TDDCS

Chapter 37 - The unholy heart

Additionally, Kahel’s scent, which she smelled up close, added warmth to the subtle scent that was usually by his side, and it seemed that she would fall for it. She had smelled the fragrance of the perfume he used while preparing the bath water, but his scent was different from that of any other perfume.

‘Those who are tall seem to smell good even only from the bare skin.’

She lifted her arm and sniffed it for something, but she couldn’t smell anything. After all, even when she was working at the baron’s castle and didn’t wash properly in the winter, she couldn’t figure out what her body smelled like. That’s why she didn’t know if it was still smelling strange.

‘What if the Duke also thinks that my body has a strange smell?’

When she was working at the Barony, she had never thought of that. Her thought had nothing to do with Lena’s body odor or whatever the Baron’s family or other maids said. But if they didn’t call her because she smells, she would be even more grateful…….

In fact, even now, whatever the Duke felt, it had nothing to do with her. Still, she was worried because he had frowned. After thinking for a long time, Lena finally went to the bathroom to wash her body with a small bottle of perfume given to all the maids. Tomorrow, she hopes that Kahel will smell a good scent from her.

The shared bathroom used by the employees was in the corner on the first floor. Tired of working all day, the workers used to wash their bodies with hot water at night to relieve the fatigue of the day, but usually the youngest maids took turns boiling water with the fire pit in the bathroom.

Lena was the youngest, but because of her status as a close maid to the Duke, no one gave her such chores. However, because she came a little early today, the fire hadn’t been lit yet. If it was a normal maid, they would have looked for another maid to prepare hot water first, but Lena, who thought of herself more like a maid than a close maid, naturally rolled up her arm sleeves.

‘That’s better. I felt sorry that I just used the hot water every time.’

She put a basket of clothes to change into and perfume oil on one side of the bathroom, and hurriedly carried the firewood piled outside the bathroom and placed it in the fire pit. And in the middle, dried leaves and bark were mixed well and set on fire.

There were also a few pieces of paper in the pile of bonfires. Of course, it was paper that caught fire well, but the paper wasn’t a lot, and she had to save it because she had to use it when the fire didn’t burn well.

“Foo! Foo!”

Blowing air into the red glowing embers with her mouth, and when the embers grew a little, she swung a fan next to it and set it on fire. However, the embers seemed to be extinguished soon since the leaves had not completely dried up.

“I can’t. I have to put in more scrap paper.”

Lena gently waved the fan with one hand, and with the other she grabbed a few pieces of paper by her side and gently laid it over the embers. The embers began to devour the white paper, as if they had met a delicacy. And it was then. Some letters on the paper caught Lena’s attention.

“Oh, oh!”

Lena hurriedly pulled out the paper from which the elongated fire was hanging, then smashed it with the fan to put out the fire. The paper was half burnt, but Lena took it in her hands, not caring about it. The fire that had just transferred to the paper slowly burned the straw and thin, dry branches, giving off heat and light, and with that faint light, Lena could read the writing on the paper. Actually, it wasn’t much.