Raising my Fiancè with Money - Chapter 49

Raising My Fiancé With Money

Chapter 49

Drunk Feelings

TL:Jasmine

Karhan immediately picked up the drink. Lilia’s eyes, which were watching him quickly empty his glass, narrowed slightly and returned.

The two drank for a while without conversation. Lilia’s rate of emptying her glass was faster than Karhan’s. However, unlike Lilia, who looked fine, Karhan’s neck and earlobes were getting redder.

“You’re not drunk, are you?”

“…. I’m fine.”

The answer came back half a beat slower. It seemed like he was slowly getting drunk.

“He said he had never been drunk before.’

Honestly, she thought he would drink well just by looking at his appearance…. It was the total opposite.

Lilia looked at Karhan silently. His bare jawline looked very sharp. His eyes, lit by the last rays of sunlight, were a little more blue than usual.

His dark and straight eyelashes, lips that were not too thin or thick, and neat black hair that slightly covers his forehead……. As she looked down, she could see his wide shoulders symmetrical to his stretched neckline. From face to body, it was flawless and perfect.

At this point, she should have gotten used to him, but on the contrary she was looking at him more and more. It seems that his expression has become more colorful these days. At their first meeting, he was hard like a statue erected in a museum, but now he is full of life.

Karhan’s hand came into Lilia’s sight as she was slowly looking down. The veins protruding over the hardlooking hand helped give him a more delicate design. Obviously, he was holding the same type of glass as hers, but the glass looked small, perhaps because his hands were large.

“When I held your hand last time, it was so big that it completely wrapped around my hand.”

Recalling her previous experience, she made eye contact with Karhan at the moment. Lilia spoke out without realizing it,

“Your hands are really big.”

Karhan slowly blinked his eyes. Lilia quickly added,

“It’s the same glass, but it looks especially small when you hold it.”

“……Ah.”

“I have small hands.”

Lilia raised her palm and showed it.

“There’s a big difference, right?”

Karhan nodded. After hesitating for a while, he reached out his palm on the table. He slowly closed his eyes and opened them as if he couldn’t make them out. Lilia, who couldn’t overcome her curiosity, quickly put her palm on his

When the hands overlapped, warmth penetrated into her bones. Lilia carefully compared the size of their hands. There was a difference of about two fingers,

“His skin is rough because he has been holding a sword for a long time. He even has a lot of calluses, too.’

It was a palm that felt hard because it was that of a real person’s. It was amazing because it was so different from her soft palm. Lilia pushed her fingers slightly through Karhan’s fingers because of the nice, touch.

As the clasps were loosely intertwined, Karhan trembled. Lilia couldn’t see Karhan’s face because she was concentrating on his palm.

Karhan who was watching quietly, wrapped his face with the other palm. His cheeks were not as if he had been on fire for a long time. His heart started beating like it was about to explode. The sound of his heart was so loud to his ears that it was deafening,

A throbbing sensation, like a toothache, spread from his chest to his fingertips. He thought it had gotten better these days…., it seemed to have recurred.

“Just a second……”

When Karhan said a little nervously, Lilia let go of his hand. Karhan hurriedly took a medicine container out of his coat. When he opened the lid and shook it off, two white pills came out. Karhan swallowed the medicine without drinking water. Lilia, who saw it. was surprised and asked.

“What medicine is it?”

……I feel my heart is not good these days.”

“Heart? Since when?”

When Lilia was surprised and asked, Karhan hesitated to answer for a moment. The last time Lilia visited the Duchy of Evanteon, Karhan felt an abnormality in his body. His whole body had a fever and his heart was beating fast. When Karhan reported the symptoms, Tession immediately called the doctor.

– The heart… he says his heart hurts! Isn’t it supposed to be a deadly disease?

Tession held onto the doctor’s clothes, thinking that he had already contracted a major disease. After hearing the symptoms from Karhan, the doctor made the medicine and handed it over.

-Take it when you feel pain in your heart or think your heart is beating abnormally.

However, after the medicine was made, there was no problem. He carried it around just in case, but he felt pain in his heart as it had then.

“…..I’ve been feeling pain from time to time lately.”

“Can I send my family doctor too? He is the imperial family’s doctor.”

“Because it doesn’t happen often….”

“Still, you never know.”

Lilia looked at Karhan with worried eyes. Karhan closed his mouth tightly. It tickled wherever Lilia’s eyes touched.

There were not many things to worry about in his life, On the contrary, he was often concerned about the people he was associated with. He wasn’t used to this situation, but he didn’t hate it.

The sound of his heart, which had subsided a little, rang like it was hitting a drum again. The growing sound engulfed all the noise around him

Karhan waited for the drug to work. However, he couldn’t calm down easily, so he took a deep breath several times.

After a long time, the sound of his heart returned to its original state. The tingling sensation also decreased a lot.

“It’s fine now.”

“I’m glad. You took medicine, so it’s better to stop drinking.”

As Lilia tried to remove Karhan’s glass, he said quickly,

“I heard that this medicine isn’t affected by drinking.”

Lilia glanced at Karhan’s earlobe and neck, which were redder than she had seen before.

“Then drink a little more.”

Lilia completely covered the menu. She was going to get up after drinking the rest of the alcohol. If she drank more than this, she thought it would be obvious that she was tipsy.

Lilia’s goal was to enter the house quietly. The reason why she drank outside the mansion was to avoid nagging. It was because the whole family bothered her when she drank at home. So Lilia often pretended not to drink after drinking outside.

The two sipped without much conversation. Lilia, who was slightly tipsy and in a good mood, tilted toward Karhan. Karhan was poking only innocent tomatoes with a fork… he felt a little drunk.

Lilia tried to say let’s get up now. Then Karhan opened his mouth,

“I… I wanted to be a good person.”

Lilia paused. Karhan muttered, placing tomatoes neatly with a fork.

“So I tried…… It wasn’t easy.”

A low voice continued slowly. Karhan, who was always a good listener, was confessing his feelings for the first time. Lilia listened to Karhan silently.

That he was born into a strict family and after being praised for being good only once, he tried to become that way. That he wanted to be recognized by everyone because it was good. But it was hard to get out of the prejudice.

After listening to the long story, she was able to understand Karhan more.

“Last time…When you visited the Duke’s residence…….”

The way he spoke was a little droopy, he seemed drunk. Soon, black eyelashes cast a shadow and slowly went up. The blue eyes hidden in his eyelashes filled Lilia.

“I was so happy then.”

Lilia blinked her eyes.

“Because you said I’m a good person. That is……very…….”

Karhan smiled brightly. In a harmless laugh, Lilia missed an opportunity to drink. She felt like she was sober. And belatedly realized what Karhan was saying,

-Anyway, you’re a really good person to me, so don’t say that.

It was something that she said because she couldn’t understand why Karhan called himself hopeless. It wasn’t even a remark of great significance, but she didn’t know it would remain deep in Karhan.

Karhan only looked at Lilia. She felt like she was going to drown in his eyes. The slightly curved eyes were soft, so Lilia stopped breathing for a while and just blinked.

Usually, Karhan was shy, so he would usually look away first. She had never seen him staring at her in this way.

His gaze seemed to melt her. The heat seemed to be felt everywhere Karhan’s eyes touched.

“I don’t know if I can be a villain…….”

Karhan’s voice became a little lower. And he whispered inaudibly to Lilia,

“I want to remain a good person for you.”

Lilia didn’t say anything. It could be meaningless words from a drunk person, but it was stuck in her ears for a long time. Lilia, who became shy for no reason, answered bluntly,

“Of course. Be good to me from now on.”

Karhan nodded his head. At that moment, Lilia, who thought Karhan was cute, shook her head.

“I’m going back home now.”

“….Already?”

Lilia almost felt weak at the tone full of regret.

“I have to go.”

It’s already dark. It was time to slowly go back.

Lilia immediately looked toward the table where Frances and Malek were sitting. Frances and Malek quickly got up from their seats. Tession’s neck and cheeks were red as if he had drunk some alcohol. When everyone stood up, Karhan also followed Lilia calmly.

After paying, they left the store. Perhaps because it was along the river, the wind was particularly cold. When Lilia’s shoulder trembled, Karhan quickly took off his coat.

“It’s okay, so just wear it.”

She got a coat from him every time. Even the coat she wore last time had not yet been returned.

“You shouldn’t catch a cold.”

Lilia was embarrassed by the determined tone. In the meantime, Karhan put his coat over Lilia.

Lilia looked up at him carefully buttoning it up. Perhaps because of the light by the river, a light shone in Karhan’s eyes. It was more beautiful than the night view, so Lilia looked at him as if possessed for a moment. Karhan, who was fully buttoned, reached out.

“…….Next time, I’ll bring you the coat I borrowed last time.”

Instead of answering, Karhan curved his eyes a little. Karhan seemed to laugh a lot when he was drunk.

Lilia heard a rumbling sound inside, like waves crashing into her.