Wesley, as if liking Lina's nod, patted her shoulder and said to Herdin:
—Since we are like this, I will also mobilize our knights to help.
We have to find her quickly before the matter escalates.
Herdin looked with cold eyes at Wesley, who spoke as if he was doing a great favor, and mounted his horse to head into the forest.
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Wesley, taking Herdin's lack of reaction as consent, mobilized the knights of the marquis' family to begin searching for Blair.
Wesley, who had been walking deeper into the forest while calmly looking around, finally found what he was looking for.
In a lush place of trees growing out of control, there was an abandoned house almost collapsing.
It was originally a place where rangers lived.
Wesley, finding her, smiled sarcastically.
Blair would be in that abandoned house, kidnapped following her orders.
Wesley had told the kidnapper disguised as a knight to take Blair to that abandoned house.
And he ordered him, when they heard the horses' neighing, to manipulate the situation so that it seemed that the two had had sexual relations there.
And also Herdin's expression when he saw his wife like that.
Just imagining it was so exciting that I could barely contain my body.
Wesley, hiding the smile that kept appearing on his lips, asked Herdin, who was in front.
—I thought I heard voices in that abandoned house.
Shall we review it?
Herdin, without saying a word, got off his horse and approached the abandoned house.
Wesley followed him, waiting for his reaction.
At this moment, the footsteps of Herdin, who had entered the house first, suddenly stopped.
Wesley entered the house expecting to see a devastated Blair and the expression on Herdin, who would have received a great shock from seeing that scene.
But contrary to what he expected, as soon as he entered the house, Wesley's face hardened.
There was no one there.
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Thirty minutes before.
Blair opened her eyes with difficulty, as if waking up from a deep sleep.
The first thing he saw was an almost collapsed roof.
The sunlight filtering through the cracks in the ceiling reflected on the cobwebs, shining.
Blair, blinking her blurry gaze into focus, then realized she was wearing a gag in her mouth.
At the same time, he recovered his last memories.
While waiting for Lina, the moment she got off the carriage to go to the place where Viscountess Selden was, someone covered her mouth from behind.
Someone had kidnapped her.
Realizing the reality, his heart began to pound.
Why?>At that moment, with footsteps approaching from behind, he heard the voice of an unknown man.
"Isn't it time I woke up?"
Blair quickly closed her eyes before the man saw her.
The man, who approached immediately, raised her chin sharply.
—She's really damn pretty.
—…
—It's a little boring just looking at it.
The man's rough fingers caressed Blair's lips.
Her skin crawled at that touch filled with sordid desire, but Blair desperately held back.
Because, according to the words of the man who was waiting for her to wake up just now, and because of her instinct, she thought that she shouldn't let him know that she was awake.
—Mmm, I better pour him some water before he wakes up.
The man left her and walked away.
Shortly after, the sound of falling water was heard.
Hearing this, Blair slyly opened her eyes.
The man was urinating in a corner of the abandoned house.
Although he was wearing knight's clothing, he did not look like a knight.
The family emblem engraved on the right sleeve of the knight's uniform looked authentic at first glance, but if you looked closely, it was very coarse.
Blair quickly scanned the surroundings.
Fortunately, his arms and legs were not tied.
It seemed like he believed he could dominate a woman on his own.
And nearby, he saw a rather large wooden board.
But what if he didn't knock him out the first time?
Then he would catch her.
If he wanted to kill her, he would have done it already.
Or maybe he was biding his time.
Still, it meant that it was in his best interest not to kill her right away.
So it was worth a try.
The sound of water began to decrease.
Blair held her breath and stood up silently, picking up the wooden board.
It was quite heavy, but if he used both hands, he could handle it.
I only had one chance.
Blair swallowed and picked up the board.
But just at the moment he was going to hit the man's head.
-Hey?
Were you awake?
The man turned around smiling.
Blair swung the board a moment too late, but he easily grabbed it and threw it.
With the movement, Blair, still holding the board, fell backwards.
—Ugh…
The man grabbed Blair's ankle as she tried to back away.
—I didn't let go of your limbs so you could do these cute things.
How pretty you look, even with a scared face.
—Let go of me!
Blair struggled desperately, but couldn't break free of his hand.
The man pinned her down with his legs and took a small glass vial from his pocket.
"If you stay still, I'll be good to you." Won't you be good?
Blair, who was screaming and struggling with the desperation of someone clutching at a burning nail, felt something in her hand.
He brandished it desperately.
—Aagh!
A sharp piece of wood scratched the man's eye.
—My… my eyes!
With the movement, the small jar that the man was holding fell and rolled.
Seeing the dripping blood, Blair's body began to tremble.
But I didn't have time for this.
Now was his chance to escape.
Blair, summoning superhuman strength, pushed the man and fled the abandoned house.
—Where do you think you're going?!
The man staggered out of the house, chasing Blair.
In front was a lake, and on one side was a lush forest.
In that brief moment, Blair had disappeared.
—Ha, damn...
The man, muttering a curse, looked around.
He had to get Blair back in and fix the situation before Wesley arrived.
As the man glanced toward the lake, a rustling could be heard in the forest.
The man ran in the direction of the sound.
As the man's footsteps receded, beneath the feet where he had been standing, the breath he had been holding burst forth.
—Hmph…
Under a small cliff that ran from where the man had been to the lake, Blair had hidden under a large tree root.
…To be continued