I Won't Accept Your Regrets

“Duke!”

Eventually, Raymond’s rage that couldn’t stand hold his anger anymore rang loudly in the office.

“There is already good reason to apply for divorce under the marriage law. We hope that the divorce process will be completed without further fuss.”

[If a government or private child who is not agreed with the other party is brought in, it may be divorced due to the fault of one party.]

It was the imperial marriage law that Raymond changed himself.

A Extramarital child.. ..

If he fell through with Edmund, he could not avoid divorce.

Raymond recalled the clause in his marriage law and clenched his fist.

Because it felt like I was caught in my trap.

And even before he recognized it himself, he opened his mouth.

“No, not really.”

“……?”

“I’m not going to make Edmund to be a prince.”

Raymond said it wholeheartedly.

And I was startled inside.

The moment he felt he could not avoid divorce, he had abandoned Lize and the child without a moment’s hesitation.

To keep Ellie.

Raymond was embarrassed by himself, but pretended to be calm.

Duke Croft looked at Raymond with such an incomprehensible glance.

He expected him not to accept the divorce at once, but I didn’t expect him to go so far as to abandon Edmond.

Edmond was his son, Nobody else’s.

The Duke  stared at Raymond with a stiff look and closed his eyes and sighed.

“Your Majesty, this is not just about Edmond.”

The Duke who opened his eyes again had a rebuke towards him in his purple eyes.

Raymond hardened his face in the eyes of the Duke, which he had never seen.

It seemed almost as if Ellie seemed to be the one with purple eyes facing him.

‘We started off wrong from the start.’

When he imagined looking at her with a resigned face, his heart felt tight.

She didn’t ask for a divorce because of Edmund, but if so, for what reason?

Ellie always loved him and will continue to do so.

“There’s no other reason. There is no problem between me and the empress.”

“…..If your Majesty thinks so, I don’t think I have anything more to say.”

The duke stared quietly and lowered his gaze.  Raymond hardened his face after reading clearly the rebukes in his eyes.

“Duke.”

“The divorce is purely the will of the Empress. I have no intention of withdrawing as long as the Empress wishes.”

The Duke did not budge. There was no point in continuing the argument as long as that came out.

Raymond opened his mouth with a great deal of pressure to throw something right away.

“….Okay, go back.”

The Duke greeted him well and left the office.

Raymond rubbed his temples roughly from the silent office.

“Ha, divorce…”

I remembered the face of the Duke, who seemed unlikely to change his mind. And the face of Ellie, who had spoken to him as if she had given up everything, was clear.

A divorce between the emperor and the empress was never easy.

In particular, it is more difficult for the empress to divorce unless the emperor has special reasons for fault.

And Raymond needed Ellie.

Only when she is the empress will she strengthen ties with the Duke of Croft, the semi-official, and the imperial power will be stronger.

But now, in this situation, if I endure not to stop the divorce, it seems that the opposite will happen.

The Duke had a determined face, Expressing that he would use all of his power to help the Empress divorce him.

It would have been hard for him, an emperor, to treat him as a right-hand man.

Therefore, if you judge rationally, it is right to grant a request for the Empress.

Raymond couldn’t soothe his boiling anger so easily and leaned deeply into the office’s sofa.

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I looked out the window and turned to the knock on the door.

“Your Majesty, this is Helan.”

“Come in.”

Helan, who opened the door and entered, came to me.

“Did you see anything?”

I asked a maid who went out to get food to find out if her father was in the palace.

“Yes. The maid said that the Duke of Croft came a while ago in the presence of the Emperor.”

“Presence? Emperor?”

There was a sense of difficulty in Helan’s face.

“It is said that the Duke of Croft and His Majesty had a great argument. They could be heard outside the door.”

“Oh dear.”

It was evident that her father had mentioned divorce.

As I had been imprisoned in the Empress Palace, He would not have listened to my father’s request easily.

But they were arguing enough to make loud noise outside the office.

Well, It seems that we won’t be able stop the rumors anytime soon.

If rumors had just been that you and me and had a big argument and my father crossed the wall of the Imperial Palace, there won’t be anything good to be said for Raymond or my father.

We have to wrap this up quickly.

“Helan.”

“Yes?”

“Please tell the knight guarding the Empress’s Palace. To Let me have a dinner with His Majesty.”

At the moment, Helan’s eyes were widened.

It seemed that she didn’t expect that I would ask Raymond first.

“Yes, I will tell the knight right away.”

When Helan left the room, I stared at the main palace.

“….Raymond.”

I didn’t want to see him, but I thought I’d end it with him like this.

A sure way to end our ties.

I loved him….But he was also who I despised the most.

So I decided to go to dinner with him.

“Your Majesty the Empress, His Majesty is said to come to the dinner room.”

As he returned, I left the room with a determined face.

When I arrived at the dinner room, I saw Raymond already arriving.

Looking at him staring at me with a deep look, I have noticed that I may be the last one arriving…

“I Welcome His Majesty.”

“Rise Up Empress.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Raymond’s eyes didn’t move from me until the servant pulled out the chair and I sat down.

I didn’t look at him once, but I felt like my whole body was bounded by his eyes, how persistent his gaze was.

Suddenly, the table was filled with food.

Raymond’s wine glass was filled with red wine and he told the servers as usual.

“Everyone leave.”

Sfx: Slam-

The sound of the door closing, which I always heard, felt exceptionally loud today.

I slowly looked at him.  As if he had waited, my eyes met with his ebony eyes.

He touched the pillar of the wine glass and opened his mouth to me.

“I didn’t expect you to see me first.”

“… I did. But I changed my mind.”

“Good thing, you changed your mind. Don’t say the word divorce again.”

He resolutely misunderstood that my thoughts had changed.
(Lmao…Dumbass…l can’t 😂)

I gaze at him gently, gazing at the wine, and look down at him and see the full of food on the table.

It was going to be my Last meal with him.

At least I finished the last supper and tried to talk, but I couldn’t.

I looked at him.

He looked at me with a softer face than before.

“…….”

I opened my mouth when there was a crack in his expression, as if I felt an unusual sense of dysentery in my eyes.

“Ray, changing my mind doesn’t mean I won’t divorce you. I’m here to get it over with you. “

“Sigh…”

Sfx: Slam-

Raymond sighed and put the glass of wine on the table.

He looked at me with eyes full of rage of unknown emotions and spoke with a voice as if a beast was roaring.

“Ellie, I’m not divorcing you.”

“…..I’ve already arranged everything. Ray, I don’t want fight with you.”

Raymond acted as if he spewed arsenic at the moment when he heard me.

“Ha, don’t want to fight? I don’t know how many times you’re talking. Your not in a position to divorce just because emotions your have changed.”

He brushed his head roughly, annoyingly.

“I know. This is my fault.”

“What?”

“I thought foolishly of you as a man named Raymond, not an emperor. “

I smiled bitterly at his face.

“You can’t say you didn’t know either. I didn’t say I was going to marry you because you were the emperor.”

“…….”

“It was because it was you. You, not the emperor.”

His black eyes were looking at me. His sweet lips were looking for an answer, but he never said anything.

I was calm.

“I knew you didn’t love me, but… I thought it would change over time, but it was just hopeless expectations.”

I paused for a moment and looked at Raymond.  He had a firm face.  It did not seem to be angry.

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“I…..”

He blurted the end of my words as if he hadn’t found anything to say. He wouldn’t be able to say anything to me telling him I love him.

“Ray, I’ll you ask. I don’t want to live alone anymore. So let me go.”

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End of Chapter 13