After I Died, My Husband Went Mad [EN]: Chapter 171

Side Story 2-8

“Ouch.”

“Tsk. Be careful.”

Dihart carefully took Sebelia’s hand and gently lowered it, meticulously examining her eye. It didn’t seem more swollen; perhaps it was just a graze.

While he was at it, Dihart checked every inch of Sebelia’s face for any injuries. Except for her eyes, which were swollen from crying, everything seemed fine. Her cheeks had a healthy color, her lips were rosy, and her clear blue eyes and bright gaze were as beautiful as ever.

She was as beautiful as ever, captivating enough to lose oneself in.

Mesmerized by her lake-like eyes, Dihart was lost in thought when Sebelia grabbed his sleeve tightly.

“You know.”

“Yes, tell me.”

Dihart, barely regaining his senses, nodded.

“Can you call my name just once?”

Dihart tilted his head slightly but readily complied with her request.

“Bella.”

“No, not that.”

“Hmm?”

Sebelia, seeing Dihart blinking as if he didn’t understand, spoke once more.

“My original name.”

“…….”

Dihart, finally understanding her words, looked serious. It was sudden, and she would never ask such a thing unless she was deeply troubled.

“Why are you suddenly asking this?”

“Just call it once.”

“Bella. Bella Ashrent.”

A heavy voice fell over the night air.

“Not that…”

When Sebelia asked again, he slowly shook his head. He gently removed his arm from her grasp and wrapped it around her shoulders.

“Let’s go back to the mansion for now.”

“Dihart, just a moment…”

“Let’s have a warm drink, rest well, and then talk again.”

The experience of meeting her mother must have been a bigger shock than he thought. Otherwise, she wouldn’t ask him to call the name she had abandoned, even faking her death to escape the name attached to that hateful past.

Thinking so, Dihart picked up Sebelia, who wasn’t moving at all.

“Ah!”

Sebelia, suddenly held like a princess, cried out softly and then gently hit his shoulder.

“Put me down. Put me down and listen to me first!”

“Ouch. That hurts. Think about who suffers if you get a bruise, Bella.”

“Put me down if you don’t want to get hit.”

Dihart pressed his lips tightly and silently walked along the promenade to the mansion. Sebelia tried to escape several times, but his strong arms never let her go.

Eventually, she gave up trying to escape only when they reached the mansion. A small voice tickled Dihart’s eardrum.

“My name…”

“Yes, Bella.”

It was when Dihart, deliberately emphasizing the name Bella, stepped onto the front steps.

“My father didn’t give it to me.”

“…….”

“Neither did the butler or the servants. Nor did the uncle who abandoned me or his subordinates.”

Her blue eyes, shining with an emotion that was hard to tell whether it was sadness or joy, sparkled as if to swallow him.

Dihart slowly withdrew his foot from the step and turned his back to the mansion. The sound of walking on the stone path echoed in the night air.

Reaching the gazebo in one side of the garden, Dihart carefully sat her down on a chair. And sitting next to her, he let her lean on his shoulder.

The hair touching his cheek tickled. But more than that, Dihart couldn’t bear it and opened his mouth.

“Then who gave you that name?”

Sebelia, who had been talking well until just now, remained silent. She silently let out a hot breath and took Dihart’s hand placed between them and intertwined their fingers.

He could feel her pulse pounding between their overlapping fingers.

Sebelia then wrote a letter on the back of his hand.

Elena.

“My name was given to me by my mother.”

Dihart bit his lip at the words added like a sigh. He closed his eyes deeply and opened them, then hugged her as if it were a habit.

Then, as if a dam had burst, Sebelia continued to speak.

“When my mother was still in love with my father, she said that if she had a daughter, she would name her Sebelia. If it was a son, Servil, if it was a daughter, Sebelia. And I was born a daughter…”

Abandoned by her father by her uncle’s subordinates. That meant.

As Sebelia hesitated without finishing her words, Dihart spoke for her.

“Then Duke Weden remembered that name.”

“It wouldn’t have been for my mother. Absolutely.”

Amidst being swept away by an unknown emotion, only those words came out so clearly.

“Maybe he gave it unconsciously. The memory of what happened with my mother remained in his memory, and he gave me the name that came to his mind without realizing it. But…”

That name was the name her mother gave her while thinking of her.

Just by that, Sebelia felt the terrible past and hateful memories attached to her name falling away cleanly.

Just by the fact that it was a name given by a mother who loved and cherished her, not a family who abused and used her.

“So you can call it. No, call it once.”

“Bella.”

“Don’t pretend you can’t call it.”

No matter how many times she urged him, Dihart remained silent. As she urged him, the arms that embraced her only tightened, so Sebelia finally took out her trump card.

“I know that sometimes you call my old name in your dreams, and you wake up feeling guilty.”

“…….”

“I know where you go every night. At first, I was surprised and ran to Sir Ilay, wondering if you had gone out for a night of fun again, you know?”

“What.”

“You didn’t really think I would sleep soundly until morning without waking up even once, did you?”

Dihart sighed as if he couldn’t win. As he released the arms he had been holding and straightened his posture, Sebelia immediately grabbed his hand.

“Call it.”

“But, it’s been too long, and.”

“I allow it.”

In the darkness, golden eyes moved here and there as if in trouble. Eyes full of guilt, sadness, and an inescapable longing wandered for a long time before finally turning to Sebelia.

Dihart barely mustered the courage to moisten his parched mouth. Recalling the name he longed for and yearned for, he raised his tightly closed lips.

Whenever he called her name in his dreams, his heart would sink with the contempt and anger that always returned, but when he saw Sebelia looking at him in front of him, the fear disappeared.

He put strength into his neck and squeezed the hand he was holding tightly. Breath that had not yet become a word leaked out between his teeth, and the corners of Sebelia’s lips slowly rose.

Soon, the tip of his tongue, which had been curled up, ran out as if running a race and made a soft sound.

“Sebelia.”

And instead of contempt, happiness was given to him.

“Yes.”

Sebelia, with a bright smile, answered his call. Dihart was breathless in front of a scene he thought would never come again.

“Sebelia.”

“Yes, Dihart. I’m here.”

The sound of insects chirping could be heard in the distance. The light from the street lamp next to the gazebo illuminated their feet.

Somehow feeling unreal, Dihart muttered to himself.

“Kiss me.”

Then, at the sensation of soft touch on his lips, he swallowed his breath. Sweet scent and soft body temperature. Losing his mind was instantaneous.

A persistent and tenacious kiss made the cool night air hot. Only after the noisy insects got tired of themselves and became quiet could Sebelia break away from him.

“Haa…. Anything more than this, after the wedding. Got it?”

Sebelia said, pushing away Dihart, who was wiping his lips with a dissatisfied face. He stared intently at Sebelia’s lips, which were as swollen as her eyes, and nodded.

Then he picked up Sebelia as she was and left the gazebo.

“You, again…!”

“For your information, I can kiss you while holding you. Doing it while climbing the stairs is nothing.”

A low whisper struck her ears. As Sebelia looked up at him with an absurd face, Dihart smiled.

“But I’ll hold back until the wedding, so please look kindly on this much pampering.”

He lowered his head and put his lips on Sebelia’s forehead and whispered softly.

“Okay? Sebelia.”

Feeling the arms around his neck instead of an answer, Dihart moved his steps. He was happy. It was as perfect as it could be. Her existence, smiling peacefully in his arms, made his heart swell.

Dihart was sure.

Now, the day he would leave her side because of nightmares would never come again.

(End)

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