Forgotten Juliet / 잊혀진 줄리엣

Chapter 42

Forgotten Juliet - Chapter 42

Juliet raised her head calmly, pretending to wipe her hands with a napkin.

Thanks to her familiarity with hiding her expression, Juliet's disturbance didn't reveal itself at all.

Mrs. Riley, who was inside the store, peeked at her through the glass window, and when she caught Juliet's eye, she waved her hand brightly with a smile.

Juliet also waved back with a broad smile, then swallowed a groan inwardly.

'Why didn't I notice sooner?'

Everything had been going too smoothly, and she had forgotten. Her life had never been smooth.

A thriller scenario unfolded in Juliet's head.

Even this quiet, pastoral town could be the setting for a crime scenario.

In such small towns, people tend to band together. In Lobell, where tourists weren't common, gossip spread quickly enough that the whole town would know if you visited alone within an hour.

'They catch a foolish traveler and sell them as a slave without anyone knowing'

Juliet imagined the worst-case scenario. However, there was one point she didn't understand.

She was, after all, an opponent that could be subdued from the outside.

To kidnap her unknowingly instead of taking such a complicated approach, there must have been a reason for it.

'What could it be?'

She didn't know what their goal was, but the people of this town wanted to keep her in the village.

What did they want? Human trafficking? Human sacrifice? Or perhaps...

'Could it be the Duke's doing?'

Juliet fiddled with the round edge of the teacup with her fingertips.

But why would they do such a thing? She hadn't done anything to warrant resentment, had she?

Oh my God.

Recalling her actions over the past few days, Juliet bit her tongue. Surprisingly, the points of contention...

Were quite many.

She thought she hadn't done anything noticeable, but it seems she had built quite a complicated relationship in just a week since she left the capital.

The group trying to sell that wolf on the train?

Or maybe, the werewolves who mistakenly thought she was an ally of the guild behind this, and not the one who saved Roy.

But it was too meticulous.

If it was a deed by the guild who kidnapped Roy, it would have made more sense to kidnap her in Roadel, right when she got off the train in a fluster.

Juliet thought coolly.

No matter how she thought about it, it seemed the most plausible.

Those who would place the highest value on her.

'The enemies of the Duke.'

Lennox Carlyle had many enemies, and very little was known about Duke Carlyle himself compared to his fame.

Not only because of the Carlyle family's characteristic of not enjoying socializing with other families, but focusing solely on the Northern Territory.

For the enemies advancing to the North, it wasn't a good thing. After all, you have to know your opponent well to find their weaknesses.

Juliet could name more than ten families that would pay a fortune to get information about the Duke.