6 - My Husband is My Favorite, But I Think I'm Going to Get Divorced
Episode 6
The man twitched his eyebrows and looked at me with strange eyes.
'Could it be that I'm not Alexis?'
I suddenly lost confidence and felt flustered, but thankfully, Alexis raised the corner of his mouth and sneered.
"You. I heard you were confined, why are you loitering around here? Do you think Father's orders are a joke now? You're really something, Evgenia Basilian."
Every word he spat out grated on my ears, but I was relieved that I hadn't made a mistake, and I had no excuse, so I tightly shut my mouth.
Of course, I was also regretful.
'Damn it, I wanted to get away with it quietly.'
I was planning to sneak into the main building and then make a deal with the knight in front of the room.
He wouldn't want it to be known that I had left the room either, so I was going to suggest we quietly cover it up.
'But of all people, I had to get caught by this guy...'
I sighed, filled with a sense of dismay.
But Alexis's expression, which had been mocking me until just now, changed to a bewildered one.
"Hey. You, why..."
"......?"
"I heard you went crazy and banged your head against the wall, are you really out of your mind?"
"What?"
Even if he's like this, isn't he going too far?
Even before that, from the moment I faced Alexis, an inexplicable displeasure had been consuming me.
But I endured it without showing it, because all the things he pointed out were my fault!
"Crazy? Did you give chivalry to a dog? How dare you talk to your sister like that."
I thought he would laugh at my words and talk back any moment.
Alexis's expression changed strangely again.
This time, Alexis, who seemed to be looking at something even more bizarre, suddenly took a step and stood closer to me. And he brought his face close and stared at me intently.
"Ugh, what are you doing."
Is this the instinctive rejection that real siblings feel?
I frowned and stepped back, but Alexis didn't care and kept examining me, then suddenly asked.
"What did you just say?"
Evgenia is by no means short, but the much taller guy was acting oppressively, so I was a little scared and annoyed at the same time.
"Did I say anything wrong?"
"...That's not it, what did you say?"
"Hmph. I said, did you give chivalry to a dog."
"After that."
After that?
I tilted my head for a moment, not understanding the intention of the question, and then I retraced my memory.
"How dare you talk to your sister like that?"
"Ha! Sister? Did you just call me sister?"
"Y, yes."
For some reason, I hesitated and stuttered slightly. And because my pride was hurt, I shouted back loudly.
"That's right! From earlier, 'hey, you'... is it okay to treat your sister like that?"
On the one hand, I was frantically racking my brain at Alexis's absurd expression.
Was Evgenia not his sister? No way? Alexis was definitely two years younger than Evgenia, wasn't he?
But Alexis's reaction was so cold that I felt unnecessarily intimidated.
I was an only child. I had cousins, but we weren't very close, so I didn't know exactly what the relationship between real siblings was like.
But in my common sense, Alexis's attitude was too rude.
I pouted unhappily, and Alexis, who had been glaring at me, roughly swept back his hair.
"Since when did you treat me like a sibling? When did you ever call me 'sister' without freaking out."
I knew they didn't have a good relationship, but was it that bad?
I was very embarrassed to learn an unexpected fact.
'Could it be that he'll realize I'm not Evgenia?'
To be honest, I was only planning to be careful in front of Ann, I wasn't worried about anyone else, especially the Duke Basilian family.
I wondered if family was still family after all, and I felt strangely uncomfortable.
"Evgenia Basilian."
Alexis called me in a displeased voice.
I couldn't bring myself to tell him to call me 'sister' like before, so I glared at him as if asking why he was looking at me, and Alexis's expression became serious.
"Did you really hurt your head that badly? You're just standing there even when I call you by your full name."
"...Yeah! I hit my head and even fainted, how could I be okay?"
Seized by a sense of crisis that my identity might be revealed, I shouted shamelessly.
"Well, it's no wonder you don't know since you didn't even bother to check on me."
"Hey, that's...!"
"So don't pretend to be interested now!"
Silence fell after my cold and heartless words.
It felt like a cold wind was blowing.
'Ugh!'
It wasn't a delusion.
My body was already as cold as ice because of the unexpected quarrel with Richard in the basement prison of the annex. And now, a cold wind was blowing on top of that...
'Ah, no. I think I'm going to sneeze!'
I was in a very serious atmosphere right now, and I had just said some very charismatic and mean words.
But a sneeze here? No way, absolutely not.
Fortunately, it didn't feel like I was going to have a runny nose, but my nose was so itchy that I was going crazy.
With a desperate desire to protect my pride and show what Evgenia was like, I clenched my fists tightly and scrunched up my face.
And as I somehow managed to swallow the sneeze while frowning...
In my tightly furrowed eyes, I saw Alexis's face looking at me with a somewhat blank expression.
Surprise and embarrassment were clearly revealed in his eyes.
'Ah... Could it be that he noticed?'
That I was ridiculously holding back a sneeze right now!
At that moment, a crisis came right away.
I hurriedly covered my face with my hands and turned my body away.
And.
"Achoo!"
...I ended up sneezing after all.
Thanks to pinching my nose tightly, it didn't make a loud noise, but my shoulders twitched greatly, so it wasn't a situation to hide.
'Damn it, it's okay. They say you can't hide love or a sneeze anyway.'
I tried to comfort myself, but embarrassment washed over me like a tidal wave.
"Hey, you..."
Then Alexis tried to say something to me.
'This cruel bastard, is he trying to embarrass me here?'
With the determination not to experience any more shame, I quickly turned around and ran away.
Of course, that's just what I said, and I walked towards the main building at a fast pace, making it obvious that I was angry.
At that time, I was so distraught with embarrassment that I didn't realize.
"Wow... what's with her. Could it be that she was upset and tearful because I didn't go to see her...?"
I never imagined that Alexis would say such absurd things while looking at my back.
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"Boohoohoo!"
Damn it. I ended up catching it after all.
That nasty thing called a cold!
"I actually knew it would happen... Achoo!"
If I had known this would happen, I would have listened to Ann when she told me to dress warmly yesterday.
It was too late to regret it.
After leaving Alexis behind, I went into the main building and threatened the bewildered knight, then jumped straight into bed.
And I drank the warm tea that Ann had made and tried to warm my body by wrapping myself tightly in the blanket, but the chill didn't go away until dawn.
When I opened my eyes in the morning, my throat was sore as if it was tearing, and my head, which already had a persistent headache, was spinning and dizzy.
In the meantime, the outside was noisy, so I blinked my stiff eyes and headed to the window with the blanket over my head.
"Gasp, have they already arrived?"
In fact, there was a reason why the mansion was noisy and chaotic from the morning.
It was because the Duke, who had left the capital, had sent a message that he would arrive soon.
In front of the entrance, among the servants lined up to greet the master, Alexis and the heroine Melissa were standing.
Perhaps he felt my gaze at that moment. Alexis turned his head towards my room window.
The distance was quite far, so I didn't think he would have recognized me, but I took a step back because it felt like our eyes had met.
'It's not because I remembered the embarrassing memory from yesterday...'
I grumbled, making lame excuses.
"The more I think about it, the more annoyed I get. I was the one who received the punishment to be confined, not him."
Yesterday, I was just saying whatever came to mind, but looking back, I was really upset.
It was understandable that Duke Basilian and the Young Duke weren't in the capital, but Alexis went to and from the Imperial Palace from the mansion every day.
Even if Evgenia was a blood relative who was worse than a stranger, shouldn't he have come to see her at least once if she had lost consciousness after losing her mind?
I even thought he might chase after me yesterday, but instead, he didn't even try to stop me.
Of course, it might be because I was being absurdly angry after disobeying the Duke's orders...
Basically, I could see that he was indifferent to Evgenia.
"And yet he gets angry."
Perhaps because I was sick, I felt strangely sad even though he wasn't really my family.
But at the same time, I paradoxically hoped.
I hoped that Alexis wouldn't feel any guilt about my words yesterday, and that he would continue to ignore me in the future.
And that he would pretend not to know about my escapade yesterday.
