Volume 8 - CH 8

I opened my eyes wide, as if surprised that she had discovered my true feelings, then quickly turned my head away from her gaze.

“M-mother, wh-what are you…….”

I didn’t forget to flick the hand holding the skirt’s hem.

“I’ve known you since you were so quiet and walked around like a cat in heat.”

“It-it-it’s a misunderstanding.”

Isaac was startled by the unexpected situation and closed his eyes as he held his quill pen.

Curious glances alternated between me and Camilla.

“Did you sleep with him?”

“Ye-yes?”

Camilla asked me while I pretended to be embarrassed.

“I’m wondering if you’ve lost your noble purity, dear.”

“Ah, ah, no…… It’s not!”

I bit my lips as if I was overwhelmed with shame.

‘This is how she harassed me.’

If this were the real Selina, she would have jumped off the veranda.

She couldn’t have been happy to have such a private conversation in front of strangers, given her timid and closed personality.

Furthermore, not only Isaac but also the butler and Penny were present.

“How far did you let him touch your body? Huh?”

It was clear to Camilla that she kept the spy’s words in her memory.

Cedric discovered her abuse and hit me, and she pretended to let it go, but there’s no way she won’t do anything else in the future.

As I rose to my feet and met Valhail, and we had a skinship, she had plenty of reasons to believe that I had fallen in love with him.

That’s why he tried to subjugate Valhail to me.

“Was it good that he touched you? Selina, did you do something lewd with him and then go to the temple to seek forgiveness? So you thought you’d be pure once more?”

Instead of responding, I trembled.

“Ha, I had no idea you’d put me in such a bad mood over such a minor issue. My lovely, innocent, and kind daughter……”

Camilla shook her head as if she was concerned about me.

‘Tsk tsk, I really can’t keep up with this natural villain.’

I never thought that Camilla would trample on people like this.

To be honest, she’s always been nicer than I expected, but Cedric is always with her.

She had already noticed my feelings for Valhail and was keeping him under her control, but there was only one reason for this.

‘She’s trying to take out her rage on me because of Adrian.’

How humiliated would she have been if it had been the real Selina?

Isaac’s constant insidious glances bothered me.

“Come to think of it, that day……”

Isaac scowled at me and opened his mouth.

“He overprotected Lady Selina. I came here solely to paint.”

“Did he?”

“Yes, he was quite ferocious, like a male cat guarding his female.”

This bastard……

‘Did he just compare me to a female cat?’

How dare he do that to Count Crawford’s lady?

I can’t believe he, a commoner, dares to make fun of me like that, no matter how much Camilla crushed me in front of him.

He doesn’t understand the topic and can’t tell where he is.

‘That is why you will be executed.’

I had mixed feelings while listening to the stupid remarks of a swindler who died after his limbs were severed.

‘Just quickly write the contract and leave.’

Camilla did not sign such a contract with Isaac in the original story.

She was eager to obtain a painting after he became famous, but she was unable to do so.

“There was a reason for his sensitivity. Ladies who appear shady on the outside are more promiscuous on the inside.”

Isaac was very excited when Camilla let him go even though he was making fun of me like that.

Camilla, who had been quiet for some reason, made a bizarre remark.

“Do you have any talent for drawing nude paintings?”

It was something she said as she looked at me.

‘……don’t tell me?’

Don’t tell me she’s going to paint my nude and use it as an excuse to threaten me?

I looked at Camilla, surprised, and Isaac jumped up and said.

“Without a doubt! I’ve never done it before, but I’m confident I’ll do well.”

“Selina.”

Camilla smiled as she calmly called my name.

“Take it off.”

“……”

“Did you not hear? This is what your mother is asking you right now.”

I’m becoming enraged.

‘Should I flip up…… and quit the act?’

I couldn’t have an NG if I prioritized my feelings over the feelings of the character.

Because that is not the actor’s attitude in the role.

‘But it’s not a movie or a drama…… This is my reality now!’

I’m no longer the story’s main female character.

I am Selina. Selina, who must bravely live the life in front of me in the name of fate, rather than the heroine in such a horrible novel.

Just like every normal person in the world.

‘Should I just quit or not?’

As I was thinking.

“In front of the lowly Toono, you took off your clothes and pretended……”

Splash!

Camilla was covered with water.

“Argh!”

Steam rose from her hair.

The scream was as hot as a hawk’s breath.

“You devilish lass!”

It was Penny.

Penny became enraged and poured the tea water on Camilla before slamming her down.

“Die! You devil! Die!”