James Bowman snorted at Julietta's grimly mumbled words.

"Are you going to kill me? How? You can resist me only now. Now, wait." His hands touched the inside of her thighs.

Julietta stopped hesitating further and mumbled, closing her eyes tightly. "James Bowman is more beautiful than Julietta. d.a.m.n it, Manny. If this ability you told me is fake, you will die at my hands." Julieta repeated the command Manny had said was her ability several times.

Tears were streaming down from her closed eyes. But she closed her eyes tightly and mumbled the command frantically without feeling them.

'What if this ability is fake?' After a moment, she couldn't feel the heavy man's body weighing on her. When she opened her eyes, the big man who smelled bad had disappeared without a trace.

Despite the fact that she had said the w9rds, Julietta looked frantically around the empty hall with frightened eyes. It wasn't long before she believed the man had really disappeared, and she was convinced she was alone. She lay face down on the ground with a thump. Even after all that, she had to fall into guilt and relief without moving for a long time.

"Oh, my G.o.d. It was true! Oh, thanks to all the G.o.ds. And I'm sorry, but it was an inevitable choice. Oh! I'm sorry and thank you. Thank you and I'm sorry. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. I'm sorry..." Julietta shed tears and repeated her grat.i.tude and apology in the empty hall of the mansion where no one was present.

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Vera left the lounge to meet Julietta, who should have returned to the family lounge at this point, saying, "My heart is stuffy." As the party was at its peak, the corridor where the lounges of the high-ranking n.o.bles were quiet without a person.

"Huh? Isn't she Princess Kiellini's maid?" After attending the party, Oswald was returning to the Prince's resting room and found the wandering Vera.

"h.e.l.lo, Your Excellency the Marquis." Vera politely saluted the Marquis, whom she had encountered several times in the dressing shop.

"Who are you waiting for? The princess is in His Highness Killian's lounge."

Vera finally put on a look of relief at the Marquis's words. "Oh, it was about time she came to rest, but she didn't come and so I came out."

Oswald tilted his head at Vera's anxiety. "Has the princess not fully recovered from her illness yet? From your face, I'm afraid she's in some serious pain."

Unable to say she was worried because of the tight corset, Vera gave a vague excuse, and Oswald nodded as if he had known. "She hasn't completely recovered from her illness. Anyway, she'll be in His Highness's lounge, so don't worry. If there's any problem, I'll send someone right away."

"Thank you, Mr. Marquis."

Oswald walked lightly to Killian's lounge. "Your Highness, this is Oswald. May I come in?"

"Come in."

Oswald made his presence known even before the attendant spoke, and opened the door to the lounge as soon as he had an answer.

"What about the princess?"

Killian's eyebrows crept up in the face of Oswald who was deeply disappointed when he couldn't see Julietta, who was supposed to be with Killian. "What's that look?"

"No, I deliberately got out of the lounge and expected some progress, but I feel empty that the princess isn't here." Oswald headed for the sofa with the lack of interest, and paused. "Huh? But it's weird."

"What?"

"I was just pa.s.sing by the family lounge of Kiellini when I met the princess's maid. She's waiting for the princess who was supposed to come to rest. But she's not here, and she was not at the party. I didn't b.u.mp into her in the hallway. Where is she now?"

Killian's brow slightly frowned at Oswald who tilted his head in wonder. "Didn't the princess go back to the lounge?"

"Yes. Did she go to the garden to get some air?"

"No, it can't be. She can't walk around in that dress. She should have gone straight to the lounge, but it's weird that she wasn't there."

"In that suit?"

Killian jumped up, ignoring Oswald who looked as if he had done something. "Go to the party hall, find the princess again and bring Mrs. Raban back to the Kiellini lounge."

Killian picked up something from the sofa and left for the family lounge of Kiellini.

"Your Highness."

"Didn't the princess come back to the lounge?"

Vera was surprised and tried to greet Killian, but she was immediately blocked.

"No? Wasn't she in the lounge of Your Highness?"

Killian threw the corset he was holding to Vera, who was bewildered.

"This, this..."

"I untied it because she was suffocating."

Vera was embarra.s.sed by Killian's answer. "Then, then, then, where is the princess?"

"That's my question. Where did she go in that dress? I thought she'd go right back to the mansion of the Duke." Killian said so and then turned back and headed to the party hall.

"Your Highness, Your Highness." Oswald came running, gasping his breath even before the Prince took a few steps away from the lounge of the Duke. He pushed forward a servant he brought behind him.

"Say to the Prince what you said to me."