Chapter 44 All that matters is profit
Soon, Melia fell asleep.
I, on the other hand, could not fall asleep, and the moonlight shone through the window into the room.
Adri's figure came to my mind, but it only made me feel sadder.
Half a month later, the doctor who examined me confirmed that I was pregnant.
Mede and Carlton were surprised, but respected my decision to keep the baby.
Mining at the two mines went ahead as normal, and as Mede and I had agreed, agreements were drawn up for the Puro City and Mills City coal trades.
I intend to use the smelted iron for the construction of Puro City until a suitable trading city is found for the iron mine.
I hired a teacher for Melia, and Melia would happily tell me every time she learned something new.
But the only thing I don't want to talk about is the past with Adri.
Those memories could sting every nerve in my body.
A month passed, and I unexpectedly met Adri, who looked much haggard and thinner.
He stood at the entrance of the manor and looked at me for a long time without saying a word.
I also subconsciously tried to avoid him, but he came after me and took my hand.
"Kasha, I...... can we talk alone?" Adri said to me.
I didn't answer, I just led him into the manor.
Beside a flower garden, I sat down on a bench.
"What do you want to talk to me about?" I asked, opening my mouth, my eyes, looking to the flower garden next to me, even talking to him, I felt my heart aching and driving me crazy.
"Kasha, I came to apologize to you, I know you're still angry, but I ....."
"Adri, I've figured it out, I can understand how much Misius values you, so I chose to get out of there, but I'm done with you." I said interrupting him.
"No Kasha, I always wanted to be with you, I can't live without you." Adri reached out and hugged me.
"Enough, Adri, like Misius said, I can't be with you, I'm just a maid. Your wife, should be like Karina or Rachel, the Alpha's daughter."
I tried to push him away, but Adri held me tighter and I couldn't break free.
"Kasha, I'm sorry, I can explain everything before, I never meant to hurt you, but the situation was such that I had to do that to protect you......" Adri explained to me with a choked voice. I stopped struggling, to protect me?
"Kasha, there's someone outside to see you!" Melia burst out of nowhere, and Adri let go of me.
"Go away, get out of here, and don't show up again." I said and took Melia away.
Adri did not say anything, nor did he come after me, standing still and watching me walk away.
At the entrance of the hall were a middle-aged man and a young man, and next to them was a young man on his knees, looking less than thirty years old, his thin body trembling incessantly.
Melia hurriedly hid behind me at the sight of them, clutching my hand tightly and not daring to let go.
The two men next to him stared at him with faces full of condescension and indifference.
"You want to see me?" I asked, looking at them.
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"Yes, Lord Kasha City, this man is a thief, he stole a sum of money from me, I hope you can punish this thief." The middle-aged man said in a loud voice, full of anger.
"Lord Kasha, I swear I didn't steal any money. I only borrowed money from Mr. Smith to take my wife, who is very sick, to see a doctor. But Mr. Gauss refused me and drove me away, after which someone suddenly caught up with me and grabbed me. I didn't steal it at all!" The man cried out in despair.
"Burdie, take them back and ask them alone." I said to Burdie, the butler.
"Lord Kasha, he's the one who stole, you shouldn't have arrested us!" Gauss said in a loud voice.
To verify the young man's words, I asked Burdie to go to his house to check the situation and get a doctor over for him if he was really sick.
Soon, Burdie returned.
The young man's wife was indeed seriously ill, and because of the delay, it would take some time to be completely cured.
Mede and Carlton questioned Gauss and his son separately.
The same questions, when pressed by them, received completely different answers. They were lying.
Carlton somehow managed to get Gauss to admit that he had set up the young man.
The reason was because his son had his eye on the youth's sister, and the youth hid her to protect the girl, but Gauss, and his son, tried to get his sister to come forward by falsely accusing him of stealing. Melia also told me that Gauss was Mr. Smith.
His name is Gauss-Amity-Smith.
Melia would also grab my shirt in fear at the mention of him.
I walk back with Melia, only to see Adri again, who hasn't left yet.
"Aren't you going to leave yet?" I asked, looking at him.
"Kasha, I'm willing to make it up to you as much as I can for the damage I've done to you." Adri said to me as he stood in front of me.
"So it was Misius who wanted you to come to me? Now he can look at me as an omega? Or is it because the title of City Lord of Puro City creates greater benefits for you?" I glared at Adri and raised my voice in question, the anger I had been hiding inside me ignited.
"Kasha......"
"From the beginning until now, all you care about is what my father is, what I am, how much benefit I can bring to you, and even trying to kill my child after I got pregnant, is this the sincerity you want me to see?"
The aggression and anger in my heart turned into my rebuke to him.
"Kasha, I promise that I will never do anything to hurt you again." Adri said to me.
"If I didn't have the title of Lord of the City now, would you still say such things to me? Maybe you'd give in to Misius again, Adri, I did always want to be with you, even if I couldn't be your wife. But what you've done has broken my heart and disappointed me." I turned my back to him while tears streamed down my cheeks.
I took Melia and walked back.
In the evening, Burdie returned to the manor.
"Lord Kasha, we found some clues between Gauss and rouge in his house. Knox took Puro City so easily, and Gauss must have something to do with it." Burdie said to me.
"This matter do not mention a word to others, you send people to secretly search the city is not still rouge presence." I said to Burdie.
If it's true, then Gauss is a real bastard!