Chapter 15

- That's why you asked me so suddenly to part with you?

Before Juliet had time to answer, Lennox roughly grabbed her by the shoulders, and his lips curled in an ominous smirk.

- You didn't want to be caught when you tried to escape with my child, did you? Did you want to steal it from me?

- .... So that's why you followed me?

Juliet's face turned pale from this cruel remark.

That means how. Well, of course, nothing else should have been expected of him.

Juliet felt like a real idiot, because, although for a moment, she was full of hope and expected him to have completely different words that she wanted to hear all the time she was with him.

What the hell did I expect something from him at all?

She laughed at herself mentally.

- Do you really think I'd dare steal a child with the Duke's precious blood?

She knew the importance of blood ties for a man named Lennox Carlisle.

They were none other than greedy relatives who threw the young heir into the ashes of war.

Juliet suddenly became curious.

How would he react if she told him she was carrying his baby under his heart?

Would she be dragged away and "circulated" just like the woman who once brought his child to him?

But first of all, Lennox Carlisle never wondered if he would have an heir or not.

And that's why he preferred a light, short relationship instead of getting married legally.

However, it is obvious that quite a few women with children came to him, who claimed that they were the same blood as the Duke Carlisle.

Everyone in the empire knew very well that children with red eyes and black hair were born in the Duke's family.

However, none of them knew what had happened to the children and women who came to the Duke.

Some people even openly claimed that the cunning and resourceful Juliet Montagu must have got rid of his children.

However, they were certainly wrong because Juliet didn't know what had become of them herself. Rather, on the contrary, she was even more curious than even these people, wanting to know what fate befell these children.

- No, I didn't steal anything from you. - Juliet answered calmly, helplessly lowering her head.

However, his subsequent words led her to even deeper despair.

- Then what did you want to do with this bastard? - Lennox asked with a sarcastic smile on his lips, a mocking tone.

- Lennox!

Juliet's face broke out of resentment.

Juliet bit her lip for a moment, wanting only one thing not to notice how tears came out in her eyes.

However, this was not enough to suppress the excited feelings.

- .... Juliet?

- Let me go.

It seems that her lover got much more angry than she expected because she ran away without saying a word.

But why is he doing this?

He was never a person who could love someone and feel worried that he could lose that person because it was not significant to him. The only thing he was interested in was his work.

"For this reason, I couldn't afford to be so naive to take his attitude for love."

Maybe this situation is more similar to if she were a dog he raised for a long time, and she suddenly dared and ran away from a leash?

This can rather be called an unfortunate feeling of loss or discontent that so much of his time was spent in an empty, but not affection and love.

But even if it was, and Juliet really upset him, it wasn't a good reason for his anger so that he could afford to treat her like that.

Juliet was in deep despair now, more than ever. She stayed with him for seven years, and now all she deserved is this...?

However, she didn't think Lennox was the one who would be able to understand it...

- Okay, I'll believe you.

But at the moment when she stood barely holding back her tears, the man, who looked at her from top to bottom with a strange look, suddenly said:

- But then you have to come back to me. Getting married or something else, I'll give you everything you want.

Juliet's expression suddenly became indifferent.

- What did you just say?

- Damn it, I'll do whatever you want, whether it's marriage or playing family.

Although Lennox's voice when he repeated his words was completely calm, he felt that his nerves were tense to the limit, and some pinching feeling of loss arose in his chest.

- So come back with me.

"Please come back."

The man took a step towards her and pressed her against his chest as gently as ever before.

Lennox was so nervous that he didn't even notice how he asked a woman to come back to him for the first time in his life.

He was excommunicated from the temple, and if he now decides to get married, there will be a lot of hype around the wedding.

But does it matter now?

If they don't voluntarily give their consent to it, there will be war.

Still, he was a Duke of the Northern Territories with an invincible army. Even the emperor can't conquer the North, so what can he oppose him with a temple?

He didn't believe in God. And much less he didn't believe in stupidity about God's servants.

So it doesn't matter if Juliet can't escape from him.

As soon as he came to this conclusion, everything fell back into place.

- .... Marriage?

- That's right.

But Juliet didn't smile with joy or surprise, she didn't even cry with excitement. Despite the fact that he just offered her the place of Mrs. Severa, which many women wanted before her.

For some reason, she looked at Lennox with empty eyes.

- What about the child?

- Do as you want.

Lennox nervously swept his hand over his black hair.

It wasn't a very tempting prospect for a cursed man to give an extension of his kind with such blood. In addition, children irritate and distract. But he thought that if this child looked like her, it would be quite tolerable.

Lennox looked thoughtfully at Juliet, who was still standing still, as if shocked.

If they had a baby, she would never have tried to escape from him again.

Juliet was vulnerable and weak like a very small animal.

This comparison came to his mind only under the influence of the moment, but he felt how strange longing took hold of him when he thought about it.

- Indeed, until the very end...

Juliet's lips, red like rose petals, wide open.

- You'll be cruel.

- ...What?

- How far can you go to make a person unhappy?

- Cruel?

For a short moment, Lennox thought he was wrong.

Just a day ago, she gently pressed against his chest and was so affectionate as a warm spring breeze, and then half a day later she was the one who cold-bloodedly deceived him and ran away.

The one who let go of his hand and left him behind was Juliet Montagu.

So, which of them two can be called cruel then?

Lennox had already opened his lips to object, but he couldn't say it.

- Juliet?

Juliet stood silent while tears flowed down her cheeks, but her facial expression remained unchanged.

It looked like a man at the limit of his abilities had overcome him. Or, like transparent drops of water that flowed down the glass, a crowded glass.

Juliet cried silently.

He knew it wasn't tears of joy a woman should have experienced when they offered her.

Lennox, struck by her reaction, looked at her confusedly.

- What happens if I come back? - Juliet muttered in an indifferent voice.

- What are you talking about?

- What will change between us if I come back with you now?

- Will it change?

Lennox's eyes narrowed down from this unexpected question.

Juliet never asked or asked him for such things.

The future is uncertain and ambiguous.

But it doesn't matter. He didn't want her to be different.

Juliet Montagu, whom Lennox knew, is a girl with smooth and delicate skin, sweet lips, trembling long eyelashes and dimples on her cheeks.

And Lennox thought that was enough for him.

Juliet never asked for his love, she didn't complain or make him do what he didn't want.

- Nothing.

Their relationship won't change.

And that was what he wanted.

Juliet Montagu will still remain his lover, and they will just return to his northern lands.

Whether it was a marriage or a child, he had to prepare a stronger cage to prevent Juliet from escape if she decided to do so again, but all the problems would be solved anyway.

Right now, if she just nods her head...

- Lennox Carlisle.

But Juliet didn't nod.

- I want to stop right now.

- .... Juliet?

- I don't love you anymore, Your Serene Highness.

If everything stays as it is, it means she will always have to be afraid to be thrown away.

- I'm tired of it.

At that moment, a train drove into the platform with loud noise.

- Your Serene Highness.

Juliet shook her head and rested her hands on the chest of the man who held her, after which she pushed him away with force.

- I know. Somewhere in this world there is a woman who will learn humility and kneel next to a man like you.

Awe.

Suddenly, many blue butterflies appeared, whose wings shimmered as brightly as the snow under the moonlight before he instinctively reached Juliet again.

A flock of blue butterflies, fluttering first over her skirt, gradually rose higher and higher, and soon hid it all.

Lennox's eyes saw nothing but them, it looked like they weren't going to let anything approach her.

Meanwhile, the woman turned to the train that stopped near her and approached him.

- But it's definitely not me. - She said, turning around.

Juliet's lips slowly stretched in a charming smile when she looked into the eyes of a frozen man.

- When I said I didn't steal anything from you, it wasn't a lie.

Juliet instinctively realized that she was now holding a "sword handle" in her hands.

The only chance to leave an indelible mark on a man who has always remained indifferent to everything and left everyone behind was now right in her hands.

Juliet touched her empty stomach with a natural movement and said:

- Because it's not your child.

She laughed loudly, having been a last lie to him.