For Sale: Male Lead, Obsession Included - Chapter 14
Pacion, exuding a refreshing scent, leaned against the doorframe. Seeing him, Lavelier shot to her feet and shouted.
“Brother! This lunatic did this to my arm!”
“Ah, I noticed before, Estira seems to have a knack for martial arts.”
“Brother!”
Pacion’s eyes, so similar to Lavelier’s, looked down on her, making her grind her teeth.
“Brother, why are you suddenly siding with this bastard? For what reason?”
“Since when have I needed a reason for what I do? I just felt like it.”
Pacion, as if tired of the situation, ran his fingers through his long hair.
“Sister, perhaps you should find another use for that head of yours. Other than just crying stupidly.”
Pacion openly mocked Lavelier, repeating the words I had said at the laundry yard yesterday. Her face turned red with embarrassment in an instant.
“A real person should at least notice when another person’s gaze changes.”
Pacion said this, staring into my eyes for a moment before clicking his tongue and leaving the room.
Lavelier, now shaking with humiliation and anger, began to cry, tears streaming from her eyes. The sight of her crying without blinking, her eyes bloodshot and red, was terrifying.
“You… I won’t let you get away with this. I’ll go to Father right now and tell him everything! Then you’ll…”
“Yeah, yeah. Make sure you ask him. I’m not going to stay quiet either, so you better be prepared, sister.”
I matched Lavelier’s bloodshot, furious gaze with my own unyielding glare.
***
The bedroom of Marquis Glioced, where not even a breath of wind passed unbidden.
He couldn’t fall asleep and was staring out the window late into the night.
The ashes from the cigar in his right hand fell to the floor as he remained deep in thought.
It was because of what happened earlier that day.
“Father! Did you really make a promise to that illegitimate child?”
“What promise?”
“The promise that she can hit me!”
His daughter had barged into the office, crying her eyes out. He was already overwhelmed with work.
“A promise? What promise could I have possibly made to her…”
He couldn’t possibly have made a promise to that girl—
But suddenly, a clear voice echoed in Pandrion’s mind.
“If anyone lays a hand on my slave, please allow me to punish them.”
Tsk.
So that nonsensical wish was aimed squarely at Lavelier.
Pandrion looked at his daughter with a face full of annoyance.
“It’s true.”
“What?!”
His immature daughter clung to him, sobbing and showing the slight bruise on her arm. The way she cried as if the world had ended over a minor scratch irritated Pandrion.
“I have no intention of retracting it, so leave.”
“You’re so cruel! You said I was your only daughter in the world!”
SLAM!
Lavelier stormed out, her face twisted in fury, leaving Pandrion to sigh in regret.
‘To think that’s my daughter…’
He couldn’t help but compare her to the one who had shown such boldness today.
“I will secure that contract.”
Eyes brimming with intelligence. A confident voice.
Pandrion recalled the fresh shock he felt at that moment.
A brilliant daughter who flawlessly secured the contract without a single mistake.
…And another daughter, who, even as an adult, couldn’t handle her own problems and would run crying to her father’s office.
“Ha.”
If only their bloodlines were switched.
Caught in these recurring thoughts, Pandrion opened his eyes again.
He tried to bring the cigar to his lips to soothe his frustration, only to find it had burned out.
***
“Aaah!”
Lavelier screamed like thunder.
The maid delivering the news in front of her cringed as if trying to make herself smaller.
“Why! Why! Why was I rejected from the tea party again! Why!”
Everything she wanted or wanted to go to, which she had demanded Estira secure by any means necessary, was being canceled or rejected one after another.
Madam Josette’s tea party, Designer Rilico’s dress reservation, Lady Aidge’s social gathering—all of them!
“I’m not going to stay quiet either, so you better be prepared, Sister.”
All because of that one sentence from Estira, everything!
Lavelier was so flabbergasted that she almost cried.
That a mere illegitimate child could affect her like this?
Nonsense!
At that moment, a maid rushed in, cluelessly handing her a letter, saying it was from Miss Estira.
“What? Give it here!”
As soon as she read the contents of the letter, Lavelier started screaming madly.
“Aaah! This is insane!”
It was an arrogant message from Estira, saying that if she wanted everything to return to normal, she should come and apologize in person.
