Reborn to Flee My Fiance's Obsession (Fiona and Soren) novel Chapter 325

"I'll tell the small kitchen to prepare some snacks for you," she had said.

He hadn't refused.

Later, he had eaten quite a lot.

He was clearly hungry. Fiona had sat beside him and watched, and he didn't seem as cold as usual. He turned his head and looked at her. "Do you want to go see the lanterns?"

Fiona's eyes had lit up at once, and she'd happily agreed.

Then, after a brief pause, she had asked, "Lord Soren, you don't like New Year?"

"I don't," Soren had said lightly.

But that trip to see the lanterns hadn't really turned into anything pleasant.

Halfway through, Soren had left because of urgent business.

Fiona tried hard to recall everything about that day.

Later on, that was the day they ran into Zephyr.

Zephyr hadn't called her cousin-in-law, and he hadn't called her Lady Fiona either.

With a smile, he had called her Ms. Fiona.

......

Soren walked beside her at an unhurried pace. After a long stretch, he finally said, "I really don't want to go back to the Zonfrillo Estate. To me, that place isn't the estate it used to be anymore. But I don't know who I can say that to. After turning it over again and again, you're the only one I can speak to without worry."

What Alexander had done—sending people to assassinate him—could only stay buried in his chest. If word got out, the Zonfrillo Estate would be dragged into disaster.

He could disregard Alexander and Vincent.

He could not disregard what the family had built over generations.

And if anything happened to the estate, there was no way he would walk away untouched.

To outsiders, the Zonfrillo Estate had to look united.

"I know Lord Soren isn't someone who clings to life and fears death. If it really came to giving his life for the Zonfrillo Estate, Lord Soren would go to it calmly. But Alexander reached an understanding with His Majesty, and he even sent men to kill you himself. That would've chilled anyone's heart. Not just yours. If it were me, I'd turn into a madwoman too."

Fiona wasn't talking nonsense.

A betrayal like that was enough to make her chest tighten just imagining it.

"But life still has to keep going," Fiona said after thinking it over. "Lord Soren has a future with no ceiling. To let someone else's wrongdoing turn you into a madman—that isn't worth it. As for Penelope and Naomi, they've really always been thinking of you."

Soren glanced at her, plainly waiting for what she meant by that—by this claim that they had really been thinking of him.

"In the last life, every time Lord Soren went out to war, Penelope and Naomi would go together to Frostenden Temple and pray for your safety. Whenever there was anything good to eat, they'd have me bring it back to Radiant Lodge first. It's just that, in that life, they knew there was a knot in your heart, so they didn't dare come close to you. And you clearly cared about them too, but after you changed into someone so cold and ruthless, you never once showed that concern."

And once neither side was willing to open up, things only got worse.

They kept sliding downhill, with no end and no making up.

She had brought it out into the open now, at this point, because she wanted that mother and son to stop suffering that way.

In this life, she wanted them to reconcile sooner.

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