Chloe, The Thief Lady

Chapter 6: Really, Didn’t You Know? (1)

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A gaze may not have a tactile feel, but wherever Rayleigh’s gaze touched, it tickled like a feather.

 

 My face is going to be pierced. 

 

Chloe surrendered in exactly thirty minutes. She wanted to ignore it as if she didn’t know, but she couldn’t stand how stubbornly he was looking at her. Chloe, who put down the papers with a bang, raised her hand and rubbed her face. After rubbing the mask so much that it was crooked, Rayleigh asked.

 

“Why?”

 

What are you asking about now? This person is really… Chloe stiffened her face as she raised her head to ask him a dazzling question.

 

“Ah…”

 

Even though two layers of curtains were used for fear of the light leaking out, the inside of the room was dim. Nevertheless, Rayleigh seemed to monopolize the faint light as if he had taken it himself. A man in basic shirt and pants, even with disheveled hair, his features shine like jewels  in the dark. My God, is he like a jewel? I wondered how a person could be so distracted by beauty and this was apparently how. Chloe learned a great lesson. Even her brother, Duke Elio, was a well-known handsome man not only in the North, but also all over the Empire. You have pretty eyes, when people see you they must be mesmerized at once! If you’re so beautiful, how beautiful must the ‘beauty’ Empress Catherine be who now controls the empire?

 

“Your Highness, why did you stop socializing? Why did you live in solitude for ten years?”

 

Chloe was serious. Just by shining your face in the banquet hall, no one would have thought of that godly beauty as a curse. I bet you wouldn’t have had time for Gillot. At a time when the delusion was spreading, Chloe came to her senses at the sound of Rayleigh laying down his papers.

 

“…Do you ask because you really don’t know?”

 

With an expression as cool as her voice, Chloe gulped down her dry saliva.

 

“Wouldn’t it be weird for me to know what’s going on inside the palace?”

 

“Not an internal affair… everyone knows it well.”

 

Turning questions into more questions was what Chloe hated most. However, instead of getting angry, Chloe shut her mouth tight. Rayleigh’s expression looked terribly exhausted at the moment, and her mouth couldn’t open.

 

“It wasn’t meant to be a chipper event, it was a memorial.”

 

Oh my god. Chloe groaned silently. If she could, Chloe wanted to go back five minutes and shut  her mouth before she said something stupid. It’s like talking without thinking because of a handsome face. There was a feeling of blood rushing to her face due to the unbearable shame. Chloe grabbed her face and offered an apology with a sound of pain.

 

“Sorry. Your Highness, I’m sorry.”

 

She didn’t want to apologize to a Theodore, but this was impossible to fix.

 

“I can’t blame you for not knowing what no one else knows either”

 

Rayleigh’s expression was sincere, holding Chloe’s hand to get up from her seat. Chloe, who was standing in a row with her wrist held by him, suddenly felt incongruity with his words.

 

“No one knows?”

 

Weren’t they the prince’s fiancé? Wasn’t it natural to remember?

 

“Why?”

 

Rayleigh’s question was as if he was looking into Chloe’s head.

 

“Because the Imperial Palace quickly issued a proposal again.”

 

“But the deceased’s family…”

 

“I was naïve. Who dares to cry for the deceased over the royal family which is about to have a happy occasion?”

 

Obviously, Rayleigh laughed at the moment. It’s brighter than anything Chloe has ever seen, but he looked more fierce than any other moment in Chloe’s memory. It was tougher and uglier than the first meeting when he pressed down her limbs and put the word ‘execution’ in his mouth. Even Chloe, who has met men who were like beasts, felt numb. Even if the light faded, is it Theodore? Saesam, she realized that he is a descendant of Theodore, who turned back to Arne from a long time ago. Chloe opened her mouth, feeling the fluff on the back of her neck rising.

 

“So, Your Highness memorialized it?”

 

“Because they were my fiancés.”

 

“No, wait a minute. There is something I don’t understand, Highness.”

 

Rayleigh clinched his jaw in preparation of Chloe’s question.

 

“Why did you keep getting engaged?”

 

However his mouth did not open. Wasn’t there a rumor that the price was ‘cursed’ for the successive deaths of the fiancés? You still accepted the proposal?

 

“There…”

 

“Roy, the King’s proposal is actually an order.”

 

“What?”

 

Wasn’t it just me? Chloe felt like she was covered in ice water. Her head felt tingly and her fingertips were cold. Rayleigh clicked his tongue a little to Chloe’s white-hardened figure and pulled her wrist so the tip of her nose was close to his.

 

“Disobedience is treason.”

 

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“…..”

 

“And for the traitor is the death penalty.”

Rayleigh’s voice and shining blue eyes were still sweet. As Chloe looked at him, she vowed ‘I will surely survive. From this Theodore to that Theodore.’