Previously: so I can't say anything I just ran 4.2 km to get to the mansion after we parted our ways, and now I am suffering from dehydration.
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[The next day..]
The gates of the mansion are finally opened, multiple carriages ride through the forest.
(Ah, at last I'm out of here.)
My face was straight but there was a disco party going in my heart. I was sitting in front of the cold hearted Duke who had a book holding up to his face, covering him fully.
(What a waste of beauty.)
I look outside the window and a scream floats across the air into my ear drums.
"Stop it!"
I look back, pushing my head a bit further outside to get a proper view of the source of the noise.
"Clara stop jumping!"
I let out a small laugh and feel the wind on my face as I close my eyes.
(Oldy must be having so much fun with Clara right now, good thing I brought her.)
Suddenly a visual pops inside my head, a certain visual of a past event.
"Please take me with you! please! I will be good I promise!"
A crying Clara is seen tugging my gown as I let out a breath of frustration and the visual fogs away.
"Get your head inside or you'll get hurt."
"Huh?"
A deep voice flows from inside the carriage. I sit back to my place as the man in front of me eats his book up or it seems so, to me.
(Just look at him being all introvert in front of his wife. When he was jumping like a monkey and fell into the lake yesterday.)
Suddenly a recent past folder opens in my head and those memory feels my vision like virtual reality. The visuals from yesterday's events were rather mortifying to me.
(Those never happened!)
My head was continuously in denial but my face could not become anything more than red.
"Are you feeling hot?"
I look up to the man who asked the question and the view in front of me was the same as usual.
(How can he see with the book covering his face?)
I try to brush the heat off with my hands and reply in my heavenly voice.
"No, I am feeling just fine."
"Very well then, or else I might have to worry about burying your body somewhere in the forest."
Leo's tone of speaking was rather soft but the spoken words only made me spooked out.
(I am confused if it's a romance genre or a horror genre.)
I give an awkward smile which is obviously what Leo is not seeing so I shift my attention to the big open window as our carriage passes another gate.
[Male Lead's POV]
(Hey weird box! Why did you tell me to read a book, which I don't understand and more than that poke a hole through it!?)
[So you can spy on her without being overly dramatic and causing me trouble, which you caused me enough of it]
I sigh and look at the hole, observing the weird lady in front of me.
(Huh she's red?)
"Are you-"
[Cut! your thoughts are useless. Back to the original story.]
Our horse carriage crosses the bridge and the bridge quakes by the thumping noises, leading to another forest.
(Seriously another forest, is there even anyone living, other than us?)
My eyes still fixed on the window when the wheels start hitting small rocks, shaking my body up and down.
The first shake was little so my body didn't move much. The next one was a little increased but still my body remained unaffected.
The third one was a bit more intense, shaking me up pretty much that I was about to fall off.
(What's wrong with this roads?)
I wait for the next shake to hit, holding the side of the window so I don't fall and my body being on alert mode.
(This time I won't fall!)
But after waiting for an eternity, I finally let go of the side of the window and stare at Leo.
(How is he still so unbothered by the shakes? But it's good that the carriage is not dancing anymore-)
"Woah!"
Suddenly the next shake hit the carriage like a tornado blowing a whole damn city away, my body threw itself to the other side were Leo was.
Meanwhile the book on Leo's hand flew to my seat and my hands pin on the walls of the carriage so I don't get smashed. I mean don't get into accident.
(I don't know why but just now the process was happening in extra slow motion, my flying to the other side of the carriage process.)
My eyes met Leo's and his met mine. The time froze and only both of us were in the frame,looking at each other and everything else was nothing but mere paid actors.
[Someone said it was a horror genre.]
(Uhhh...)
I nervously look at Leo's face which was only 3 inches apart from mine. His facial expression was utterly astonished by my beauty.
Leo's hand suddenly fly towards my hair and I let out a gasp of panic.
(Shit! I'm wearing a wig. He is going to find out that I'm not the duchess.)
I close my eyes and my body goes through a paralysis session. Suddenly Leo pulls my head towards his chest and I open my eyes in confusion.
(What?)
"Just stay like this until the road is cleared."
His voice was deep and straight forward that it sent shivers down my spine. My cheeks becoming hot pepper and my mind setting a round meeting.
Lovey dovey Minho speaks, "he is so hot! I just wanna stay in his lap forever."
Responsible Minho shuts lovey dovey's mouth.
"Shh, we have a plot to follow."
Comedic Minho laughs like a maniac, "I don't know anything but his hair smells funny!"
Followed by depressed Minho's nail biting sounds.
"I can't say whether I should have jumped inside the pond or killed myself with Leo's sword."
Bookworm Minho sighs in a corner pushing his glasses up, "you should learn more about magic."
And then enters inappriopriate Minho, which other parties after seeing him, start panicking.
As they were about to shut his mouth, inappriopriate Minho spoke.
"I love mushrooms!"
Everyone falls to the ground in defeat as a realisation hits my head, breaking up the meeting room.
A visualisation fills up my brain, where a little dog stands on his feet looking like a titan.
Panic arises in my eyes as I try to wiggle out of Leo's grasp.
(Seriously I am in a bad situation, what kind of reaction is happening to me!?)
Tears start flowing through my eyes as I continue my struggling which makes Leo tighten his grasp.
"Are you okay?" He asks in a rough tone
"Ungh.." I reply, my voice barely letting out any sound.
Leo quickly loosens his grip and bends his face towards me, his eyes widening in shock .
"Why are you crying?"
His voice giving off a hint of distress.
"Are you scared?"
His hands wiping of my tears and suddenly he put one of his hand into his pocket.
(Did he find out? Is he gonna kill me with a pocket knife!?)
But my wild thoughts get broken and all of a sudden he takes out a handkerchief and starts rubbing my face like a roller, rolling on a grass.
"Ugh! What are you do-ing?" I struggle from the certain handkerchief attack.
"Don't think too much, I had this handkerchief inside my pocket for a while now."
After rubbing my face dry and making it more red, he throws the handkerchief outside the window.
(What the- I know he is not the real Duke and can be dumb sometimes but he really has some serious issues.)
I calm down as his hands rest on my back, giving me a piece of solace.
"The roads are back to normal." He speaks, going back to his rough tone.
I slowly stand up and move back, sitting on my own seat.
(Thankfully the weird reaction stopped.)
I look at the window again as Leo grabs his book that was situated beside me.
(I didn't even notice that the shaky road was gone.)
[Fact is I gave him the handkerchief..]
...
I drown myself into deep thinking.
(How can I even become like this? I still remember getting slapped by that girl and now-)
Out of nowhere the carriage stops. Throwing me off of my seat again.
"Ugh!"
"What's happening?"
Leo puts his book down and takes his head out of the window, and an arrow strikes his left cheek and hit the side of the window, on the carriage wall.
A part of his cheek starts bleeding, as he undergoes through the process of what just happened now.
I let out a frustrated groan by the present event, that is occurring.
(Seriously what is it this time!?)
To be continued