Chapter 24. Welcome (4)

Translator: Aura

But even if he managed to get rid of the duke, it didn’t seem to him that anyone else was involved in his life.

Lexion then came up with a brilliant plan.

He decided to choose a woman to marry to disappear without problems if he asked for divorce.

As meticulous as the duke was, he wouldn’t expect that.

No father would believe that his own son was a lunatic capable of breaking any promise and betraying the family’s trust coldly.

The fiancée that Lexion chose carefully was Serena Ankert.

Marquis Ankert’s only daughter. The apple of his eye.

Although on the surface she was refined and graceful, in reality she was a woman filled with the desire to love like the main character in a romance novel.

Lexion, who had the facility to recognize the desires of others, immediately sensed what was in Young Lady Ankert’s heart.

She was someone who, after marriage, would play the role of the main character in a tragic love story in which Lexion would only need to say ‘I don’t love you anymore’, for her to enjoy the situation to the fullest.

Lexion was looking for a woman who would leave without protest when the time came, while Serena Ankert was instinctively looking for a bad man.

Could there be a better match?

The decision was quick. Lexion did not hesitate.

He was determined to be free once and for all.

Marquis Ankert loved his only daughter deeply, so he made it a condition that if he wanted his daughter’s hand he couldn’t have s*x for a year. It was a shame, but he accepted it.

— One day I will have full freedom!

That was his dream. A life without ties.

A smile appeared on his face just thinking about it.

“I was about to get it…”

-Thump!-

Lexion slammed his fist on his desk. He clenched his teeth in anger.

The engagement was broken. The year of hard effort was lost in an instant.

“Ugh…”

Lexion massaged his temples and remembered the letter his fiancée left him last night.

— Lexion!

I feel like I don’t have enough courage to love you as you are.

You are like a wild horse, so you are made for a stronger woman than me.

I will not come between you two.

I will pray that you and Nadia will be happy. Bye. —

“Nadia…”

Lexion muttered the name of the woman who completely twisted his life plans.

She had been stalking him too much lately, but he just ignored her.

At some point he thought she had given up because he didn’t see her anymore. He never imagined that in the meantime, she would be stalking Serena Ankert!

As Lexion had anticipated, Serena Ankert pulled away from him without any problem.

He was both angry and happy about that fact.

‘That should have happened after we got married!’

The happy future he had dreamed of was gone by a hair’s breadth. He couldn’t stop thinking about it.

‘Why did Serena Ankert, my fiancée, give up so quickly? Why was Nadia’s perv*rted stalker so persistent?’

Anger and frustration beyond recognition sapped all motivation.

‘That perv*rted stalker!’

Lexion slumped back into his chair like a man who lost everything.

‘What did I do wrong?’

He was so depressed that he sank into his thoughts, something he didn’t usually do.

“…”

When he thought about yesterday, last night’s aff*ir naturally came to mind.

The small house he went to vent his anger. The woman who opened the door with a puzzled expression.

─ Sir Armada…?

The polite way she called him irritated his ears.

Her face turned white when she heard that his engagement was broken.

Her eyes, which at first seemed ridiculous and obsc*ne to him, were surprisingly clear enough to see through.

To the point that he felt absorbed by them for a brief moment.

‘Why was I so tu*ned on by a woman I didn’t even bother to look at …?’