~16~ Heart Beating Louder Than before

As soon as Charlotte's class ended, Louis immediately held one of Charlotte's hands just to remind her that they had to go somewhere else

"Milady, I think you are forgetting something?"

In such a teasing voice, after closing the pages of the book he'd been reading earlier, Charlotte caught a glimpse of how serious Louis had been with his other free hand, causing her cheeks to suddenly soften blushed.

There the lady feels nothing but the warmth that Louis gave her the moment he held her hand. Soft, pale and gentle hands had held her, making her whole body warm. with every tingle Charlotte felt - she can't deny that something waved from Louis' hand to her chest, making it beat rapidly, just like boiling water.

Her heart was already at the point where it wanted to come out of her body.

The sounds of a drum beating engaged the lady's sense of hearing, her eyes couldn't even make out what was happening as her focus was already on the young man's lips.

Just as she was about to leave the room to find a place to calm her thoughts—that's when Louis threw up all her plans—she was already trapped. Like a butterfly in a spider's lair - she cannot even get out of the grip of the web.

But she is no butterfly and she is not fit to get caught in such a web - but she had had the feeling that someone was controlling her every movement.

Her eyebrows were raised, but her eyes had caught something they never wanted to avert, and her hearing went deaf as the only sounds seemed to grow louder each time the warmth tightened on the hands Louis had previously held .

In such a scenario, they were - Louis' brow furrowed just at the moment he learned of the lady's strange behavior. His eyebrows drew together the moment there wasn't even a single answer to the questions he'd asked Charlotte earlier.

There he had no choice but to do the most unthinkable at the moment. Just as he had done to Charlotte in the past few days, whenever he felt like the lady with such a fever, he immediately held both of Charlotte's cheeks, which he suddenly felt warm upon seeing them ruddy in color, he squeezed them a little as he looked at the lady - to know her answer.

But to his surprise, the lady's gaze seems to have been focused on something he can't even imagine

'Is my lady looking at my lips right now? I don't want to assume too much - but I get the impression she's been looking at her calmly for some time now. Didn't I clean it first? Well, that could wait - all I want to do now is check on my lady's temperature, in case she has contracted a fever.'

Then, without hesitation or second doubt, Louis put his forehead against the lady's, only to feel that the lady's temperature was fine.

But what caught his attention was the way Charlotte's eyes suddenly widened. There she came to her senses and when she was about to push Louis away, Louis immediately removed his forehead from the lady and smiled sweetly in front of her.

There he first bowed before looking at the lady without even thinking of changing his current expression

"Milady - I estimate you are alright now, at first I thought you had a fever so I suddenly took your temperature and it seemed like you were acting strange earlier."

A voice as gentle, as soft as cotton, placed on Charlotte's hands to calm her feelings hadn't done much to calm her anger.

She felt like something was wrong with her from the moment she was treated by her new butler. Everything about the young man made her appear the way she currently looks and acts

Until she finally came to her senses the second time and just looked at Louis seriously. That was the time Louis was surprised to see such sudden facial expressions of the lady changing.

She used to feel like she was being stopped or someone was controlling her movements, but right now she felt like she was in control of herself.

The way she was looking at him, the way her eyebrows were on the same flat line, and the way her hands were on Louis' shoulders - suggested she was planning something.

Louis hadn't even expected anything like this - the moment Charlotte's hands had previously been at her sides, had now held both of Louis' shoulders - was the moment Louis felt something about the lady changed.

However, it wasn't just the action that Louis had noticed - the way she was looking at him wasn't the way she was looking at him on the days before they were together. With such intensity in her gaze - she doesn't look into his eyes - but she looks into his soul and it made Louis feel such shivers down his spine when they first met.

It was the first time he had felt anything like this, and it was because of the lady's intense gaze

Seconds later - no one said a word. They stayed as if they were in their world that Charlotte couldn't even process what was happening outside of them.

Her entire view had been taken up by one person, and that was the very person she had been holding in front of her earlier. Seconds turned into minutes and neither felt like letting go of each other.

Louis, on the other hand, doesn't even know why, but he felt captivated by the lady's silver eyes. The moment he took the time to look at these, he felt like he had been in a cold place but still warm.

Just a few minutes ago, Louis heard such a sound coming from the lady's stomach. Charlotte - not even knowing what to do, had immediately loosened her grip on Louis - who was now laughing so hard he had tears in his eyes.

'So that's what she wanted to say from that moment on. I guess she's just shy about saying she's hungry, so it took her a long time to even tell me. Well, if that's the case, then I've got just the right place for you. Also, I think asking her to go to the market wouldn't upset her in the first place.'

With such happy thoughts spinning in Louis' head - he couldn't even stop himself from wiping away those tears as his face had immediately taken to smiling at the lady - a smile that felt like a summer vibrancy when the golden ones Rays of sun fell on him, making him look like a real prince to Charlotte's eyes.

Even if her whole body couldn't move anymore, her cheeks and ears and her neck were a little red from the warmth that lingered on her - she found the courage to explain everything to Louis. It even took her many seconds to move her body just to look at Louis, who had already stopped himself from laughing.

There her eyes suddenly widen the moment she saw such a being in front of her

'What was I thinking before! I didn't even know why I was doing this! I have to explain-------'

But those thoughts she had before had never ended the moment she bestowed her sight on the young man standing in front of him.

The young man looked like an heir to the throne. His silver hair that had been caressed by the golden rays, his eyes that shone one with the color descending on him, his pale skin that turned to gold and her lips that never left his smile.

Everything captivated the lady at the moment and she doesn't even know where to start with her explanation. The moment her eyes locked on Louis, she felt like her throat was controlling every word she had to say.

She felt like opening and closing her mouth and ended up with her eyes widening when she heard what Louis said afterwards

"I know - it must have been hard for you to explain, my lady, but I understand now. So shall we? I'll show you something at the market that will fill your hungry stomach."

Then, without even asking the lady's permission, and hearing what she had to say - his hand had caught what he was holding before, and instead of pushing Louis' hand that was holding her again - Charlotte felt, like her heart had already exploded

'Why do I always feel like this?! I guess there's something wrong with my heart!'