Reborn as the Villianess .... Yet the Male lead Refused to Let Me Go. (Part-2)

One rainy afternoon, I finally confronted him.

"Your Grace"

He looked up from his hook.

"Yes"??

" ...Are you following me???"

He remembered silent for several seconds.

"I supposed, I'm"

"......"

"......"

He admitted it.

Without shame.

" Why?"

He closed the book.

"Because I wish to know everything about you."

My brain stopped working.

"Everything ?"

"That's unnecessary!"

"I disagree"

His answer comes immediately.

"You have changed".

"So? "

"I want to know why".

"I simply matured".

"I don't believe that ".

Great.

The male lead has become suspicious.

This was bad, very bad.

...----------------...

The heroine finally appeared.

Luna Everhart.

She was exactly as the novel described.

Bright chestnut hair .

Gentle blue eyes.

A smile that warmed everyone.

I nearly cried with relief.

Finally.

The story could return to its original path.

Adrian will fall in love with Luna.

They would defeat the villains.

I would quietly retire somewhere with a garden.

Simple.

I did everything possible to help.

I introduce them, create opportunities to meet them.

Even "accidentally"leave them alone during parties.

Everything should have worked.

Instead....

Adrien walked straight past Luna.

Every single time and came to stand beside me.

" I have been looking for you".

"Your Grace, Lady Luna is right there".

"I know"

" ...She is waiting".

"I would have rather talked to you".

Luna gave me a sympathetic smile.

The poor heroine has thought that I have stolen her future husband.

I wanted to scream.

Rumors spread rapidly.

"The Duke only dances with Lady Evelina"

"They Exchanged letters".

"He refuses three marriage proposals".

"He rejected princesses"

"For Lady Evelina ?"

"Who knows?"

Every rumor wants me to bury myself underground.

...----------------...

One evening I returned home to find a dozen gifts .

Flowers .

Books.

Jewelleries.

Tea.

Rare Paintings.

All from Adrian.

I immediately ordered everything returned.

The next morning.....

Double the gift arrived.

Attached was a note.

"Keep this. I dislike seeing empty rooms".

Who writes something like that?

...----------------...

Months passed.

His behavior became worse.

If someone criticizes me.....

He ruined their political career.

If another nobleman asked me to dance.....

The poor man suddenly remembered some business elsewhere after getting one glance from Adrian.

If I skipped meals....

Fresh food mysteriously appeared in my study.

My maids adored him.

My father adored him.

Even my dog adored him.

I alone remained terrified.

Because this wasn't romance .

This was OBSESSION.

Polite.

Elegant

Dangerously weighted obsession.

Finally I asked the question that had haunted me.

"Why me??"

We were standing beneath blooming cherry trees .

The evening air scattered pink petals around us.

Adrian looked at me for a long time before answering.

"Do you remember the Eastern battlefield?"

"I have never been there".

"You have"

"I haven't".

He smiled sadly,"You don't remember".

"I truly don't".

"When everyone celebrated my victories, there had been only one letter asking if I had eaten properly".

My heart skipped

" I don't understand".

"You send medicine during the epidemic".

"I"

"You made orphanages for soldiers' children".

"I"

"You visited wounded veterans after every war"

His golden eyes softened.

"Everyone saw you as a Villianess".

"I saw someone different".

I wanted to tell him the truth.

That none of these things have been done by original Evelina.

That I wasn't the woman that he believed I am.

But who will believe this madness?

"I love you "

The confession was simple, quiet.

I stared at him in horror.

"No"

His eyebrow shifted slightly. "No??"

The next day.

I am in a room tied to a chain to the bed and in front of me the person whom I least wanted to see.

ADRIAN

" you are only mine"😈😈

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