The Villain's Sickly Wife Dislikes Being Overprotected - Chapter 3.9

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As my mind slowly started working again, I realized it was an offer I couldn’t refuse.

It was the only way I could avoid sharing space with commoners while giving up my room to the staff.

It was a solution that satisfied both my demands and Kyron’s.

“Are you uncomfortable?”

“……”

In fact, there was nothing strange about the situation since he was my husband.

“……Alright.”

I reluctantly agreed.

“But then, let’s put a cot in your room for me to use. I’m used to sleeping alone in bed, so sharing with someone would be uncomfortable.”

Nothing would happen between Kyron and me anyway, given our mutual indifference. Still, I didn’t want to be uncomfortable.

“Sure, let’s do that.”

He readily accepted my final condition.

Somehow, I feel like I came to solve a problem but ended up with an even bigger one.

We don’t know how long this isolation will last, and we’re supposed to share a room for that entire time. But by the time I came to my senses and tried to cancel, Kyron had already left.

He was already instructing the servants to move my luggage.

I turned towards my room with a slightly dazed mind.

I saw Lia, who had peeked out curiously.

“Did you hear everything?”

“Yes! Thank you so much, Madam. It must have been a really difficult decision to give up your room for the servants… How fortunate that the Master offered to share his room with you!”

Lia even seemed secretly pleased. She must be excited that Kyron and I would be sharing a room.

“I didn’t expect the Master to step up like this.”

She was surprised by Kyron’s bold request.

“I know. I didn’t expect things to turn out this way either…”

I looked back at Kyron, still unable to believe the situation.

***

Perhaps because it was winter, it quickly got dark outside.

Since they had to set up the cot and the staff needed to move their luggage, I couldn’t spend time in my room.

In the end, Lia, Allis, and I spent a bit more time in the lobby.

Allis was busy explaining the rules and strategies of chess to us, as we didn’t know much about it.

Concerned about my health in the cold, Allis wrapped her thin cardigan around me.

Lia seemed to be intentionally trying to match my mood by losing consecutively. I protested, saying there was no way she was not losing on purpose, and insisted on playing a few more rounds.

In the end, I kept her there until she started yawning.

The time I spent holding onto Lia under the pretext of chess came to an end, and it was finally time to go to bed.

Allis, who had been trudging through the snow since early morning, seemed very tired and had been dozing off for a while.

I told her to go up to my room.

She was planning to sleep there with Hanna. Along with a few other hotel staff.

“They say all of your luggage has been moved, Madam.”

Lia told me.

“All of it?”

“Yes. The servants from the Duke’s mansion moved all your valuables and clothes. Since others might use that room, you know.”

This lifestyle where I didn’t have to lift a finger was certainly convenient.

Now that it was really time to go to bed, I headed towards the room.

Originally, my room and Kyron’s room were right next to each other, so the direction was exactly the same as going to my room.

As I was nearing Kyron’s room, I realized I was still wearing Allis’s cardigan.

I should return it. I wonder if she’s already asleep?

As I was about to enter Kyron’s room, I walked a few more steps and arrived at the door of my room.

Worried about waking Allis if she was already asleep, I put my ear close to the door. It would be difficult to tell if she was asleep like this, though.

Voices were flowing from behind the door.

“Isn’t it rather inconvenient that the Duchess gave up her room? Is she doing this on purpose to make us bow and thank her?”

I froze like a statue with my hand outstretched, not even touching the doorknob.

I think I heard this voice earlier.

The owner of the voice, not imagining that I might be behind the door, continued speaking.

“Is she pretending to be nice? She seemed to have a bad temper earlier.”

It was them from before.

I clenched my fist.

I might let it slide once, but not twice.

“No, maybe she’s doing this just to share a room with her husband?”

Another voice offered a new opinion. It seemed to be the other person who had spoken out earlier.

Let’s see how far they’ll go with this conversation.

“Oh, is that so? My goodness, that could be it!”

“I guess she’s using her own tricks. We’re the only ones suffering because of it.”

“Someone else moved all the luggage that was in this room. We just exhausted ourselves moving the cots.”

“Do you know I’ve scrubbed the bathroom in this room twice just today? If it were a regular guest, I’d barely clean it once, if at all.”

“Exactly. What a hassle this is.”

“I have to work my joints off just to make ends meet, while she lives comfortably after luckily marrying a Duke.”

I fully understand that gossiping about superiors with colleagues can be quite stress-relieving. Moreover, being isolated and unable to go home, how frustrated they must be. They need someone to direct their arrows at.

There probably isn’t a more suitable prey than me, a Duchess who doesn’t even receive proper recognition.

But at least you, who are comfortably sleeping thanks to my goodwill, shouldn’t do this.

Even if you don’t bow and scrape several times expressing gratitude, you shouldn’t gossip about me.

Just as I was about to burst open the door, another voice from inside the room seemed to control my actions.

“Ah, it’s so noisy I can’t sleep!”

This was a familiar voice. It was Allis.

I stopped my attempt to open the door.

“You people, do you live without thinking? Is your brain properly fixed in your head?”

Allis’s voice resonated so loudly that I didn’t even need to put my ear to the door. Rather, I was worried that others might hear.

“If the Duchess hadn’t been considerate, wouldn’t you all be shivering in the cold by now? Can’t you grasp the situation? Thanks to whom are you sleeping in a warm place?”

The staff, who had felt safe thinking they were among allies, realized there was an enemy hidden in the room and were no longer as confident.

“W-well, to say it’s thanks to her when we’re suffering more because of her…”

“Suffering? Suffering? Ha! You have a lot of complaints for people who are paid to work. Why don’t you include in your calculations the generous bonus you’re set to receive this month due to the Duke and Duchess’s visit?!”

The staff couldn’t argue back anymore.

The Allis in the room now seemed like a different person from the one I knew.

Was she always this loud and harsh with her words? The one I had seen was clumsy but lovable.

“If you’re going to live with that kind of mindset, why don’t you just leave this room and go sleep in the lobby or some other cold empty room? I can’t share a room with people like you!”

Allis was furious. Her voice was like a declaration of war, threatening to forcibly push them out of this room if they didn’t leave on their own.

“Get out!”

“But, we were told to use this room…”

“Get out, I said! I don’t care if you die on the cold floor!”

I couldn’t hold back anymore and finally flung the door open.

“Uh…”

“Duchess…”

Allis and the staff who had been arguing froze, just as I had earlier.