My Fiancée Hates Me novel Chapter 118

"Let's not get married...right before I leave. I do not mean to withhold it forever. I just want us to wait for a while until both of us are able to settle our feelings. I hope that you will wait for me to come back so that we can hold our wedding then," Garett said.

"...I will be waiting," I said as I wrapped my arms around Garett's neck.

Since Garett had been injured, we both decided to leave the hunting grounds to get him treatment at the medical tent on site. This of course meant that we were both disqualified. It made no sense to stay behind, so we decided to leave and spend our time together.

For two lifetimes, I had carried a long resentment towards many people who had hurt me in my life.

To let it all go...

"My Lady, there is a letter Marquis Pillar here for you," Stella said.

"Marquis Pillar?"

When I opened the letter, I saw an invitation to a funeral in Nevel Pillar's name.

As soon as I read that, my legs had suddenly lost all of its strength and caused me to fall to the ground.

"My Lady!" Stella yelled as she quickly ran over to me.

I held my face in my hands from complete disbelief.

"Nevel Pillar is dead..."

I attended the funeral a few days after I responded to the invitation. There, I confirmed that the body in the coffin truly did belong to Nevel Pillar.

So abruptly and so easily...he died without my hand in doing so.

When I saw his peaceful face, I wanted to ruin it all over again, but my curiosity trumped all of my other feelings. A parasite like him could not have died so easily.

"He was so young...to think he lost his life on the hunting grounds," a woman beside me whispered to her friend.

"There will always be a possibility of freak accidents occurring in places like that," her friend said.

The hunting grounds?

In the corner of my eyes, I saw a familiar head with shining flaxen blonde hair sitting in the front row...Erik?

I caught him as he was leaving.

"...Erik, did you have something to do about this?" I asked as I grabbed his wrist behind the building.

"...What do you mean?" Prince Erik asked as he placed his other hand over mine.

"Nevel Pillar died too early...Both of us know full well that he did not die this early in our past life," I said as my entire body shook with fear.

"I did not do anything," Prince Erik said with a smile as he removed my hand from his wrist and held my fingertips lightly.

"Then, why did he die?" I asked.

"I thought you entered the hunting competition. Did you not go?" Prince Erik asked.

He does not know what happened at the hunting competition or about me leaving early because Garett was injured? Maybe he really was not there at the hunting competition...

"...I left early because of some private matters," I said.

"I spoke with Marquis Pillar and his wife. They said that there was a hunting accident. He was attacked by a wandering bear. On further investigation, it seemed that a hunter's stray arrow disturbed its resting area. It also did not help that Nevel Pillar provoked the bear into attacking him thinking that he could kill it himself. If anyone, it was his fault for overestimating his abilities," Prince Erik explained.