Cade smiled brightly.

“Look. You..... Then I thought about what it would be like to be your regret.”

Cade patted Abella on the shoulder. Abella’s indoor dress was exposed through the gown. Her body temperature could be felt through the thin fabric. Cade tilted his head towards Abella.

“Are you going to refuse?”

Abella’s eyelids trembled.

She had never thought of this moment. Who would want to touch the cursed Abella? To normally fall in love, kiss, and make love with someone. It was nothing more than what she dreamed of as a child or her fairy tale.

Cade kissed Abella’s eyelids.

The warm body temperature stayed there for a long time.

“.... I love you, Abella.” Cade spoke out the sincerity that he had never told before. “Beyond what you can imagine....”

Abella’s tears flowed down. Even though her mother never told her that she loved her, Cade said it without any hesitation or fear.

Abella muttered in a suppressed voice, “The curse will pass on.”

“It doesn’t matter though.”

It was more effective than convincing Abella that there was no curse. A friendly consolation that he didn’t care in any situation.

“What if you die?”

Cade smiled softly at Abella’s remark. “Will you still be by my side at that moment?”

Abella nodded her head without answering.

“Then it’s okay.”

Abella covered her face with her palm. His hot body temperature touched her lips. Cade opened his lips to Abella’s and slipped inside her.

Abella cried the whole time, and Cade tenderly comforted her all night long. Until her tears are gone.

Until the moment when the dawn rose and he secretly left.

*

Burke did his job well. He handed over all the information they had to Lyla, as Cade had commanded. Lyla, as Cade expected, pointed to Gilmus.

“Sir Burke.”

Burke, who had been caught by Lyla, unable to return home late at night, lifted his head at Lyla’s call.

“I need Gilmus. Can we secure Count Gilmus?”

Burke nodded his head.

“He’s a beggar sitting on the road anyway.”

“I’m going to use Gilius to catch Sirius. No matter how downgraded he may be, he was a noble in the past, so his words will work in court.”

“Yes. Do you need anything else?”

“.... If you go to this address, you will find a middle-aged woman living there. She is the one who will be the second witness.”

“Can I ask who she is?”

“She is a woman who previously worked as a nanny in Amerigo. If you give her money, she will do anything.”

“If we use her, she will do harm to Amerigo as well.”

“What does Amerigo have to do with me?” Lyla smiled sharply. It was wrong for her to hold Amerigo in her hands anyway. It didn’t matter if it was broken because it couldn’t be hers. Burke shook his head at Lyla’s sharp reaction.

“His Majesty will not allow it.”

Even if he killed the woman, Cade was not going to do anything that would harm Amerigo.

Lyla frowned. Because she knew what Burke was saying.

“Ha. I don’t want to let go of anything. Alright. While we’re at it, we can clean Amerigo too.”

Lyla frowned again.

“She is a woman who witnessed everything. Let’s limit those who took part in the case. Instead of bringing Grand Madam Amerigo to court, Amerigo can cut off her tail.”

“.... I think we need to check that part in advance.”

“See also if we can proceed with the divorce of Grand Madam Amerigo and the predecessor Duke.”

It was something neither Abella nor Cade could do, so Lyla had to do it. If she could save Arsene by taking down Sirius and cleaning up Amerigo.

“Then Madam Chloe.....”

“Ah.”

Layla blinked her eyes.

She was a name that Lyla had completely forgotten. Was there any way Chloe didn’t get swept away while cleaning Amerigo? But, that was all of Lyla’s reaction.

Lyla said as she shrugged her shoulders. “It does not matter. You get what you paid for, huh?”

She said this in a cool tone with no emotion mixed in. Burke shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Lyla in disbelief. Lyla and Arsene. The two were perfectly compatible.

***

She became a married woman and she spent the night with a man who was not her husband in the family register.

Something Abella could never have imagined had happened in her life.

Abella buried her face in her palm. That didn’t mean it erased what had happened last night. He had secretly left the room again, just like when he had come in secretly.