The Male Lead’s Father Refuses to Break Off Our Engagement

Chapter 95

 

“Is that what you found out?”

“Yes. I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s not, you may go.”

After Logan left, Cassis became lost in thought.

‘The drought has been resolved.’

A little while ago, I dismissed it as nonsense, but when I thought about it later, there was definitely something a little strange about it.

‘The timing is unfortunate.’

He decided to find out a little more about this. At the same time, I headed back to Evelia’s room, thinking that I should also inform her.

Meanwhile, Evelia was curled up and sleeping like a baby. Cassis unconsciously smiled slightly and lay down next to her.

Evelia snuggled into his arms, feeling his warmth. Cassis’s body stiffened.

He didn’t know what to do, so he raised his arms awkwardly and then hugged Evelia’s waist. I put my other arm under her head and gave her an arm pillow.

Evelia’s body that came into my arms was small and soft. It was completely different from his solid body.

Cassis felt his body getting hot. All the muscles in my body were tense, as if I had done an intense workout.

His instinct was wanting a little more. Even though we were so close, I wanted to get a little closer to Evelia.

I wanted to feel her breath a little more and have everything about her. Rather than sharing it with anyone, I wanted to make Evelia completely my own.

He had never felt this way before; he had never wanted something so much in his entire life.

Sometimes love comes not from special moments, but from trivial moments. The same day as usual, the little special things found in the same routine.

For Cassis, today may have been that day. As he looked at Evelia snuggling into his arms, he reflected on his feelings for the first time.

He never really received love. He had Julia, but that wasn’t enough, so he didn’t really know what love was.

But if there is a feeling called love in this world, wouldn’t it be something like this?

Just being together makes me happy, my heart beats, and I always want to be together…

“Ah….”

Evelia once said: If we find someone we truly like, then we will divorce.

But Cassis realized.

He said he would never be able to divorce Evelia in his life.

Even if she finds someone she likes, he won’t be able to let her go.

It was the first time he’d ever felt possessive.

 

*****

 

The next day, as soon as Evelia opened her eyes, what she saw was Cassis’ chest.

‘What?’

After a moment of dazed thought, she realized she was in his arms. She had never felt anything like this before. In an instant, her face flushed.

Evelia quickly tried to get out of his arms. However, Cassis’s arms holding her waist became stronger.

“Are you awake?”

Cassis’ lips touched and fell on Evelia’s forehead. Evelia slightly raised her head and looked blankly at Cassis.

The morning sunlight that poured through the slightly opened curtain illuminated Cassis’ face. He had an expression on his face that was uncharacteristic of someone who had just woken up.

A handsome face whenever I see it. Evelia looked at his face as if she was once again fascinated.

“Why do you see me that way?”

“You….”

Because he’s so handsome. Evelia swallowed the words that were about to escape her without realizing it.

It was strange. Cassis’s face was something I saw every morning, but the mood was different today.

Cassis has definitely changed a lot since I first met him. Although he was harsh at first, he has softened a lot now. Not only to her, but to others as well.

But what can I say? Now, it’s not just that he softened, it’s that he looks as soft as soft butter.

Even though he was smiling the same way, something was different.

“That….”

While Evelia was only licking her lips, Cassis’ lips touched the bridge of her nose.

Evelia swallowed dry saliva and quickly stood up. Fortunately, Cassis let go of her waist this time.

“Did you have a good dream, Cassis?”

“Yes. What about you, wife?”

“I slept well too.”

Evelia smiled, combing her messy hair with her fingers. Even then, Cassis’ eyes were focused solely on her eyes.

“Hmm.”

Evelia groaned for a moment, then mustered up the courage to kiss Cassis on the cheek. Cassis’ eyes widened.

He hurriedly reached out to Evelia, but before he could reach her, she escaped from the bed.

 

*****

 

The whole time Evelia was eating breakfast, she couldn’t look at Cassis’s face, who was sitting across from her. She felt embarrassed.

‘I promised myself that I would seduce him…’

How can you get into such trouble with just one kiss on the cheek? Rather, if you look at the intensity of skin-ship, Cassis was more active.

“Mom, mom.”

Ruth, who was looking at Evelia from one side, spread some butter and jam on a toasted toast and handed it to her.

“This is delicious, you should try it.”

“Sure. Thanks.”

Ruth smiled and this time handed the toast to Cassis.

“Father, eat too!”

Cassis responded half a beat late.

“Yes, thank you.”

Cassis did not like to eat much breakfast. He mainly ate light salads, and Evelia rarely saw him eating bread in the morning.

So I was worried, but luckily he took a big bite of the toast Ruth gave him.

Ruth, who was watching this, smiled and ate his toast. The freshly made toast made a crunching sound.

After the peaceful meal, Cassis called Evelia.

“Wife.”

“Ye-yes?”

Evelia was embarrassed. However, she soon managed to control her expression while looking at Cassis’ serious face.

“Can I talk to you for a moment?”

 

*****

 

Cassis shared Logan’s report with Evelia.

Lionel was imprisoned as soon as he returned to the kingdom, and then he appeared in the southern region of Cesia, which was suffering from a drought, and the drought was resolved after his visit.

After hearing the whole story, Evelia fell into deep thought.

“The timing is definitely ambiguous.”

“That’s right.”

“Maybe that has something to do with why Prince Lionel didn’t come back?”

“…….”

Cassis fell silent. He still didn’t seem happy to talk about Lionel.

He opened his mouth after a moment of silence.

“Maybe.”

“Umm….”

Evelia asked a very fundamental question.

“But Ruth’s illness… Is it really a curse in the first place?”

Evelia didn’t read the original novel to the end, so she didn’t know exactly what Ruth’s curse was.

Ruth only knew that because he guessed it was a ‘curse’ at a temple when he was young.

But is it really a curse?

“The priest said it was some kind of curse.”

“But the priest was only guessing it. If it’s a deadly curse, there should be quite a few dead people in the royal family of Cesia, but when I looked at the family tree, there weren’t any.”

“Isn’t that because the Kingdom of Cesia knows how to lift the curse?”

“If you knew how to break a curse, it wouldn’t be any curse. The curse could have been prevented in the first place.”

“…….”

Evelia continued as she thought about Ruth’s condition.

“It is true that Ruth gets sick on full moon days, but other than that he is surprisingly healthy. If it were a normal curse, your health would gradually deteriorate.”

“Is that so?”

“I think we need to approach it in a different way.”

After finishing her conversation with Cassis, Evelia went to see Nikita.

“Nikita!”

“Ah, madam.”

Evelia moved to another location, had a brief conversation with Nikita, and then got to the point.

“Have you ever heard a rumor about Prince Lionel?”

“Are you talking about Prince Lionel Cesia?”

Nikita frowned slightly as if she was remembering him.

“In fact, not much is known about Prince Lionel because of his origins.”

“Still, there must be rumors about him, like he’s sick or something.”

“Well, there is no such thing…”

Nikita, who was rolling her eyes here and there, said, “Ah!” she let out an exclamation.

“Now that I think about it, there was a rumor that the place the Prince visited had a good harvest.”