When I Stopped Being Your Shadow - Chapter 49

Chapter 49

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“Hey, Ines!”

 

Ryan hurriedly turned around.

 

Ines, who was sitting in the carriage, looked down at Ryan with a pathetic gaze.

 

“Still the same.”

 

What?”

 

 “When visiting someone else’s house, it is polite to make an appointment in advance and not visit too late or too early.”

 

“…”

 

Looking at Ryan with a confused face, Ines smiled prettily.

 

“Even those basic manners are still not observed.”

 

As soon as they met face to face, the continuous venom poured out, and Ryan felt his mind dizzy.

 

But for a while.

 

‘Oh, no.’

 

He was lucky to meet Ines, but he couldn’t stand idly like this. Ryan hurriedly opened his mouth.

 

“Well, Charlotte.”

 

“Charlotte?”

 

“I think Charlotte is spreading rumors, and it’s all nonsense.”

 

Ryan continued to speak hurriedly.

 

“I seduced Charlotte first, she said, what nonsense is that?”

 

“….”

 

“You don’t believe in such nonsense, do you? Huh?”

 

Ryan, who was babbling over and over, felt the heat rising in his head.

 

Once again, it was due to anger.

 

Ryan raised his voice without realizing it.

 

“Rather, Charlotte seduced me first!”

 

“….”

 

“You’re the only one I love, although for a moment I went crazy!”

 

He felt suffocated by the subdued air around him. Ryan pleaded with Ines in a squeezing voice.

 

“You’re the only one for me!!”

 

Ines just looked at Ryan with an incomprehensible gaze, and kept silent.

 

Ryan felt his heart tighten as he panicked.

 

‘Why is she so quiet?’

 

He would rather Ines would be angry or respond back. …

 

But then.

 

Ines opened her mouth with a cheerful voice.

 

“Oh, Charlotte?”

 

At the same time, Ryan’s face was distorted.

 

‘Charlotte?!’

 

Ryan quickly looked back.

 

Charlotte, who was standing behind Ryan, opened her eyes and glared at Ryan.

 

She shot with a very sharp voice. 

 

“Ryan, how could you do this to me?!”

 

Charlotte has now even forgotten to call Ryan ‘Master Gott’, which she used to call in consideration of other people’s views.

 

Charlotte roared again.

 

“You ignored my calls until now! Do I have to go looking for you like this?!”

 

After Baroness Wickham’s tea time.

 

Charlotte pondered for several days, and she came to the conclusion that she should not be like this. 

 

‘If I keep going like this, I’m really going to become garbage.’

 

And she had already been completely humiliated by Ines. She couldn’t persuade Ines, and she didn’t want to do it again because her pride was hurt.

 

So now the last string left was Ryan.

 

‘It’s not a prestigious family, and at least I have to cling to the second son of a Viscount!’ 

 

But already rumors surrounding Charlotte weren’t too good.

 

Besides, she has already had a bad relationship with the ladies who could introduce her to good men, so Ryan was the only alternative.

 

But the problem was.

 

‘Why the hell can’t I contact Ryan?’

 

After he divorced Ines, Charlotte hadn’t been able to get in touch with Ryan. As if he was deliberately avoiding her.

 

‘….No way, that’s not true.’

 

With her uneasy mind, Charlotte looked around the bars that Ryan used to frequent.

 

 

 

The drunken men spoke to each other in mocking voices.

 

So, just in case, Charlotte came to the Brierton’s residence to check it once.

 

‘No, why is Ryan here?!’

 

Charlotte opened her eyes wide.

 

Ryan was arguing, blocking Ines’s carriage going into her house.

 

“Please, trust me. Yes?” 

 

Ryan looked up at Ines in her carriage with pleading eyes.

 

And Charlotte saw Ryan’s face like that for the first time. When he whispered sweet words to Charlotte, or when they mixed their bodies and climaxed together, Ryan always acted like he was in control.

 

‘Never once had he wanted me in such a way or so desperately!’

 

Charlotte’s eyes went white with rage. She shot sharply.

 

“Why don’t you beg with the pretty Countess of Brierton more?”

 

“Charlotte, you!”

 

“Then you will lick her shoes too. Yes?”

 

At that outright sarcasm, Ryan had a pierced face, but that was for a moment.

 

Ryan immediately turned to face Charlotte with a brazen expression on his face. 

 

“Why do you care if I beg Ines or not?”

 

“What?”

 

Charlotte’s face hardened.

 

Ryan twisted the tip of his lips at an angle.

 

It was a mean smile.

 

“What are you asking me to do?”

 

“Ryan, what are you saying…… !”

 

“Get a grip, Charlotte. You are nothing to me.”

 

 Ryan looked Charlotte up and down with a pathetic expression.

 

“In the first place, do you think you’re a good match for Ines?”

 

“Ryan!”

 

Charlotte’s eyes fluttered violently.

 

Ryan laughed at Charlotte again.

 

“Ines is the Countess of Brierton, how about you?”

 

“You, you… !”

 

“Aren’t you the only daughter of a Baron, whose only dust comes out when you shake it off?”

 

Charlotte, unable to overcome her shame, gritted her teeth. Ryan threatened Charlotte like that.

 

“On a subject like that, how dare you spread the rumor that I seduced you first?”

 

“You said you loved me! So…… !”

 

“Love? Don’t be ridiculous!”

 

Ryan raised his voice sharply.

 

Ines, who was watching the couple, smiled mischievously. Now Ryan and Charlotte had completely forgotten Ines, and they were fighting each other.

 

“You know what? I divorced Ines because of you!” 

 

Ryan pointed at Charlotte.

 

“That alone makes me angry, but how dare you spread such nonsense?!”

 

“Ryan, that’s… !”

 

“You know how ashamed I was with that nonsense!!”

 

Charlotte bit her lip to protest, but that was all she could do.

 

It was because she was speechless by Ryan’s relentless pouring of insults. In addition, since her partner was Ryan, who had been dating for a long time, the shock must have been great.

 

Ines glanced at Charlotte.

 

It was quite pathetic to see Charlotte shaking her shoulders and looking pitiful, but Ines didn’t want to comfort Charlotte.

 

Instead, Ines recalled the past before her regression.

 

‘Pretending to be the love of the century like that.’

 

In her studio, which Ines gave Ryan, while rubbing their lips and mixing their bodies.

 

Ines laughed. 

 

‘Such a shallow love…’

 

“Let’s go.”

 

There was nothing more to look at.

 

After giving the command to the coachman, the carriage started moving again.

 

The door to the townhouse opened.

 

“Hey, Ines!”

 

Ryan, who belatedly noticed that Ines was entering the townhouse, rushed towards the carriage.

 

“Go back, Master Gott.”

 

At Ines’ cold words, Ryan had to stop.

 

“Of course, if you want to be more chaotic, that’s fine. But.”

 

Glancing at Ryan’s bewildered face, Ines bent her bright eyes.

 

“I’ll report it to the authorities, so you know.”

 

“Come on, wait a minute. what is that…… .”

 

“Also, I never gave you permission to call my name, so in the future, please be polite and call me Countess of Brierton.”

 

Ines’s smile grew a little darker.

 

It was a cold smile.

 

“It’s very uneducated for a Viscount’s son to call a Count’s real name. Don’t you think so?”

 

 With those words, Ines’ carriage went into the townhouse.

 

Chop-t-ch-k-kang!

 

The iron door was closed.

 

“Come on, wait! Wait… !”

 

Ryan somehow tried to talk to Ines a little more, but it was all in vain.

 

 “Stop it. It’s late, so please go home.” 

 

“If you keep doing this, I really have no choice but to report it to the authorities.” 

 

The guards intercepted Ryan with a grim face. Ryan looked at the back of the carriage moving away with a bewildered gaze, but je could not call Ines’s name recklessly like before.

 

Ines was very pleased with the quietness.