I Abandoned the Male Lead Who Cheated with the Villainess - Chapter 153
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Her cry reached a fever pitch. What she held in her hand was the wanted notice she had found while searching for Ameline.
It was also the most recent wanted notice issued for Ivonne!
Herix had kept Ivonne in his grasp, locked in chains, and confined her to the Tens Mansion, all while constantly updating the wanted notice on her.
“Is this part of it too? The reason why the children couldn’t come to me?”
Herix remained silent. But Ivonne wasn’t frustrated. She no longer expected anything from him.
“Why did you do this?”
It was more a statement than a question.
“Why couldn’t you trust me?”
This, too, was a question, but she no longer expected an answer from him.
She had already come to her own conclusions about everything logically.
“You would have never trusted me, even if I spent my entire life in chains, locked in Tens Mansion. You would never have felt at ease, never stabilized. That’s why you tried to isolate me from society.”
If Herix had learned anything now, it was that he should never have let Ivonne remain rational. He should have let her act emotionally.
As always, he needed to break her down, to make her complacent, to let her think of everything lightly. For Ivonne, Herix had to remain an exception, an anomaly, a being beyond the rules.
Look, because he failed to do that, now Ivonne was looking at him with the same eyes she had when she looked at Blitzen.
No affection, no emotion at all. Only a steely determination, focused solely on the path ahead.
Herix, who had loved Ivonne with all his heart, now realized at his core that his overwhelming emotions, affection, love—all of it, all of the blind devotion—had ruined everything.
“It’s over, Herix.”
When Ivonne pronounced those words once again, Herix thought her calling his name sounded like the strike of an executioner’s axe.
Ivonne left.
Leaving Herix behind.
The man couldn’t stop her.
In fact, he couldn’t have.
“…Where are you…”
From the deep, distant darkness, a faint voice could be heard. It sounded desperate, full of worry as if searching for someone.
Between the words, there were muffled groans mixed in. Each time, a heavy sound echoed, like something heavy falling backwards.
It sounded as if someone was clearing away debris from a collapse.
“…Your Highness… If you can hear me, please answer…”
The voice grew distant, then closer again, repeatedly. Occasionally it cuts off, sometimes interrupted by another voice. But he couldn’t focus on it. His mind was scattered, struggling to hold on to consciousness, unable to focus on anything else.
After a moment,.
“Here! It’s here!”
“I found His Highness!”
“I found the Crown Prince!”
“Bring the stretcher!”
Herix, trapped in the darkness, was rescued. He was found in the ruins of the Tens Mansion, the once comfortable ‘our home’ where he and she had lived.
The very place Ivonne had destroyed, leaving him unable to follow her.
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“There’s no significant physical damage.”
“Then why hasn’t he woken up?”
“It seems to be a severe mental shock. For now, we should wait and see…”
A few people were talking in hushed tones. The noise wasn’t particularly loud, but it was enough to irritate the ears. The man they were worried about, Herix, tried to get up from his position. It wasn’t for their sake; lying there wouldn’t help him in any way.
But.
‘…My body, can’t move.’
What in the world was going on? He couldn’t even lift a finger. Not only that, his eyes wouldn’t open, and his mouth wouldn’t move. Herix was puzzled, but the confusion soon cleared up.
‘Ah, Ivonne…’
Left.
The woman who had been his everything, had spoken those words to him with the lips he cherished:
— It’s over, Herix.
Now, Ivonne was no longer by his side. She wouldn’t return. Herix didn’t need to detect the second eyelid of his heart to understand that Ivonne was completely done with him.
‘She… abandoned me.’
And so, even if Herix wanted to gather strength, he simply couldn’t. How could he live when his life had disappeared? How could he live without the one who brought love into his life? With love gone, how could he remain human?
At this moment, Herix was no different from an animal.
It wasn’t the curse from Arnold. Despite Ivonne having returned him back to human before, Herix was destined to become a beast again.
In fact, Herix had been arrogant. He believed that the expression, the gaze, and the actions Ivonne showed when she looked at Blitzen would never come back to him. He thought that this time, he wouldn’t make the same mistakes.
So, Herix had dared to love her hardened and wounded gaze. He knew how many times her heart had bled, how many times the scars had healed and fallen away like the shedding bark of a tree.
And now, this was the result:
— It’s over, Herix.
