My Perfect Omega - Chapter 36
To an onlooker, it might have seemed a highly suspicious and comical standoff occurring in a deserted place. Leila felt the dead end with her hands, confirming it, then leaned against the wall and closed her eyes.
She hoped Anna would seize the opportunity at the guild.
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Lucas got out of the carriage and surveyed the area around Martin Bank. He even met with the bank manager to ask what business Leila had, but the manager remained tight-lipped.
After all, a bank’s confidentiality is its trust. Despite knowing this, Lucas couldn’t help but ask out of a faint hope.
“Your Grace, a merchant said he saw two women passing by and overheard them talking about the ‘Kun Guild’.”
“Are you sure it was them?”
“Yes, he noticed because of the unusual black hair peeking out from under a robe. Black hair is not a common color.”
“Sigh…”
Lucas had to accept that Leila had indeed left without informing him.
“Why did she leave the violin behind?”
Since she entrusted it to him, he thought she would return. Feeling confused, he headed to the Kun Guild. After parking the carriage in front, Lucas and Philip were about to enter when he heard a familiar voice in the distance.
It wasn’t a welcome voice, but the content of the shouting caught his attention.
“Let’s see how long you can last there. The blind fool doesn’t even know how filthy it is in there.”
Though it was quite far, difficult for an ordinary person to hear, Lucas’s exceptional physical abilities as a hyper-dominant alpha and a swordsmanship genius allowed him to catch it.
He ran towards the voice.
“Your Grace!”
He heard Philip calling from behind, but he was already on the move and had no time to respond. He found Timo shouting at what seemed to be a wall.
As he got closer, he realized there was a narrow path that wasn’t visible from a distance, created by the haphazard construction of houses.
Lucas scaled the wall and simultaneously struck Timo on the back of the neck, knocking him out. He dragged the unconscious Timo aside and saw Leila at the end of the narrow path, a space too tight for him to enter.
“Haah…”
He wondered why she was in such a place, full of questions from one to ten.
“You.”
Leila lifted her head at the voice she shouldn’t have been able to hear at that moment. She had found it suspicious when Timo suddenly stopped talking but hadn’t expected it to be because of Lucas.
“…Your Grace?”
“Did you really run away to avoid me?”
He immediately asked the question that had been bothering him. Leila paused before replying.
“No.”
“…I thought so. What reason would you have to run from me? All I’ve done is support you.”
“Yes, you’re right, Your Grace. But I had my reasons.”
“What reasons?”
He persistently questioned, and Leila hesitated before answering.
“It was a matter of great importance in my life. It’s not resolved yet, and I ended up here while waiting.”
“I see. It’s quite an extraordinary hiding place.”
He was sure it was a place no man could enter. He couldn’t bring her out through the front.
“Can you come out this way?”
Leila hesitated at his words. Was it really safe with Timo there? She didn’t know if Anna had already left. She tried to buy more time.
Watching her closely, Lucas suspected she had lured Timo there on purpose. So he told her,
“If that maid is still at the Kun Guild, she would have already met Philip. So don’t worry needlessly and come this way.”
Hearing this, Leila felt a wave of despair. She prayed that Anna had already left and safely moved to another place.
