I Don’t Need the Grand Duke’s Regret - Chapter 18

Chapter 18
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Ricardo strode towards Armilla. With the Princess’s return, all the servants had fled out of the mansion, so the study and hallway were empty.

Outside the window, the voices of the servants talking together came. Armilla asked Ricardo, barely resisting trying to cover her ears.

“Why?”

“I told you to wait quietly here, I never told you to go to the Magic Tower.”

Ricardo folded his long legs and lowered himself. He met Armilla’s gaze and wiped her cheek. When she saw the drops of water on his fingers, Armilla realized that she had been crying.

‘I tried not to cling to him crying.’

Armilla wrinkled her nose. She didn’t want to say goodbye to him crying. Won’t this really look like a mistress?

While she was thinking about that, there was the pleasant bass sound.

“You stay here.”

“But the Princess has come. She might be offended when she sees me. I have to leave before she knows that someone like me is in this mansion.”

“The Princess will be offended?”

Ricardo repeated Armilla’s words like they were funny. He muttered, shaking his head.

“Nonsense …….”

“What nonsense?”

“All the thoughts that fill that little head.”

Ricardo tucked Armilla’s red hair behind her ears. Armilla felt his gaze suffocate her.

Again.

Again, the suffocating feeling she had when she was alone with him came back. She feels like there is only her and him in this world.

“The Princess is dead.”

“…… what?”

When she thought she would never feel this feeling again, when she felt bitter at the thought. Ricardo’s words cut Armilla’s remorse.

Armilla asked Ricardo blankly, unable to believe what she had heard.

“What do you mean she’s dead?”

Ricardo smirked, finding Armilla’s words funny.

“Isn’t that to be expected? There’s no way she could have lasted two months in this weather. The Princess died long ago. What we found today is her body.”

“Then…….”

“I will hold her funeral. So, if you are going to leave this place just because you’re concerned about the Princess, you don’t have to. I don’t even know why you’re thinking about that in the first place.”

Armilla stared at Ricardo. She hesitated several times before the words caught in her throat, then she struggled to get them out.

“Then, Your Grace, what would you like me to do?”

“Why would you ask that? Will you do anything I ask you to do?”

Armilla put her hands together on her lap at the chilling question. She hesitated, biting the tender flesh on the inside of her cheek.

Nasir said Ricardo wasn’t bothered by Armilla. If so, can she stay by his side any longer? Ricardo wants Armilla to stay here in Renato anyway.

Armilla was lost in thoughts. If Ricardo wanted her to leave, she was willing to leave right away.

But she did not want to elicit such an answer. She wanted to stay by his side as long as she could.

At least until she gets her memories back.

“If you grant me what I want, I will also give what Your Grace wants.”

“What an abrupt deal.”

Ricardo’s eyebrows shot up. Armilla gulped, she doesn’t know how Ricardo will react, but she has to show her resolve.

“I want to keep my faith. I said I would make a map, so I want to leave after completing the map as promised.”

“Are you leaving?”

“Yes. And I will do as Your Grace wishes.”

This time it was Ricardo’s turn. He looked at Armilla with a troubled face while Armilla looked at him with a nervous face.

A faint smile formed on Ricardo’s lips as the thread of tension between them pulled taut.

“Why should I accept this deal?”

Armilla’s heart sank at the cold words that accompanied his smile.

“That…….”

“Is there anything you can do for me?”

Without a moment’s hesitation, a cold point that stabbed her continued. Armilla curled her lips and bit upon it.

She couldn’t think of anything to say.

Armilla has no memory. There is little she can do right away. If she gets kicked out of Renato, she will have to wander the streets empty-handed.

Meanwhile, Ricardo is the Grand Duke of the Arcangelo Empire, the master of Renato, and the ruler of the dark night and icy sword leading the Black Wolf Knights.

What could Armilla do for such a man?

“I am…….”

Armilla belatedly realized that she had made a presumptuous offer.

Because she wanted him to tell her not to leave, so she threw herself out of line. There’s no guarantee that he wants Armilla to stay here.

But words that have already been spoken cannot be taken back. Armilla pursed her lips and stammered.

“What, whatever…… Your Grace wants.”

“What if I don’t need it?”

“What?”

“What if I don’t want anything from you? If so, what will happen? Does the deal end with only me granting your wish?”

That’s not a deal. Coldly adding so, Ricardo’s gaze was as cold as Renato’s wind. Armilla silently clasped her hand on her lap. Ricardo, who had been watching her gently, quietly said

“What do you mean by faith?”

His cynical remarks, accompanied by ridicule, made Armilla feel very shabby.

She knows. That he and she don’t share the word faith.

Armilla was just a guest who happened to be beholden to him by chance.

“You must have offered a deal because you wanted something. What you want is…….”

Ricardo put a cold voice over Armilla’s silence.

“Probably to leave here.”

WIth his words, Ricardo raised his hand. Armilla lifted her head in surprise as his large hand touched his knee, showing that he was leaving, feeling like the talk was over.

“Your Grace…… !”

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