Revenge Costs Interest [EN]: Chapter 164

Revenge Has Interest 164

164. Terran’s Shock

2024.01.11.

Terran arrived at the house where Leia lived. It was less than five minutes away from the hospital.

The small, cozy house was as charming as if it were made of candy—a beautiful house straight out of a fairy tale. In that moment, Terran’s mind was filled with complex emotions.

‘Grace, why did you leave me and come to this strange place?’

Even after coming to this unfamiliar land to find his woman, it still didn’t feel real.

He never imagined that he and Leia would be in this situation.

‘This must be a dream.’

The beautiful kingdom of Greymon felt unreal, and Terran still found its wondrous scenery foreign.

“Shall I go in?”

Luke looked at Terran hesitantly, puzzled. When they left the hospital, he acted like he was going to barge in right away, but now that they had arrived at the house, he hadn’t moved an inch.

“No, wait a moment… Luke.”

For some reason, he didn’t want to visit recklessly.

“This might be selfish, but I want to see Grace happy in that house. That’s the only way I’ll feel a little better.”

“It’s not selfish. If the young lady came all the way to this faraway place and is living in misery, I would be upset too.”

But human emotions are so fickle.

The very peace he wished for was something he had to shatter with his own hands. The reality that his presence could disrupt her stable life made him feel guilty.

Was this the right thing to do? Would it be better to turn away and pretend he didn’t know?

“Now that I know where Grace is, should we go back, Luke?”

“Are you saying you’re going back without seeing the young lady?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s not like you, Master.”

“That’s right, I’ve always been obsessed with Grace, trying to trap her. I was always anxious when she was out of my sight, and I was the kind of man who would seal off the entire city if she tried to leave my side.”

That’s why he felt even more disillusioned. He didn’t want to torment Grace anymore…

“You don’t want to disrupt the young lady’s peace?”

“If I had to say…”

Terran nodded instead of finishing his sentence.

He loved her before, and he still loved her in this moment, but his love seemed to have matured a little.

Compared to the past when he only wanted to possess her and be obsessed with her, he now knew that wasn’t all there was to love.

“Master, still, we’ve come all this way. Let’s just watch from afar before we leave.”

Luke led Terran to a small cafe right across the street.

The two sat facing each other at a window table and ordered bitter espressos.

“It’s a very long way from Lubeck to Greymon. Shouldn’t we at least check how the young lady is doing? It will be hard to come back here easily once we leave.”

“I suppose so.”

Terran couldn’t take his eyes off Grace’s house throughout the conversation.

Luke couldn’t help but laugh at Terran’s behavior. The difference between his words and actions was, after all, love.

He remembered how he had tried so hard to reject Channer, but his eyes were always on her.

Then, Luke desperately hoped that the woman he saw yesterday was not Grace.

‘That can’t be. There’s no reason for the young lady to be in a wheelchair. If she had an accident and became disabled, she would have told Master.’

Luke frowned and shook his head.

He had been worrying all night, but the conclusion was that it was just a guess he made in his eagerness to find Grace quickly.

“Why? Is the coffee not good?”

“Yes? It’s bitter.”

“Espresso isn’t sweet.”

“That’s right.”

It was the moment when the two of them simultaneously raised their coffee cups.

The door of the house across the street opened, and two women came out. And they saw a very unexpected sight.

Grace in a wheelchair and Sarah attending to her.

Grace had a small basket on her lap, perhaps going to buy bread for breakfast.

Terran couldn’t believe the sight even with his own eyes, and he just stared out the window with his coffee cup in his hand.

‘What I saw yesterday wasn’t wrong.’

Luke quickly put down his cup. Terran’s shock was so great that he had to do something to fix the situation.

“Master.”

He kept calling him, but he didn’t answer.

Luke snatched the coffee cup from Terran’s hand, and only then did he come to his senses and run out of the cafe.

“Gr…”

Terran tried to call her with all his might, but no sound came out. It was clear that his throat was blocked.

Then, Terran first made eye contact with Sarah. She was also surprised, and her face turned pale for a moment.

“Gr…Grace.”

Her name barely leaked out between his trembling lips.

But the sound was too small to reach the other side. It must have been that his throat was blocked.

Only then did Terran realize why Dr. Karen hadn’t told him about Leia’s condition in detail.

It was because she felt too miserable to tell him herself, so she wanted him to see it with his own eyes.

Soon, goosebumps like ice flowers rose to Terran’s scalp, and his temples throbbed.

“Grace!”

Terran shouted at her.

At his voice, Leia dropped the basket she had placed on her lap.

She wondered if she had misheard.

She thought she was just hearing things because she missed Terran so much, but when she turned her head, he was standing across the street.

“Terran.”

Leia looked dazed, too surprised. Even though she was seeing it with her own eyes, she kept asking herself.

‘Is this a dream? Or am I seeing a hallucination?’

The one who gave Leia, who was in chaos, an answer was Sarah.

“The Duke has arrived.”

Terran strode over and stood in front of Leia. His face was pale, as if he had received a great shock.

He didn’t ask what happened or why she was in a wheelchair. She would have preferred him to shout and get angry.

As if a solid wall was collapsing powerlessly, Terran knelt down in front of Leia. His eyes were already full of chaos.

“I’ll ex…plain everything, Terran.”

Leia tried to cup his face with both hands and make eye contact.

But Terran was in despair, his soul shattered. Soon, thick tears streamed from Terran’s eyes.

“Terran, get a grip! I’m okay.”

Rather, Leia was restless.

He was a man who didn’t easily show tears in any situation.

He was a man who endured with evil even when he was intoxicated with poisonous herbs in the Basel Forest, but at the sight of her in a wheelchair, Terran’s solid wall was shattered miserably.

“Ugh!”

Terran trembled and wailed like a wounded beast. He looked at Leia, grabbed his head, and shook it violently.

“Master! Get a grip!”

Luke ran over and tried to calm the convulsing Terran, but it was no use.

Even though Leia kept coaxing him, Leia’s appearance was too shocking for Terran, and he couldn’t even recognize her. Soon, Terran gasped for breath.

“Heuh-!”

“He can’t breathe properly.”

Sarah shouted in surprise. As expected, Terran was struggling, clutching his chest as if he was having trouble breathing.

“Sarah! Call Dr. Karen!”

“Yes!”

Sarah ran to the hospital, and Luke and Leia tried to calm Terran, but he collapsed to the floor, panting.

* * *

Leia held Terran’s hand tightly as he slept. Fortunately, Dr. Karen came quickly, and Terran soon regained stability.

[It’s hyperventilation due to shock. If I had known this would happen, I would have given you a heads-up in advance…]

Karen also blamed herself, saying she didn’t know Terran would be this surprised.

Karen also told Leia in detail how to calm him down when hyperventilation symptoms reappeared.

[I gave him a sedative injection, so he’ll wake up in about an hour.]

After Karen left, only the sleeping Terran and Leia were left in the house. Luke and Sarah tactfully avoided the situation.

Leia’s heart was complicated as she looked at Terran, who was unconscious.

At one time, she desperately wanted to punish him. That’s why she left his side on the pretext of traveling.

But the moment she faced Terran collapsing at the sight of her, her world also collapsed.

‘I didn’t know you would be in so much pain.’

In the end, she herself was not qualified to criticize Terran for being 독선적 [dogseonjeok – self-righteous/arbitrary in Korean]. She didn’t believe in his love and only valued her resentment.

‘What have I done to you?’

If you love someone, you shouldn’t hurt them like this. Why did she think that only she was hurt and had a hard time because of Terran?

She was also acting arbitrarily, trapped in a victim mentality even while loving him.

Leia sobbed sadly. She realized too late that Terran, who was always strong and solid, was a weak person in front of her.

‘Why do we have to look at each other and suffer here?’

It’s all useless. She’s going to beat her chest while watching her lover in pain.

Just then, Terran’s eyelids fluttered.

“Terran, are you awake?”

Leia hurriedly wiped away her tears. Soon, Terran opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling before turning his gaze to Leia.

“Grace, isn’t it?”

He denied it as soon as he came to his senses. He vehemently rejected the terrible reality he had seen.

“Like Aiden, you too…?”

Terran’s face was horribly distorted.

“No! Never!”

Leia stood up from the wheelchair to prove it to Terran, and his eyes widened again.

Terran jumped out of bed and approached Leia, stroking her legs.

“I’m okay, Terran.”

“But why?”

“That’s… Actually…”

Leia only moved her lips and couldn’t speak easily. Her mind went blank on how to say it.

“Walk.”

Terran wanted to confirm that Leia’s legs were fine, and she walked as if to show him.

He sat down on the bed after watching Leia walk for a long time.

“Grace, you’re not feeling well, are you?”

His doubts were not completely gone.

From the beginning, he suspected that it wasn’t because Leia couldn’t walk that she was in a wheelchair, but because she wasn’t well enough to walk for a long time.