My Sweet Deceiver

Chapter 41

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Tehez hurried to the Ingeliger mansion. She stopped Denis, who was following her.

It’ll be a bigger deal if the Prince comes forward, so she will go to finish the work.

Denis asked Teherz several times again as if he worried about letting her go alone.

But she was stubborn.

“Be careful.”

Denis saw her off her until the carriage in which she rode disappeared.

While travelling through the night streets to the mansion, Tehez was in a complicated mood.

She thought the relationship would end when one person died, but the Marquis was unconscious.

All of a sudden…

Tehez clasped her hands tightly.

When she arrived in front of Ingeliger’s mansion, she found the mansion’s lights on.

A few servants were walking around outside, and in front of the mansion’s gate, passersby could be seen sneaking around. Alone without an escort knight, she got off the carriage and ran into the mansion.

The housekeeper shouted in surprise as she saw Tehez coming in.

“Princess!”

“Where is the Marquis?”

“They took him to the bedroom.”

She went to the Marquis’ bedroom on the second floor.

Richard was talking to the senator.

When he found her, Richard shouted.

“Tehez!”

“What’s going on, brother?”

After Richard had let the senator go, he told Tehez.

“He was shot in the chest.”

“What?”

Tehez doubted her ears if she had heard correctly.

“And his eyes…”

Richard couldn’t keep up with his words.

“He lost his sight.”

“It’s…”

Tehez was so startled that she couldn’t even shut her mouth.

It was a bullet shot, so why were his eyes gone…?

“Fortunately, the bullet deflected his heart. He was shot and passed out, but the assailant took his eyes… It looks like a pagan. The wound was so serious that he was unconscious. They’ve taken emergency measures, but they can’t guarantee life or death.”

Richard frowned as if frustrated, and folded his arms.

Tehez went close and saw the Marquis’ face. The face and chest of the Marquis, who was asleep as if he were dead, were bandaged.

“Who is the culprit?”

“It happened in the middle of the night, so it’s not going to be easy to catch the culprit. I’ve reported it, but…”

“…”

“And, as you know well, he has so many enemies.”

At Richard’s words, Tehez felt frustrated.

“I’ll take care of this. You go back to the palace, Tehez.”

“I can’t do that, brother. What if the culprit is aiming to hurt the Prince, not father? That’s all the more impossible.”

Tehez instructed Danielle.

“Block the article that comes out tomorrow morning.”

“Yes, all right.”

It was good that the article didn’t appear until she fully understood what had happened.

“And call Jacques to investigate this case separately.”

“Okay.”

‘What more should I do now?’

“Brother, strengthen the boundaries of the mansion.”

“It has already been ordered. And I got in touch with Max.”

“…”

Tehez clasped her hands to hide the tremble.

“No matter how foolish you are, your father may die, but isn’t it too much to not be able to be by his deathbed?”

Tehez did not respond to Richard’s words.

Max Ingeliger.

Second son of the Marquis of Ingeliger.

A prodigal idiot who was also famous in Valloise, a [email protected] He had seldom been at Valloise since he became an adult. He spent most of the year wandering.

Even if he returned occasionally, he didn’t come to the mansion, but only met his friends and went back.

Tehez essentially didn’t fit in with Max.

Max was free-spirited and tended to speak and act as he pleased. His crude words and deeds often offended her. Besides, Max had many bad friends, whom she hated.

The last time she saw his second brother was six years ago.

On her engagement day.

Max went abroad without attending the reception. Attending the engagement was apparently the limit of his patience.

“Yes. If it is an ordinary person, I will protect the Marquis, so please keep your eyes closed.”

“Okay, I’d rather do it myself. You need to rest in your room.”

“I will be back at dawn. From tomorrow on, brother has to do it, so just rest.”

“Okay, well, I’ll leave it up to you. Let me know as soon as there’s a problem.”

“Yes. Get some rest.”

Thud

The door closed, and Tehez pulled a chair next to the Marquis’ bed and sat down.

When all the noise was cut off and quiet for an instant, Tehez felt the situation unrealistic.

She doubted that the man lying on the bed was indeed the Marquis of Ingeliger, whom she knew well.

Who could have imagined all of this?

It was more like a dream.

Tehez felt complicated on the inside.

She wanted her father to die, who tormented and abused her.

However, when he finally stood on the threshold of death, she hoped that he would come to his senses safely.

“…”

She looked around the familiar room.

When she was very young, she sometimes came into her father’s room and played.

At that time, her relationship with the Marquis wasn’t so bad.

“Why did you do that to me, father?”

Tehez asked the Marquis, who could not hear.

The bruises on her cheek that her father had struck her were just now gone.

There were still more of the unrecovered wounds within her.

‘Why did you be so harsh on me?’

‘Am I really a useless child?’

Tehez wanted to ask the Marquis so many things.

She thought that one day she would be able to ask.

But seeing him lying down like this…

Her heart, having lost the resentment, was wandering.

Tehez looked at the Marquis without a word.

At the same time.

Fabrice was in a good mood. 

It was because Gaspar had brought the Marquis’ eyeballs.

“How did you handle your work?”

“The bullet went through his chest. It will be difficult to be alive.”

Fabrice listened to Gaspar’s words and gladly answered.

“Good job, well done! I’ve paid you well, so check it out.”

“Yes, Sir.”

Gaspar bowed down to Fabrice and disappeared again like the wind.

Fabrice unwrapped the finely wrapped package, as if it were a gift, and looked at it.

‘I like it.’

He immediately laughed like crazy.

Tehez stayed in Ingeliger’s mansion until dawn and returned to the palace at dawn.

When she returned to the palace, Denis stood impatiently as he had been waiting.

His bloodshot eyes showed that he had not slept a wink.

“How is he?”

“He is still unconscious.”

Tehez replied bluntly as she watched him naturally follow him into her bedroom.

“Are you okay?”

“I will be fine.”

“It’s not the Marquis that I’m worried about.”

Tehez clenched her hand and answered.

“I’m okay. Thank you for your concern.”

“Did you sleep?”

“No.”

“How about dinner?”

“Not even that.”

“What the hell were you doing?”

Denis took her hand and led her into the dining room.

“I, I will.”

“You can’t do it alone, so I have to help. Wouldn’t that be your husband’s duty?”

Tehez responded slightly to Denis’ words.

“I’m doing good, but the Prince comes to see me only when I’m not doing well.”

“What?”

Denis folded her arms.

“Then I’ll watch you today, so do what you do. Eat and sleep.”

“What?”

“Let’s see, Madam.”

He looked as if he would not accept a rebuttal.

“What about the duties…?”

“Well, it’ll work out somehow. Let Sylvan do it.”

Tehez remembered Sylvan’s face, who had been in a bad complexion.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea. Prince, he looks tired recently.”

“It isn’t because of fatigue. It is because of the wounds of a broken heart…”

Tehez asked worriedly at Denis’ words.

“Did Sylvan break up?”

“He didn’t. It looks like it’s going to happen…”

Denis was unable to speak any further.

“Anyway, you don’t have to worry about Sylvan. He is living well.”

“Yes.”

“You need to only care about yourself.”

Denis’ eyes were warm as he said that.

Tehez was somewhat embarrassed, so she answered in a small way.

“Okay.”

“Don’t starve yourself to lose your strength.”

“All right, don’t worry and go home, Prince. Don’t you have a meeting today?”

“Don’t turn around. Eat and get some sleep, Tehez.”

Immediately noticing that she was changing the subject, Denis asked her again.

“I’ll do that.”

“Good.”

Having said that, Denis stroked her hair and looked at her face without saying a word for a long time before leaving.

Tehez could barely hold back in front of Denis, but as soon as he left, she felt her face redden in an instant.

“Princess, this is Danielle.”

“Come in.”

Danielle came in with a morning newspaper and immediately addressed the main point.

“There is no article about the Marquis accident in the morning newspaper. An independent accident investigation is underway.”

“That’s good. What is the progress of the police investigation?”

“There is not much progress. But from the professional standpoint, they suspect he’s a hired assassin.”

“He is an assassin.”

Tehez pondered over Danielle’s words.

Accidental crimes can be removed from the options. So, who was behind it?

Tehez pondered as she tapped the handle of the chair with her fingertips.

“Keep both possibilities open and investigate. The first was a crime due to personal resentment against the Marquis, and the second was a crime to damage the Prince.”

Even as Tehez said so, she saw the latter possibility low.

Unfortunately, the Marquis had built up a grudge against people from all walks of life for decades.

Moreover, it was also famous in Lubern that the Marquis and Denis did not have a very good relationship.

Wouldn’t it have been better to kidnap her, the Princess, or choose another way to attack Denis?

“How’s the capital city?”

“There were no rumours, so there was no particular atmosphere.”

“If there’s anything unusual, let me know right away.”

“Yes, Princess. And don’t you think you should eat?”

Daniel looked worried.

“There are a lot of people who are taking care of my meals today.”

“You haven’t had a proper meal since lunch yesterday.”

“Then I’ll have something light.”

“Okay.”

Denis returned to his office only after seeing that she had returned safely.

Since Tehez rushed to Ingeliger’s mansion yesterday, he had sent his own investigative personnel to investigate the whole of the case.

The problem was that there was no evidence.

“I can feel the touch of an expert,” said Sylvan.

Denis also agreed.

“I don’t think it will give up its tail easily.”

He went to the street where Marquis Ingeliger was shot, but it was cleared without a trace of blood.

Who was the culprit?

Denis took off his glasses as if he had a headache.

(To be continued in the next episode)

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