Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 259
Chapter 259
“So suddenly?”
“I guess it’s because of something called innate instincts.”
Was it because we’re descendants of God?
As he murmured, he raised the corner of his mouth. A mischievous, sly smile.
‘That’s the expression he makes when he thinks of something mischievous.’
Anxiety crept in slowly.
“I’m sorry, but I might be too busy to share my story with you.”
“Busy? Father?”
She had heard him doing business occasionally.
Tristan mostly drank and went on expeditions, so he didn’t really have something to be busy about.
Or maybe, he was busy following Sabina around…
“As you had monopolized Sabina, she should stick by my side for a while.”
“Huh?”
“For a week.”
He set the duration arbitrarily, humming a tune and left abruptly.
His exit was as arbitrary as his entrance.
“Ha…”
Aria sighed and buried her head in her hands.
With this, the two people who were her escape were gone at the same time.
‘Well, it’s fine. There are only two people left who can tell me the story.’
The servants who had been working at the Grand Duke’s castle since that time were still around.
There was Dana, and there was William.
‘… They will never tell me.’
The servants never spoke lightly about their employers.
Especially if it was a tragic past that was hard to speak of.
“There’s nothing I can do about it.”
She had no choice but to go and see Lloyd.
Aria pushed the door open and stepped out.
Since she had made up her mind, she intended to confront him boldly without further running away.
“Oh, sister-in-law! You’re here!”
If it hadn’t been for Vincent suddenly appearing out of nowhere and shouting down the hallway so loud it was ringing.
Surprised, she turned her head, and he was running towards her, waving his hand.
“I ran over when I heard you were here.”
Vincent gasped as he spoke.
She could tell without asking who he had heard that from.
It must have been Tristan.
‘I don’t know why he sent Vincent, though.’
Aria tilted her head and asked.
“Has it been a long time?”
Before, he used to ask about her well-being once a day, and if he was busy, once every three days.
But recently, he hadn’t shown his face for a whole week, as if he had been extremely busy.
“I simply wanted to see you, sister-in-law! I even made a list of about a hundred names for the baby, depending on the possibilities!”
Vincent then pouted with a slightly annoyed tone.
It didn’t seem like he was grumbling to Aria, it seemed to be due to some external factor she didn’t know about.
“What are the possibilities to have a hundred of them?”
“Whether the baby looks like Brother, Sister-in-law, or maybe if the baby looks like Brother but has light pink hair, or if the baby looks like Sister-in-law but has black hair, if you think about it, there could be endless possibilities.”
“You… really have a lot to say to me, don’t you?”
“Of course, I really…!”
Vincent looked around and lowered his voice.
“Is Brother around here?”
“He’s probably not.”
“If Sister-in-law said he wasn’t here, then he wouldn’t be here.”
Because she’s a Siren.
Vincent heaved a sigh of relief and brushed his chest.
“No, does it make sense to keep everyone else from meeting Sister just because he can’t see you because he hurt Sister-in-law’s feelings?”
“Did Lloyd say that?”
She was surprised, raising her eyebrows.
‘Now that I think about it…’
She had noticed recently that people seemed to particularly avoid her.
Even if they happened to run into her by chance, they hurriedly made excuses and left.
‘I brushed it off, thinking it might be because of the busy schedules that I could keep meeting the doctor, Sabina, and Tristan…’
But there seemed to be something else going on.
“He told you to avoid me?”
“Well, he didn’t explicitly say that.”
He raised his drooping glasses with a faint frown.
“Instead, it was more like, if even a corner of Sister-in-law’s clothes accidentally brushed past, it felt like he would tear me to pieces. So who on earth would approach?”
“Tear you to pieces?”
“It was like a devil’s gaze, stamping an infernal mark, saying, I’ll let you go for now, but someday I’ll get you….”
“….Was it to that extent?”
“He’s drying people’s blood.”
Was it a relief to think that Lloyd wasn’t around?
Vincent grumbled to himself.
He seemed to be on the verge of revealing all of Lloyd’s misdeeds right then and there.
“Rather than receiving that kind of gaze from my brother, I think it would be better to be beaten like the knights.”
Now he was even saying Lloyd was beating people.
Upon hearing this, Aria recalled the Black Falcon she had seen earlier.
It seemed like he desperately wanted to say something despite being covered in injuries.
Did it want to say that it was being beaten up by her husband?
“Come to think of it, it was under the pretext of special training.”
Vincent muttered as if passing by.
Come to think of it, Cloud, who always stuck close by, hasn’t been seen.
At that time.
“Yaa!”
A black lump suddenly sprang out into Aria’s arms
“Luca?”
“Myaaaa….”
It was the dragon.
Aria hugged Luca, who was burrowing into her with a bewildered face.
Since it would continue to stay together, they couldn’t keep calling it ‘child’ forever, so she gave it the name Luca.
“Why does this dragon’s language ability seem to regress only in front of Sister-in-law?”
Vincent looked down disapprovingly as if he didn’t like the sight.
“Puh-.”
“Kyaak!”
It soon retaliated, of course.
While Vincent held the vase and put out the flames on his head, Luca tearfully appealed to Aria.
“Lloyd threatened you too?”
“Mya!”
As if Luca had been waiting for this moment, it vigorously nodded its head.
She looked into its black eyes that were pleading, feeling like her heart was melting.
“I’ll scold him.”
Aria held Luca tightly.
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