MHYFMAMD Ch 11

Tenesia shook her bag wildly to show it.

 

“I spent all my money to come here.”

 

The sight of nothing not even  dust was coming out was enough to furrow her brows.

 

“… Let me arrange you a carriage. Take it to your destination.”

 

“I’m sure my family must have realized by now that I am missing. It’s better to be late than to arrive halfway and be questioned.”

 

“It would be the same no matter when you go.”

 

“No. There is a big difference.”

 

She continued speaking while tidying up the bag she had been shaking upside down.

 

“It’s that I  spent the night with you, Margrave. If rumors spread, it would be difficult for them to ignore it, even if they were my parents.”

 

Dietrich looked at Tenesia, speechless for a moment. There was a hint of perplexity in his eyes beneath the furrowed brows.

 

“You… … .”

 

For a moment, his gaze rested on Tenesia’s neck and then disappeared.

 

“Butler.”

 

At Dietrich’s gesture, the person who had shown her in approached.

 

“Let her stay in the spare guest room.”

 

To have said all that, yet to be offered a guest room instead of a bedroom. Although it was a bit disappointing, it was not a bad outcome. Tenesia gave a slight nod of acknowledgment and followed the butler.

 

“This will be your room. If you want anything, please ring this bell.”

 

The butler who taught her how to use the bell on the bedside table left the room. With the sound of the door closing, Tenesia sat down on the bed like a doll whose strings had been cut.

 

“… Phew.”

 

It felt as though her body was pressed against the bed. Tenesia stroked the area around her neck and groaned lightly.

 

“This body really can’t adapt.”

 

To be tired from just this much movement. Her body was undeniably weak.

 

Even though she didn’t want to lift a finger, Tenesia groaned and got up.

 

After calling the maid to take a bath and changing into the pajamas provided, darkness had already fallen in the room. When the maids who served her also left, Tenesia opened the door.

 

The situation in the hallway was no different. Empty. She looked around the empty hallway and cautiously left the room.

 

‘I know this castle structure well enough.’

 

By now, everyone except for a few people was asleep. Tenesia leaned against the wall, recalling the memories of Grace’s memories.

 

There was a reason why Dietrich had been asked to host her, even to the point of rudeness. 

 

‘My child.’

 

My child, whom I have not seen yet since coming here. Dietrich and my child.

 

There was a limit to her patience. She clutched her chest with a heartbreaking longing. She didn’t know if it was bad luck or if the child had a different range of activities, but the whole time she had not encountered him since arriving here.

 

“… I hope the room hasn’t changed.”

 

When she was still Grace. When her belly was barely showing, she and Dietrich had prepared a room for their child. If it hadn’t been changed, their child would definitely be in that room.

 

Tenesia’s steps became faster. As she was about to turn a corner at the top of the stairs,

 

“… … Ah.”

 

The moment she found a room, Tenesia’s steps stopped as if she had no control over them.

 

‘This is the room I last used…’

 

It was the bedroom she used until just five years ago. That’s five years. But to Tenesia, who had just woken up, it felt like it was just a few days ago.

 

The image seen through the slightly open door was exactly the same as she had left it.The bedroom. Even the chairs are placed at an angle. Nothing was different from her memories.

 

The moonlight coming through the gap in the curtains completely caught her eye.

 

“This is the room that receives the afternoon sunlight first. Master didn’t say anything, but he tried to give you the best room, Madam.”

 

Suddenly, she remembered what the former butler had said. Is it because of the bright moonlight coming through the gap in the curtains? Tenesia put her hand on the doorknob without realizing it.

 

“What are you doing here?”

 

Tenesia turned around, startled by the low voice echoing above her head.

 

“D-Dietrich… … .”

 

He was looking at her with a stern expression, his presence unknown until then. His face, with its chilly aura, was grimly distorted.

 

“Are you already trying to act like an ordinary wife?”

 

“It’s not like that.”

 

“Then why are you here?”

 

“That’s… … .”

 

‘I came because I missed you. Because of the memories we shared, because I wanted to see our child.’

 

She wanted to tell the truth, but her frozen tongue couldn’t spell out any words.

 

“ That, that…” … .”

 

She felt as if  her tongue paralyzed from the root to its tip. The words she couldn’t say became fire and burned her heart.

 

“Ah … .”

 

‘Is this what it feels to not be able to speak?’

 

The man’s voice rang in her ears, suggesting to her that she would not tell the truth. The sensation was more intense than when she hadn’t been able to tell Sarah. She was already feeling a slight fever running through her body. Tenesia tried to clear her blurry vision.

 

“That place is not somewhere you, of all people, should enter.”

 

“I didn’t intend to enter…”

 

“Or did you find the wrong bedroom? Wanted to come to me, do you want to say something like that, Lady?”

 

Dietrich’s narrowed gaze looked Tenesia up and down. She was wearing thin pajamas and her purpose seemed clear enough to be blatant.

 

‘Could it be… sent by relatives.’

 

It was suspicious from the moment she proposed the contract marriage. To dismiss it with just a letter from Grace was excessively rash.

 

And her overstepping action displeased Dietrich.

 

“As expected, it would be better not to have a contract marriage.”

 

No.

 

“You can’t just decide that all of a sudden. Margrave, you yourself said that you would definitely help me.”

 

Tenesia bit the inside of her mouth to regain her fading consciousness.

 

“… Or, is Margrave a person who says things differently during the day than what he says at night?”

 

“You seem a bit contradictory, Lady.”

 

A scathing tone struck her ears.

 

“Isn’t a contract based on mutual trust? I don’t know how I can trust you when you act so suspiciously.”

 

“The truth is .. … .”

 

Her throat closed up abruptly. It felt like it was burning from her heart to her esophagus. Tenesia, who was trying to tell the truth, clutched her heart and groaned.

 

“Tsk… … .”

 

Again! This damned curse!