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Chapter 219
Chapter 219
After a long while, Clemente put the pregnancy stick into his pocket and picked up the lemonade again.
He crossed the lawn and found Janet and the twins by the water fountain.
“You are back!” Belle jumped up as soon as she saw him, “Come and smell the roses, Clemente. The gardener just picked it out for us.”
“Thank you, Princess Belle, but I am good,” Clemente replied in a polite yet distant voice.
Then he turned to Janet, “Lady Janet, I was wondering if I could ask for a day off today.”
“A day off?” Janet was stunned, “W–What for?”
She couldn’t get him out of her sight for even one second when she tried to dispose of that pregnancy stick.
And now he was asking for a day off?
It sounded too good to be true.
Clemente’s face remained expressionless, “My brother died on this very day, 6 years
ago.”
A deathly silence fell upon them.
“…I am sorry. I didn’t know about that,” Janet said lowly after a long pause.
“It is alright. But I want to visit him at the cemetery. Bring him some flowers. Let him know that I am doing OK.”
“Of course,” Janet nodded hastily. “Go.”
“And can you stay with Prince Wells and Princess Belle before I come back? That way I will know that you are safe.”
“Just go, man. We are with Janet,” Wells said.
Belle picked up a bunch of roses and handed it to Clemente, her eyes misty,
give this to Keavy? Let him know that we all miss him very much.”
“I will. Thank you, Princess Belle.”
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With the bunch of roses in his hand, Clemente turned and left the water fountain. 45 minutes later, he arrived at the Lycan’s cemetery, which was perched on the summit of the mountain, overlooking the sprawling valleys below.
The air was thin, and the distant echoes of nature’s melodies seemed muted by the weight of grief that clung to the place.
As Clemente climbed up the winding path, he could feel the crisp mountain breeze carrying the scent of pine and damp earth, intermingled with the aroma of roses in his hand.
Keavy was buried at the center of this graveyard, underneath an ancient tree.
When Clemente arrived, there were already two people standing by Keavy’s grave. One was a lady dressed in a black dress, and the other was a boy at around 7 years old.
“You are late.”
Agnes turned around, with tears still glittering in her eyes.
“I was with Janet and the twins,” Clemente said.
He bent down to rub the boy’s hair, “How are you, Bryn?”
Bryn was Keavy’s kid.
The resemblance between them was so sticking that sometimes Clemente felt that he could see his late brother through Bryn.
Yet their personalities were nothing alike.
Keavy was cheerful, outgoing, and a people person. He was like a magnet, drawing everyone around to him.
Yet Bryn didn’t pick that up. This boy was quiet and sullen, eyes always looking down at his own shoes.
Just as now, he not only didn’t answer Clemente’s question but even tilted his head.
slightly to avoid his uncle’s touch.
Clemente let out a sigh internally.
He turned to his brother’s tombstone and set the bunch of roses down on the ground
Princess Belle asked me to bring this.
“Take it away!”
Agnes’s voice became sharp abruptly, “Keavy hated the roses. You know that. Clemente frowned, “No he doesn’t.”
Agnes rounded her teary eyes, looking hurt, “Are you…Are you saying that I have forgotten what my husband likes or doesn’t like? Clemente, how could you!”
The frown between his eyebrows grew deeper.
He didn’t want to argue with Agnes.
So he moved the roses a little to the right, away from the tombstone.
“Happy?” he asked quietly.
Agnes blinked her tears away, “…What do you have for me?”
Clemente hesitated for a few seconds.
Then he took out that pregnancy test stick and handed it to Agnes.
“What is this?”
Agnes took it from him, “A pregnancy test? Why am I looking at it? Don’t tell me you
are dating someone right now. Wait…
Her voice suddenly grew shrill again.
“…Are you dating that obnoxious little princess?!” she snapped.
Clemente looked offended.
“Belle is not obnoxious,” he said deeply.
“And you are defending her!”
Tears streaming down Agnes’s cheeks as she shrieked:
“Do you know what a hard time she gave me a couple of days ago? She expelled me from my own tea party, Clemente! How can you ever hang out with her? You swore to your brother on his deathbed that you would always help and support me. Have you completely forgotten what you said-”
“Enough!” Clemente growled.
He closed his eyes, taking in a deep breath to organize his feelings, and then opened them back up again.
“I won’t talk to Belle again if it upsets you,” he said coldly. “But that pregnancy test
Belle’s…I took it from Janet.”
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Agnes froze on her spot.
Her eyes grew wider and wider, with a mixed emotion of disbelief, rage, and panic flickering across her eyes-
“That BITCH!” she screamed abruptly at the top of her lunge.
Bryn winced by her side.
“Agnes!” Clemente snapped.
He gently nudged on his niece’s shoulder, “You can go play, Bryn. Your mother and I
need to talk.”
Bryn gave his mother an anxious look and ran off.
Clemente turned back to Agnes, a very serious look on his face, “Can you watch yourself around the kid? You scared Bryn. And it wasn’t the first time.”
Yet Agnes was not listening to him at all.
She was pacing back and forth in front of Keavy’s tombstone, biting her nails anxiously.
“That bitch is pregnant…pregnant with Westin’s child…”
She jerked around to Clemente, “It is Westin’s child, right?”
Clemente’s face tightened, “I don’t know.”
“I bet it is!”
Agnes snapped.
“She can’t get her hands off Westin! You should have seen the way she stared at Westin…it was like a dog drooling over fresh meat…disgusting…”
“Agnes…”
Agnes suddenly stopped pacing. NôvelDrama.Org is the owner.
She covered her face with both of her hands and made a sobbing noise.
Clemente looked at her helplessly.
He took out a handkerchief and walked close to Agnes, handing it to her, “Here. Stop crying…”
Yet she didn’t take the handkerchief.
Instead, she buried her face onto his shoulder, crying even louder, “Why can’t I have anything good in life? Why does the Moon Goddess hate me so much that she hates to take away everything I care about? First Keavy, and then…and then this….
She hit him on the arm.
“Why didn’t you kill Janet when you had the chance!” she cried.
Clemente stood on his spot stiffly.
“…I tried once. On the night that you asked me to,” he said lowly. “But I didn’t know that Belle and Wells were with him… Then the next day, Westin asked me to be Janet’s guard-”
“And?” Agnes demanded, “You were staying with her 24/7! You could have killed her in her sleep with a pillow, you could have pressed her head down to the water when she took a shower, you could have pushed her down from a goddamn window…and yet you did NOTHING! Give me one good reason why you did nothing, Clemente!”
Clemente’s chest heaved, “I have the King’s order to protect her-
“Westin doesn’t know what is good for him!”
Agnes yelled at him, a hysteric look on her face.
“That bitch Janet is toxic! She is bad to Westin and to the entire Lycan’s Kingdom! We have to get rid of her…for Westin’s sake!
Clemente lowered his head, saying nothing.
Agnes grabbed his arm and shook it with more tears pouring out from her eyes: “Clemente… Clemente, I am begging you. Go kill her and that bastard in her body. You will do that for Westin, right? Remember what Keavy asked of you? To protect me and to look out for Westin. How can you watch that woman destroy Westin like this? You have to do something…”
Clemente shook off her hand abruptly.
He raised his head.
His gaze became cold.
“Is it really for Westin? Or for yourself?” he asked icily.
Agnes parted her lips in panic.
…W–What do you mean?” she stuttered.
“Do you want Janet to die because she is bad for Westin? Or because you want Westin yourself?!”
His angry voice echoed in the silent graveyard.
Agnes’s face turned pale.
“Answer it, Agnes!” Clemente hissed, “To my brother’s grave!”