‘If it’s the first night we spent together in one room, it has happened in a long time.’
It’s also the first night of horror…
As I remembered the past when I was trembling for fear of dying after breaking Dillian’s head, I laughed.
‘There was a time like that…’
It has changed a lot. My eyes tremble just to take a hint of Dillian, but now I have reached to the level where I can even respond to his nonsense.
“Okay, let’s sleep together.”
“Ria!”
Nathan’s face turned pale. On the contrary, Dillian’s face brightened.
“I’m on the bed, Sir Dillian is on the floor.”
It was in a flash that their expression changed.
Dillian with a sullen face called me.
“Miss Ria…”
“It’s no use even if you called me so mournfully.”
“Sure, sure. It’s no use.”
Nathan responded.
I laid a blanket on the floor ignoring Dillian’s call.
And Dillian quickly covered himself with a blanket.
With my determined attitude, Dillian gave up and I could hear rustling from below.
And after a while, all we could hear was each other’s breath in the dark.
“Miss Ria, are you bothered?”
Looking vacantly at the ceiling, I turned my head.
“For what?”
“For everything. Nathan who was kidnapped, and for them who actually was after you, then you also collapsed, everything is because of me. I’m sorry.”
I rolled over to face Dillian.
He must have been looking at me all the time, the red eyes and my eyes met.
“Sir Dillian doesn’t need to apologize because it’s not you who is in the wrong.”
“If I were Miss Ria, I would be angry and resentful.”
Does he want me to be angry? But I’m not that angry.
“You are also the victim, so why should I be angry?”
It is not Dillian that I’m going to be angry with, it’s the guy who is not enough just to be swallowed that is made of all this.
‘Lexter that jerk, just watch if you show up in front of me. I’ll destroy you.’
Unlike me who gritted my teeth, Dillian still didn’t understand what I was saying.
“Is that possible?”
“I am rather grateful to Sir Dillian.”
“Grateful?”
I reached under the bed and tapped Dillian’s back hand.
Dillian’s hand flinched. I smiled slowly, gazing at Dillian’s moonlit face.
“If it weren’t for Sir Dillian, I would be crying because I couldn’t stand up again. Thank you for always saying it’s gonna be okay.”
It wasn’t lip service, it was sincere.
No matter what anyone said, Dillian was able to find Nathan.
So you don’t have to worry about it, with that meaning I patted the back of his hand.
“I mean it.”
With a gentle smile at him, I withdrew my hand.
But it wasn’t long before he caught it again.
“I’m grateful to you, too.”
“Sir Dillian, why?”
“Because it’s me, the first one you are trying to find, not anyone else.”
Is that something to be grateful for?
Staring at Dillian, who looked genuinely happy, I opened my mouth without realizing it.
“… All I could think of was you.”
Dillian’s eyes grew bigger. At the tiny trembling eyes, I scratch my cheek.
‘I thought he would like it. Is it not?’
The tremble was brief. Immediately, a unique languid and relaxed smile settled on his face.
“Miss Ria, do you remember that you will give me a prize if I could help you find Nathan?”
“… I do.”
“I did help, right?”
“… You did.”
Dillian smiled mischievously as he gently swept the back of my hand.
“What should I get as a prize?”
“Anything I can give you.”
Except for the weird ones. When I added, he nodded as if saying of course.
“Would the kiss of victory be good?”
“That’s the weird one.”
“Then the kiss with love.”
It was a kiss one way or the other. I smiled and shook my head.
“You will regret it later if you do it with me.”
“That will not.”
No, I’m sure it will. When your memories came back and realized you kissed the woman who broke your head. Don’t you feel cheated? I thought it would make me angry.
It’s good if he is just angry, it will be troubling if he tries to kill me.
“Why don’t you get it from Nathan instead of me?”
“Miss Ria, I almost got angry.”
“I hate it too! This dude!”
“What the? Nathan, you didn’t sleep?”
I thought you were asleep because you were quiet, but you heard all of the conversations?
My face burned with shame.
“You fox-like brat! What did you do to our Ria when I was gone?”
“What do you mean, because of my father-in-law, I became closer with Miss Ria.”
Dillian said thank you and stroked Nathan’s head.
“Why don’t you play cupid instead of the guardian deity?”
“What, what the!”
Nathan, who is furious, pecked Dillian on the head.