In Place of Losing My Memory, I Remembered That I Was the Fiancée of the Capture Target - Chapter 4.8
After some time, my fever went down and my condition improved, but by then, there were only five days left of summer vacation.
———In the end, I didn’t get to go anywhere.
I wanted to go to the beach…
I haven’t seen Patrick in a while.
I feel lonely.
In the midst of this sadness, Rebecca came to visit me.
“You probably can’t have donuts yet, so I made some compote.”
“Wow!”
The container was filled with glossy, red-tinted fruit, likely apples.
“What a beautiful color…”
“I simmered them in wine. The alcohol is cooked off, so you won’t get drunk.”
“That’s amazing. I didn’t know you could make things like this, Rebecca.”
“I’ve always enjoyed making sweets since my previous life… Besides, compote is just simmering, so it’s not too difficult.”
When I took a bite of the compote, the scent of the wine gently spread through my mouth.
“It’s delicious!”
The balance of sweetness and the sourness of the apples… they combined perfectly.
“I’m glad.”
Rebecca smiled happily.
Rebecca always had a cute face, but today she seemed more mature, or rather more feminine… Could it be?
“…Why are you grinning?”
“I was just thinking that Rebecca’s become more beautiful because things are going well with Liam.”
“Huh?!”
Rebecca’s face turned red in an instant.
“W-What are you talking about?!”
“Well, have you been seeing him during the break?”
“Uh… yes… sort of…”
———So they have been meeting.
I was convinced.
“There was that garden party recently, right? The one with the games.”
“…Yes.”
“Were you together there too?”
“He asked me to keep the bugs away.”
“Bugs?”
“After he escorted me at the evening party, people thought he had overcome his aversion to women. So he got a lot more attention.”
“Oh…”
Liam, the son of a marquis and the prime minister, is a better catch than Theodore
No wonder he became a target.
“So… he told me he doesn’t want anyone else as his partner from now on…”
“That’s something he says at the end of the game!”
In the game, that’s when he gives the partner an amethyst necklace as a token.
“Did he give you a necklace?”
“…Not yet, but…”
“Where else have you gone on your dates?”
In the game, it was often places like libraries or museums.
“…Does it really matter?”
Rebecca, with a flushed face, looked at me.
“More importantly… did something happen on the day of the garden party?”
“…Huh?”
I was taken aback by Rebecca’s words.
“…Why do you ask?”
“That day, Theodore left early.”
“Theo did?”
“The prince was supposed to come too, but he was absent. When someone asked Liam about it, he said, ‘He couldn’t come due to urgent matters.’ Then, Lord Theodore, who heard this, said, ‘I have to go back,’ and left…”
“I see.”
So that’s why Theodore returned early that day.
———If he hadn’t returned quickly, the prince would have…
“Alexia? Did something happen?”
Rebecca tilted her head in concern as she watched me shiver and hug myself.
“…Yeah… you see…”
I hesitantly answered.
“It seems I was the prince’s first love.”
I told Rebecca about the prince, about Theodore.
Everything I had learned up until now.
I wasn’t sure if I should tell her.
But… it was too hard to keep it all inside.
I needed someone———someone like Rebecca, who knew about our past lives and the game———to listen to me.