Dangerous Fiancee

Chapter 119

His whole body ache through the pain of his back wounds made him long for something rather than fall into despair.

He recalled the doctor's rebuking voice that wasn't too pushy, his body temperature when he was raised up, and the man's buttoning and making the knots.

"Please tell me you don't want to listen to me. That's better than your sophistry," Oustashu grumbled, not knowing Eckart's situation. Eckart sneered at himself by laughing.

Obviously, what he said sounded like sophistry when others heard him, but it sounded like Bible passages in his ears.

"Anyway, you don't have to worry, Oustashu."

"I'm sorry but my job is to worry about your safety all the time."

"It looks like you have time on your hands. If you really do, compile another medical book."

"In fact, I wrote more books than others for the past 10 years. Of course, I will continue to write, but I can do so only after I treat you completely. I don't think I can't for the time being as I'll be busy taking care of you."

Oustashu stood up, picking up his medical instruments.

"Please go to bed before it's too late. I will come back tomorrow."

Eckart nodded at him as bowed out politely.

A little later, the door of the emperor's bedroom was closed. Silence prevailed in the room that was too large for him to fall asleep alone.

He erected his body, though he felt uncomfortable. Beginning with the candlesticks on the table by the bed, the lamps and candles from various parts of the room were turned off one by one. There was a reason he did it by himself instead of calling the servants for the job.

"Come in."

The window, which was closed, was pushed up at his order.

"Your Majesty!"

It was Curtis who broke into the half-open window.

He came into the room stealthily as a shadow, sliding down the window sill behind him.

The cold air from outside was all over his slender body.

Eckart walked back the bed with his back against Curtis. When he flopped down, he felt a sharp pain in his spine.

"I have found out something at your order, Your Majesty."

"Report to me now."

"Ober returned to his mansion after leaving the palace, but he did not move. Instead, Mrs. Chester visited Duke Hubble's mansion and then left a little while ago."

"Did she visit him alone?"

"I think so."

It wasn't unusual or strange that Mrs. Chester met Duke Hubble.

"The man Mrs. Chester met yesterday was Baronet Artroom."

However, if she met somebody else, that was something unusual, which the emperor should pay attention to.

"Baronet Artroom?"

Eckart quickly traced his memory with a slight frown.

"Giyom's father?"

"Yes, you're right. I hear that he recently returned from Faisal and visited her with some foreign trade goods."

Marianne feared the two during the eve of the recent ball so much that Eckart couldn't treat it lightly. Since that day, Eckart instructed Curtis to closely watch Ober and Giyom's deeds and actions and report back to him.