ETDO Chapter 14
by lily plum“Lily!”
Arthur stood up abruptly, a wide smile on his face. I hurried my steps, worried he might trip over the chair in his haste to greet me. Arthur kissed my cheek and pulled out a chair for me. As soon as I sat down, he said,
“You’ve come at the perfect time. Mrs. Wilson was admiring the flowers you brought. Look!”
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I turned my head to where Arthur was pointing. A gorgeous cluster of lilies was arranged in the center of the table. Among them, I noticed some crushed dark green leaves from our earlier scuffle, but I tried to ignore them.
“Yes, they’re beautiful.”
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Smiling at Arthur, I pretended not to notice Ethan’s gaze fixed on me from beyond the lilies. The taut tension made my stomach slightly churn, but I was grateful that my face wasn’t turning red again.
‘Please don’t think about it again. Forget about what happened earlier.’
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Fortunately, dinner began soon. The Duke’s chefs had prepared a feast as always. I had lost my appetite, but I forced myself to eat, not wanting Arthur to worry. Turning my head, I noticed Arthur’s plate piled high with carrots.
“Arthur, do you not like carrots?”
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At my words, Arthur glanced down at his plate and smiled. He had a mischievous look on his face.
“Oops! You caught me.”
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“It’s impossible not to notice when you’ve piled them up to one side like that.”
“Honestly, carrots are really awful.”
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Arthur pouted like a child.
“I’ve hated them since I was young. Even with Mrs. Wilson and Grandfather scolding me, I just couldn’t eat them. But it seems they still haven’t given up.”
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He chuckled. I studied his face and asked,
“Are carrots the only thing you dislike, Arthur?”
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“Hmm… I also dislike broccoli. But it’s a little better than carrots.”
“Still, wouldn’t it be better for your health to eat a variety of foods?”
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A small bit of sincerity slipped into my conventional words. At my worried tone, he cut a piece of well-cooked meat and brought it to his mouth, saying playfully,
“Don’t scold me, Lily. What can I do if I don’t like them? It’s truly an ordeal. And actually, I’m not the only one who dislikes them. Ethan hates them too. See, he also left them all.”
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Surprised, I involuntarily turned my head. Sure enough, Ethan’s plate was also piled high with carrots. In my haste to respond to Arthur’s words, I ended up making eye contact with Ethan.
Startled, I quickly lowered my gaze, embarrassed that my conscious effort to avoid looking at him had been for naught. Ethan, on the other hand, seemed unperturbed, as if he had forgotten all about the earlier incident. He calmly wiped his mouth with his napkin and smirked.
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“We’re twins, no wonder even our tastes are the same.”
“That’s right. Whatever I like, you like it too.”
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Ethan raised an eyebrow at Arthur’s sharp words, unlike his usual demeanor.
“Weren’t you the one copying my preferences?”
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“What are you talking about? When did I ever do that?”
Arthur immediately refuted Ethan’s words, as if bewildered.
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“Have you forgotten about Charlie? He was my hunting dog, but you took him away because you liked him.”
Arthur chuckled as Ethan responded indifferently as if still annoyed by the memory.
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“Oh, right! That’s true. We’re even on that front, anyway. If we still haven’t deviated from having the same preferences at this age, there’s no hope for us.”
“Right. So we might as well just live like this until we die.”
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I tilted my head, listening quietly to their conversation while holding my cutlery.
Was this really just a conversation about food preferences and hunting dogs?
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That’s what it seemed like on the surface…
But why did it sound so ambiguous, as if there was another hidden meaning?
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Suddenly, Lady Wellington’s words about their preferences regarding women echoed in my mind.
What if she was right?
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What if their shared preferences extended beyond food and hunting dogs to include interest in and a desire to possess people?
If that were the case, what would become of me, of us?
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Confused, I stared blankly at the two men. Arthur raised his wine glass towards Ethan in a silent toast. Ethan responded by raising his glass of red wine as well, a smirk playing on his lips–his characteristic one-sided smile.
And at that moment, as I stared blankly at the scene, Ethan, catching my bewildered gaze, grinned. It was a wicked smile, very similar to the one the black devil in my imagination had given me earlier, flickering his red tongue.
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Startled, my heart pounding, I quickly lowered my gaze to my plate. As I cut the meat with trembling hands, my heart continued to race despite my efforts to calm it.
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Ethan swirled the glass of red wine in his hand. The aroma of the fragrant, top-quality wine he had been holding in his mouth filled his nostrils and went down his throat.
He chuckled, watching Lily, who was flustered and hastily avoiding his gaze. Just as she had been from the first time he met her, this shy and innocent princess was utterly incapable of hiding her feelings. She hadn’t changed a bit since childhood.
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Her slightly flushed cheeks were tinged with a soft pink. Her golden eyes, sparkling like yellow diamonds in the flickering candlelight, curved beautifully.
His hands twitched, longing to tuck the dark strands of hair that naturally fell past her cheeks and along her slender neck behind her ear, but he restrained himself.
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She was like a delicate work of art, meticulously crafted by the gods. She appeared pure and elegant, yet captivating enough to make it impossible to look away.
How could a mere princess from a fairytale even compare to her? Intoxicated by her intense allure, Ethan felt a burning thirst again as he watched Lily talking with Arthur.
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The kiss they had shared in the garden earlier felt like a dream. He gazed at Lily with hazy eyes and took another sip of his wine. He couldn’t tear his eyes away from her delicate body, which had fit perfectly in his arms, and especially from her lips, like spring strawberries.
What would it feel like to bite and suck on those soft lips?
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Whenever he saw her, he was always consumed by curiosity. He imagined if they would burst with juice just like real, tangy strawberries. And now that he had finally confirmed his suspicions, the thirst had only intensified.
He felt as if he were back on their wedding night. The time he had spent awake all night seemed like a distant past, but he realized that the agonizing desire he had barely managed to suppress with clenched teeth hadn’t diminished or faded in the slightest.
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Even after hurriedly leaving to the battlefield as if fleeing from his uncontrollable desire, he struggled for a long time, unable to escape the visions of Lily that constantly invaded his thoughts.
In fact, it wasn’t surprising that he dreamt of Lily. Even when contact with her had ceased during their childhood, Arthur would frequently dream of her, at any time, for any reason.
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Since they were young, the two of them would share the same dreams whenever they experienced intense emotions. Raw, primal emotions like hatred, anger, and affection would be transmitted from one to the other.
He couldn’t remember exactly when this strange phenomenon had started, but it had been since they were quite young. He still couldn’t forget the shock he felt the first time he saw Arthur’s dream.
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His father glaring at him like he was an insect, spewing insults. His own hands trembled uncontrollably. The feeling of hot tears streaming down his cheeks, accompanied by sobs. And then, a sudden flash of light flickered before his eyes, and the excruciating pain he felt on his cheeks. The feeling of the soft carpet against his burning cheek as he lay there, not even knowing when he had collapsed.
It was sad and miserable. Arthur clung to his father, who mocked him by comparing him to Ethan. He trembled, begging his father not to abandon him as a useless child, even if he beat and hated him.
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Ethan was tremendously shocked as if he had personally experienced Arthur’s emotions as vividly as if he were experiencing them himself. At the same time, he was disgusted by his father’s treatment of Arthur when he wasn’t around.
It was completely different from simply watching a series of moving pictures, as he had seen before. This was because, unlike observing from the outside like with a photograph, he could directly feel all of Arthur’s emotions as if they were his own.
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In the end, it was only natural that he would become immersed in Arthur’s thoughts and emotions. The same was true for his intense feelings for Lily. Arthur’s obsession with her was as strong as his extreme fear of their father.
It was not long after he went to war that his dreams of Lily, which had continued endlessly, suddenly stopped. He didn’t know why, but Arthur stubbornly refused to share his inner world with him. Ethan was frustrated and taken aback, not knowing the reason, and he only learned the truth after being unexpectedly summoned back home.
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And from the very day of the wedding, Arthur’s dreams began to intrude upon his unconscious mind again, as if to show off. Despite his efforts to return to the battlefield, Arthur relentlessly showed him every detail of his newlywed life with Lily, even their intimate moments.
Perhaps because of this, she began to appear in his dreams in increasingly alluring ways. No matter how much he tried to ignore and forget her, it was no use.
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On the contrary, the more he resisted, the more she invaded his mind, her image becoming increasingly provocative and seductive.
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