I don't want to be loved

Chapter 55: She's Already Dead

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The man in question, Jungkook, frowned at him.

"What happened to the information I asked you to find out?" Jungkook said.

Raymond wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and delightedly pulled out the letter and handed it to Jungkook.

"Here it is, Your Majesty. I was actually on my way to deliver it to you," Raymond laughed wholeheartedly.

Jungkook began to read the letter. His face darkened and he immediately crumpled the letter into a ball.

"What is it about?" Raymond asked.

Jungkook threw away the letter but Raymond quickly picked it up and read through the contents. A moment later, he let out a dismal sigh.

"The Crichtons locked the Countess' cousin in jail and threatened her. The Crown Prince, along with the king's approval, planned to kill him should she refuse to take the princess's position. Is that why she asked for a moment of time alone with you to request that she choose you instead of the princess?" Raymond spoke with a straight face rarely seen as Igor looked at the port. "The Countess must have had a rough time. She gave up a lot."

"What is she doing now?" Jungkook asked softly.

"I took her to the cabin, the one you threatened me to have transformed into a princess' room overnight."

Raymond recalled yesterday's situation and gnashed his teeth in frustration. After Lalisa went back to Chrichton, Jungkook ordered Raymond that he clean and decorate her cabin room immediately. Raymond had experienced many troubles overnight. He had to use all his connections, such as blood ties, to purchase all the items and necessities he needed in a kingdom that despised Arundell.

"Her face didn't look so good. I think she shed some tears after meeting the princess at the port. I don't know if it's okay for her to be alone in that room without a maid. Please be good to me from now on since I'll also be tending to her. Please..." Raymond begged.

"What do you mean no maid?" Jungkook picked up the food he spilled.

"Well... the Countess did not bring a maid with her... I thought you would have done it..." Raymond replied with caution.

"Raymond!"

Jungkook's angered voice caused Raymond to flinch and he hurriedly worked to pacify his anger. "Ah, I beg you, Your Majesty... but what can we do about the ship already leaving? Until we arrive back home, I'll do my best to check up on her every hour, every second! So please let go of your anger."

"......Okay."

Fortunately, the king fell for his words. Raymond breathed a sigh of relief while Jungkook looked at the cabin Lalisa stayed in nervously.

The situation was far worse than he had expected. If he had known this would have happened, he should have checked on her before leaving the port.

Jungkook bit his lips.

But if she were to find out that he was the same man she knew, everything would be over. No one would ever forgive the person that caused their death. He was well aware that Lalisa accepted him because he was not the Jungkook she knew from the past but the Jungkook of this present.

Jungkook looked at Lalisa's cabin nervously once more. He had made all the arrangements to see her again and succeeded to have her by his side. But there was one problem... he had no idea how to win her heart... her closed and caged heart.

Then, the curtains from Lalisa's window were pulled back and Jungkook saw her figure. She looked up at the sky, her icy pale blue eyes evident. After staring at the sky briefly with a calm expression, she took something out. It was a small glass bottle containing a liquid.

At that moment, memories from the past pervaded his mind.

Flashback...

"She's already dead." The woman with flaming red hair burst out into laughter; it was laughter that contained madness. "She took the poison I gave her without hesitation. She believed like a fool that you'll have her throat slit and head decapitated tomorrow. She died resenting you until she no longer breathed. How do you feel now?"

Then Jungkook ran straight to the prison she was in. Everyone at his side dissuaded him, but he pushed them all aside and ran like a madman towards Lalisa. He had not seen her drink the liquid poison, so he thought there was hope... hope that she was alive. Though she was vulnerable, though naturally weak, Jungkook believed she would never do it.

But what he found when he got there was that she who was always so indecisive did not hesitate in her last moments...

Flashback End...

"Your Majesty?"

Jungkook suddenly ran towards something.

Raymond felt something unusual going on and thus chased after him.

The place Jungkook ran to like a lunatic was Lalisa's cabin. Not long after he entered her room, a shrill cry rang out.

Raymond immediately drew his sword.

"Your Majesty!"

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