beating.

* * *

Anyway, it was a strange event.

Despite my rapid change in attitude, Gerald was calm and it only made the adults feel embarrassed with my actions.

Gerald gave me a snack as usual and was acting like a mature kid the whole time.

What is it?

This sense of despondency.

I thought I needed to watch him more closely. And I felt the need to put more effort into building a wall between us. That would be good for me and for him.

First of all, I had to solve what I had promised in advance before that.

I have to make that guy pay for spreading malicious comments about me!

Alexid, how dare you make me seem like I pee on my bed?