The Reborn Lady is Loved by her Foster Brother: The Scariest Villain - Chapter 15

‘Come to think of it, when I met Onii-sama before…’

“I was taking a walk in the garden the other day, and I found a very beautiful flower! I asked the gardener about it, and he told me it was a very rare flower called a Shangri-La. …… Well, it is indeed the Duke de Verite that even has such a rare flower!” Ortansia remembered.

It was true that she had inadvertently mentioned the Shangri-La flower in front of him. But no way, that was all it took for that cold-blooded brother of hers!

Ortansia never thought he would order to arrange rare flowers for her.

“These are all yours.”

Gerard told her with an extremely serious expression on his face.

Ortansia was taken aback by his words.

‘Could it… really be because I told him about the Shangri-La flowers?’

The answer she had arrived at quickly made her pale

‘What does that mean? What on earth is the purpose of this?’

Gerard’s icy gaze was still fixed on Ortansia, who was turning pale. He seemed to be waiting for Ortansia’s reaction.

‘I have to say something. Something… ah, help me, Mom!’

Confused, Ortansia requested her late mother for help in her mind, as usual

That’s it. Her mother often received presents from customers at the bar. At that time she…

” …Look, Ortansia. Aren’t these flowers beautiful? I got them from a customer. When you are a little older, I am sure you will receive more flowers than you can hold from many gentlemen. After all, you are my daughter!”

‘Far from being unable to hold it, it’s a whole flowerbed, Mom!!’

“When you receive a gift from someone, you should be overjoyed. If it is a genuine favor, the recipient will be happy, and if there is some calculation, you can catch them off guard.”

Ortansia turned her head and took a deep breath to regain her composure.

Then she looked up quickly with a smile on her face as best she could.

“I’m so happy! Thank you, Onii-sama!”

‘Anyway, I have to be overjoyed… or I’ll be in jeopardy!’

“Ehehe, I love these beautiful flowers! I feel so happy!”

‘Ugh, I want to disappear right now’

While being a big cutie, Ortansia was inwardly fighting a sense of shame.

“Onii-sama is amazing! I admire you so much!”

“. . . ”

Gerard was looking down at Ortansia, who was in high spirits (pretending to be), with an absolutely cold gaze as usual.

‘…I wonder if I exaggerated too much.’

She may be immediately dismissed as, “We don’t need such a noisy creature”.

Her forceful smile was about to twitch, but…

“…aside from this”

“Huh?”

“What else do you want?”

It’s more of an interrogation than a question. Gerard stared at Ortansia with a very serious expression. If it was allowed, she wanted to dash with all her might and escape from here. But Ortansia, who was not allowed to run away like that, smiled and turned her head desperately

‘What did he mean by “What else do you want?” If I can escape from here, I don’t need anything else!’

‘So What is the correct answer?’

Ortansia fell silent and felt as if the air in the room was gradually freezing over.

The gardener, wondering what she thought of the atmosphere, hurriedly followed up.

“Oh, Miss Ortansia, you are so humble!　Young master, for a young lady of her age…”

The gardener said something, and Gerard nodded as if he was convinced of something.

“I understand.”

After saying that, he quickly left the place. Left behind, Ortansia had no choice but to just stand there dumbfounded

‘I’ve been liberated… right? What in the world was that?’

Ortansia was so distracted that she crouched down on the spot.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how to do it.

If she looked up, she could see the fantastic Shangri-La flowers. She wondered why he spent so much money collecting such rare flowers.

‘Probably because I told him about the Shangri-La flowers… But why? Did he think it would somehow benefit the Ducal family?’

The gardener and her maid, Pamela, looked on with a smile as Ortansia pondered, not understanding what was going on.