The Wicked Wife's Dark History Keeps Coming Back To Haunt Her - Chapter 290
There was no way not to realize that he intended to spend the night in the study.
It was no different from declaring that he wouldn’t set foot in the couple’s bedroom.
It felt as if she had returned to her previous life again, and her mood sank heavily, like being drenched in rain.
“Huu…”
Nina let out a breath like a sigh.
‘Just when I finally decided to seriously think about this…’
Seeing this, she felt a little betrayed.
Was he busy?
Or was something wrong?
Because it made her feel foolish for worrying about him.
“This is…”
Ash hesitated with a rare look of embarrassment, then frowned and rubbed his forehead.
He had pretended to be busy, yet he had been caught drinking in his study. Of course that would be awkward.
Nina watched him as he moved his lips as if to speak, then turned around and started walking away.
Saying he regretted hurting her, saying he would try harder.
‘I’m the fool for believing those words.’
He shouldn’t have said them in the first place.
“You may repay that debt slowly. Since it gives all the more reason for you to stay by my side, I’m only glad.”
Why did he have to speak kindly and make things complicated?
“If it makes you uncomfortable, we don’t have to share a room. No, we can simply pretend to share one.”
“…No, if we do that, the servants will start talking again.”
She felt embarrassed remembering how she had spoken rationally without realizing he might simply have been avoiding sharing the room.
“Wait. Let’s talk for a moment.”
Just then, he hurried after her and grabbed her wrist.
“Well, you seem busy drinking. Do you really have time to talk with me?”
“That’s…”
His delicate and handsome face twisted, and his gray eyes trembled with unease.
Nina stopped when she noticed the anxiety in his expression.
Seeing how restless he looked, as if watching her reaction, something suddenly came to mind.
“Ah…”
Now that she thought about it, her husband had a reason why he could only retreat to the study.
Until now he had been quietly suppressing his heat every dawn.
Feeling awkward, she lost the words she meant to say.
“I’m sorry for lying. It wasn’t that I wanted to deceive you. It was just…”
He lowered his eyes gently and trailed off.
After a brief silence, he seemed to reach a decision and opened his mouth.
“Actually…”
Nina hurriedly cut him off.
“B-But if sleeping alone is more comfortable, wouldn’t it be better for us to just sleep in separate rooms?”
She panicked because it seemed like he was about to confess that he had been secretly touching himself every dawn.
‘At least his social dignity should be preserved.’
The domestic investigator had already come and gone anyway.
Since things had turned out like this, they might as well return the bedroom arrangement to how it was before.
If people asked, they could simply say it was more comfortable to sleep alone.
After all, ‘separate rooms’ had originally been their default.
“…I only needed some time to think about a personal matter. It isn’t because being alone is more comfortable.”
His voice sounded pressed down as if restraining surging emotions, and his gaze sank deep like an abyss.
Nina realized that, unlike what she had thought, he had a serious concern.
‘What could it be?’
As she frowned and thought about it, Ash gently took her hand with a slightly troubled expression.
“I swear… I haven’t been avoiding you because I dislike you.”
Her palm was guided onto his firm chest.
Thump, thump, thump…
His heart was pounding strongly beneath her hand.
As if proving his feelings for her.
For a moment heat blossomed on her skin from a strange sense of embarrassment.
Nina quickly withdrew her hand from his solid, warm chest.
If she kept touching him, the atmosphere might become strange.
Anyway.
“Haa…”
Nina let out a small sigh.
Watching his complexion gradually grow pale with anxiety, she asked quietly,
“So what is it?”
“…It’s a personal matter.”
She wasn’t a fool.
How could she fail to notice the guilt gathering in his gray eyes like rainwater?
He always looked at her with those eyes whenever he apologized.
Nina slightly furrowed her brows and spoke in a low voice.
“Tell me honestly before I dig it up on my own.”
The man who had stubbornly slept beside her all this time now couldn’t even bring himself to step into the bedroom. It seemed he had done something wrong to her.
For now, she needed to know what had happened.
