“I’m just worried that it might be difficult for Nelia to take care of Zenu. It’s not easy to take care of a kid.”
Duke Hart seemed to not have much doubt as she expected.
“I don’t do much. I left him in Ton’s care today……”
Nelia muttered while lowering his head slightly.
“It’s because I feel sorry for Ton who suddenly has to handle a kid.”
“Don’t worry about that. Ton likes kids, so he’ll never hate him.”
Man, who was similar to a robot, fond of kids?
‘Well…… Who knows.’
However, she wasn’t sure if kids would like Ton, who had a stoic face.
“Nelia, if you need anything for Zenu, don’t hesitate to tell me. I’ll help so you don’t have a hard time because of him.”
D*rn it, Duke Hart has everything she could possibly say.
He would be good at raising kids later, being such a husband.
Nelia, who looked at Duke Hart with a satisfied expression, and became embarrassed at that moment.
‘What am I thinking……’
Nelia felt strange about herself, who was unconsciously drawing the future with the duke.
The duke glanced at Nelia, and he only had a grin etched on his face.
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During a brief break after lunch, Nelia thought about Zenu.
‘Is he doing well?’
She was worried that he might cause trouble for Ton.
Although he seemed to be doing a good job on his acting as a child, she didn’t expect it as he was a dragon with zero social skills that had been asleep for thousands of years.
After that, Duke Hart spoke to her.
“Nelia, I’m sorry, but could you bring this to Sir Howart downstairs? I have to deal with something right away.”
“Of course.”
Nelia rose from her seat and took over the document that was handed by the duke.
Sir Howarth wasn’t that far, besides she already ran errands for him several times.
People seemed to be getting used to her existence.
Since she often showed up to manage stuff related to business, the gaze of people that stared dagger into her have almost disappeared.
People seemed to think that she was really helping the duke with his work, not in a personal relationship with him.
“Hmm…… He doesn’t seem to be in the office.”
Nelia arrived at Howart’s office and knocked on the door a couple of times, but there was no sign of movement inside.
Even so, she thought about waiting in front of the door for now.
Had she waited that long? Howarth’s aide returned first to announce her about his whereabouts.
“Mr Howarth’s in council meeting right now. He will be free as soon as the meeting is over, so you should go there and see him.”
Is that so? Nelia thanked the aide and trudded to the council room.
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Whether the meeting was still ongoing, or the door was shut completely. Luckily however, the door opened soon after and people came out.
Nelia spotted Howarth in the crowd. She handed the document to Howarth, as the duke asked her to do.
Haworth said with a smile.
“Thank you for coming all the way here.”
After accomplishing the mission safely, Nelia was thinking of returning to the duke’s office when she heard a voice with the sound of footsteps from behind.
“Nelia.”
When Nelia turned around, there stood Carlos.
‘Oops……’
Regardless of the small palace, coincidences are quite too frequent.
But that wasn’t the only thing that caught Nelia off guard.
It was because it’s the first time he ever called her name.
“…….Yes?”
Due to that, she answered with a stunned face.
“What are you doing here?”
“I came for an errand……. Your Highness yourself, what brings you here……?”
“Because I was the host of the meeting that ended just now.”
Nelia admitted that the question was strange. Nelia admitted that
“Right… since he’s the crown prince, it’s only natural to work at the palace.”
But Nelia asked this question because she thought his removal was completely over.
I saw you outside a few days ago, but it didn’t seem like an official schedule at the time.
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Even so, considering that he met and easily blended in with a lot of people, it seemed that the medicine worked really well.
“Let’s have a talk for a minute.”
Nelia contemplated for a moment, but nodded along to his words.
Carlos took Nelia into an empty room.
Nelia was quite nervous seeing Carlos’ sunken eyes.
He slowly opened his mouth to talk.
“About the medicine Duke Hart gave me.”
Medicine from Griff……? Why does he suddenly decide to bring it up?
Carlos, who was staring at the table somewhere, slowly raised his eyes to look at her.
“It seemed to have a side effect.”
Nelia’s face stiffened almost immediately.
“…..What kind of side effects are you talking about?”
“It’s too leery for me to talk about it here.”
Carlos continued while glancing at the door.
“It could be a dangerous story for Duke Hart.”
Nelia swallowed through her dry mouth.
She was actually the one who requested for such medicine to be created, but since Duke Hart gave it to Carlos, he would be mistaken if something was wrong with the medicine.
He practically took the medicine on his own that day, even said and proved that there was nothing wrong with it.
“I’m not sure of the side effects yet, but I’ll tell you after I get the accurate diagnosis from the physician.”
“……”
“I would like you to come alone, not with Duke Hart.”
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Nelia raised her head. Carlos’ expression was extremely frigid.
“You know it, but the duke attacked me once. I can’t guarantee it won’t happen again.”
Did he talk about the day they were invited for dinner?
While she was away that day, Carlos and Duke Hart fought against each other.
She had no idea about who lunged first, but……
But this time, regardless of the truth, she couldn’t turn down his offer. If there were any side effects, she should have listened to him for more details.
“Nelia.”
“……Yes.”
“I’m not going to do anything to Duke Hart with this medicine right now, so you don’t have to worry about it.”