My Lover's Personality is a Little Strange

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***

"Maybe you..."

Benjamin lowered his gaze and looked down at my still flat belly.

"Whose? Perhaps Emperor Theodore's?"

"No, it's my child."

"...."

Benjamin's expression, which had always been indifferent, twisted in a very bizarre way.

"Benjamin?"

Looking at the expression I had seen for the first time, I called out to him. Then he asked me in an angry voice.

"Why are you... so carefree?"

"There is no reason not to be carefree."

I protested timidly.

"I finally have a family."

Benjamin remained silent for a while, then let out a short sigh. Then he looked directly into my eyes and said.

"Then I will help protect your family."

"What?"

"I will use everything Ferdinand has so that the child is born and grows up safely. So don't go anywhere and stay here longer."

All of Ferdinand... Thank you, but it was an excessive favor.

"No, you don't have to do that...."

"I'm your friend. Your one and only."

But Benjamin said in a firm voice, as if he had not thought of my rejection in the first place.

I had more friends besides Benjamin, but Benjamin used to be very obsessed with 'one and only friend' from a young age.

So I left his expression uncorrected.

However, that didn't make this space any better. Everywhere in Ferdinand's mansion lies my dark past.

"But I hate it here."

"Then shall we move the mansion?"

"Moving the mansion? What do you mean?"

"There is an island in the south. Let's go there together..."

As Benjamin continued his explanation in a soft voice.

"Lord, Emperor Theodore has arrived."

The news of Theodore's visit came unexpectedly.

***

While Yvonne hid, Benjamin went to meet Theodore.

"I see the great master of Albrecht. Glory to Albrecht."

Benjamin asked the uninvited guest without an appointment.

"What did you come here for?"

"I'm here to meet my heartbroken fiancée (Katarina)."

Theodore answered, tilting his head languidly.

Contrary to his words, however, his appearance was more like that of a butcher rather than that he had come to meet his beloved fiancée.

"You can't meet Katarina because she's not feeling well."

"I don't care. It's not me who's unwell, it's that woman, right?"

At Benjamin's words, Theodore wondered what the real reason was.

"Generally, when visiting a patient, the first thing to do is to check the patient's condition."

"So, I can't see her?"

Theodore frowned and asked.

As if the other person was sick or not was none of his business, Benjamin smirked at Theodore's indifferent reaction.