Everytime Eleanora used to fall asleep during her training time with Ain, he would stroke her hair like this.
Eleanora liked the warmness that came from his fingertips, spreading throughout her whole body from her scalp.
So in her sleep, she didn’t thought much and subconsciously blurted out his name.
Cathain’s hands stopped and he wanted to laugh at himself.
The current him can’t even compare to the random boy she befriended with... how will he make her forgot about the past him and accept the current him?
‘Why my heart is aching...’
‘...Stop it, I don’t deserve to feel sad considering the amount of time i made her heart ache in the past.’
Cathain pressed his palm on his aching heart and turned around. It really hurted...
Meanwhile, Eleanora slowly opened her eyes and she was a little surprised to see him beside her, not knowing that she had subconsciously called out another man’s name infront of him.
.....
The warmth of her body from his lap soon faded away and Cathain was forced to face the reality once again.
He hide the pain of his heart and cleared his throat to inform her that they have reached the duchy.
“We have reached the duchy...”
“Is that so? I bid you farewell then, Your Highness.”
Eleanora bid him before she rushed to open the door and jump down. She looked glad and happy.
Jennie, Maria and other maids was waiting for her at the entrance. Even Dominic and Liana was with them.
“Lady, Welcome back!”
“Elee!”
The maids and Dominic called out for her and she happily ran into their arms to hug them.
There was a bright genuine smile on her face, rather then the fake smile she shows to Cathain.
Then Eleanora stood infront of Dominic, as she was waiting to be patted by him.
In her last life, Eleanora never felt the family love.
But now, Dominic and Liana is like a older brother and sister to her.
“Dom... Am back!”
“Yeah, Our little Ele is a year older now...”
“Y-You? you all remember my birthday?”
“Why won’t we? Let’s go, we have a surprise for you.”
Dominic and Eleanora happily talked, not knowing the death glares from Cathain.
‘Dom? Ele?’
‘Dare to pat my empress’s head?’
‘If i didn’t knew you were cousin’s, even i would think otherwise...’
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' saving the abandoned empress
RomanceAll her life, Eleanora did everything to make him love her but in the end, what she got from him was her execution for a sin that she never did. Before dying, Eleanora coldly stared at his bloody red eyes as he lifted up the sword to execute her...
