Please get me out of this BL novel...I'm straight! novel Chapter 620

Florian quickly covered his mouth.

The nausea hit him again, stronger this time. His stomach twisted, and a wave of dizziness followed right behind it.

For a moment he thought he might actually throw up right there behind the curtain.

He forced himself to breathe slowly through his nose.

'Why does everything feel worse tonight?' he thought. 'Is it the stress… or is it the pregnancy?'

His head spun.

'If they're mother and daughter… why don't they act like it?' he wondered. 'And that Amethyst girl… is she also Juno's daughter?'

But she sounded younger than Cindy.

He frowned slightly.

'Juno looks… older. Too old to have a daughter Cindy's age, doesn't she?'

Adopted, maybe?

No.

Something about it didn't sit right.

Something about this entire place had felt wrong from the start.

Juno acting mute, and then pretending her daughter isn't her daughter, was just a piece of it.

"I'm sorry," Cindy was saying quietly. "She's just being annoying."

"Bleh," the girl called Amethyst replied, her voice dripping with playful sarcasm.

"Amethyst, please stop that. Don't tease your sister, it's unladylike." Juno said, sounding tired. "And Garnet, can you accompany Cindy tomorrow while she attends to the prince? There is something suspicious about him. I even noticed the way he looks around. The way he watches us."

Florian stiffened behind the curtain.

'She noticed that?' he thought.

"I understand, mother," Garnet said softly. Florian could still hear her clearly despite the whisper. "But… mother, is it really so bad if he knows?"

A pause followed.

"Didn't you try to hint to the queen all those years ago about what was happening here?"

The hallway fell silent.

Completely silent.

Florian's eyes widened.

'The queen…' he thought. 'Anastasia.'

That was right.

Years ago, Anastasia had come here too. Because of Elara.

The memory made his stomach twist again.

"And nothing happened," Juno said at last. Her voice was flat. Cold. "Nothing will happen. Nothing will change. If anything, it just made everything worse, and now I'm not allowed to speak."

'Oh...?'

She let out a quiet breath.

"This is our life now. Didn't I already explain that to you and your sisters?"

"But mother, don't you—"

"I don't want to hear it," Juno interrupted sharply.

Her tone left no room for argument.

"Let's just go feed the rest now, and then we will sleep. Garnet, you are pregnant. You should not overexert yourself."

Florian blinked.

'Feed the rest?' he thought slowly.

Before he could process that strange phrasing, something shifted behind him.

The wall vibrated.

Very faintly at first.

Then stronger.

Florian nearly jumped.

'What the hell?'

The curtain trembled slightly against his shoulder. The stone wall behind it hummed with a deep mechanical sound.

It reminded him of something.

The dungeon doors.

The heavy stone doors that opened during dungeon raids.

"Yes, mother," Garnet said.

"Relax, sis," Amethyst added cheerfully. "We live in a huge manor and eat great food every day. We're the luckiest maids ever."

"Don't be insensitive, Amethyst," Cindy scolded.

"Oh, who are you calling—"

Their voices slowly faded.

Not because they stopped talking.

Because they were moving away.

Downward.

Florian's heart started beating faster.

He carefully slipped out from behind the curtain and looked down the hallway. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

No one.

The corridor was empty again.

He moved quickly to where the voices had been.

And then he saw it.

An opening.

A dark entryway built into the wall.

Florian stared.

"Where does this… lead?" he murmured under his breath.

He stepped closer.

The air drifting from inside was colder. Damp. It smelled faintly of stone and something else he couldn't identify.

He considered following them.

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