The Monster Duke Mistook Me for His Wife (Web Novel) - Chapter 49

I have no idea how they heard about the news, May, who was dragged by the waiting mages of the magic tower and loaded onto another carriage, cried out my name.

“Ma-”

Bang!

My voice was cut off by the door that closed unexpectedly.

‘This man. He closed the door on purpose.’

It was clear that he had blocked it because he was afraid I would go to May.

“You don’t need to worry about miss May. They will take good care of her.”

I was wondering who reported her to the magic tower, so was it you?!

‘It wouldn’t be dangerous because that guy’s there, right?’

I was worried about May, but I couldn’t stop the carriage, which had already started running in the opposite direction.

“Is sir Dillian okay?”

I quickly added to his puzzled eyes.

“You don’t even have your memories, I’m worried if you will be able to adapt well. What if you get caught?”

Dillian said he would not reveal to anyone that he had lost his memory.

There was nothing good about it getting into Lexter’s ears, so he meant to hide it as much as possible.

“It’s okay since Eldman and Kanae have agreed to keep a watch on the side.”

“Then I’m glad…. It’s really fine, right?”

“If miss Ria is really worried, just help me on my side.”

Will I be of any help?

“I will help you as much as I can.”

As I spoke to myself as if I were determined, Dillian’s smile widened.

***

When did I fall asleep? I opened my eyes in surprise.

“Did you sleep well?”

The handsome face looked at me and smiled. How can the first thing I see when I open my eyes is Dillian’s face? My heart has been strained.

Wait, why am I lying here?

“Huh!”

Confused, I quickly got up. I narrowly avoided his chin and crouched in the corner of the carriage.

I remember falling asleep, but why am I sleeping on Dillian’s thigh?

As I rubbed my face with my dry hands, I could feel Dillian’s stinging gaze from the side.

“Sorry. I must have been lying next to sir Dillian without realizing it….”

But that wasn’t what Dillian was concerned about.

“I really thought it would hit my lips this time.”

I closed my eyes tightly at the sound of regret.

My head was spinning because I was half asleep, and even Dillian was still like that, so I was out of my mind.

“Now that you wake up, let’s get off the carriage.”

“No way, did we have arrived?”

“We arrived ten minutes ago.”

We were stuck because of me, who made his thigh a pillow and fell into dreamland.

My face heated up. Had I known this would happen, I would have forced myself to sleep yesterday.

I stayed up all night and this mess happened..

“I am sorry. Let’s hurry up and get down.”

As I hugged Nathan, who was sleeping soundly, and got off the carriage, the employees lined up in two rows bowed their backs.

‘Since when have they been standing here….’

The guilt grew like a snowball.

“Your Grace, have you arrived?”

The old gentleman at the forefront greeted Dillian with a friendly smile.

“Has nothing happened when I wasn’t here?”

I looked at Dillian with deep surprise.

‘You’re good?’

I was worried because he had lost his memory, but fortunately, Dillian treated the man naturally.

“Yes, it was quiet.”

Slowly, the gaze of the butler who was talking with Dillian turned to me.

Floating like an isolated island and suddenly got attention, I got nervous, and grabbed Dillian’s arm quietly.

It was an unconscious action.

The eyes looking at Dillian, me, and our hands were strange.

“But who is this person?”

“My wife.”

“Sir Dillian!”

Isn’t he crazy? I didn’t expect him to introduce myself as his wife.

Can’t you see the hardened butler’s face?

“No, I am….”

“I’ll correct it. My soon to be wife. Since she’s my fiancée, serve her sincerely.”

There was a series of inhaling sounds from the opposite side.

“No, not that.”

Dillian, who had cut off all of my stutter words, grabbed my hand that was draped around and interlocked it.

“Come in. Wife.”

No, what am I supposed to do if you throw such a big bomb!

I was led by Dillion and set foot in the duke’s mansion as huge as a castle.

***

Is what I’m seeing real?

‘This is a room. Or a house?’

Are all nobles’ rooms like this? Even if I wanted to ask, Dillian was absent due to an urgent matter.

So, I was alone in this glamorous, eye-opening room.

“Kooooo.”

Oh, and there’s Nathan who is snoring out of its mind.

“So it means I’m going to have to stay here from now on….”

Just as I was staring blankly at the colorful chandelier, I heard a knock behind me.

“Come on in.”

It was women who appeared to be in their mid-twenties who opened the door and entered.

“I’m Sarah Haren, who will be serving the madam from now on.”

“This is Kira Haren.”

“It is an honor to have you here.”

Even a maid is assigned. It was really crazy.

“This is Ria Delice. I look forward to your kind cooperation.”

Sera with her brown hair tied high. Kira with her brown hair curled up into a ponytail.

Whether they were sisters, the two exuded a strangely similar atmosphere.

“Madam, please lower your words.”

“Then why don’t you call me by my name instead of ‘Madam’?”

Madam, I feel like I’m going to die of burden.

Sera and Kira seemed bewildered at my earnest request, and they made eye contact and then nodded their heads.

“If Ria-nim is comfortable with it, then we will.”

“… Thanks. But I don’t need anything like a maid. I appreciated it, but will you go back?”

It was a difficult word of refusal, but the two nodded as if expecting it.

“If it is Ria-nim’s will, we will obey it. But before that, can you give us one more chance?”

“If we just go back, we will be scolded by His Grace.”

“… Okay.”

Sera and Kira’s faces brightened as I gave permission, fearing that Dillian might catch the wrong people .

“Then, we will start with the bath attendant right away.”

“Huh?”

Suddenly taking a bath, isn’t the difficulty too high right from the start?

I thought so, but I was already in the bathroom.

“… Bathroom?”

And the clothes flew away.

“Wha, what the!”

In a blink of an eye, I was in the bathtub.

‘What’s this…?’

Stupidly opening my mouth at the magical thing, a grape popped into my mouth.

“Heup?”

“It is a speciality of the Sinaize.”

Kira, who added that it was a special product, put a strawberry in my mouth this time.

“… Tasty.”

When I was admiring the sweet taste I tried for the first time, a soft hand rested on my shoulder.

“Ria-nim, you have been exhausted from coming a long way, right? I will release it all.”

And I fell in love with Sera’s dazzling massage skills.

***

The first place Dillian, who took Ria into her room, visited was the office.

There is no time to unwind. Over the past month, things have been piled up like a mountain.

A man approached him as he was busy organizing his documents and bowed his head.

“Your Grace, you came back very early.”

“Your tongue has become very free-spirited while I haven’t seen it. Neison.”

At Dillian’s cold eyes, his lieutenant, Neison, closed his mouth and rolled his eyes.

“Seeing His Grace’s eyes hurt me to the bone, it must have been a rumor.”

“Rumor?”

Dillian’s fine eyebrows twitched.

“The ridiculous rumors that Your Grace has lost his memories.”

Neison waved his hand, asking if it was too funny.

But the knights couldn’t laugh.

Someone noticed Dillion’s abnormality. What if Dillian came back with no memories?

It was terrible just to imagine.

The knights quietly watched a hint on Dillian.

Neison blinked in a strange atmosphere.

“What’s wrong? Why am I the only one who laughs like a fool?”

“Shut up, did you find out when and who leaked the rumor?”

“I’ve been digging it, but I haven’t found anything. Everyone trembled, saying they didn’t know the epicenter was.”

Neison shrugged, saying, “Isn’t that just a rumor?”.

“But there is a figure we can guess. He is known by Your Grace, the knights, and even everyone.”

“Lexter Blent.”

“Yes. That disgusting Lexter.”

Like talking about a leech, Neison’s head shook.

‘Looks like the Information leaked through the mice.’

He sent assassins over and over again to catch him, and it was clear that information had flowed there.

Annoyed hands pounded on the desk.

“Other than that?”

“The 3rd Prince and Lexter are holding hands.”

“So the weak one held hands then.”

Neison shrugged at Dillian’s poignant evaluation.

“Other than that, it’s quiet.”

“He must have done something on the back.”

“Even though Lexter didn’t get anything.”

It wasn’t surprising that it was such an obvious move.

“Find the cases done by that guy. I should take the opportunity to change the water’s flow once in a while.”

Dillian talked about the purge in a light voice, as if talking about today’s weather.

“Because we don’t need a dog that bites its owner.”

There’s gonna be a bloody blast on the Duke’s house. And all the cleanup will be Neison’s.

Neison, who was already tired, shrugged.

“More than that, Your Grace, did you bring the dragon’s heart?”

At Neison’s question, Dillian nodded towards Kanae.

Kanae put her hand in the pocket tied around her waist, took out a flower, and gave it to Dillian.

Seeing the flowers red like blood, Neison burst out in admiration.

“I thought it was a flower of legend, but it really did exist.”

Neison, who was looking closely, raised his glasses.

“By the way, Your Grace. The petals are damaged, is this fine? What if the Crown Prince nitpicks it?”

“I don’t care. The important thing is the roots.”

It’s enough to ignore the nitpicks with it.

He went all the way to the northernmost part of the empire and saved it through hard work, but the Crown Prince doesn’t like it?

Then he will eat it on the spot.

“When are you going?”

“Tomorrow.”

“That is true, but there is such a thing as a procedure, right? Please wait a little. I will apply for an audience.”

Dillian, who was trying to solve the troublesome thing, frowned.

“Your Grace also still has a lot of work to do here.”

As he said The work was piled up like a mountain, and he had to watch Ria too.

‘Because it’s an unfamiliar place, she wouldn’t come out of the room, so I have to stay by her side.’

Perhaps reading Dillian’s mind who seemed to remember Ria, Neison mentioned Ria’s existence.

“By the way, Your Grace. Your soon-to-be Madam. Is that true?”

As if he had heard the news of Ria, his eyes twinkled with curiosity.

He felt dirty when the guy who used to have empty eyes every day was doing that, so Dillian suddenly pushed his face away.

“Don’t show your ugly face and get out of the way.”

“Or perhaps, the Emperor kept forcing you to marry, so forcedly you brought her, ouch!”