Earl and Fairy: Volume 03 by Mizue Tani

Author:Mizue Tani [TANI, MIZUE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2023-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Lydia was still in a daze when she arrived home. She went straight to her bedroom, where she planted herself on the bed without bothering to light the lamp. Her body was still shivering with fear, as if she could still feel Edgar’s heat on her wrist, her shoulders, and her hair.

“He must have taken leave of his senses!”

Even letting out an angry shout was not enough to quell her discomfort. She considered whether he might have gotten too ahead of himself and taken a joke too far. But this was far from one of his usual flirtations. They never struck so deeply, and she always had an opportunity to escape. Nor did his mood ever seem so foul. If it had been the drawing from Paul that had caused it, then she could only feel exasperation at his selfish desire to control her.

The only conclusion she could come to was that Edgar couldn’t abide it when other men got close to the women in his vicinity. However, the earl’s fury was misguided, for Paul did not hold such sentiments toward her. The artist had gone against Edgar’s wishes and stood up for Lydia for the younger man’s sake, not hers.

Paul had walked her outside to the carriage, and while she had trembled the entire way, he had struggled to hide his indignation. He had said that, while it was not his right to comment on Edgar’s flirtatious ways, what the earl had done to her was far too extreme to be dismissed as a joke. Especially when he should know that an ordinary girl like her was incapable of disobeying a noble.

Personally, Lydia could see no problem dodging Edgar whether or not he hung his status or his position as her employer above her. His suspicious behavior since the day they had met meant she had never regarded him as a nobleman of any kind. They spoke to each other as casually as if they were equals. Paul’s objections, therefore, made her inclined to believe that his actions were done less to protect Lydia and more because he wanted Edgar to behave as a proper, virtuous gentleman. Because he didn’t want the earl to be the sort of man who would forcefully lay a finger on a naive girl below his status, even through a misunderstanding. Even if Paul thought Edgar to be someone different from the noble boy in his past, perhaps a part of him did see them as the same person. In which case, he might only be showing such kindness to Lydia because he was under the misapprehension that she was special to the earl.

“In the end, it is all rather trifling,” she muttered with a sigh.

“Oi, Lydia. Aren’t you going to have supper?” Nico was peering in through the doorway. He had been glued to his reflection in the mirror, trying to smooth his fur, ever since they had arrived home. However, his spirits seemed to have lifted as soon as supper was announced.

Lydia’s spirits were in much worse shape.

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