Blight intuitively realized that there had been a previous dialogue between the two, and that Victor was joking with her.
He smiled diplomatically and withdrew from the place.
Scarlett felt heat rising from within her, so she quickly greeted him: “Thank you.
I’ll go now.”
“Stay here until we finish preparing.”
“I'll wait downstairs”
“Can't you spend a moment with me?”
Scarlett stopped talking for a while when she heard Victor's low voice.
She hesitated a little before speaking: “Issac... is now able to see the light.
The medicine worked.
As you said, it seems that I sold you out for this medicine.”
She looked at Victor and added: “So, I feel sorry for you, but… I still hate you like crazy.”
“Why can't you forgive me?”
Seeing Victor's puzzled expression, Scarlett felt irritated and scratched the table with her fingernails as if she were tearing it apart.
Then she said in a voice as cold as his: “While I was suffering from a fever, all I lost was just honor.”
There was silence for a moment after she spoke.
Victor grabbed her hand and pulled her from the table: “You seem to think that honor is a trivial thing, so you act like a child.”
“We're no longer a couple.
No matter how I act...”
“Stop wearing clothes like this.”
Victor pulled the ribbon on the collar of her simple dress with his other hand.
Scarlett's breathing hitched for a tense moment when the strap came undone, slightly exposing her collarbone.
“Have my clothes again damaged the honor you care so much about?” she asked in a trembling voice.
Victor replied with an expressionless face: “Maybe.”
Scarlett quickly pulled her hand from his grip and turned away from him, then tied the ribbon with a trembling hand.
She continued, trying to hide her trembling: “I will not come back here.
So, there is no need for me to live as you want.
So do not interfere.”
A faint laugh was heard from behind her.
She unconsciously turned around from the tension, only to freeze at the sight of him.
Was this the expression the pirates saw in their final moments?
Victor was standing with a face as smooth as a devil, and Scarlett felt that he was more terrifying than ever.
While she was frozen from his gaze, unable to even think of escaping, a noise was heard from outside.
Scarlett looked out the window and saw a carriage bearing the Hunter family crest enter.
The carriage stopped, the door opened, and Nina Hunter got out.
With her dazzling beauty and perfect body, she made her surroundings look dull as soon as she came down.
Scarlett looked at Victor, and tried to get rid of the feeling of pressure with an exaggerated joke: “Look, if you had returned from the sea a little faster, you would have married Nina Hunter.”
Victor asked: “How do you want me to respond?”
“Just saying”
“Ah, well, I should have rushed back from the sea to marry Nina Hunter.”
“Do you like this?”
Scarlett thought for a moment, then shook her head: “Honestly, I don’t like it.”
Regardless of her feelings for Victor, it was normal for her to feel upset with his ex, even after the divorce.
She looked at Nina and said, “I never liked anything about her.”
Victor smiled lightly, the cold tension melting slightly.
Scarlett was, in Victor's eyes, overly idealistic.
She wasn't like that with him, but she was filled with more love than ordinary people.
It was interesting to him that the woman he hated was his ex.
When Victor went down to the lobby, Nina Hunter said: “Sorry for coming so suddenly.
I came to pick up things for the charity event.”
Victor felt that her explanation was incomplete, so he looked at her silently.
Looking at his elegant face, Nina remembered the feeling she had with him, and added: “I cannot leave valuables to the servants.
If they are lost, what will I become as an event organizer?”
At that moment, another carriage arrived, and her brother, Hughan Hunter, got out.
He said in a cheerful tone: “Sorry to bother you while you are busy.
The items are valuable, so I, as a royal policeman, had to come.”
Instead of responding to the greeting, Victor said to Blight: “Make tea for four people.”
“Okay, sir”
Nina asked in surprise: “Four?
Who’s there?”
Victor replied: “Scarlett is here.”
“What?
Why?”
“Because I know nothing about women’s things.
She came to arrange.”
“Ah”
Nina replied understandingly, but her expression remained strange.
"I've never met Miss Scarlett before," Heughan said quietly from her side.
“Come in”
Victor turned toward the reception room.
Heughan told Nina: “He doesn’t respond to my words.”
“And do you want that?
You are a royal policeman who exploits people’s weaknesses, and that is why he has not entered the royal family yet.”
“However, this is cruel.”
Heughan muttered and followed her.
Meanwhile, Blight told Scarlett: “Miss, members of the Hunter family have arrived.”
"Yes, I saw them getting off the carriage.
Can I sneak out?"
“But the master has already asked to prepare places for four people.”
Before Scarlett could respond, Candace said: “Miss, you need to choose a dress quickly.”
“I have to go greet them first.”
“No, they came suddenly, so let them be the ones waiting.”
Regardless of Scarlett's wishes, Candace gathered all the servants into the mansion.
The maids stopped their work and gathered in a commotion.
“In situations like this, you should make an effort to decorate.”
Scarlett asked unconvinced: “At a meeting with my ex-husband’s girlfriend?”
“Yes, exactly that position”
Just as Scarlett was searching the newspapers for actors' love stories, the servants seemed to find their employer's relationships interesting.
Scarlett wore a red velvet dress that matched the color of her eyes, and she put a thick white shawl over it.
In front of the reception room door, she closed her eyes for a moment to calm herf.
The people inside were those who had learned the etiquette of communication from birth from private teachers.
She was always afraid to enter such places, worried about making any mistake.
She remembered the parties she attended while she was married to Victor.
He was watching her from afar, then he approached in a moment, wrapping his arm around her waist and whispering lovingly:
There is no one before whom you should lower your eyes, you are my wifeHe never understood her deep fear.
After the divorce, I was glad I didn't have to.
She calmed her breathing, raised her back and chin, and said to Blight: “I’ll go in.”
Blight bent down, knocked on the door, and said, “Miss has arrived.”
Then he opened the door.
Determined not to be intimidated, Scarlett saw first Victor, then Nina, then her brother beside her.
The moment her eyes met Hughan Hunter, wearing a Royal Police uniform, she felt her strength being taken away and she sat down on the ground.
“Miss!”
The maids rushed from the hallway to help her.
Scarlett was gasping, unable to breathe properly.
I mustn't make a mistake.
If you make a mistake...
She repeated this thought in her mind, leaving her helpless to regain her composure.
She didn't understand the cause of her condition.
It was a man she had never seen before, but when her eyes met his, her breathing stopped.
As she was trembling, she was lifted off the ground.
She heard Victor's voice above her head: “Doctor.”
“Yes, sir”
Scarlett was gasping, unable to breathe.
Victor carried her upstairs to the guest room, the closest place he could get.
She was tearing up the bed with her hands in pain, and her tears were falling without knowing why.
Victor tore off her finely tailored dress, took everyone out, then covered her completely with the blanket and pulled her into his embrace.