83 – Excommunication-2
Pleasant things make people happy just by imagining them.
Beautiful people bring joy just by looking at them.
The drinking party was satisfactory. Oksana didn’t cross her line despite her loud talk, and Alexandra cared for her gently.
Evan had no way to say anything. He was a person overflowing with love in his life and actions, so there was no reason to blush when meeting good people like Oksana and Alexandra.
Iris looked at him with a happy face. It was such a warm and heartwarming moment that she had to struggle to remember when she had smiled like this.
However, it is not always possible to live only by looking at beautiful things and good people.
Take responsibility for her actions. There was a decision she made because she didn’t know what happiness was, and she didn’t even tell her, she just followed the gaze of others.
In order to reverse that, she too must pay her price.
“Until this late at night…Where did you go?”
A drunken Logan was in front of her.
“You slut b*tch. She said she couldn’t help it and said she had to meet the northern princess. She gave me permission once. Did she meet another man?”
“There was a drinking party. It was not a personal meeting.”
“It was true that Evan was there. Whether you had s*x or just the two of you had s*x, that’s none of my business, right?”
It’s superficial.
It seemed that excessive drinking had taken away the last bit of reason Logan had left. Or, because of the outburst of anger, he couldn’t distinguish between what he could say and what he shouldn’t say.
“There was no relationship.”
“And, are you proud that you ate with prostitutes in the North? I told you. She’s a criminal!”
“The investigation is over.”
In this case, Iris also had a lot to say.
Iris, who sincerely believed in Logan, seriously treated Alexandra as a s*x offender. She collected all kinds of evidence to arrest her, and did not hesitate to pressurize her and force her to testify.
But her truth was devastating. Logan’s testimony faltered endlessly, and if it weren’t for the site video that was restored by polishing the highest-ranking wizard in the empire, he would have shamelessly pushed forward with his first claim.
“To Miss Alexandra, I personally apologized many, many times.”
It was hard to believe that she was the crown princess who would succeed the empire. She asked for guilt. What she had to give up, what she had to give up, was no small thing the Empire had to give up.
She tried to imprison the princess of a foreign country on a false charge.
There were not a few royal families in the north who still remembered the incident. If it wasn’t for the desperate mediation of Iris and Alexandra, who thought that diplomatic relations should not be severed like this, it would have been an incident that would not have been strange even if a small-scale skirmish occurred.
“I’ve said it many times, but she’s a criminal. You’re my girl, right? I don’t know about anyone else, but shouldn’t you trust me?”
Iris took a deep breath.
My love for Evan is not a lie. However, the fact that her promised love is Logan has not changed either.
In order for her to keep what she holds now, it is efficient to have her inappropriate relationships.
What her affair was with her was her Logan trying to restrain her, but he had no interest in her in the first place.
Her job, her interests, her values, her actions, her achievements. She paid no attention to any of it.
Asking about Iris’s whereabouts right now was an act that came out of jealousy and hatred for Evan rather than love for Iris.
No matter how much a man is in the sacred and inviolable realm, in the end it was Iris, who has the blood of the imperial family, who took the real power.
After openly filling the people around Logan with her person, she abused her authority as the Crown Princess and went around so that her affair would not be discovered.
But that wasn’t what she wanted.
Evan was a beautiful person without a flaw. In order for her to be by his side, she had to shake off all traces of her past, at least she could erase.
She
She had to be proud. For her love for Dana, for her heart for her gladiator, for his unabashed behavior, she too must stand before him.
Even so, it is unknown whether he will love her or not. However, he had to do at least that much to end up at the same table.
“Not from now on.”
After she brushed off all her troubles, she spoke her words full of determination.
“…What?”
Logan was shaken for a moment when he heard that, but soon let out a sneer.
“I didn’t know you would fight. Is it funny? Hey, are you saying we should break up now? Are you confident you can handle this?”
Logan’s words pierced her heart. Certainly, taking care of the back will not be an easy task.
You will be treated as a woman who replaced a man. Logan will receive many people’s sympathy, and as much as he is sympathized with, Iris will be hated.
There will be a dispute about Iris’ qualifications in the imperial family, and if she wants to meet a new man in Selam, she will have to meet a man much worse than Logan.
As long as Evan loved her, it might be okay since he wasn’t the kind of person to be swayed by such a gaze. But if Evan doesn’t love her, she will have to live without a partner for the rest of her life.
Even that was only possible when things went well.
The Empire’s courts favor men, and Iris’ enemies will come running like bees, screaming that she must share her wealth and authority with Logan.
After her hard fight, she might have nothing left of her.
“…Poof.”
“Are you laughing?”
However, Iris realized once again a very important and precious fact.
Even though it’s such a big thing, even though it’s such a scary thing, the fact that she wasn’t afraid of ‘a person named Logan’ leaving her until the end of her life.
“I’ve already made my decision. I’ll give you time to pack your things, so please get out of this house by tomorrow’s lunch.”
“Are you really crazy? Are you out of your mind? Did you want to pretend to be tough on that bastard? How many bottles did you drink?”
“I’m serious.”
It was pitiful. It was a decision she made with a strong heart, after she had gone through so much pain and thought deeply about her.
In Logan’s eyes, it just seemed like a childish deviation.
It wasn’t the first time. Logan had never tried to understand Iris’s heart.
It was a tyrannical act that only imposed her own demands, and Iris had to put up with his actions dozens and hundreds of times.
“Hey.”
With her short words, Logan took a step closer to her.
With a clicking sound, her head turned to the side. Logan proudly approached and casually slapped her on the cheek.
“Can you come to your senses now?”
Iris, who was looking at Logan with a bewildered look, saw his fist flying into her lower abdomen.
That’s not okay.
It may be an excessive delusion, but Iris is already aware that her body is, at least, the space where she will give birth.
From noble mtl dot com
Because she recognized that it was not her own.
“Kuuu! What are you doing!”
With a calm face, Iris grabbed Logan’s arm and pinned him to the ground, accusing him in her cold voice.
“That’s stupid. How come a man like you assumes that ‘a woman can’t hit herself’?”
“Ugh, that’s what…!”
Leaving aside the high and low of her status, Iris was a pretty good fighter.
She wasn’t an out-of-the-ordinary monster like Oksana, but it would be difficult to touch her body unless she had enough training.
Of course, women can’t help but be reluctant to touch her body.
Using violence as a solution is mean and childish in itself, but above all, it was nothing more than a declaration that we would accept even if the other person solved the problem with violence.
However, Logan hit her casually.
Without taking any defensive stance, without being nervous or afraid, much less confident that he could win if he fought.
‘Women can’t hit men. A man can hit a woman freely,’ seems to be embedded in her mind, so Iris made an expression that was half disgusted and half-ridiculous.
“You hit me? Lee, b*tch. Hands on my body!”
If it were Evan, he wouldn’t have said such ugly and disgusting words.
Right now, every time there was a game, no, during training or sparring, I would have been beaten quite a few times by women.
He doesn’t show any anger, just silently does his job. To be able to stand as a person, to stay in the same place as the one he loves.
“I’m done talking.”
Iris, who woke up casually, spat out the final sentence to him.
“By lunch tomorrow, pack up. Get out of my house.”
Iris went into the house, leaving him in the yard.
Today, her house felt more cozy and comfortable.