Dangerous Fiancee

Chapter 98

Eckart frowned and looked back at her.

"Marianne, I never said I didn't like it."

"Well, when you looked at me like that, it's because you didn't like it. I was wondering why you..." Grabbing his arm, she went down the stairs, kicking the front of her skirt with her shoes as if she complained. She pouted with her eyes closed tight.

Eckart breathed a deep sigh, narrowing his brows. He took the end of her dress to prevent her from getting hurt, and he even got closer to her so she could lean on him as she climbed up the stairs to the main hall.

But his actions didn't help change her sullen mood.

In the meantime, they arrived at the main hall and waited for the door to open. With her shoulders down, she let out a sigh. She just looked down.

Eckart slowly closed his blue eyes and then opened them.

This was the blatant and obvious demonstration of her anger. He could rebuke her for disturbing his mind over trifling things. He had no obligation to correct her misunderstanding, and it would not be wrong of him to ask her what the big deal was.

"... I thought you were like a picture."

Even though he knew it all along, he uttered something wrong when he saw her dressed up.

"Pardon?"

"... It's not because I didn't like it, but because I felt for a moment that I was looking at a sacred image when I saw you a moment ago."

He was done with the self-justification. As soon as he said so helplessly, she suddenly raised her head with a happy expression. Her white veil fluttered in the wind.

"Really? Did you feel like you were watching a sacred image?"

"... Yes."

"Why? Is it because I'm pretty?"

"... Yes."

"How much?"

"... Very much."

'Damn it. What am I talking about?'

While replying to her sudden questions, he doubted whether he was in his right mind. Clearly he replied as if he was enchanted by her. He felt like her clear eyes and kind voice tore apart his judgment.

Meanwhile, she hung onto his left arm and whispered with an eager look, "Now speak again in one sentence. How did I look in your eyes?"

"... Marianne!"

"Quickly. We have to go in soon. Quickly. Please."

At this point, he should have told her to stop.

While thinking so in his mind, he turned his eyes around and took a look at the people in the back.

'They shouldn't hear me...they shouldn't...'

She laughed happily as if she had the whole world when she heard his short compliment that he expressed with a feeble voice.

"Thank you. I'm most happy when you praise me."

Eckart let out a sigh with an exhausted look.

Although he was done in by this smart woman, he didn't feel bad when he looked at her smiling brightly. But he deliberately kept a distance from her by adding curtly, "What is the point of all this? In fact, you're forcing me to praise you, aren't you?"

"It doesn't matter to me. It's important that you told me what I wanted to hear from you."

Smiling brightly, she once again broke the wall between him and her. The wall collapsed too easily.