‘Is it changeable boredom?’
“Take off my earrings.”
Dorothea ordered the servant who had put a large earring on her ear.
“Yes? Your Majesty, but…”
“Take off my earrings!”
As Dorothea screamed, the startled servant hurriedly removed the earring from her ear.
However, she was afraid of the emperor’s wrath, and she was trembling and could not easily remove the remaining one.
That brief delay angered Dorothea. Dorothea didn’t know why she was angry.
Just annoyed, she grabbed the earring that the servant couldn’t remove, and pulled it out forcibly.
“your majesty…!”
The servants and Ethan behind them shouted in surprise.
Red blood flowed from her ear. Drops of blood dripped down and wet her thin shoulders.
Still, Dorothea was irritable, as if she had messed up, but didn’t mind the pain in her ears.
‘You can’t even take off an earring like that!’
She took a deep breath and looked at herself in the mirror with blood flowing from her earlobe.
Dorothea Milanaire in the mirror was staring at her.
“Your Majesty, are you okay?”
Ethan couldn’t hide his surprise and hurriedly approached her and looked at her. He tried to care for her wounds as precisely as a flower that had just bloomed, but Dorothea struck him harshly.
That was then.
“Your Majesty, Prince Fried visiting you.”
The door swung open at the same time as the attendant voice came from outside.
Dorothea saw the open door and jumped up from her seat.
“Theon…!”
Her face, which had just been filled with irritation, brightened as if she had turned on a light.
‘Theon is visiting my room!’
Dorothea couldn’t hide her smile at what had never happened before.
It was as if the sun was shining in her room and the fresh air was refreshing.
Just being able to see his face in the morning meant that the work of the rising sun was done.
Dorothea, forgetting the blood dripping from her earlobe, ran past Ethan to Theon.
“What brought you to my room, Theon? Finally you–”
“Your Majesty, is it true that you have revoked the title of Delevine? They are forbidden from entering the Lampas!”
Dorothea greets him with a wide smile, but Theon shouts in an angry voice.
He stared at her with a face that looked like he was about to die.
‘I should have noticed that it’s not a face that looks like it’s going to kill, but a face that looks like it’s going to die.’
Later Dorothea regretted it by recalling it, but Dorothea at the time knew nothing of his death.
Dorothea had never seen Theon so angry. It was the first time seeing Theon’s face so terrifying, that if Dorothea had not been trained to be hated for a long time, she would have burst into tears.
The anger of a loved one was more frightening than the moment he held out his sword to kill Raymond.
‘My husband. Theon, you could run and get mad at me like this for Julia’s sake.’
That fact broke Dorothea’s heart and no words came out. But the fear and pain began to set up thorns over the tender flesh like
hedgehogs.
“So…what’s the problem? Who cares what happens to Julia?”
A thorn protruded through a dry, tear-like throat.
“The Delevine have long been in the care of the imperial family and The Fried. But depriving the title of innocent Delevine?”
“Theon, all you have to do is take your mind off her and rest well, play well, and eat well in this palace.”
“What do you Mean take my mind off her?! To me, Julia is… !”
Theon, whose voice was raised, stopped to speak.
Despite the interruption, Dorothea knew what he was trying to say.
As if he had lost everything he had, his face in despair, was shouting out loud without thinking.
“I love Julia Delevine.”
At that word, all of Dorothea’s thorns lifted.
“Theon, you are mine. Mine! But why are you looking at another woman?”
‘The fact that I have not been able to name it out loud until now because I am afraid. ‘
She asked, screaming with dry tears.
“I never swore to be yours.”
Theon’s eyes, looking at Dorothea, were supported by evil, as if they were cursing the sky.
Dorothea’s heart was torn to pieces, and her fingertips and toes were numb.
Plakk!
Dorothea’s palms slapped his cheeks, as if refusing Theon’s words.
Then Theon fell to the floor.
“Theon…!”
Dorothea, who had hit Theon, was surprised to see Theon collapsed and called out his name.
She never thought that Theon would fall so helplessly with a single stroke of her hand.
Dorothea looked down at the palm that had hit Theon. Her sins were engraved along the dull fingerprints and hard calluses.
Theon, who had fallen, staggered and stood up. Then, Theon’s red eyes stared at her, and he ran away.
“Te, Theon!”
Dorothea tried to follow him, but Ethan grabbed her wrist.
“Your Majesty, if you go now, you will only hurt Prince Fried. If you wait until he calms down, he will surely apologize to you. Don’t worry too much and just wait.”
Ethan grabbed Dorothea’s sinful hand with his white hand.
“But….”
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty is higher than anyone in the world. Don’t be swayed by this. Everything is definitely return to the arms of Your Majesty.”
Ethan whispered sweetly to Dorothea.
Dorothea’s trembling subsided at the calm voice that settled in her ears.
Ethan fix up Dorothea’s messy hair over with his hand, took out his handkerchief, and pressed the blood from her earlobe, which he had not cleaned before.
* * *
Dorothea anxiously waited for Theon Fried.
And as an apology, she presented him with a greenhouse garden where beautiful and precious birds were kept.
If it’s a colorful bird brought from a distant foreign land, Theon will open up and like it.
‘Even if you ignore the jewels, you will not be able to turn away from the beautiful song of birds.’
After setting up a greenhouse garden next to his palace, he seemed to visit it often.
“Prince Fried seems to like the birds.”
The words of the servant of Theon made Dorothea feel better.
You might be angry now.
Excited like a child expecting a birthday present, Dorothea went to the greenhouse garden where Theon would be.
By the way.
“Kyaaakh!”
The joy that had been in Dorothea after a long time was torn apart by a sharp scream.
“What’s going on?”
At Dorothea’s question, the servant ran to the greenhouse garden in a hurry.
Why does the greenhouse garden look darker than usual in the distance?
Even after the servant had been sent, an ominous attack struck Dorothea quickly.
And when she arrived at the greenhouse, Dorothea saw it.
Birds that fell to the ground and dead trees and trees stained with death.
And Theon, who stood alone in the middle.
“Theon…”
At Dorothea’s call, Theon slowly raised his head..
Dorothea’s heart pounded at the frustration and despair in his eyes.
“Do you still love me?”
Theon asked.
He looked like he was smiling, and he looked like he was crying.
Dorothea was at a loss for words, frozen in front of him.
Like the bodies of birds that fell on the floor, so did her heart.
But Dorothea was foolish.
The deepest source of the pain that cuts through her heart was Theon’s face mixed with despair.
His sorrow was more painful than the death of a bird. So Dorothea had no choice but to answer.
“I still love you.”
Sadly. stupidly. brutally.
* * *
From that day on, Dorothea became more and more anxious. Theon didn’t say anything to her, and it looked like it was going to disappear like smoke at any moment.
It drove Dorothea mad more and more.
Constant criticism, resentment, and neglect.
One ray of hope fell upon her.
“Julia is dead?”
“Yes. It was found in the Arbon region. It seems that she was caught wandering around without an escort.”
At the general’s report, Dorothea’s eyes turned to Ethan.
Ethan was pretending not to know anything and had a naive expression on his face. Dorothea knew that he had been on vacation not long ago.
But no matter what happened, the whole story of the incident didn’t matter.
‘Theon will look at me now!’
At last, Julia Delevine, the thorn in her eye is gone and Dorothea Milanaire’s life is perfect!
Although she started with nothing, she won.
‘What a great victory this is!’
“Ethan.”
Only Ethan was in the room, and Dorothea called him gladly.
“Great.”
For Julia to die at this time, her death must have been in the hands of Ethan. But Ethan smiled and shook his head.
“I am sorry, Your Majesty. If I had done something, I would have earned Your Majesty’s praise, but Julia’s death was not mine.”
Dorothea stared at Ethan who said that.
Then Ethan’s eyebrows lifted up slightly.
His habit of lying.
But Dorothea decided not to ask any further questions.
“It doesn’t matter who did it. It seems that old obstacles were swept away. Of course, Theon’s heart will be troubled for a while, but as long as I take good care of that wound, that’s enough. Right, Ethan?”
‘I didn’t kill it, Julia’s death wasn’t my fault.’
Blind Dorothea excused herself like that, and Ethan nodded.
“You are right, Your Majesty.”
Dorothea thought that Theon would lean on her a little after Julia’s death.
But Theon never see Dorothea.
As soon as the news that Julia was dead, Theon, who had never visited her, opened her door again. There was hatred for Dorothea around his eyes as he entered Dorothea’s room.
“Remember that. Your greed has killed her.”
He came to Dorothea full of anger and cursed her as if screaming.
In an instant, Dorothea realized that something was wrong. The eyepatch that was covering the eyes slowly came off.
“Theon, I didn’t kill Julia!”
Dorothea made an excuse to the one she loved. Yeah, she never ordered Julia to be killed.
‘I never asked Ethan to kill her.’
Ethan, yes, he said he didn’t do it either. It was simply that Julia was attacked.
If Dorothea was to blame, it was that she rejoiced over Julia’s death.
* * *
