I Will Divorce the Female Lead’s Siscon Brother (Novel) Chapter 157

                                                                    


C157

A warm breath passed between parted lips.

I felt Terence's hand tightening as he held my waist to prevent me from falling.

I enjoyed the slightly gritty sensation of his lips for a moment and then opened my mouth.

"Ethel, this is..."

Terence, who was hard as a rock, seemed confused, as if he didn't know what to say first.

"Is it what I think it means?"

He barely managed to utter a word.

"Is it okay to judge that the feelings you have for me are the same as the ones I have for you?"

I opened my mouth and looked at the man who had a serious expression on his face and didn't take his eyes off me.

"Yes, I feel the same as you. Terence."

For a moment, Terence's pupils dilated.

"I like you."

I liked this man, who seemed to have no composure but went out of his way to confirm my feelings.

I liked all aspects of this person, including his sincerity and consideration, which I personally experienced.

"I want to accompany you on the path you will take in the future. So, can we walk that path together?"

The path Terence will take, aiming to reach the top of this empire, may be thorny.

But with him, we can overcome it in the future as well as we have done so far.

That confidence quietly settled in my heart.

"Ethel..."

He responded with a choked voice, with an expression that seemed to be laughing or crying.

"With joy."

Immediately after, Terence hugged me tightly and buried his face in my shoulder.

"I swear. The decision you made now, you will never regret for the rest of your life."

"Yes, I will never regret it."

"Ethel, Ethel."

The man who kept calling me by my name asked a somewhat cautious question.

"It's a little strange to ask in this situation, but can I kiss you again?"

"Of course."

As soon as I finished speaking, Terence rushed towards me.

Our lips overlapped, and his desire engulfed me.

This kiss was several times more serious than before.

Soon I realized. The reason I was able to kiss him relatively lightly and pleasantly a moment ago was because he was restraining himself.

He stared at me the whole time with his fierce yet burning red eyes.

The eyes were like those of a predator stalking its prey.

It wasn't enough that I kissed him first out of curiosity, and I closed my eyes because I was so embarrassed that I responded "Of course" to his question.

"Mmm."

After that, we continued kissing, changing angles and positions.

I don't know how to express it exactly, but I felt like I was about to faint.

At one point, Terence pulled away from me and growled softly.

"I'm going crazy. You don't know how much I've endured all this time."

"Terence..."

I looked at him silently and tried to respond.

But my head started spinning, and my vision blurred. For some reason, it suddenly became difficult for me to control my body.

"Ethel?"

Upon hearing Terence's voice with a clear expression of perplexity, I discovered an important fact.

"Wait a moment, this..."

Instead of feeling good, as if I were about to faint, I just feel like I'm about to faint.

"Ethel!"

Terence held my collapsing body.

"Ethel! Wake up!"

He continued calling me while stroking my cheek, but my consciousness barely stood upright.

"I'm fine. I just need to rest a bit."

"Are you okay? Do you know how bad your complexion is? Damn it, I need to get a doctor right now..."

At that moment, the bedroom door slammed open, and Lucy, who was outside, rushed in.

"What's happening?!"

Lucy looked in our direction, her expression hardened, and she shouted.

"Prince! Didn't I tell you not to share too much power with my mistress?"

"Me? No, I didn't..."

"Step away for now!"

At Lucy's shouts, Terence withdrew his hand from me and stepped back.

Lucy ran towards me, who was lying helplessly on the couch, and placed her front paw on my forehead.

"It seems her temperature temporarily rose because the prince injected too much power into her. However, it's not serious, so I think it will return to normal in a few hours."

The divine beast sighed deeply.

"It seemed like nothing big would happen without me, so I left. I wonder what happened. Haven't you been able to control your power skillfully until now, prince?"

"No way. As always..."

"You lie through the content of your heart. Even now, your power is extremely fluctuating. Usually, when your emotions are shaken, your power also trembles."

Lucy looked at Terence and me suspiciously.

"Did you fight between yourselves? Why are both of you so excited?"

"......"

"......"

Terence and I remained silent because we had nothing to say.

"This is the kind of emotion that only arises when fighting a life-threatening battle."

The divine beast, unaware of what we had done, simply tilted its head.

Anyway, at Lucy's insistence on needing absolute stability, I moved to the bed.

As a reference, Terence tried to lift me and move me, but Lucy kicked him in the back.

"Don't touch her! If you touch my mistress now, your power will continue fluctuating within my mistress in response to your emotions!"

In the end, Lucy used her own power to lift me into the air and carry me to the bed.

Since I hadn't fainted, I could have gone on my own, but both Terence and Lucy were against it.

Terence took a deep breath and meditated following Lucy's instructions to calm his power, but all his efforts failed.

After a while, he sat on the couch far from the bed and offered me an apology.

"I'm sorry. I said you would never regret choosing me for the rest of your life..."

He fixed his gaze on the floor and spoke in a very hoarse voice.

"But even in this moment when you're suffering, I feel an indescribable joy in my heart."

Terence covered his face with both hands.

"I still can't believe it. I can't believe that you like me."

If the strange joy permeating that voice makes me happy, am I also seriously ill?

"It feels like a dream."

"It's not a dream."

"Then, please, say it once more."

"I like you. I love you, Terence."

Finally, he lifted his head and looked into my eyes.

"I love you too."

A dark night where even the moon hides among the clouds.

Terence confessed with a beautiful smile that seemed to shine on its own.

I pulled my hand out from under the blanket.

"Take my hand."

"But the divine beast..."

"That annoyance went to sleep earlier."

"I'm more concerned about your body than scolding you."

"My hands are fine. Since it's my body, I know it better. Hurry up."

When I insisted, Terence hesitated, then dragged a chair and brought it close to the bed.

Finally, he took my hand carefully.

"Goodnight."

While I laughed heartily, he laughed with me.

We had shared a passionate kiss less than an hour ago, but now just holding hands like this made my heart beat strongly.

I even felt a strange excitement thinking that Lucy might discover us and reappear at any moment.

Would you say it feels like a student joking around while avoiding the eyes of a strict teacher?

"Ethel."

Just as I felt the satisfaction of what I had achieved and the feeling that this was not enough, Terence suddenly spoke.

"Do you remember the moment we met?"

"I do. It was in the Wandering Forest. Terence caught me when I stumbled and fell."

"That's right. You came to see me, but you made up a cute excuse that you were looking for an escort and took the wrong path."

"... Was that so? It's strange. Why can't I remember it?"

"You don't have to be too shy. Thanks to you putting up that excuse, I could stay by your side under the pretext of being your escort."

"That's right. But why did you do it then?"

"To be honest, even after saying it myself, I really didn't understand why I decided to accompany a woman I had never met before."

He gently squeezed my hand.

"Interestingly, I wanted to go with you. I wanted to help you."

Now that I think about it, Terence was particularly friendly with me from the start.

"But now I understand. I fell in love with you at first sight when I saw you."

"At first sight..."

"At first, I didn't believe in things like love at first sight or destiny, but after experiencing it myself, I understood."

Terence said confidently.

"Even if we had met in another way, I would have fallen in love with you."

Is there anything more romantic than this?

After that, we talked about many things without letting go of each other's hand.

I wanted to know more, but at some point my eyes started to close slowly.

"Please, sleep now. We're just getting started, so we have plenty of time."

After hearing Terence's reassuring words, my consciousness fell into a sweet sleep.

And the next moment, I was in the forest.

As it was a feeling I had become accustomed to, I quickly realized that I was watching the memories of the real Ethel.

"The first time was a memory of working in Iver, and the last time was a memory of playing with the two young sons of the duke at Duke Cassius's house.

Both occasions were quite pleasant memories, so naturally, I was excited to see what I would remember this time.

I don't know why, but in my memory, I, no, Ethel, was currently up a tree.

"Oh, oh!"

Suddenly, my body wobbled. I tried to straighten my posture, but soon I fell.

However, I didn't feel the expected shock.

It was because someone caught me as I fell.

"Hey. What's this all of a sudden?"

The person who caught me said gruffly.

"You're disturbing someone else's nap."

It was Terence.

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