My Sister Picked up the Male Lead - Chapter 21
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His life has always been desolate. In the novel, Reynok was a cold and calculating man. For the sake of his success, he could do anything. This was largely because he could barely sympathise and understand other’s feelings.
He would think, my wounds don’t hurt so the wounds of others do not hurt as well. That was why he was looking at me like he didn’t understand what happiness was. If only someone could have loved him, he wouldn’t have treated others that way.
He lifted me up.
“Then can’t you just give in?”
For a while, after hesitating to answer, I lowered my head and stuttered.
“… You’re only feeling this way because I was the first person you saw after opening your eyes.”
He was like a duckling hatching from its egg-considering the first person it sees to be its mother and following them around. What’s the difference between Knox and a duckling? Be it during the day or at night, Knox is always following me around.
“I only see you. Moments like these are precious to me. What else could be equally important to me?”
“…”
I wanted to say something back, but I couldn’t form the words so I kept my mouth shut. What was I supposed to say here?
After all, he probably had an idea of what I felt by his words from my silence. He tilted his head before slowly opening his mouth while giving me a cold stare.
“You’re already taking up most of my time. If you reject me here…”
With his head lowered and leaning against my shoulder, he murmured.
“I don’t like it when someone other than you say my name.”
“…”
“To the point where I want to take you away to someplace where it’d only be the two of us.”3
At that moment, I could feel the strength of his arms that were holding onto me.
“… I want to run away like this.”
“… What?”
Hearing him sound so desperate and possessive for even just a moment made me look up at him instinctively.
Was this alright? I was getting chills. But he remained unbelievably calm, even while saying something so tenacious.
I nervously gulped.
“I was joking.”
Well, it didn’t sound like a joke.
It felt like if it weren’t for him holding onto me like this, my sanity would’ve already flown out of here like a helium balloon. He laughed tenderly with his every breath tickling my nose.
While I laid helplessly against his arms, which was holding me up, I could only blink as I saw him sit next to me.
He then proceeded to lift me up and place me on his thighs. He whispered.
So, it could have been the Grand Duke Knox or young Knox who came to find me.
But my sister continued to stare at me with a complicated expression. She seems to undoubtedly believe that I was the one who went to find him.
“No, Diana, have you ever considered that Knox might be the one who came to find me?”
“Huh? Knox doesn’t even come near my room.”
“That’s true but…”
“It’s his body that changed, not the way he thinks. I don’t think the grown-up Knox likes me very much, right?’
Surprised that my sister’s assumptions were close to the truth, I suddenly recalled Knox asking me whether he could fight my sister last night.
Feeling nervous for no reason, I swallowed down my saliva and gently patted the sleeping boy’s head. The hair of the sleeping boy who was oblivious to his surroundings was soft, but the things that happened last night kept coming to my mind.
“Now that I think about it, his habits are similar to that of small Knox. He squinches his nose or narrows his eyes when he’s unhappy.”
“Diana, you could tell?”
“Of course. I mean I used to make a living by observing, remember? When using your sword, it’s important to catch your opponent’s small habits.”
“Uhh…”
My sister’s gaze lingered on a sword in the wall for a moment. My sister who had been upset all this while, cleared her expression before looking at me.
While staring at my sister, I suddenly recalled Knox’s condition. Knox’s curse was a cycle. For 15 days per month, he goes back to being normal. The exact date when his cycle started was unknown but if I was right, then it wasn’t long before this cycle ends. Before my sister could say anything, I grabbed her finger.
… I think I’m shocked again but for a different reason.
“… Knox. You’re too close.”
As if lost in thought, Knox just blinked at me. Then, he tilted his head and said.
“… Can I not be close to you?”