“Wow, that’s our sister. I’m sure of it, absolutely. Since my sister is so virtuous, Baron Turner will definitely settle down with his wife this time without turning his eyes to other women or going to gambling dens.”
Baron Turner’s reason for divorce was his frequent affairs and excessive gambling. David mentioned this and openly sneered.
His purpose was to make her feel bad by mocking Ariella’s situation, but she didn’t react much.
It was because she knew very well that even if she didn’t answer, someone else would react.
“David! You shouldn’t even think about doing anything stupid! Baron Turner at least won money from gambling, but you’re the one who lost everything and even owes Peterson gambling debts, so you have a lot to say!”
David quickly straightened his crooked posture, not even getting his money’s worth, as a loud shout filled the office.
“If I hear that you borrowed gambling money again, I really won’t let you off this time!”
“O-Of course, Father. As I promised, that will never happen again.”
David answered, sweating profusely.
After being beaten severely once, he feared his father more than ghosts. To bring up gambling in front of the Duke with that kind of fear, Ariella clicked her tongue at his stupidity beyond what she had thought.
“If you have time to bother your sister unnecessarily, go and call Lizzy! I have something to tell her.”
“Yes! I’ll go get her right away!”
As if he had never been lounging on the sofa, David shot out like an arrow.
Ariella noticed that David’s face, which was passing by her, was unusually flushed.
Why was he suddenly in such a good mood?
The reason was obvious.
‘He must want to bother his fake sister. In a completely different way than he did to me.’
David harbored affections for Lizzy that he shouldn’t.
He had known it for some time, but he only recently realized that the feeling was deeper than she thought.
It happened when David was confined to his room.
Amira, after conducting a covert investigation, discovered that David was secretly contacting Lizzy. Ariella intercepted a letter David had secretly sent.
The contents she found were utterly disgusting.
[Lizzy, why don’t you come to see me? You said you wanted the same thing as me. Was the faith I gave you not enough? I console myself by recalling the proof we shared back then. I keep thinking of your soft lips, your smooth skin…]
“Ugh!”
It was too repulsive to read any further. Her best effort was resisting the urge to tear up the letter.
For a moment, she even felt sorry for Lizzy. She wondered how desperate she must have been to give herself to such a man.
Ariella struggled to suppress the nausea rising in her throat. Only after a few minutes could she finally calm down and assess the situation.
‘I knew it.’
When David was caught hiring thugs to attack Kaia, she found it odd that he didn’t utter Lizzy’s name even once while being beaten by the Duke. It seemed something had been going on between them since then.
As a result, David was deluded into thinking that Lizzy and he were passionately in love with each other, and he became obsessed with her, completely elated.
Sure enough, as soon as David was released from confinement, he began to chase after Lizzy. He wanted to have every meal with her and visited her whenever he had free time, spouting nonsense.
As Ariella had expected, David was in high spirits.
After all, the man he considered his rival was now impotent. For him, who had done nothing but lie in bed and scratch his belly, this stroke of luck was nothing short of delightful.
‘I’ll be the one warming Lizzy’s bed from now on.’
What kind of man is a man whose lower body doesn’t function properly? Lizzy, who has such a man by her side as her fiancé, must be writhing in loneliness every night.
And so, she will inevitably come to him. Perhaps the relationship will continue even after the marriage.
With these expectations, David harassed Lizzy every single day.
Lizzy tried to cut him off appropriately, but unfortunately, she couldn’t completely shake him off because of the words she had already spoken. She merely responded to his words with a Kaiawarm and uninteresting attitude, hoping that David’s interest would soon turn to another woman.
But Ariella could easily guess, watching them.
Contrary to Lizzy’s expectations, David’s feelings for her would never naturally fade away.
As the days went by, David would become more and more obsessed, and at some point, he would even harbor anger towards Lizzy for not satisfying his desires.
The emotion she wanted to disappear would tighten around Lizzy’s neck in an even more persistent and sordid form.
‘The time has come.’
Her mind, which had been temporarily stopped by the shock of learning about Lizzy and Kaia’s relationship, began to work again.
‘The time for those two to turn their swords against each other.’
It was time to create a new game.
