My Fiancée Hates Me novel Chapter 43

"I wonder where the next book is for this series..."

I had some time, so I went to Icarus for a change.

"The next issue does not appear until the beginning of the next month," someone answered for me.

I looked to me left and saw a pair of beautiful emerald green eyes slightly being hidden under a pair of lenses. The man's long beautiful black hair softly fell down his shoulder as he bent closer to me and moved his face beside me.

"Garett?" I gasped.

"It's been a while, Arielle," he said with a smile.

We had tea at a nearby tea shop.

"You are a difficult person to get a hold of."

"Kind of..."

He casually drank his tea.

I was not really mad at him before, but his nonchalant attitude is starting to get on my nerves.

"Garett..."

"You have become beautiful," he said.

My heart thudded so loudly that I forgot everything I had wanted to say to him.

"Pardon?"

"It seems that compliments do ease women's anger."

I tried stepping on his foot only to be swiftly avoided.

"I was not that angry before...Now, I am," I said.

"My mistake then," he said as he added a sugar cube to my drink without asking me.

I wanted more sugar anyways...

He is exactly the same as the older version of the first cycle, a bit overbearing and arrogant. I almost miss his younger days when he would blush at almost everything.

"Prince Erik seems to have confessed his feelings for me," I said as I mixed the sugar cube in my drink.

"...He did? Congratulations," he said as he sipped his drink.

"I said that I was in love with you..."

He spurted his drink out to his left.

It was the first time I had ever seen him act so unrefined before.

"Cough! Cough!"

"Are you alright?" I asked as I handed him a napkin.

"Come again?"

"I apologize for using you...I used you as an excuse to get out of Prince Erik's confession as wrong as it sounds," I said.

"...Aren't you in love with him?" he asked.

I was in love with the memories of my first life with him...

"...It just so happens that I do not see a future between the two of us."

"You were engaged to him at one point. I find it a bit strange for you to not see a future with him."

"H-How do you know about that?" I asked nervously.

"...I have my connections," he answered vaguely.

Right...

This person is Prince Erik's cousin.

"Our engagement was something decided upon by our parents. Surely, Prince Erik would act kind to me and force himself to love me out of obligation. When I saw that he had the same feelings for me despite everything makes me believe that some people were meant to fall in love with each other. However, that love is a burden...I do not intend to be a liability to him."

"...A liability?"

"I do not want to be the one who holds him back."

"I don't think that Prince is that weak..."

"That may be so, but I am," I said with an awkward smile. "No matter how strong I make myself or how much I pretty myself up, I do not have confidence or willpower to stay by that person's side...That is why I can only watch him from afar with these troublesome feelings."

My eyes began tearing up.

I was sad that I lost Erik in my first life because of my weaknesses. He had protected me several times because I was incompetent.

I was sad that I was not able to respond my true feelings to him.

I was even more sad that I had to lie to him in order to cover everything up...