The Obsessive Male Lead Is Jealous Of My Doll - Chapter 28
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Furious like a raging bull, Diane then swiftly walked towards where the maids were.
“Where is my father?”
“T-That…”
“Can’t you answer quickly?”
At the sight of Diane raising her hand towards the maid, unable to control her anger, Karentina muttered quietly to herself.
‘Zion.’
At that moment—
“Uh? Huh? What’s wrong with my hand?”
Diane’s hand, suspended in mid-air, suddenly began to slap her own cheek.
“Ahh! Why is my hand, why is my hand like this?!”
Slap. Slap.
Diane, who had been slapping her cheek several times with her own hand, slumped down.
“Zion, stop. All of you, step back.”
“Yes, Young Lady.”
Sasha ushered the maids back with a worried expression at her words.
“Young Lady…?”
When Diane turned her head with an enthralling expression, her cheek swollen and red, Karentina smiled gently at her.
“It’s been a while, Diane.”
Diane’s black pupils shook as if there was an earthquake.
“W-Who…?”
“You still don’t know? It’s me, Karentina.”
‘Didn’t she torment me alongside my uncle and cousins?’
Karentina’s voice became clouded with anger.
“It seems like your habits are still the same? Are you still hitting on people who are weaker than you?”
Diane remained frozen in place, barely breathing.
“Ka-Karentina… No, Young Lady. How did you get outside? More importantly, w-where is my father?”
Karentina slowly lowered her eyes and looked at Diane’s clothes.
Dressed in what appeared to be a luxurious and expensive gown adorned with jewels, she resembled a lady from a noble family at first glance.
“Ah, your father? He’s in prison.”
“Yes?”
Diane’s face contorted in anguish.
Suddenly, Karentina realized that there were many employees watching her and Diane.
‘Good. Thanks to Diane, I will be able to gain the trust of the employees.’
She tightened her grip on her hand before her lips parted again.
“Embezzlement, assault, attempted murder. The list of crimes goes on and on. Once Brother Damion returns, your father will be executed on the spot.”
Diane trembled involuntarily but stared defiantly.
“M-My father wouldn’t do such a thing!”
“Hmm. The evidence is overwhelming. And Diane, I think you have something to do with it as well.”
As Karentina spoke with a cold stare, her face turned ashen. The sound of the wheels in her head rolling seemed audible from here.
“P-Please spare me, Young Lady. I-I really didn’t know. My father just said I could go away for a short trip for a few weeks, so I received his letters and returned, but I was upset to find our mansion gone.”
As Diane quickly changed her stance, Karentina curled one corner of her mouth.
“Oh, that mansion? I sold it.”
“….!”
“What the butler stole must be returned. After all, they were originally mine.”
Karentina shrugged, and Diane staggered back as if broken. She gritted her teeth.
“P-Please spare me, Young Lady. I-I’ll do anything.”
Diane flattened herself on the ground. Seeing her like that, Karentina smiled and opened her mouth slowly.
“Really? Then, should I consider showing some mercy out of consideration for old times?”
As she finished speaking, this time, it was the maids’ faces that fell. It seemed like she had been harassing the maids a lot.
“Zion, what was Diane’s position in the castle?”
“She was a senior maid.”
What. A senior maid?
Thinking about how she must have tormented the employees just like she did to Karentina, her gaze grew even colder.
“All right. Since she said she’ll do anything, we should give her a chance.”
“Young Lady.”
“Take Diane to the laundry room. I’ll see how she does for a month.”
“….!”
In an instant, the maids’ faces brightened.
In the northern regions where the weather was below freezing, working in the laundry room was one of the toughest and most demanding tasks assigned to the maids. Consequently, there was always a shortage of manpower.
“B-But, Young Lady! To work in the laundry room in this weather…!”
“Why, can’t you do it? Have you already forgotten how I nearly died from hypothermia after you poured cold water over me and left me outside for hours in the freezing wind?”
“….”
Diane bit down hard on her lower lip.
“You owe me a lot, so you’ll be working unpaid for the time being. You should return all my clothes and belongings, too, don’t you?”
Karentina, looking at the devastated Diane, slowly raised the corners of her mouth.
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The laundry room was filled with the fragrant scent of soap.
Diane fell into despair as she looked at the mountain of laundry and her beautiful hands. Her carefully manicured nails were all broken, and the backs of her hands were swollen and cracked like burst flour bags.
Unable to suppress the overwhelming emotions, her eyes burned red from frustration.
“Do… do you think I’m going to stay in a place like this?”
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