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73 Chapter 73 ~ "Substitute"

In the middle of the night, Eleanora sensed Cathain’s trembling body because he was hugging her to sleep.

His grip was becoming tighter around her body as he continued to frown in his dream.

‘Is he having another vision?’

Eleanora tried to move his hands away from her waist to weep his sweat but he held her more tightly.

“Am sorry... Am sorry... Ele.”

Eleanora frozed and stayed still in his grip. She doesn’t know why but every time Cathain address her as ‘Ele’, she recalls Ain.

‘No, they can’t be the same person. How can a crown prince like him disguise himself as a merchant just to teach me?’

Eleanora sighed and managed to place her palm over her head as she tried to calm him down.

She stroked his black hair untill he stopped frowning and sweating.

.....

Her chilly ice magic aura soon calmed down his trembling hot body and his breathing become stable again.

Cathain started to fall asleep and Eleanora felt sympathy for him.

It was true that she suffered a lot because of him, but he is also suffering a lot now.

Not remembering everything clearly... Bearing her hatred and pretense, where he knows she would just use him to discover the past as well cancel the engagement after that.

And the most cruel part is, his feelings won’t be returned back by her to him.

At least for now...

Struggling as he remembers the tragic past that he has no memory of... trying so hard to change.

Make her believe in him again where she doesn’t dare to trust his words even when she witnessed how changed he is compared to the past.

Cathain was pathetic to Eleanora. A poor soul which have to bear the sins that he never did.

Eleanora can’t even forget the past or embrace the new future.

If the past Cathain is someone who crushed her all hopes and dreams, then the current Cathain is someone who is luring her to dream again.

Eleanora closed her eyes, she can’t let him harm himself like this. She is no longer the 13-year-old innocent Eleanora that she was supposed to be.

Her 22-year-old heart has tainted this young soul with hatred and coldness.

The current 17-year-old Cathain is still pure and innocent, this is why he had to stay away from her.

Otherwise, She might unknowingly change the past and drag him into her darkness.

He is already having a hard time because of those past memories.

‘What would he do once he remembers everything clearly?

Or what does he want to do?’