Love Doesn't Matter - Chapter 118
Translator and Editor: Hue and Tea
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Chapter 118 – I Want To Love
“Hadius, I…”
“Tell me, why have you suddenly changed your mind? A while ago, you thanked me for my efforts to break off the engagement.”
He had always been a gentle man, never rude in any situation, always wearing a calm and gentle smile. Bianca had never seen him look at her like that.
Why is he so cold?
Bianca’s trembling wasn’t driven by excitement, but by fear.
‘Who is this man?
Where is the boy who once held a wounded fox in his arms?
No, did such a person ever exist?
He feels so different.
You seem so strange to me.’
All this felt abrupt and tiresome, like acting in a childish play with an absurd script.
Dignity and self-respect had already hit rock bottom.
“I actually… saw you recently. You…” As she was about to reveal the truth, her lips moved seemingly by themselves. Tap. Interrupting the tense atmosphere, a sudden knock echoed from the door.
Hadius, Bianca, and the footman, who had been engaged in conversation, all turned their heads toward the door.
The footman arrived first.
“Excuse me…”
Before he could finish his sentence, someone pushed him aside and burst in.
“Young master.”
It was Grozhang.
There was urgency and tension in the approaching footsteps.
“I apologize for the interruption, my lady.”
He bowed his head to Bianca, then turned directly to Hadius.
“It is a truly urgent matter, my lord.”
“….”
Hadius had been silently staring at his assistant and now turned to Bianca as if asking permission.
Bianca nodded, her emotions still running high. She needed time to collect her thoughts and calm herself.
As Hadius and Grozhang left the study together, Hadius spoke.
“What’s going on?”
Grozhang waited until the footman had completely disappeared before speaking, lowering his voice and demeanor.
“It seems that William Richards has made contact with Harel’s assassins.”
Hadius felt all the blood drain from his body as he tried to contain his shock.
“How did you find out?”
“It came up during Jetson’s interrogation.”
“….!”
Hadius couldn’t hide his shock. His mind was flooded with what Bianca had said earlier.
“Just a little while ago, I met with Mr. Richards. Because I couldn’t get you out of my mind.”
Bianca Reinen and William Richards had met and talked about Emilia. And then William had met Harel’s assassins.
Could this be a mere coincidence?
“I plan to go to the forest immediately and meet with Maesen. I’ll reinforce the forest’s borders, and if you allow me, I’ll explain the situation to Bern Yang…”
“No, wait.”
Hadius raised his hand to stop him.
Despite Grozhang’s attempts to reassure him, Hadius grew more uneasy.
Right, Mr. Beppy said. I may need treatment in the hospital.
They say there’s a very famous doctor in Reinsburgh.
As soon as Mr. Beppy and Charlotte return, I should send him to the hospital.
It was he who always said to keep Beppy Dilson close.
But why didn’t he say anything that day?
Hadius stared at Grozhang, feeling as if all the blood was draining from his body.
He couldn’t hide his shock and fear.
“Yes?”
“Find out why Bianca Reinen suddenly wants to meet Emilia, by any means necessary.”
“My lord, that’s…”
What are you saying?
Grozhang couldn’t continue. His master was already far away.
“My lord!”
Hadius did not turn around, and nothing reached him. His mind was filled only with the thought of checking whether Emilia and her family were all right.
Of course they had to be. They were probably in Hadel right now, talking to mercenaries like Maesen and Beppy Dilson. Maesen might be nagging them, and Beppy Dilson would undoubtedly be at their side.
Yes, nothing is wrong.
Hadius tried his best to dispel the ominous premonition that bubbled up uncontrollably.
His steps became wider and his pace quickened. Unconsciously, he found himself running frantically.
He left the mansion and headed straight for the stable.
Since the master was supposed to stay in Tobaro for a long time, the stable workers had finally found some peaceful sleep.
Hadius opened the carriage door with a bang, making enough noise to wake the sleeping driver.
“My lord!”
This time, too, Hadius didn’t hear him.
He pulled the drawer under the seat, took out a pistol and a shotgun, and chose a horse. With his own hands, he saddled the horse and immediately mounted it.
“My lord…!”
The stableman’s cries were drowned out by the dust and gravel that rose in torrents as Hadius and the horse sped away.
Hadius was riding at an incredibly dangerous and abnormal speed. As the carriages approaching him realized he was charging like a madman, they were forced to stop suddenly to avoid him, and the people on the street were shocked and pointed fingers.
With every beat of the horse’s hooves, the man’s heart raced wildly. His uncontrollable anxiety and overwhelming fear that he would lose control and go mad were merely exaggerated reactions. It was an illusion created by five years of obsession.
He reassured himself repeatedly.
It’s going to be okay.
It has to be okay.
He’ll be fine when he gets home. Emilia will open the door and let him in, looking at him like he’s out of his mind, eyes wide with surprise, a bright smile on her pure white face.
“You really are a mess.”
She would whisper playfully, her bright laughter tinkling.
Hadius closed his eyes in desperate prayer.
She had to get out, no matter what.
But her feet wouldn’t move. The entire house was a sea of fire, and there was no visible way out.
As she was engulfed in despair…
The sound of breaking glass woke Emilia.
Through her blurred consciousness, she could hear the howling wind carrying the searing smell that stung her nostrils relentlessly.
It was the burning smell that made her jump.
Smoke!
Emilia frantically opened the door and froze.
A storm swept through the broken windows, and through that wind, raging flames lapped at her house like a hungry beast.
Furniture, curtains, and stairs, everything was in flames. The flames spread with alarming speed, threatening to engulf everything.
She couldn’t see anything through the thick smoke.
“…”
There was no time to think.
“Charlotte!”
She shouted immediately then remembered.
Charlotte was with her family in Hedel. She had pretended to be ill in order to persuade the stubborn old man to go to the hospital. They went to Hedel together, but Emilia had to leave some luggage behind. Why did she insist on packing?
Regrets were useless.
People had said something, hadn’t they?
When a fire breaks out… you should close the windows first, they had said. It was strange, but that’s what they said to do first.
But somehow all the windows were broken. The wind coming through them fanned the flames.
If the fire had already spread uncontrollably… what should she do?
There was no time to think.
The pillars supporting the roof seemed to fall from the sky, and one crashed to the ground with a heavy thud.
Amid the choking smoke, the intense heat and acrid fumes, the tears and slime, and the burning sensation on her skin, Emilia struggled to think clearly.
She had heard something.
When a fire breaks out…
It was hard to breathe, and Emilia’s consciousness slipped away.
As the beams crashed down, an eerie heat surged, and a scream, like a siren, pierced the air.
She must live!
But it grew harder and harder to think.
In the deafening sound of the roaring fire and choking smoke, Emilia’s mind was clouded with despair.
Her skin was scorched by the searing heat, and it seemed as if the smoke would penetrate her body and consume her from within.
The fear of imminent death closed her throat.
In the midst of the blackening shadows, a person came to mind. A man who had once spoken fiery words as if breathing fire.
He will come. He won’t leave me like this.
I don’t want to die.
I don’t want to die like this.
I want to live.
I want to love.
You and our child…
Fighting against the crushing pain of suffocation, Emilia managed to get to her feet.
It was a moment when she relied on her instinct to live.
Surrounded by overwhelming flames and smoke, she forced her body to move forward when suddenly.
A crashing sound, like a door being ripped from its hinges, reached her ears.
“Emilia!”
Through the suffocating flames, he emerged.
“Emilia!”
With a cry that sounded like a scream, Emilia lost consciousness.
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lima92
Uau! exciting