Chapter 14

Okay, stop! We need to think about something else. Something that will be exactly the opposite of these thoughts.

Juliet then consciously tried to imagine something pleasant and easy.

So, it should be something brilliant, beautiful and delightful.

Thus, Juliet returned to her "glass shoes". To be quite precise, to the dresses and jewelry that remained in the Duke's mansion.

She left all these things the Duke gave her intact in his house.

- If I could, I'd burn all these dresses to get rid of this feeling in my heart.

Juliet laughed bitterly.

They would be the gloomy embodiment of her breakup with the Carlisle family, in the form of ashes. She didn't know what their exact price was, but she assumed that the cost of some houses in the capital might seem funny compared to them. However, even if so, it would still be right.

- Oh, and that necklace.

Juliet smiled remembering him.

If she were that kind-hearted heroine from a beautiful fairy tale, she would cry thinking about her lover, but her thoughts now occupied the magnificent dresses and delightful jewels that she left in his mansion.

- Pff... apparently snobbery isn't alien to me either.

But Juliet never thought she was sweet or kind, so she didn't care if it was really true or not.

Suddenly, Juliet suddenly became curious about one moment.

And what happens to him when someone takes a vacant seat next to the Duke?

Lennox will soon forget about Juliet, just as he easily forgot his former mistresses and replaced them with new passions. The Duke's new mistress will soon take a place next to him, which once belonged to her.

But despite all this, only one thought was hated by Juliet that the things he gave her could be safely used by his new mistress.

Of course, it didn't matter to Lennox.

Even if he really gave the jewels she left to his new mistress, she had no right to be indignant about it.

That's why Juliet did the only thing she could, she made a wish.

"Please don't let my necklace decorate a faceless woman's neck. That's all I want."

- Maybe I should have left him a note? Don't let anyone else wear my necklace! Or maybe I should have asked him to sell me this necklace?

Juliet laughed a little at those thoughts.

But she really didn't have time for it. So, it's time to slowly clear your thoughts, smile calmly and say goodbye to all this decisively.

"If you wanted it so much, you should have thought about it earlier. Juliet Montagu, you're behaving stupid and ridiculous. That's exactly the end you wanted, didn't it?"

She knew from the beginning that it would ever happen, and she also knew she would run away like this.

Juliet laughed bleakly.

If she had spent some more time preparing for this moment, maybe then she could have left without much excitement.

Or maybe then he said goodbye to her first without regret...

- I guess I'm completely stupid.

Now was the most appropriate moment to finish it, as she's been lying to herself for too long.

All this time, she lived with the illusion that she could stay a little longer, and with a fleeting expectation of an opportunity that was never destined to introduce herself.

After all, he will be the Lennox Carlisle as she knew him until the very end, and someone like him will never change. Back in the beginning, Juliet made a promise to herself that she would not change or suffer no matter what either, but in the end she could not stand it and decided to leave first.

In contrast, she has been preparing to part with him for all seven years, although he may not have guessed it.

If they were on the lands of the Carlisles family now, she wouldn't have escaped so easily.

However, she's been planning this gap for a long time. And finally, she managed to do it.

Resolving her unhappy thoughts, Juliet looked around carefully.

Looking around the station plunged into darkness, she wondered if the train was going when she suddenly noticed something strange.

It was too quiet around...

She was sure that there were passengers at the station besides her waiting for the train.

How long has it been so quiet here?

Something's wrong.

At the moment when Juliet got up, instinctively feeling the danger, steps were heard.

Somehow, this sound of steps seemed very familiar to her. Juliet hesitated to freeze.

And soon a man came out of the dark.

When he stopped at her, she saw that his clothes were in disorder, which did not fit into his usual strict way. He even took off his tie and unbuttoned a couple of buttons on his shirt.

Always perfectly laid black hair, now crumbled on his smooth forehead, as if he was in a hurry or even running.

In addition, Juliet noticed that he breathed heavily because his wide chest clearly walked up and down under his clothes.

Nevertheless, he smiled at her quite calmly, as if nothing had happened.

- Do I have to say we haven't seen each other in a long time?

Of course, it was the same man she ran away from.

- .... Lennox?

There's only one man in this world who could smile like that - Lennox Carlisle.

- I didn't even assume I was so hated by you that you'd decide to escape from me under cover of night.

- But how...?

Juliet, looking at him with such a pale face as if she had seen a ghost in front of her, suddenly found that his left hand was bandaged.

The bandage was soaked in blood and looked sloppy, as if he was doing it in a hurry. And now red drops of blood were dripping from his hand to the platform.

Oh!

When Juliet saw it, she immediately realized how he found her and stared at him amazed.

Although she knew that there was a powerful artifact in the main temple of the capital with which he could find her, she initially did not consider this option, as there was no relationship between the Duke and the temple.

"The Eye of Argus."

- You used a sacred relic.

Juliet was deeply shocked that he was looking for her himself and even hurt his own hand, which now bleeds, only to track her down.

- Well done, I guessed it quickly.

Noticing Juliet's gaze, he put his left hand in his pants pocket.

- You didn't need to go that far.

After these words, the smile instantly disappeared from Lennox's face.

- What about my child?

- .... What do you mean, "my child"?

- Isn't that my child in your belly?

*******

All this time Lennox barely restrained his fury.

He couldn't even understand whether he was angry with himself or Juliet, but it didn't matter now.

As soon as he saw the silhouette of a woman standing alone on a platform immersed in darkness, he immediately realized that it was her.

Her clothes looked like she was carefully picking it up, and when she noticed him, she shuddered and grabbed the edge of the dress, as if she was going to run away.

There was nothing about it that should have hurt him or excited him somehow. However, looking at Juliet now and seeing it, anger broke out inside him, like a flame that engulfed a dry log.

"You don't like it, do you?"

Suddenly, he remembered a woman looking like a beautiful summer flower, who smiled at him as if she knew him very well.

Attachment and love - these two things had to be cut off before they were an annoying hindrance.

He's always done that.

But this behavior now was completely different from him.

Was there anything special about her?

Juliet Montagu stayed with him much longer than his past mistresses. But except for the fact that she said goodbye to him first, she wasn't a special woman for him. So there was no reason to pursue her.

However, he lost control of himself and succumbed to the influence of momentary impulse and emotions.

He preferred to send the arguments of his mind to hell and decided to catch this woman, even if he violated his own rule.

- Do I want to know what happened to my child?

- .... What do you mean by "my child"?

- Isn't my child in your stomach?

- I don't...

Is his child?

Juliet, who almost asked him this question unconsciously again, suddenly got confused.

What kind of nonsense is he talking about?

- No, it's not true!

Juliet's face immediately flashed.

And only then did she realize that Lennox was ridiculously wrong.

Oh, my God! He must have thought I ran away with his child!

How do I explain it to him?

When Juliet lost her speech due to a huge misunderstanding and just stared stupidly at him, Lennox's expression became even colder.

- The pharmacist brought an order form that indicated that you ordered two medicines, one to get rid of the child and the other to better develop the fetus.

Oh!

And then Juliet realized where this ridiculous misunderstanding began.

But his conclusions were wrong.

How could she afford to get pregnant and doom her child to an unhappy life if she knew very well that she would have to leave his father?

She did take silfium tea as a contraceptive all the time. However, the silfium and mistletoe flowers, which she ordered a few months ago, were not intended for her.

They were secretly bought by Juliet for a maid who planned to get married soon and was going to leave her.

The maid who served Juliet in the Duke's mansion was not from Lennox' servants, but from the servants of the Earl of Montagu, and she had been with her since she was a child.

About two months ago, this maid with tears in her eyes told Juliet she was pregnant.

- I think I'll have a child, miss.

The maid's groom, who was a sailor, is rumored to have gone missing after going to sea on a ship. Concerned about her fiancé's safety, the maid realized late that she was pregnant.

Then Juliet began to comfort the grief-stricken maid, saying that she would help her make any decision.

After that, she ordered these two medicines for the pregnant woman, explaining to her that if mixed with mistletoe and silfium flowers, she will be able to secretly get rid of the child, and if she takes only mistletoe, it will help protect the fetus from various threats.

Fortunately, the missing groom soon returned safely, and the maid married him, after which she left Juliet. Now they lived far away, waiting for an early birth.

Juliet was very glad that her maid was doing so well and was even going to send them a gift in honor of the birth of her child in the future.

.... But where do she start explaining Lennox now?

Juliet unwittingly laughed in the dark.

However, Lennox seemed to interpret this laughter in a completely different way, as his calm expression instantly became wild.