(2) Living as the Villainess Queen

Chapter 224

Eugene had retreated to her tent to get ready for bed after dinner and was waiting for Kasser’s return. Tonight, she was determined to test the interim result of her training, which she had been working on for the past few days.

She had decided to put Kasser to a test. But to be exact, he was the second subject to her experiment as she had first tested her act on Pides, when she exchanged greetings with him earlier today. However, there was no way of knowing if her act was indeed successful as she couldn’t have asked Pides for his opinion.

Looking forward to Kasser’s reactions to her changes, she giggled while she stretched her facial muscles to warm up before her act.

“My queen, I’m coming in.”

When his voice was heard from the outside, she quickly settled down on the bed with her back turned away from the entrance. After hearing him coming into the tent, she slowly looked back over her shoulders to see his face.

With their eyes met, she promptly broke into an alluring smile by wrinkling up the corners of her eyes. It was important to fully show her coquettishness without revealing any emotions from the face.

“Your Majesty. You must be tired from the day’s riding.”

With a hint of nasal tone as to give off a subtle seductive vibe, she consciously emphasised every word she said and spoke with a courteous demeanor.

For a moment, silence descended in the tent. And to her disappointment, Kasser remained expressionless, not having moved an inch from where he was standing. Thinking that she still lacked practice, she turned around to face him in his direction. But in that split second, she caught him flinching as he took a step back, away from her.

‘Did he just step away from me?’

Surprised by what she just saw, she blankly blinked her eyes while she glanced up from his feet to his face. Yet, she saw no change in his countenance.

“Your Majesty?”

Eugene then gave him an amiable smile, as if to reassure him that it wasn’t her intention to give him a fright.

“Your Majesty, it’s me.”

“…Eugene?”

“Yes, I am Eugene.”

“But, just now…”

“Did I pull that off alright? I have been practicing lately…”

“Practice….?”

“Yes, I have been practicing my old way of speaking and demeanor with the help from Count Oscar.”

Running his fingers through his hair with both of his hands, Kasser let out a sigh as if he had just been brought back to life again. Once, there was a time he was surprised by himself, thinking how fast he was to erase the past images of the queen from his mind. But to his regret, it suddenly dawned on him that he was clearly mistaken about himself after all.

The memories weren’t gone from his mind completely. In fact, they had only been left unattended by him this whole time. And it was almost as if he was taken back to the past when old images of her overlapped over her face just now. Breaking out in a cold sweat, he literally felt his heart dropped by the flashback of the hair-rising memories. He had never felt so frightened in his life so far.