The patriarch took a walk in the garden at a certain ti every day.
While out for his daily walk, he found Elisha drinking tea in the garden. The Head approached Elisha.
“Elisha, why are you out here at this hour?”
Lucerne usually did not like Elisha coming into contact with other people without his permission.
The head of the family often clicked his tongue at his obsessive managent of his wife. So, usually, Elisha would stay in her room when Lucerne went out, except for a short walk in the garden. It was practically his first ti seeing Elisha outside in a long ti.
“It was a beautiful day, so I ca to have so tea. I interrupted the Lord’s steps.”
“What interruption? I was going to see you anyway.”
Gaju was often surprised at himself when he was with Elisha. It wasn’t because of sothing she did but of his own generosity when dealing with her.
“I’m glad you’re always so gracious. Would you like so tea?”
“Sure, I would like that.”
Elisha prepared the tea herself.
“Elisha, do you rember what I said to you last ti?”
She paused. Ostensibly, the Head was pressuring her to have a child. She lowered her eyes as if she had heard sothing troubling.
“I’m sure you’re thinking about it carefully, right?”
She nodded slightly.
“Alright, I understand. Don’t worry anymore.”
“Thank you, my lord,”
Elisha spoke humbly.
“Can I have a cup of tea? The sll of the rose tea is strong today.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Elisha stopped while pouring tea.
“Gaju, sorry. I think I brewed the tea for too long because I was nervous. I will taste it first before I serve it.”
“Even a child like you makes mistakes.”
The patriarch viewed Elisha in a very good light these days, so he seed fine with this rare laxity.
She first tasted tea sprinkled with rose flowers. She was shocked.
“The tea tastes a little strange.”
“What?”
The next mont, Elisha covered her mouth with her hand. Then she coughed a few tis. The sound of her coughing was mixed with the harsh noise of wheezing.
Crash!
Then, Elisha fell off her chair. Her face looked like a sheet of paper as she fell to the floor.
“Elisha!”
The servants standing behind the head of the house were startled and ran over.
“… … Head.”
Elisha caught her breath.
“There was poison in the tea… … . In the tea… … .”
“Call the doctor right away! And preserve the teacup!”
shouted Gaju. Elisha barely opened her blurry eyes, and then she slowly closed them.
Suddenly, Elisha’s hand fell.
***
The carriage moved with a steady sound. Lucerne left the Officers’ Club and headed straight to the Duke’s estate.
Lucerne was leaning his head against the carriage wall.
Everyone rembered the anniversary of his grandmother’s death. It was a day commorated in sorrow. However, the anniversary of Lucerne’s biological mother’s death was a day that no one talked about. Unfortunately, he was too young to rember the exact day when his mother was murdered.
‘They say the black thorn tree blooms only one day in the fall. He told . Look. Today is the day Autumn cos.’
These were words his mother once said when he was a child. Coincidentally, she died just a few days after the flowers blood. After that, when Lucerne wanted to rember her death, he would often set it as the day after the Fall Lunar Festival that year. Today just happened to be that day.
Lucerne often had nightmares about his mother’s death lately. When he ca to the Duke’s house, violent mories would co back to him.
He paused to think for a mont.
The emotions he had never experienced before were like poison. As he increasingly wanted Elisha more, the desire to lock her away and only see him increased. She gradually grew into a big variablevariable. The head of the family was particularly and overly fond of Elisha.
And it wasn’t just Gaju that favored her. Even Lucerne himself liked her too much. So, it was only a matter of ti before Jacob would target her.
She was nothing short of a walking weakness of his.
His thoughts turned again to her mother.
Elisha had thought of her biological mother as a sanctuary. That’s why she was obsessed with monasteries.
However, when Lucerne harbored affection for soone, that person he loved always died. It was the most certain thing in his tumultuous life. Even just a couple of years ago. Very miserably in the hands of family mbers.
Therefore, Lucerne also thought of the love he received and gave from and to his mother as poison. It was too short to be sweetly glorified.
Children first begin to perceive objects after the age of four or five. His mories of being loved were vague and faint. However, his mories of her death were intense and vivid.
His mind returned to reality again. Lucerne stared at the wall of the carriage.
“You go first.”
Lucerne crumpled the letter in his hands.
“You’ve broken the rules, Elisha.”
He was a little pleased. At last, Elisha finally gave him a reason to fall into his possessive grasp.
Now, she could not protest no matter how she was treated by him. Unfortunately, her small struggle beca a cri for those in power; many things were unfair between her and him.
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