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Lucia Chapter 102 [part 2]

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When they arrived at the break room, Anita looked at the knights with a smile in her eyes. They tried to make a solemn expression, but the corner of their lips twitched up and down in an attempt not to smile.

The knights did not deter Anita from going in nor did they stop the Duchess whom the princess had instructed to be allowed access at any time.

Anita went inside the break room and acting as if to close the door, she naturally moved to the rear of the group. After passing through the short hallway, the maidservant opened the middle door. As soon as the Duchess passed through the door, Anita quickly grabbed the maid’s hand and pricked it with a poisoned needle.

The maidservant turned around to look at Anita quizzically, but she quickly fell unconscious and collapsed to the floor. Anita deliberately let out a short scream.

“Oh my god!”

Lucia hurriedly approached to help the fallen maid. Anita acted like she was helping the maid but secretly relaxed her hand. She took a step back and pulled out a perfume bottle from her bosom.

“Duchess.”

Anita sprayed perfume in the direction of Lucia, who had lifted her head in response. The contents of the perfume bottle was an anesthetic that quickly made one fall unconscious. Lucia didn’t even have time to grasp the situation or let out a scream. Still holding onto her maid, she sank to her knees and fell unconscious.

Everything took place in a very short moment. Anita’s face was flushed red. She was so excited that she was short of breath.

“W-W-What…in the world. Why did you…”

David emerged, looking extremely flustered.

“What is this?”

David had taken this task lightly. He thought he just had to wait in the break room, meet the Duchess and that was it. He didn’t know he would bring substantial harm to the Duchess in this manner.

“Furthermore, what’s with the fainted woman in the bathroom?”

For David, the time he had to wait for Anita felt too long. He couldn’t stay still at all, so he looked around the break room and found a woman lying on the floor of the bathroom in her underwear.

“I momentarily put her to sleep so I could borrow her clothes. The Duchess is also only unconscious for a while. Please help me. Before the Duchess wakes up, she needs to be moved to the sofa and the maid has to be cleared away.”

A conflict arose in David’s mind.

‘Isn’t this getting too big?’

He had no intention of taking any damage to himself due to this incident. Rumor with the Duchess. He didn’t think of anything more than that.

Anita read the cowardice from David’s hesitant expression. Because she already knew that David’s delivery was only to this extent, she wasn’t disappointed.

Plus, it wasn’t just David. Males, the lot of them were like that. They only cared for their profit and if they were slightly disadvantaged, they would pulled out their feet, but on the outside, they bragged as if they were magnanimous.

‘That man wasn’t like that.’

Sadness momentarily flitted across Anita’s eyes. The Duke of Taran. She had not met a man like him whose inside and outside were the same.

He did not whisper affectionate lies to get a woman’s body. He directly said he only needed her body. She didn’t even expect that man’s affection. She was even satisfied with only his body but.

Anita’s eyes fell on the Duchess and her gaze turned chilly. It was because of this woman.

‘You can’t withdraw like this.’

It was possible that she couldn’t completely escape from this incident. She didn’t expect David to loyally keep the secret till the end.

But if David were to withdraw here, she wouldn’t even be able to finish what she had started and would be the only one that got swindled. David had to be involved, even if it was only a little bit, for there to be a chance to get away.

“It’s just the beginning, are you going to stop here? I will follow Your Excellency’s will. It’s only too bad that such an opportunity will not come again.”

Knowing David’s personality, pushing him would backfire instead. Anita stepped back as if she was giving David all the right to make the decision.

‘You want to retreat alone? I’m sorry but you can’t do that.’

Anita fiddled with the ring in her palm. It wasn’t a completely bad idea to just kill everyone. Kill David and kill the Duchess too. Then finish it off by ending her life herself.

From the moment she stabbed the handmaid with the poisoned needle, she threw away all the taboos in the world that were obstructing her. It gave her an enormous sense of freedom. The darkness that had been piling up in her heart as she lived, burst out all at once and swallowed her whole.

“Well. We’ve come all the way here, I won’t cowardly run away.”

David made a resolute expression as if he had made a grave decision. He did not see the weird smile that Anita gave. Perhaps if he had seen it, he would have felt terrified enough to want to run away from the break room immediately.

“Are they really only temporarily unconscious?”

“Yes.”

“It won’t harm the Duchess, right?”

That harm to the Duchess may come back to bite him in the future, that sort of worry was David’s sincerity.

“Of course. There is absolutely no harm to the Duchess.”

The lingering bloodthirst in Anita’s eyes disappeared without a trace. She did not lie. The thing she sprayed on the Duchess was really just an anesthetic that caused you to temporarily lose consciousness. The Duchess’ maid and the handmaid lying in the bathroom would probably die, but she didn’t go out of her way to say that.

 

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21 thoughts on “Lucia Chapter 102 [part 2]”

  1. This b*tch!!!
    Honestly where are you knight in shiny armor?!!!
    And where r u Fabian
    Also Anita…prepares to die on the hand of you beloved duke in the most horrible way

  2. What the heck happened to Roy? Did he get called away by Fabian? Wasn’t he following after them last chapter ??? HHHUUUUHHHHHHH?????
    Many thanks

  3. Aghhhh… cliffhanger! I’m dying to know what happens. I’m so excited! It seems like we are getting to more of the dramatic section of the story. 😀

    Thanks for the chapter! I really appreciate your hard work and think you do a wonderful job. I noticed that you have two novels listed as possible projects after Lucia is over. I know we still have ~40 chapters left with this wonderful novel, but since your looking ahead already, I thought I would mention one that sounded really interesting. I made a novel pick-up thread on NUF for it. Here is the link:

    https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/prince-what-do-you-want-to-be.84652/

    No pressure or anything. You’re a busy student and I appreciate so much that your effort has allowed me to read a great novel that I otherwise might never have had the chance to.

    1. Thank you. Someone emailed me a recommendation I’m actually really considering. I’ll look at your too! I wish I could pick up more than one but I know it will slow the release rate to a crawl.

      1. By all means, don’t over do it. If you take too much on, you’ll loose motivation also. Just going at your own pace with one project is probably best. I only mention it in passing. I’m sure I will love any story you pick up. 🙂

  4. [internal screaming] Hugh would be so furious, this is what he feared when they came to the Capital. But hmmm I wonder where is Roy? Our Mad Dog, where are you?

  5. Anita is using David for her own revenge.I’m certain that no serious harm will come to Lucia. Anita got played by her own greed. She got really stupid. She thought that she would be able to benefit from her lascivious agreement for forever. She thought that she had out played the player. But he fell in “LOVE” with someone who asked for nothing. Someone who gave her soul to this monument of a man.She uncovered his humanity.
    I hope that David finds out how he is being used before he dies.

  6. Good lord, I’m sorry ruby, I had a difficult time being patient and reading every word for this chapter. I’m too anxious about what’s going to happen. God save her!

  7. When two maids suddenly drop dead and maybe apart from the countess, the guards would know of David that led them away and David’s not the type to cover up for someone like Anita so…. Poorly planned plotting is poorly planned.

  8. « She didn’t even expect that man’s affection. She was even satisfied with only his body but. »

    Liar. If you were, you wouldn’t ve gone so mad after being rejected.

    « Anita’s eyes fell on the Duchess and her gaze turned chilly. It was because of this woman. »
    Or maybe it’s because you’re not that great, whether it is your personality, your charm or your talent as a bed warmer (okay, that one was petty, I’ll admit)

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