A divorced evil lady bakes cakes - Chapter 20

Chapter 20

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Erin’s shop that’s standing on the side of the quiet street was very small.

He imagined a small coffee house when he had heard of it, but it’s ten time smaller than he thought.

Raymond frowned before he even reached the store. His carriage stopped on a quiet street, then he stepped out.

“Wait here.”

The lights were off but the door was open. Raymond opened the store door and went inside.

When he went inside, the shop was bigger than he had imagined from outside, but it was still considered a small shop.

Raymond went in and found a little garden, there he found a table that’s he used to find inside of weapons shop.

But compared to such a place, Erin’s shop was no different than a hole.

‘I can’t believe you’re living in a place like this.’

It was ridiculous.

As I looked closely, the place was stood like a corridor—long and neat with it’s own neatness and trimness, although it was narrow.

There are tables and chairs on the carpeted floor. The tables covered with white tablecloth were all empty.

Only strange things like plaster, clay, and cotton were piled up like mountains on the middle of the table.

Looking around the store, Raymond found a glass display case next to counter.

The glass was filled with colorful cakes, pies, muffins, etc. And there, he saw things like wheat kernels and creams.

‘You didn’t make it yourself, did you? ‘

I heard such rumors, but I didn’t believe it because it was nonsense.

‘No way, you can’t be. There’s no way a woman who once a Duchess would cooked herself.’

Did Erin said she sells pie in the past because she owed so much to the Brecia family? I’ve heard that before.

One day someone sent it with a bunch of pie shells in a gift box to mock

Erin.

It was a gift sent anonymously, so I didn’t know who the culprit was.

On her birthday, Erin opened the gift box and put it down because she was blue.

Even after that, Erin didn’t get angry and demand to catch the culprit. I just had my maids throw the gift away.

It was not long before the whole imperial palace was known.

Everyone made a fuss about it and laughed at Erin for coming from this poor family.

[The Duchess, who used to make and sell pies.]

I remember laughing at you like that.

At that time, I wasn’t interested in what people’s opinions about Erin.

‘Did she really make a pie and sell it?’

Come to think of it, I didn’t know anything about Erin. No wonder we haven’t had much conversation in the last nine years.

It was what Raymond thoughts as he were looking around the shop.

It was then, a woman who was coming in from the back door of the store, found Raymond and bent down in surprise.

“Your Grace.”

‘I think I’ve seen her somewhere.’

It was Melly who was guarding the store. But Raymond didn’t know who she is. He vaguely thought that Erin hired a clerk.

It was worth it. Raymond had rarely been to the Crown Princess’s palace where Erin lived. So he couldn’t help but not reco Melly who was working there.

“Where’s Erin?”

“I    ”

Melly thought for a moment. Erin wouldn’t like Raymond here. Infact, Melly wanted to kick him out, too.

Melly had been watching on how Erin lived in the imperial palace. She didn’t want Raymond to show up and bother Erin.

“She’s out to buy materials. Oh, It’ll take a long time, so please comeback later.”

Melly tried to answer Raymond and lied like that. However Raymond didn’t give up easily.

“It’s all right. I’ll wait.”

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It took less than one hour to get to Bayard’s shopping district. There, precisely at Beltrout Street stand a shops.

Located at the southeast of the capital—Bayard street surrounded a small river like a border. Cross the bridge of the river and you will find another dull, simple city.

Bayard Street is largely divided into three parts.

A busy area with a market, a crowded area of small shops, and a poor district where suspicious people come and go.

As one part of the capital, Bayard Street is followed by cleanly maintained roads, but further than the crowds that leads to the back, there’s a dirty brick road that not yet paved properly.

The place was littered with shoddy shops in a narrow, messy alley way.

‘Don’t go to the deserted side.’

An ordinary aristocrat would never have come to such a place in their life.

But Erin once came here with her parents to shop. Because they could get groceries cheaply in this market.

Erin went into a store of familiar signs. The store were selling baking ingredients such as chocolate and jam. The large box was full of sweet ingredients.

Sachertore was a cake full of chocolate. Naturally, it needed a lot of chocolate.

Erin brought her purse and bought a lot of torte chocolates and apricot jam.

After finishing the purchase, Erin went back to where she hadcome from.

Maybe because it was late in the evening, there were no people around even though she had walked for quite some time.

Not long after, the sun went down. Following that, most of the shops light were also turned off. The surroundings gradually darkened.

‘I’m afraid that I’m taking too much time.’

The streets were unsettlingly quiet. The hazy evening mist damped the shabby road. Erin passed the dark streets as fast as she could.

It was around then that she felt a suspicious presence. Erin turned her head as she felt someone was coming.

At that moment, an unidentified man popped out of the next alley and rushed to Erin.

“Aah!”

Fortunately, she was able to avoid being dragged helplessly because she had sense the presence just before her.

Erin hit the man in the face with a basket of luggage he was carrying.

“Ahhhh!”

The chocolate in her paper bag was scattered. As the paper bag bursts, pieces of chocolate spilled on the man’s body like rain.

The opponent was embarrassed and hesitated for a moment. After Erin had push the man and make a gap between them, she ran away. Without knowing where she was going, she recklessly ran away.

Small shops and old houses lined up along the narrow alley.

I was wondering if there was anywhere I could ask for help, but it was all closed.

Erin ran off along the winding road without a break.

She was wearing a petticoat and a dress that was simple but worn as a fast skirt. The long hem of the skirt wrapped in a cumbersome way throughout the run.

If I had a corset on, I would have been able to run as fast as I could, but it was heavy enough just to come down to the tip of my toes.

Her breath ran out to the chin. She was so scared and tired.

She wasn’t running away recklessly. Erin knew some of the geography of this alley.

While running frantically, Erin searched her memories of where and how to get to the alley.

Where Erin thought of was a complex alley where a cross was immediately taken out after a side turn.

As soon as you enter the alley, you’ll be able to hide on one side of the alley and fight back.

However, the hem of the skirt was a stumbling block. The long skirt made it difficult to speed up.

It was when Erin was running desperately toward the fork in the alley. The man who was following her caught Erin’s long skirt from behind.

“Ahhhh!”

Erin screamed and fell forward.

The man catch up and caught her. Erin pushed him away with her shoe paws, but she lacked strength.

‘Ugh    !’

Erin struggled to escape. She hit and scratched the man with both hands. Nevertheless, he held on to Erin tightly and did not let her go.

The man took a small knife out of his arms. It was a dagger with a small but a sharp blade.

Erin saw the creepy little blade in the man’s hand, as she struggled. It was when the man raised one hand high to stab her.

Erin, who was frantically busy, bit the man’s hand as hard as she could, covering his mouth in the gap.

“Ahhhh!”

The man held his hand and screamed.

Erin got out of his clutches in the gap and rose to escape quickly.

But even before she managed to stood up, the man rushed in and grabbed her ankle.

“Aah!”

Erin fell down again.

But as soon as she fell, she hurriedly put her hand at her waist and took out a small dagger.

As soon as the man approached, Erin turned to the man and stabbed the dagger into the man’s shoulder.

Staaabbb! Splashhh!

Blood flowed like a fountain from where the blade was inserted. Then, after that Erin tried to run away.

But the man took out the dagger stuck in his shoulder and grabbed Erin’s skirt rock again.

“I    “!

The man raised his hand to stab Erin. The sharp blade shone gruesomely in the dark. Erin struggled frantically.

Puck!

At that moment I heard a foreign sound. The man stood tall like a broken spring doll.

Erin, turned in amazement and found a raw  object sticking out of the man’s stomach. The blade of the sword has come. The blue blade pierced the man’s chest.

Black red blood dripped down the blade that penetrated his chest. Standing next to that man, he died.

Swoosh, the blade that broke through the man’s chest slipped out in a flash. At the same time, the man knocked down towards Erin.

Surprised and pushed the man away, the hot blood from his chest soaked the floor. The man was already out of breath.

“……..”

Erin slowly raised her head.

A sharp blade of blood-soaked sword showed it’s own work first. The red blood on the blade flowed slowly to the floor.

Against the backdrop of the dark sky, a tall man stood with a sword. The blue eyes glowed coldly in the dim alley. He came close to Erin.

“Are you all right, sister-in-law?”

It was Calix.