Dangerous Fiancee

Chapter 40

The corridor on the second floor was silent. As she could not go through the center corridor, she had to walk to the outer wall where the emergency stairs were located. She went down the stairs through the narrow hallway toward the outer wall.

There were less people coming and going in the back of the mansion. Marianne walked quickly in the silence and she could hear her breathing. Perhaps during the day, she could have crossed this same path in a fresher mood than now. When she passed through a large flower garden with a few large trees, there unfolded the broad back garden finally.

And...

'Got it!'

Marianne squeezed her fists, screaming with joy silently.

A small shadow squatted and fumbled around the ground under the big tree she saw during the day. Marianne tightened her shawl and approached the shadow. As she walked along the grassy, soft dirt-covered side, she didn't make any noise. The shadow seemed to have no idea of who was right before it because it was absent-minded about searching for something, almost crawling on the ground.

"Eve?"

When her name was called by a friendly voice, the shadow shuddered and stiffened.

"Are you here to find this?"

Marianne took out a white piece of paper and shook it. The shadow, which stiffened like firewood, looked back very slowly. The moonlight shed the shadow's face.

"Madame..."

The shadow was none other than Eve.

"Shush! It's alright."

Marianne looked around with her index finger lightly pressed on her lips. She reached out to Eve, who squatted down with her wobbly legs.

"...?"

Turning pale, Eve looked up at Marianne with a perplexed expression.

The owner of the mansion was reaching out to her. For an ordinary maid like her, her reaching out would certainly be a sign of supporting her.

But the new owner of the mansion was the daughter of one of the most powerful noble families as well as the fiancee of the emperor. And when the nobles reached out to the maids, they usually had some similar reasons such as "Give me everything I want right here."

But was there anything she, who got everything she wanted, wanted from a trivial maid?

Even the little white note she was holding was already in her hand!

Eve felt like there was nothing she could give to Marianne. Maid clothes were issued by the mansion management team, she had a small room where she could barely relax, along with her healthy body and life.

'Does she want my life?'

When Eve thought as far as that, her face began to turn even paler.

She remembered Marianne clearly said during the day she did not intend to harm her, but she couldn't be sure. For she heard that the noblemen often changed their minds as they changed their dresses dozens of times a day.

Besides, she was nervous about that note she dropped on the grass.

She didn't know what it said, but did it hurt her feelings? What if she wanted to vent out her anger toward her as Eve was the messenger? What about her lying that she climbed the tree to watch a squirrel when she was there to convey the note?

It was a serious matter from the beginning that she had the owner pick up the important note Eve dropped. As she was caught sneaking into the garden to search for it late at night, she had nothing to say even if she were killed.