The Nymph Wants to be Plundered - Chapter 217

While saying this, Cassis secretly observed her expression. The union between Jupiter’s proud knight and the nymph who symbolized Jupiter’s glory was truly extraordinary, but few knew the details of this matter. There was a separate reason why Laocon had recently been paying attention to other people’s stories and even listening to every piece of gossip about romantic nonsense.

Nike had told Evelyn, Laocon had told him, and he…

“Did I mention it? When I was choosing the opal for you, there were quite a few reasonably good gemstones, and knowing about that matter, Laocon wanted to purchase them, so I just gave them to him.”

“I… see.”

That moment of barely a few seconds when her heart dropped was absolutely unforgettable. Since she had almost tumbled into the pit of hell, just thinking about it made her fingertips turn cold. As Evelyn’s eyelashes fluttered while tracing that dizzying memory, he said quietly,

“I hadn’t thought that he would make a ring with it. Since Laocon has lived a long time, I thought maybe he was getting bored and showing interest in gemstones? When I gave it to him, I also told him the name and characteristics of the gemstone, and he was very pleased.”

“Yes. Um, we’ve arrived. This is the village chief’s house. If we go around the back from here, we’ll find Faye’s newlywed home.”

Having followed the small path, Evelyn lowered her voice to an extreme degree. Since the village chief had hurriedly left with the child in the carriage, it seemed they would have to explain the situation from the beginning again. Above all, from here on, it would be her role since she knew the village well. Since both the village chief and his wife were absent from the house, they should first go to Faye’s newlywed home and….

“Who are you and why have you come here?”

But suddenly the closed door opened and Faye’s husband Johan came out from inside. Having unexpectedly come face to face with him, Evelyn pondered for a moment what she should say.

“Um, we are….”

“Leave it to me.”

Cassis stepped forward decisively and informed him of their fake identities and the urgent incident that had just occurred. Even Evelyn, listening to his explanation, couldn’t help but admire its clean delivery without any unnecessary details. Amazing—it wouldn’t be easy to speak that coherently.

Johan nodded his head easily, seemingly convinced.

“Oh, is that so? I did hear the sound of carriages from the upper road, but I was working and couldn’t come out to see. I… Actually, this house is my wife’s family home and there’s no one here, so please rest here and wait for a while. I’ll go tell them and come back, so let’s have dinner together at our house.”

After Johan, who showed a good-natured smile, left carrying his tools, Cassis looked around the house surrounding her with affectionate eyes.

“Is this where you lived?”

“Yes. There’s probably nothing to see in the room where my wife Faye and I used to live? Everything’s been cleared out. Right before I left, I mostly stayed in that barn you can see over there.”

“You stay here and look at the spaces you missed, I said I had somewhere to go for a moment, right? Here, take this.”

Cassis took out a neatly folded handkerchief from his chest and held it out. Contrary to her determination to never cry, she had been ready to cry even before entering the village entrance, so he wanted to give her time to look around the place where she used to live alone and compose her emotions. He also had something he absolutely had to see.

“Thank you.”

“Should I stay with you?”

Work aside, Cassis was worried about her, who was prepared to be extremely agitated. On this bright and beautiful day, he was afraid she might collapse on the floor and sob if left alone. However, Evelyn gently pushed away his hand that was placed on her back.

“No. I’ll… look around a little. Go ahead, most wonderful knight in the world.”

“I’ll be back.”

Clutching the pure white handkerchief tightly, she saw him off with reddened eyes. Cassis didn’t go far and seemed to be heading toward the village’s communal backyard as he had mentioned before. Since it was a small village without even a map, he had only given rough verbal directions, yet this mysterious man somehow knew where to go and found his way well.

‘Now I understand. Lord Cassis is a unique and special existence, like that nameless star I saw back then. Not just because he’s an elf, not just because he’s His Majesty the King….’

To suppress the tightness in her chest that kept trying to make her sob, Evelyn turned her head. Then she examined the door that Johan had left without closing. The hinges that used to make subtle sounds every time they were opened and closed before looked good, being new and well-oiled.

A space that remained dear even after one person left, and comfortable and unfamiliar even though it had changed slightly.

The throat that had been choking with hot emotion somehow became comfortable. Evelyn didn’t want to rummage through the ownerless house carelessly, so she sat quietly on the wooden sofa and waited. For those who had left to return.

In a mood that had become drowsy beyond comfortable, Evelyn folded her fingers and placed her empty left hand over her right hand.

Suddenly, she remembered the opal ring that proudly occupied Nike’s left ring finger. The sweet milky-colored ring would have been put on by Nike herself when she took it out of the jewelry box, but Evelyn had a trivial curiosity about whether Lord Laocon was later seen it and taken it off to put it back on for her. Because that seemed like the heart of a man who had given a ring to a woman.