Scarlett was shaking violently.
Victor pulled her wrist and brought her watch close to her face and said, “What time is it?”
Scarlett looked at the clock.
Her eyes followed the slow movement of the second hand.
“Think about how to make a watch,” Victor continued, directing her attention to the watch.
“Step by step.”
“Step by step...”
Scarlett made a final hoarse sound.
The doctor arrived quickly, but Victor motioned for him to withdraw.
They remained alone in the room, and Scarlett, looking at her watch, began talking about the steps of making a watch: “First, we buy silver...”
“Ah, from there”
Victor laughed deliberately, making Scarlett's trembling subside a little.
She mumbled: “The main board must be ordered from the factory.”
Victor looked at her calmly, and she continued with a trembling voice: “Then the mainspring barrel is added… Ah, before that, the gems must be purchased, but negotiation is difficult.
Mrs.
Paradis in the gem shop is linked to a dangerous organization, it is said.”
“This is expected from Paradis.”
“‘Expected’?”
Scarlett felt that she heard something dangerous, so she opened her eyes in surprise and raised her head.
Victor, whose eyes met hers, approached and asked cloy: “You seem fine now.”
“Ah...”
Scarlett nodded, feeling her breathing become a little easier.
Anxiety was pressing on her chest, but thinking about something else made that anxiety take a step back.
Victor said: “I will send the guests and come back, so stay here.”
“I will go with you”
Scarlett tried to get up forcefully, but she noticed her torn dress, so she covered herf with the blanket in shock.
Victor took off his jacket and covered it with it and said: “There is no need for that.”
“No, this is strange.
Someone I've never seen before, acting like this.”
Victor looked annoyed, but he reluctantly allowed her: “Come out slowly.”
“Thank you”
Victor turned and left the room without responding to her smile.
After he left, Scarlett changed her dress and sat on the bed, lost in thought.
She didn't understand her behavior or feelings.
This frustration made her want to go back to the drawing room.
She didn't trust anyone, but she really didn't remember what happened during her interrogation at the Royal Police headquarters.
She wanted to know what happened during that time.
Maybe that guy was there.
Perhaps in those days when she betrayed Victor Domfelt.
In the drawing room, Nina said in a dissatisfied tone: “If she was trying to get her husband’s attention, she succeeded.
Right?”
While she was talking, Heughan was thinking about something, with a strange face.
Nina noticed his expression, and said sharply: “What is the relationship between you two?
Why did you act like this?”
“What is this talk?
There is no connection at all.”
“No relation, and yet she suddenly fainted?
This doesn’t make sense.”
“I swear, I don't know why.”
“Maybe there was a connection in a past life,” Heughan replied calmly.
Nina shook her head wearily at his response.
After a while, Victor returned.
Heughan rose and said, “How is Miss Scarlett?”
"fine"
Victor sat down, crossed his legs, sipped his tea, and added: “She said she would be back soon.”
Heughan smiled and said, “If there is a misunderstanding, I want to clear it up.
I have never really met Miss Scarlett before.”
“No need to worry.
Scarlett said the same thing.”
“Ah, okay”
Heughan smiled reassuringly.
Nina looked at Victor's face and said, "Amazing, isn't it?
Even after the divorce, you two get along so well."
“I can't leave a woman who suddenly faints.”
While they were talking, Scarlett returned in a more comfortable dress, but her face was pale and her hands were still trembling.
Heughan stood up with a worried expression: “Are you okay now?”
Scarlett thought for a moment before answering: “Are you really seeing me for the first time?”
"What?"
“Lately...I don't trust my memory...”
Scarlett quickly covered her mouth.
In front of Victor, who hated those who were considered crazy because of his mother, it was not wise to say that in front of others.
Victor wasn't looking at her, so Scarlett smiled with effort and said: “Lately, I've been very busy, so I'm a little confused.”
“So then”
“Have we really never met before?”
“If I had met Miss Scarlett before, I would certainly have remembered.”
Scarlett looked at him a little cheekily out of frustration.
Then she said: “You said you were from the Royal Police.
Didn’t we meet at the Royal Police headquarters?”
Victor looked at them.
Heughan smiled softly: “That was another Royal Constable.
You seem really confused.”
“Sorry...”
Scarlett apologized, but continued to subconsciously examine Heughan's face.
Her intense curiosity overcame her vague fear, and she said, “No, I’m sure.”
She continued with confidence in her memory: “I'm sure I met you there.”
Heughan smiled: “Okay, I’ll check again.”
“Thank you”
Scarlett finally seemed reassured.
She sat at the table and quietly began to drink tea.
Suddenly, she remembered a scene, so she screamed and the teacup fell from her hand.
She moved away from the table, and Victor looked at her.
She was frightened by the scene she remembered, but, to show that she was different from the trouble-making Marina Domfelt, she said in a trembling voice: “There was… an insect.”
Nina tilted her head and asked: “In the winter?”
Scarlett tried to push out the memories running through her mind.
She thought it was fake, but at the same time, she remembered Heughan Hunter's face during her interrogation at the Royal Constabulary headquarters.
This guy was definitely there.
She said to him: “You gave me tea.”
Heughan thought for a moment, then said embarrassedly, “I may sometimes flirt with women I don’t know.
If that’s the case, I’m really sorry.”
“Not that!”
“Miss Scarlett”
"I don't know what's wrong, but this is embarrassing.
Master Victor is here," Hyun said in an embarrassed tone.
Scarlett looked at Victor, who was no longer looking at her.
Her actions seemed like those of a mentally disturbed person, and Victor didn't seem willing to comfort her anymore.
Scarlett thought that perhaps Victor's earlier kindness was just to keep her from acting strangely in front of Nina, the center of social circles.
Anyway, she was grateful for his previous kindness and didn't want to embarrass him further.
She tried to convince herf that her memories were fake.
If you ignore it, reality will return to stability.
But she couldn't ignore it, and she said to Victor in a tone full of urgency: “I think I remember something of what happened at the Royal Police Headquarters.
I'm sure I saw this man.”
Heughan immediately smiled: “Yes, now I think about it, it seems so.”
Nina frowned: “What are you talking about?
You weren’t in the capital at the time, you were with Yuli on a tour.”
“Nina”
Heughan spoke embarrassedly, but Nina looked at Victor impatiently: “You were with the tour delegation when they left, don’t you remember?”
Victor did not answer, so Nina commented sarcastically:
“Ah, everyone here is really gentlemen.”
Scarlett tried to explain further, but the only scene she remembered was drinking tea in front of Heughan.
But she was confident in her memory.
Scarlett spent a long time trying to remember those elusive memories.
When she saw Heughan Hunter's face, the pieces began to fall into place as if she had completed an important puzzle.