My Husband Will Regret This - Chapter 98
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 98
Did she really trust Eric?
Chloe didn’t even know the exact size of his assets, and she didn’t even know exactly what he was doing, so could she really trust his words of revenge on the royal family?
The words of trust, to be precise, were meant to answer the question of whether he could really control the royal family. Even though she really wanted him to take revenge on the royal family, at the same time, she had doubts about him.
Would he be able to do it?
Maybe she had an intention to test him.
Still, on the other hand, Chloe had the idea that she could give him this much test, which was also a kind of revenge against Eric.
…Yes. She wanted revenge on both the royal family and Eric.
It was true that she was somewhat open to him, but that didn’t mean she had completely forgiven him. Her heart was still in the middle of the storm as if it was swaying, and she had a hard time getting to go in one direction.
Therefore, she wanted to test Eric, but at the same time, she wanted to get revenge on him.
That was why she persuaded him by saying that she trusted him, and she followed him all the way here.
Oh, how wicked was this?
Even though she knew it wasn’t right, Chloe didn’t think to suppress these feelings.
It was because she defined herself as a hurt person. There were some things that are tolerable because she hurt, and there was a part of her that thought that this level of test and vengeance was something Eric had to accept even if he knew it.
Although she was in the middle of conflicting feelings, it was also the method Chloe had chosen to orient her mind.
She had a strange anticipation of what was to come for her.
And so, with a somewhat flushed face, she took Eric’s hand and got out of the carriage.
“Be careful.”
He treated her as if he was handling thin glass that would break if he touched it. His attitude still made Chloe feel awkward.
Awkward and angry.
If he knew how to do this, he should do it from the start! To have changed only after abandoning her for so long. As the feelings of gratitude and hatred mixed together, Chloe didn’t look back at Eric and pulled her chin.
“There are many people today.”
Still, Eric spoke more to her.
“So… uncomfortable things may happen. If so, please tell me right away.”
“…Uncomfortable things.”
Chloe took a deep breath.
She knew all too well what ‘uncomfortable things’ he was talking about. It was probably about how nobles treated her and Eric. She finally realized that she was going to face nobles, and as soon as she thought about it, her head bowed down.
I don’t want to meet them. I really don’t want to meet them.
It felt like her whole body rejected it with one heart and one mind.
Chloe bit her lower.
She had already chosen to come here…. therefore, she had to persevere. This meant that she had to be prepared to hear the contemptuous eyes and contemptuous voices of the nobles.
She sighed slowly.
It’s alright. It’ll be alright.
She struggled to think so before taking Eric’s hand and slowly entering the hall.
“His Excellency, Marquis and Marchioness Aslan!”
With the doorkeeper’s loud cry, Chloe and Eric entered alone. Immediately, everyone’s eyes focused on them.
Everyone’s eyes, that was, everyone in the hall.
Chloe could feel her shoulders shrink, but she didn’t make it obvious. She was, as always, the noble Chloe Rolfe, and the noble Chloe Aslan.
As she moved slowly along with Eric, immediately, the voices of those who lamented over her sickly young face came. At the same time, there was laughter. Along with that, a sad sound, a proud giggling sound…
All sorts of noises came alternately in a dizzying way.
Putting together the words that she had heard, it was this.
Chloe Aslan was a woman on the verge of death who had been given a time limit for her death. She was been pretending to exist all her life, and she looked good, no, it was pitiful. Looking at what she had done so far, it was good though it was a pity…
Why would people easily sympathize with others and easily look down on them?
Chloe closed her eyes tightly.
It was unknown how they learned of her terminal sentence. Had William been talking all over the place?
Perhaps he might. Eric didn’t want to reveal her sickness in any way and had the servants tightly shut up. On the other hand, it was after William found out that people whispered like this. So, it was William.
Yes. William, whom she trusted, relied on, and loved…
This was how he betrayed her.
Why?
Chloe was overcome with her resentment. She hadn’t done anything wrong. She had lived without doing anything wrong… yet why did she have to go through this humiliation?
And why..
As she slowly opened her closed eyes and looked back at Eric, he had a calm face, but his eyes were full of tiredness. He, too, was displeased with the current situation.
And why?
Did he have to go through this humiliation together? She thought it was all because of her. Even though Eric was not one to be treated like this, she judged that he was being insulted because of her.
Thinking about this made her dizzy.
Somehow it felt like waking up from a dream. Feelings that had been heightened, thinking that she would be able to hit both Eric and the royal family with one blow, dissipated like a dream.
She was not one to dare to test Eric.
She was not the kind of person who could hurt Eric. The act of daring to open up to him even though she knew it was not right… it didn’t suit her. She was despised by everyone, and even his reputation was undermined because of this.
She felt that she was bothering Eric.
So, just being by his side was a nuisance to hi. Inn other words, she thought that he would be better suited to be with the princess of the great royal family, Elizabeth, rather than a sick and helpless Marchioness like her…
This thought made Chloe’s mind giddy even more, but she couldn’t break her thoughts.
It was because it was true!
Really, Elizabeth would have been a much better fit for Eric’s side than she was, and she would have been helpful to him.
Ah, what did she hope for coming all the way here?
Chloe was determined to run away. She didn’t want to do anything, and she didn’t want to think about anything.
She just wanted to leave this place.
Nonetheless, the pride that still remains in her didn’t want to.
It was because of that one thing.
If she stepped away from here, she wouldn’t be Chloe Rolfe. Was that all? She couldn’t be Chloe Aslan, either.
…That one thought kept her going.
She couldn’t be just Chloe here. This was where she became both Chloe Rolfe and Aslan, so she couldn’t back down. Her confidence, which she thought was enough for ‘Chloe,’ disappeared, and she was entangled in her last name again.
Suddenly, she missed her Heath life as ‘Chloe’ again.
When she was there, she didn’t have to show any pride, and she didn’t have to be weighed down by the weight of her last name like she was now.
I want to go back.
Storming out of the venue, boarding the airship to Heath, meeting Sophia, and greeting the villagers again… she was happy just imagining it. Still, this imagination was really just an imagination. Chloe couldn’t even move a step in this venue, and it was difficult to get out of the mansion, let alone to Heath.
“Chloe.”
At this time, Eric spoke in a low voice.
“Would you like to dance?”
When she came to her senses, music was already playing, and people were dancing. She gazed at Eric’s outstretched hand.
Did they ever dance?
Come to think of it, there never was. Although she had attended many dances with him, she had never danced with him. It was Eric’s intention, not Chloe’s. He had never asked her to dance.
But now, he was asking her to dance together and offering his hand first.
Even though she felt everyone’s gaze and even though she heard everyone’s voice, Chloe was obsessed with the thought that if she held his hand now. She would never seem to fit with him, and she would seem to be holding onto his ankles and not letting go.
So, she shouldn’t have.
Eric was Eric Aslan, and he was a great person who should always shine.
…She couldn’t make such a great person lose his light because of her.
This was not the feeling of vengeance and selfishness that she thought of earlier. Truly, Chloe genuinely worried about Eric, which compelled her to answer.
“No, that’s okay.”
Eric widened his eyes, not expecting that she would refuse.
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