EWGEW 02

Chapter 02

The servants who had followed Camilla quickly grabbed Attoni Rabelsk by the arm.

“Y-You lowly things, what do you think you’re—!”

Unable to get any closer to Camilla, Attoni shouted angrily. The veins on his neck stood out, and his face was red with rage.

Seeing that, Camilla let out a sigh.

‘What a ridiculous man.’

She almost laughed to herself.

Camilla calmly pointed out something Attoni seemed to have forgotten.

“-Oh, it seems you’ve forgotten. This is my private villa.”

“So what—”

Camilla raised one corner of her mouth and spoke in a cold voice.

“It means that every servant here belongs to me.”

At those words, Attoni stopped shouting and slightly opened his mouth.

Seeing his expression, Camilla smiled even more deeply.

The atmosphere changed in an instant.

The Camilla who had been smiling sweetly just moments ago was nowhere to be seen.

Camilla nodded slightly, and the servants roughly forced Attoni to his knees.

Right in front of Camilla.

“Ugh, this!”

Attoni, now kneeling, seemed to finally realize Camilla’s changed attitude and looked slightly confused.

The Camilla standing before him seemed like a completely different person from the Camilla he knew.

The Camilla who had always smiled prettily in the palm of his hand was nowhere to be found.

It irritated him.

On top of that, he was being humiliated like this in front of the woman he had been enjoying himself with.

“Do you think our engagement will remain like this?”

So Attoni brought up the words Camilla had always feared.

Breaking off the engagement.

As expected, Camilla’s expression hardened for a moment when she heard those words.

‘Just as I thought.’

She must be flustered.

Whenever he said this, she always begged and pleaded with him.

‘You belong beneath me.’

Just as Attoni lifted the corner of his mouth in satisfaction—

Camilla smiled faintly.

Instead of her usual kind smile, she had a strange, fox-like smile in her eyes.

That look.

That expression.

There was not the slightest bit of affection for Attoni in Camilla’s eyes.

It was as if she did not care whether Attoni broke off their engagement or not.

That shocked him so much that Attoni stared blankly with his mouth open.

“Now, at last, I suppose you’ve understood what I was saying?”

At those words, Attoni’s mouth fell open again.

The meaning behind Camilla’s words was painfully clear.

Leaving Attoni behind, Camilla slowly walked toward the bed.

The woman on the bed flinched when her eyes met Camilla’s.

Her body stiffened with tension, and she curled herself up even more.

A delicate woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, she looked almost like a fairy.

Even Camilla had to admit that she was quite beautiful.

Her wet body trembled, making her look extremely pitiful.

So much so that Camilla almost looked like the villain.

Camilla smiled sweetly.

Then she stood beside the woman, avoiding the ice water that had been spilled.

“What a beautiful lady…”

Red marks covered the woman’s pale skin.

They were still vivid traces of intimacy.

They were clearly marks Attoni had left.

Camilla clicked her tongue and gently covered the woman’s exposed rounded shoulders with the blanket.

“How pitiful.”

At the word pitiful, the woman on the bed suddenly narrowed her eyes.

But perhaps because she was checking the reactions around her, she quickly put on an expression as if she were about to cry.

Camilla whispered softly into the ear of the delicate woman with golden hair, her eyes strangely red.

“-By the way, did you know?”

Her voice was gentle, as if she were speaking warmly to a close friend.

But in an instant, Camilla’s eyes became sharp.

Her pink lips curved upward softly.

She was quite looking forward to what she was about to say.

“…Yes?”

“Lady Barotien.”

Tielin, who had expected an angry scream, answered in confusion.

But the moment she met Camilla’s eyes, Tielin instinctively shrank back.

There was a subtle chill in Camilla’s gaze.

However, there was no way Camilla Elkacist would get angry at someone else.

Reassured by that thought, Tielin forced her frightened expression to relax.

Then she made her expression even more pitiful, trying to look sympathetic.

Watching her, Camilla opened her mouth.

“-You chose your partner very poorly.”

“What?”

The blonde woman stared blankly at Camilla before suddenly trembling and shouting.

Camilla smiled sweetly once again.

“I believe both sides should be ruined when they cheat.”

Camilla stood up.

The blonde woman’s hair was disheveled all over the bed, and there was something strangely alluring about her that could captivate a man.

But Camilla’s eyes only stared at her coldly.

The atmosphere suddenly changed, and the blonde woman trembled slightly.

“Lady Barotien, you should have chosen your playmate more carefully.”

Hearing Camilla’s cold voice, she tightly shut her eyes.

Around a tea table prepared in one corner of the garden, noble ladies and young unmarried ladies were sitting together.

There were still two empty seats.

However, they had already been informed that the owners of those seats would be arriving late, so none of them were worried.

They chatted among themselves with bright smiles.

The first person to speak was a young lady sitting on one side of the table.

The red-haired young lady had braided her hair and pinned it up. She moved the fan fluttering near her lips aside and smiled sweetly.

“By the way, have you heard the news about Lady Elkacist?”

At that, the faces of everyone sitting around the table brightened.

The entire social circle was currently buzzing with stories about Camilla.

Now that the most interesting topic had come up, the noble ladies’ eyes sparkled.

“Lady Lesilia, why is Young Master Rabelsk so angry?”

The blue-haired noble lady sitting beside the red-haired Lesilia asked.

Attoni Rabelsk.

Why was Camilla’s fiancé spreading such bad rumors about her?

What exactly had happened between them?

Everyone’s eyes turned toward Lesilia.

Lesilia nodded slightly.

With a smile on her lips, her red eyes shone slightly coldly beneath her elegantly curved eyes.

“Well, Lady Epilin, I heard Lady Camilla threw water at Young Master Rabelsk! Ice water, at that!”

“My goodness!”

“So that’s why Young Master Rabelsk is so…”

All the noble ladies sitting around the table widened their eyes in surprise.

Some were so shocked that they covered their mouths with their hands instead of their fans.

After laughing for a while, Lesilia suddenly lowered her voice.

Then she carefully moved her lips as if she were about to share a secret.

“Actually, I’m telling you this because I trust everyone here…”

“What is it?”

One of the noble ladies leaned slightly toward the table.

She was completely focused on Lesilia’s story.

Although all the servants nearby had withdrawn, Lesilia looked around once before speaking in an even more secretive voice.

“Actually, Young Master Rabelsk… Well, I mean…”

Lesilia rolled her eyes around once as if hesitating, then spoke somewhat playfully.

“Well, apparently he was with another… woman. In a rather inappropriate way.”

Seeing everyone’s eyes focused on her, Lesilia lowered her voice.

“-A direct relationship, with their bodies touching.”

“My goodness!”

“Really?”

“No way, that happened?!”

The women sitting around the table all exclaimed in shock.

It was a huge scandal.

Everyone knew that that Attoni was a womanizer, but apparently he had gone so far as to let his fiancée see him like that.

The noble ladies and young ladies were shocked and cried out.

Lesilia spoke indirectly, but her meaning was perfectly clear.

A cheating fiancé and the fiancée who happened to witness the affair!

The eyes of the noble ladies and young ladies sparkled with interest.

Wasn’t it an exciting topic no matter how many times they heard it?

And this scandal had happened between the engagements of the Elkacist and Rabelsk families, two of the most prestigious families.

Attoni’s womanizing was already famous, but until now, Camilla had endured it for the sake of her family.

She would probably do the same this time.

But Lesilia’s story did not end there.

With a strange smile, as if she felt sorry for Camilla, Lesilia continued.

“It seems Lady Camilla saw them like that. So she had a servant bring ice water and told them to pour it over them!”

“My goodness! How could she!”

“Is that really true? My goodness!”

But Camilla had thrown ice water at Attoni!

Whether someone was lowborn or noble, other people’s embarrassing secrets were always interesting.

“My goodness, she really threw ice water at them?”

Everyone had some idea why Camilla continued to endure things like this, but they had still found it frustrating.

They all smiled and waited for Lesilia’s next words.

However, one young lady in particular had a noticeably different expression.

She had sparkling golden hair.

Her blue eyes were as beautiful as a fairy’s, and because of her white skin and delicate figure, her pure appearance seemed even more innocent.

The young lady moved her pale pink lips several times before lightly biting them.

Her expression slightly stiffened as she began to speak.

“…Hmm. But ice water? Even so, that was not really behavior befitting the Elkacist family.”

The person who subtly belittled Camilla’s actions was—

Tielin Barotien.

The story about Camilla and Attoni was quite a provocative topic in the normally calm social circle.

Whenever people met, they talked about Camilla and Attoni.

Their engagement had not yet been broken, but rumors said that their relationship was wavering.

Whenever that happened, Tielin subtly guided the conversation toward the idea that Attoni must have acted that way because Camilla had done something to deserve it.

All while blinking those innocent-looking eyes.

This tea party was no different.

“-I’m a little worried. I know Lady Elkacist is a kind and gentle person, but…”

Tielin let her words trail off, as if she were truly worried.

Lesilia’s expression became slightly troubled.

“But Lady Camilla must have been pushed to her limit… That kind Camilla.”

One of the noble young ladies spoke in a sympathetic voice.

Tielin quickly added,

“-So I’m worried that this incident might damage her reputation. This is a union between two families, after all. Shouldn’t they have discussed their differences politely…?”

Tielin spoke while slightly lowering her head.

She had pointed out something that nobles could not help but consider important.

A noble engagement was a union between two families.

As nobles, they could not help but be sensitive about such things.

Therefore, as these comments piled up one by one, people would inevitably begin to think that Camilla had acted recklessly.

And that would slowly damage Camilla’s reputation.

Tielin had been going around the social circle and speaking badly about Camilla’s behavior.

Golden hair and strikingly blue eyes.

Round eyes.

A fair face.

Tielin gave off an atmosphere completely opposite to Camilla’s.

She looked like a lovely doll who knew nothing about the harshness of the world.

And that face had always helped her.

Just as it was helping her now.

Then—

Clap, clap, clap.

The sound of applause rang out.

“My, what an interesting story you’re telling.”

A beautiful voice followed in a cheerful tone.

The noble ladies and young ladies sitting there naturally turned their gazes toward the sound.

There, a young lady stood with her purple hair naturally flowing down.

Wavy, glossy purple hair.

Skin so white it was almost pale.

And beautiful pale pink eyes that sparkled like jewels.

She smiled mysteriously and walked toward the tea table, one step at a time.

At her appearance, the noble ladies’ expressions became subtly stiff.

And for good reason—

“My, Lady Camilla!”

Lesilia clapped her hands together and stood up.

The subject of the conversation they had just been having had appeared.

It was none other than Camilla Elkacist.