Don't Get Caught by Your Husband!

Episode 20 : 76 Euphrang Street (3)

Hazel was standing at the door.

Looking at the tightly closed door, he sweated profusely.

Hazel couldn’t easily grab the doorknob and just wandered around the hallway and kept spinning.

“Hazel, what on earth is going on?”

Wolff, who hadn’t seen him like that all morning, approached him and asked.

Hazel turned his head in surprise, like a child caught doing something bad. It was hard to believe that a gigantic knight was acting in such a funny way.

“That… Is he inside, i mean, the captain?”

“He hasn’t been out all morning, so he’s probably there.”

“I see, that’s right!”

Hazel nodded, wiped his sweaty hands on his pants, exhaled as if he had made a big decision, and placed his hand on the doorknob.

But before he could turn the doorknob, the door opened by itself and a huge figure appeared.

“Ugh!”

Hazel, startled, stepped back and shouted.

Escalion, who came out of her drawing room, frowned and looked at her stupid-looking subordinate in front of her.

“That’s it, Captain.”

“what?”

“Well, I have something to tell you……Because…….”

“I was already heading to the training center. I’ll tell you as I go.”

“Oh, no!”

Hazel screamed.

He looked up at Escalion with anxious eyes.

“It’s not the training center, but I have something to tell you from inside……”

Escalion looked Hazel up and down, then entered him with a shocked look on her face and opened her mouth.

“Then come in.”

Hazel, who entered the living room, still seemed unable to regain her composure.

Unable to sit down, he kept looking at Escalion’s eyes and repeatedly clenched and unclenched her fist.

Unable to bear it, Escalion frowned at her and opened her mouth.

“What are you doing like a vicious dog? If you have something to say, say it quickly and disappear.”

“Yes, yes… All right. It’s none other than, uh, wasn’t I in charge of your wife’s guard yesterday?”

Escalion recalled yesterday’s events.

When i asked her to leave, I remembered the regretful look in her eyes, and she wasn’t in a very good mood.

“however?”

“I’m a little…So, I drank alcohol…….”

“alcohol?”

Escalion’s face cracked.

Hazel was famous for being the worst at drinking among the knights.

He knew that his fellow knights would make fun of him because his face would get hot after just one drink and he would talk nonsense, but drinking while escorting Belladonna?

Hazel, seeing the leader’s face, shrugged his shoulders even more.

“N, nothing special happened….”

“Why do you drink alcohol?”

“Well, Madam she seems like she’s really sad about going back to the castle so soon…I tried to stay with her just a little longer, but I stopped….”

“Say it straight. Is Bella hurt?”

“Absolutely not! Ma’am, you didn’t even hurt a single fingertip of his hand!”

Only then did Escalion relax a little and sigh.

“Then what on earth is it? How long do I have to ask this frustrating question?”

“Just before returning to the castle, Ma…Well, it suddenly seemed like there was a place she wanted to go, so we went together.”

“Good job. Where was it?”

In response to Escalion’s question, Hazel swallowed dry saliva once.

He didn’t fall silent easily.

Escalion, who could no longer bear it, frowned and became irritated.

“Where was it? Why are you acting like such an idiot today?”

If i knew where Belladonna wanted to visit, i could also know what she wanted to buy.

Wouldn’t she feel better if I bought her what she wanted? Escalion wanted to quickly find out what it was.

But he slowly opened his mouth and the words that came out of his subordinate’s mouth were something completely different.

“… … Yu, Euphrang……76th street…”

Escalion, hearing Hazel’s crawling voice, silenced her.

The words that entered my ears traveled slowly toward my brain.

“what?”

“……135…….”

“How does Bella know about that place?”

Escalion asked, flashing his dark golden eyes.

At the same time, Hazel squeezed his eyes shut as he saw his huge fist clenched fiercely.

“I-I don’t know! I just….I just made a mistake by saying that I visited 76 Euphrang Street often…… !”

Escalion, looking at his foolish subordinate, pulled out the tie that was tightening around his neck in frustration.

She wasn’t the type of woman to brag about how often she visited and then follow suit by going to addresses she didn’t know well.

‘I’m sure she knew before that.’

I couldn’t figure out where and how much I knew.

And how do she know?

“It was you who was hiding in the bushes.”

“Ugh……!”

It’s not like I didn’t notice those people hiding suspiciously.

There was just no sense of danger, and I figured it wouldn’t be a big problem since I had some guards hidden near Scarlett’s house anyway.

But it was Bella.

Without realizing it, he felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

And at the same time, her reaction to him unusually cold response yesterday struck his in the back of the head.

“…… shit.”

He raised his hand, covered his eyes, and exhaled softly.

* * *

“……These are earrings made of gorgeous emeralds! How is it?”

The jeweler exclaimed, enthusiastically flipping through his sketchbook.

Belladonna looked at the picture in the sketchbook with an expressionless face.

After watching her reaction for a moment, he quickly moved his body and took out a luxurious box from her bag.

“Oh, I guess you don’t know! The real thing is much better than a picture that doesn’t give you a real feeling, right? I even brought this myself! Let’s take a look!”

As if trying to make up for his previous mistake, he made a fuss and carefully opened the square box.

Inside the box, a sparkling emerald earring was shining, revealing its weighty presence.

“It was painstakingly crafted by a leading jeweler in the Elinus Empire. Did I tell you that it took nearly 5 years just to craft it?”

“Oh my goodness!”

Cindy, who was sitting next to her, let out an exclamation on Bella’s behalf and covered her mouth with her hand.

It’s pretty, pretty….

Belladonna looked down at her earrings with a displeased look on her face.

But anyway, once she’s in my ears, I can’t even see it with my eyes. What’s so good about something like that…

“ah…, you don’t like it? Well then, how about the sapphire necklace I brought here……”

Click.

At that time, the door to the living room opened, and Escalion, with a nervous look on his face, strode in.

After seeing who had entered, the jeweler and Cindy stood up at the same time and bowed their heads.

“My lord! hello!”

“Thank you for coming early.”

Escalion gave a half-hearted greeting without even looking at the jeweler, and then looked at me blankly, as did Bella, who was sitting upright in her chair.

He couldn’t tell what kind of emotion was contained in the blue eyes that looked at him and then quickly looked away.

shit….

He stuck out his tongue and traced his lower lip, then bit down gently.

“…..Did you see anything you liked?”

“I was showing various items! Ma’am, you have such great looks, it’s obvious that you’ll look beautiful no matter what you wear, so it’s hard to choose, hahaha!”

On Belladonna’s behalf, the jeweler replied with a sly smile.

There was no way I could relieve my anger with something like that. I wasn’t upset about returning early from the year-end festival.

Escalion awkwardly sat across from Belladonna, still not sure what she was thinking.

“Can you show me the things you brought?”

“Oh, of course!”

As if he was happy that someone he could communicate with had appeared, the jeweler began to explain, pointing out each box he had taken out.

Ruby, sapphire, emerald…As you can see, they were luxury goods made with incredible jewels.

Escalion, who had listened to the jeweler’s explanation to the end, opened his mouth.

“I’m going to buy everything you brought with you today.”

“What? Oh my! Thank you, my lord! We’ll have it ready in a moment!”

The jeweler, who was startled, couldn’t hide his happy expression and bowed deeply.

He pulled the corners of his mouth almost up to the sky and began to organize his boxes with trembling hands.

“Oh my, ma’am……! The lord bought everything here! How! Make sure the container is bigger!”

“…….”

Belladonna frowned and looked at him.

No, I don’t have ten necks or twenty ears, so why buy so much and use it for what?

Unable to bear it, she held out her hand and stopped the jeweler.

“……what?”

She picked up the pen in front of her and started writing.

[I don’t need it, so take it all. I haven’t even worn the ones I bought last time properly.]

The jeweler, who read her handwriting, looked back at Escalion with an embarrassed face.

Likewise, Escalion, who confirmed the contents, had a hard look on her face.

Finally, he lifted one corner of his mouth and slowly exhaled.

“Just get it ready. It’s a gift for my wife.”

Belladonna moved her hand again and wrote quickly.

[I said it wasn’t necessary.]

He held with two chubby hands together and just looked at Escalion and Belladonna in turn, unable to do anything.

“ha…….”

Finally, Escalion sighed and brushed his hair away from his forehead.

“I’ll call you again, so let’s call it a day. I’m sorry for making you miss out.”

“Oh no! Well, I’ll see you next time……!”

The jeweler quickly moved his arms and stuffed the boxes on the table into his bag one by one.

Cindy, who was quick-witted, helped him organize his jewelry and left the parlor together under the pretense of guiding him.

There are only two people left in the living room.

Belladonna and Escalion looked into each other’s eyes and engaged in a subtle war of nerves.

He was the first to break this breathtaking silence.

“I didn’t know you didn’t like jewels. Usually women like shiny things……”

It was when I uttered the next sentence that I realized I had made a mistake.

Escalion hesitated, unable to finish her sentence. Bella’s blue eyes were staring at him, filled with her coldness.

Escalion swallowed, feeling a chill run down his spine.

shit…..

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