My Contract Husband Resembles the Male Protagonist - Chapter 18
“H-h-how was it?”
“Yeah, I’m back. Feeling terrible.”
Yurta, the Lord’s aide, frowned quietly at the wide-eyed Adelaine, but she ignored him.
She grabbed a fan and threw it.
“D-Don’t worry! I’ll pick it up.”
The brunette woman quickly ran to pick up the fan.
“I-I should properly organize the party.”
“Ah…! Yes, yes, okay. I’ll prepare as you mentioned last time.”
The woman looked a bit uneasy and glanced at Adelaine.
“But where… will you do it? It’s not here as you said before.”
She timidly fiddled with her hair, hesitating in case Adelaine might get upset.
“Unnie, I hope you don’t hold it in the manor, my grandfather is very ill.”
“What?”
“You know, unni. What if we go outside? Like a picnic…”
“What are you talking about?”
Adelaine pushed the woman away.
“Why ‘we’? Did I say I wanted to do this with you?”
“Didn’t you?”
“Haa……. Don’t be ridiculous! I want to have a tea party here, I never said I wanted to hang out with you.”
“But…”
“Don’t be ridiculous and open the only greenhouse here, Sophia!”
“The greenhouse, um, cannot be opened, sister. The greenhouse has been carefully preserved for grandfather’s treatment…”
Hmph.
Under Adelaine’s piercing gaze, Sophia quickly lowered her head.
“I-I’m sorry. But, we can’t have a party while grandfather is ill and lying down. Unnie, can’t you understand? Instead, I can give you the mother’s earrings that you wanted…”
“I don’t need them!”
Thud!
In her nervousness, Adelaine accidentally hit the girl’s cheek as she brushed her arm away.
“……!”
“Ah……”
“I-I didn’t mean to. No. …You’re just babbling over there and got hit, that’s all! Do you want to make me look bad?!”
Adelaine acted shamelessly.
She showed no concern about the fact that she was irritated.
Sophia fought back the tears that threatened to fall.
“What are you doing?”
Yurta, the poor aide, stepped in to stop Adelaine.
“The Lord is unwell. Please do not make a fuss.”
“Who doesn’t know that?”
Adelaine scowled fiercely.
“You think I’m like a big sister, and you can’t do me a single favor? Did I ask for your last name? Did I ask for money? I asked to speak to you for a few minutes here, in this lonely, boring place, and you won’t even let me do that?”
“U-unnie…”
“And you claim to do things for me? All you’ve done is prevent me from doing anything I want?”
“N-no, that’s not it…”
“Are you going to disappoint me? I’ve cherished you so much! Yet, you can’t grant me such a small request?!”
“U-unnie…”
“Did I make a difficult request? It’s just a request! I even lent you my dress! I taught you ways to behave without being vulgar! Huh, but you didn’t even inform me about Dale’s marriage!”
“That person only talks to Grandpa and the aide……”
“Shut up!”
As Adelaine shouted, Sophia, who had been hesitating, lowered her head.
“I understand… Do as you wish, unnie.”
Only now did Adelaine, with a cat-like face, unleash the tension in her body, having obtained what she wanted.
The venomous expression from just a moment ago vanished, replaced by a smile that could only be described as angelic.
“Thank you. I knew you’d do that.”
Adelaine, stroking Sophia’s short brown hair, glanced at Yurta and went up the stairs with a triumphant huff.
“Benji, do you know what day it is today?”
“The tea party day, isn’t it? Of course, I’m aware. It’s a very important day.”
“Hehe, that’s right.”
Thinking of the face of the woman named Anne she had just seen, Adelaine chewed her nails vigorously.
The unflinching face, the look of superiority.
“She’s pretty, but she’s annoying.”
“But, Lady, you’re even more beautiful.”
“I know.”
Adelaine, who always received compliments for being the most beautiful, smiled ominously while climbing the stairs.
She seemed very pleased.
“Invite many other people on the tea party day. Only women who flatter me.”
“Understood.”
Adelaine ascended the stairs, letting out a sinister smile. She looked extremely content.
“We need to break the spirits of those who try to crawl over the nobility.”
