He is obsessed with me after I saved him - Chapter 26 ~

“Oh, oh, oh… Miss Lutiens, you’ve arrived?”

“You’re late this time. Even though I’m glad that you’re finally here, Miss. (Laughs).”

A trick to sneak away. Eyes that winked to each other.

These people. What are they trying to do?

In the meantime, when I wanted to ask them what they were doing, Ishid’s voice rang throughout the room.

He was one step ahead of me.

“Rose, we’ll get something to drink! You just wait here.”

“Wait…”

“Of course, I will go along with Miss Magnolia and Manager Dice.”

He opened the door.

Smack!

The situation hastily changed and was somehow organized. In a blink of an eye, three team members disappeared from inside.

Just like that, only two people were left in the hospital room, Carlos and me. My back suddenly felt stiff.

I wanted to see him, but I didn’t even expect this.

“Miss Lutiens.”

“….”

“Will you keep standing like that?”

After looking at the floor in vain, I glanced away.

I looked at the place near him, and for some reason, he seemed to suppress his laughter.

I let out a deep sigh.

“Well, no.“

“Then, come here and sit.”

“Yes.”

She walked slowly and sat in the seat that was previously occupied by Manager Dice.

It was a soft chair with a good cushion. Her body felt comfortable, but strangely, she felt uncomfortable.

His piercing gaze and the smile which follows her every movement.

I felt quite burdened by his stare.

…. He’s a sick person, but why is he smiling so brightly?

“Are you feeling okay?”

“… I am not sure.”

“….?”

“Is it because you overworked yourself? I think it still hurts.”

I opened my mouth blankly.

I’m not sure of what I said. But he definitely doesn’t look like that at all.…?

It was the conclusion that I reached for his face, after checking his shiny black hair slowly descending, his sharp nose bridge, and his moist lips.

Carlos’ condition is alright. It was so clear that it could be judged that he had already recovered.

“Um, uh, please take this first.”

“Are you giving it to me?”

“Yes.”

I nodded and gave him a bouquet of flowers in his arms.

On the way to the hospital, it was the pretty flower which Ishid chose and was also brought by him.

However, I simply passed such a trivial additional explanation, and I only smiled at Carlos.

There was a lot of meaning behind my laughter, but I didn’t want to tell him about the flower.

That would be enough.

Because it seems that the operation that Ishid babbled about seems to have been a success.

“… It’s pretty.”

“I’m glad you like it.”

“Is the flower called Rose?”

“No. Rather than a rose, it’s rosemary.”

Don’t shorten it. It makes me feel weird.

When she hurriedly corrected him while swallowing his saliva, a reaction of lowering his head came back.

“I see.”

“…Yes, it’s like that.”

“But it doesn’t really matter. Rose or rosemary, I like both of them.”

… H, huh?

Saying what he likes makes me feel strange.

I don’t know why, but Carlos’ tension was unusual.

Perhaps he is at his peak of losing all his energy after witnessing several things.

Until he collapsed, all he could do was pant, covered in blood everywhere.

It was good to see his brighter face than before.

To the point that I felt embarrassed when I came here, feeling sorry.

“Earlier.”

He, who did not put down the bouquet, said.

“Not long after waking up, I was staring at the ceiling by myself. And suddenly, there was a buzzing sound. Until then, I was going to take a little break before the discharge procedure and then go back to the security department.”

“……”

“But the door, which felt like it was closed forever, was opened unexpectedly.”

That was the moment when his dry voice penetrated my ears.

“Manager Dice and Miss Magnolia can’t be that happy to see me.”

I clenched the hem of my clothes with all my might.

“I was so confident that I thought I got used to those things I previously had, disappearing away. I wasn’t even close to both of them, which made me think that they had no reason to come and visit me here.”

“…….”

“But I realized it later. I didn’t like being alone, rather I got used to being alone.”

I barely endured it in an intermittent time.

I almost blushed in front of him.

This was because of Carlos’ calm tone which sounded like he had lost his happiness a long time ago.

It was something that anyone can tell at once.

He wasn’t expecting anything at all.

Like for example, the expectation that someone will visit his room, was long ago faded.

He just took himself for granted.

As always. His resigned face, which implies that he could not dare to wish, was immersed in familiar loneliness.

When I silently stopped staring, his words continued.

It was a split voice that flowed out with silent emotions suppressed.

“In fact, even with this team I almost never got a job. Fortunately, it was a place where I was able to settle down because my younger brother, whom I had a connection with, secretly helped me. Perhaps, do you know about this too, Miss Lutiens? That I don’t have a very good position in the Palace at all.”

“…Yes.”

He nodded his head with lots of difficulty.

“I know.”

I didn’t know until I was transported here.

As soon as I finished answering, dozens of scenes from the original novel passed by my eyes.

Sollio’s restless look.

It happened when a competition was being held, and he insisted on attending as the Crown Prince.

Even Carlos’ ambiguous attitude, who was uncomfortable with him, could not turn a blind eye to him in the end.

In the end, I was the interrupter between them.

It’s like I believed the novels’ content and did it my way. I replayed this over and over in my mind with a deep sense of guilt.

I’m sorry. I’m sorry.… It’s all my fault.

I closed my eyes slowly and opened them after a while.

Shortly after, someone was touching my eyes with a warm touch.

A young man who smiles brightly at me.

I couldn’t take my eyes off of him.

“Why are you crying, Miss?”

“Oh, or is it because…. Did I make you cry?“

Taking his back off the bed head, he reached out to me.

Now, I felt his warmth running through my face with both of his hands.

Only then did his thumb slip under my eyes, that I realized that I was crying.

Tears were formed at the tip of my chin and they fell on the floor one by one.

Soon after, I felt the power to stop what was happening to him in a hurry, but it was already late. I climbed up to him and sobbed with my eyes down.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry..”

“What is there to be sorry about, Miss? I just kept those things because I was greedy.”

“I’m sorry about that, and just about everything. My advice about your relationship with His highness….”

“It’s okay.”

It was for a moment. I was gently dragged by something and settled in the bed.

It was because he opened his mouth and pulled me to his side. My eyes widened in surprise.

“Uh…”

I was flustered. The appropriate distance until earlier has become too close.

Even the posture of hugging each other and facing each other. The intention was noticeably stark, so I swallowed my saliva.

Without knowing it, my knees were actually leaning toward him with a fluffy mattress, laying underneath.

Her arms, which had lost their place to go in the air, were immediately wrapped around his neck.

I forgot that I was crying and swallowed my breath.

Somehow, I was in a strange position where I had looked down at him from above.

“Are you really sorry?”

“Ye, yes?

“If you’re very sorry, you can only talk while in that posture.”

While I was very embarrassed, he smiled innocently.

“Do you know why I’m saying this and why I’m doing this?”

“…..?”

“But I know.”

At the end of that, a hot breath gradually narrowed our distance and got closer.

Without any preparation, lips which angled, touched each other softly. It was the same time when I fell.

“Yes, like this.”

His hand which was firmly holding her back, rose up and gently stroked her cheek.

Even this felt warm and cozy.

“You don’t have to say sorry to me from now on. If you want to make up for it, you can do so, in other ways.”

“A, about w-what?”

I was really dumbfounded and my lips were moist.

It happened so fast that I couldn’t think practically.

So, Carlos… Right now, to me….

“Please watch me today.”

“…”

“I am sick. So, thank you in exchange for this.”

Instantly, he approached me with a careless movement.

His lips, which have come in blunt contact, tickles her neck. And then was buried again over her collarbone.

I wondered why, but it was the same part as the last time he did.

I was surprised by him and pulled my back.

But he, who had hugged me determinedly, could not let me go easily.

He mumbled in her arms, holding her waist tighter than before.

“But you. I’m asking just in case, but don’t you don’t know why I’m doing this?”

He waited with his eyes looking up at me.

It contains sorrow as if it had improved.

“You already know. So how long are you going to pretend that you didn’t?”

The light of longing for affection for his face stood out.

My face suddenly turned white with a sense of drowsiness. I muttered as I lost focus.

Ah, this is very dangerous.

“I’m waiting for you.”

Soon after, he rubbed her hair into his arms and said quietly.

His ears were already leaning against my heart.

The moment I thought it was late, his violet eyes bent again.

It was followed by a decisive blow.

“It was because I like you very much.”

No, he might even love me more than he described.

His words bothered my ears like echoes.

“I like you a lot, Miss.”

(TN: I just realized how it was so smooth to have this novel three kisses already….)