“Yes. I want to get closer both physically and mentally. Close enough to fit a single sheet of paper.”
After the confession, Dillian, who began to express his affection without hesitation, seemed like a person without a break.
“Then I can’t breathe.”
“It’s okay. No matter how, I will let you breathe.”
I pushed aside the approaching Dillian, but he didn’t lose a word.
“Miss Ria, please call my name too. Take off the title and just call me by my name.”
“I will decline. The Confucian girl inside me doesn’t recognize it.”
“Confucian girl, you mean?”
“There is such a thing. Anyway, sir Dillian is older than me, so I can’t.”
Of course, I spoke informally and swearing inside, but I refused, using my age as an excuse.
Hearing he calls me with just a name once makes my heart beat this much, so what if Dillian also feels this feeling? Certainly he can never stand still.
There are times when I can’t handle it, and it’s difficult if it exploded more here.
But Dillian doesn’t know how to step down.
He constantly teased me throughout the meal. So that his name comes out of my mouth.
“… Dillian.”
Am I really weak against Dillian?
I always felt like I was giving him what he wanted, even though I said I didn’t like it.
“This is how it felt.”
Between the hands covering the corner of his mouth, I could see the lips rising out of his mouth. He was about to fly through the sky.
“… It is not.”
But the words of denial only gave him confidence.
“I will try to shake miss Ria by calling you often from now on.”
“I will refuse.”
“Ria, would you like to go for a walk together today?”
“I’m going to do it alone though!”
I screamed at those words, not sure if it was a temptation or a joke, so I got up and ran away.
Dillian’s laughter echoed through the door.
***
I thought I would go back to my usual self, but I couldn’t get out of the aftermath of the dream the next day or the day after.
Even though I live my days with a smile, when I remembered that dream, my heart sank infinitely.
So for me, Dillian invited a special guest to the duke’s mansion.
“Ria!”
After watering the garden, I went out and raised my head at the familiar voice.
“May?”
A large figure rose behind her.
“Candy, your brother is here!”
“Stop that disgusting noise!”
Schumann, who was staggered by May hitting him in the head, was also there.
“Schumann? What’s going on with you?”
Surprised by the unexpected appearance of the two, I blinked blankly.
“Why, after hearing the news that my cute little sister is dying, I can’t stay still as an older brother.”
“It’s funny. Did Ria ever invite you?”
“You’ve never been invited either, have you?”
As I approached the two of them who were bickering, Schumann suddenly poked his face.
“What’s wrong with your complexion? Is the duke starving you?”
“No, I eat well.”
I’m saying this because it seems they don’t know how sincere Dillian is about the meal. He came to pick me up when it was time to eat.
In addition, the chef walked with both arms and provided everything from snacks to late-night snacks.
I’ll just gain weight then, there’s no way I could lose weight.
“I get it. You missed me so much that you became sick.”
As if he understood everything while talking with his nonsense, he patted my head.
It was a rough hand, unlike his soft-looking face.
My neck was twisted and my hair was in a mess.
“Let go of this!”
I swung my arms to strike Schumann, but he had already disappeared.
My face was buried in firm arms so I blinked blankly.
When I lifted my head, I saw a jaw which was stiff and stronger.
“It’s not enough to come in without permission, you also have a bad hand habit.”
“Duke. Isn’t the greeting too harsh? That’s rude.”
As if he had slapped Schumann’s hand, he frowned as he brushed off his sore hand.
“Who is rude? You’d better refrain from excessive contact with my fiancée. Intruder.”
“Intruder you say? Before she was the Duke’s fiancée, she and I were brothers and sisters.”
“Whoever sees you, would think that you’re real siblings.”
The two of them didn’t back down.
In the meantime, I asked May and Nathan for help, but they both looked at the place with interest.
Dillian, who lightly ignored Schumann’s irritation, cleaned my messy hair.
“No, it’s ok….”
As I pushed out Dillian’s hand, I calmly entrusted my head to a surprisingly delicate gesture.
‘… It’s not that bad though.’
Then Schumann’s face was dyed with shock.
What should I say…. That face is like the face of the cat’s owner who saw the cat that was only usually just looking at the owner then running to other people and acting cute….
‘It’s annoying. Really.’
Dillian pointed at Schumann with his chin.
“Miss Ria, where else did that thing put its hands on you?”
That thing…. He wasn’t even referred to as a human.
“Ria, how can you happen to be engaged to weird thing like that. Look at those eyes I’m going to be ripped.”
Weird thing…. It was the same with Schumann who didn’t treat him like a human being.