A Handsome K*nky Gangster Reporter - Chapter 78

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The light disappeared in Hailey’s eyes. If she was left like this, she would ran out of breath soon.

From that moment on, something in Edmund’s chest suddenly snapped.

“Oh, no. It’s not that I don’t love you….”

He just wanted her to be in the same place. Therefore, he was relieved. I think the new relationship with jealousy here and there would strengthen their relationship. They were just having fun.

“No, you should always be here. You’re mine.”

A moment later, the door suddenly opened and the other maids ran towards them at a terrifying speed. A red-haired maid who looked like Hailey was crying hard. And the maid looked at him like a demon, as if she could see Edmund.

“This is all your fault. I wish you never met her, you should have not met my daughter! Royan, you bastard! Are you even a human? Huh?!”

‘What does she mean?’

Edmund was overcome by a mysterious feeling. He closed his eyes and reopened them after a moment, and the place he was in has changed in a snap. He was standing alone in his dark room. Edmund was holding only one necklace with his sweaty hands.

“Is it a dream?”

‘Is this necklace really cursed?’

Edmund hurriedly threw the necklace away and continued feeling uncomfortable. After pulling the bell, he ordered the servant who appeared quickly.

“Bring wine. Something that is very strong.”

His mouth tasted bitter. ‘I don’t think I can sleep tonight unless I got drunk.’ What kind of curse did it give him to show him such a dream? He looked down at the necklace on the floor and felt strangely anxious like never before. At the same time, he was also frustrated.

“I will never make my woman lonely again.”

‘Give me a chance, Hailey.’

If what the necklace showed was a warning about the future, he was certain that he could do better this time.

* * *

Bella’s eyes trained on one of the articles after seeing the newspaper published by her daughter. It was an article about the cursed necklace that she wore on her neck every time her daughter died.

‘Rumor has it that it’s an ominous curse object. I never thought Hailey would see this again.’

But this time, the necklace didn’t return to his daughter. To Bella, the necklace was something that made her worried that her daughter might die again.

She must have contacted her daughter while writing the article. Perhaps, the reason Hailey fainted yesterday was because of this necklace.

Bella became antsy and bit her nails and even sneezed.

“Perhaps, this is why she fainted yesterday, no?”

“Hah? Mom, what are you talking about?”

“Oh, it’s nothing.”

Hailey stared at Bella, who seemed to be thinking about something serious, and lifted her spoon again. Guests occupy the dining room of Baron Stephan’s residence that they didn’t even own. Bella always insisted that her family should eat together in the morning and acted as if she was the owner of this residence. In fact, Gloria went to work at the bank early in the morning, saying that she wasn’t good with the routine. As if accustomed to situations like this, the waiters have been serving quite a lot of food.

On the table was food that seemed too much to feast on for breakfast. The guests included the Duke of the Lischer’s only son and the Dunger’s son who appeared as the new rich man. The newly recruited Baron’s chief servant gave special attention in treating guests for the future of Baron Stephan’s honor.

“Noona, eat more meat. It’s better to eat more meat from now on to boost your stamina.”

Claude cut the steak into small pieces and pushed the plate that contained the small cut of meat in front of Hailey. Phillip wiped Hailey’s lips with his thumb as if showing the sign of competition.

“There are crumbs of bread around here.”

Seeing Phillip licking his finger, some of the waiters in the vicinity screamed exaggeratedly. Phillip offered a gentle smile to the waiters. Some of them have whispered to each other, probably because they fell in love with Phillip.

Regardless of what was unfolding around him, Claude was only focusing on Hailey.

“How are you feeling today? Shouldn’t you take a break again?”

“Hey, what about the paper? Private employees can’t rest as much as they want, even when they’re sick.”

Hailey ran her spoon across her plate as if she had no appetite before getting up from her chair. As a result, Claude and Phillip also rose from their seats.

Bella felt strange at the sight of desperate men clinging on her daughter. At the same time, she felt satisfied. ‘May they turn and suffer if possible.’ Bella prayed inwardly.

“You want to go to work?”

“Yes.”

“My daughter, please come home early.”

Bella wanted to tell Hailey to be careful with men, especially with the two people next to her now, the most dangerous.

Bella wanted to say that, but opted not to. She has learned from the experience of accidents caused by excessive intervention in the other lives of her daughter in the past.

Phillip walked up to Hailey.

“Hailey, come work with me today.”

“No, I’ll go on my own.”

“Yesterday, Turd Payne’s face was just known by some people. You’d better stay by my side for a while because you’re currently in danger as well.”

“How do you know?”

Phillip smiled and narrowed his eyes as if he was reluctant to answer. Looking at that, one of the settings in the novel appeared in Hailey’s mind.

“You’re the leader of the Black Scorpion!”

Hailey observed Phillip’s confident expression. He’s already walked his way according to the contents of the novel.

“All right, that’s good. Everything’s finally going the right way.”

Hailey patted Phillip’s shoulder with a proud expression, and Claude, who wasn’t happy about it, intervened between them. He put his finger in Hailey’s hand that touched Phillip’s shoulder and jerked it away.

“I think it’s enough of me to take care of and make sure Noona’s having a safe journey to work, so you should go and manage your stuff.”

Seeing Claude gritting his white teeth while acting wary of Phillip, Hailey thought he was like a territorial wolf baby who has been attacked and seemingly upset. She laughed and stopped two people who were staring fiercely at each other.

“I’m fine, so I can just go on my own. Do what you have to do.”

“Of course not!”

“Noona, come with me.”

Seeing them fighting in the dining room for a while, Bella just muttered.

‘They both don’t look good in my eyes.’

If possible, Bella wants her daughter to get rid of the men in her past and find a new love, or live independently and prosperously. Was such a greed was too much for a mother? She wondered.

Bella wiped her wet eyes while remembering the two previous lives of her daughter.

* * *

In the bottle that Bella received from her former husband, Daniel, there was a poor soul that was once a special concern while living her life as an angel. At first, she received a soul, but she didn’t understand at all how to give birth with her own body. Years passed by just like that and Bella was looking for her former husband who might have been reborn. However, after hundreds of years, she didn’t even find his shadow, let alone Daniel’s reincarnation.

“When I spoke to him because he looked the same from the outside, it turned out that he had a very different personality. Looks like he won’t show up in front of me again this time. That’s because he hates me, isn’t he?”

She has been staying for too long in the human world. The lonely Bella unconciously spoke using a soul-filled bottle she always carried with. The soul contained in the bottle radiated a soft light as if responding to Bella’s words.

“I’m afraid you’ll give up and will have to return to my place again. Why don’t you start a new life now? Are you still sad because of your past memories?”

When Bella said so, the sickly soul got upset. So, they remained together for another hundred years. The spirit came out of the bottle and entered Bella’s stomach as if it was finally the right time.

Witches and angels were not born, so that explained why they didn’t have the ability to reproduce. Angels were pregnant through male sperm, which meant that the baby to be born is just a clone of the mother’s body. Maybe because of that, her daughter was born with the same appearance as an angel.

She was her daughter who got a harsh lives for the first two times. Seeing the face of the little baby, the angel was suddenly frightened. Then, Bella couldn’t trust herself raising her own daughter without her husband.

“Oh, my God! What have I done?”

There was no point to regret it because it’s been too late. The little daughter who looked like her is alive and moving. Bella wanted to leave everything and escape. ‘I’m scared.’ She’s got a lot of wounds. In life, even this time, her fear increased while thinking about the possibility of hurting it.

Therefore, she ran away and left his daughter to a kind-hearted couple who led a normal life. Of course, the couple was given a lot of money in exchange for raising her children.

‘I never imagined that it would cause great anger in that house.’

The house where the child was left was a home that looked nice from the outside. The man is sincere, and his wife is a gentle woman. Although their daughter seemed to have a bit of anger issue, she basically was not a ill-behaved  girl. She was an ordinary kid who has many personality and wished to be loved by adults like children around her age.

“Please take care of my daughter  until she grows up. I’ll give you 100 pieces of gold in return.”

At the time, 100 pieces of gold wasn’t much money for Bella. Besides this money, she bought immortality and already owns some properties, diamond mines both in the capital and province.

Unlike the hesitant woman, the man immediately accepted the witch’s offer with mouth agape.

“Uh, we’ll take care of her as best we can. Don’t worry.”

That was how Bella entrusts her daughter to the most trusted partner. Prior to being spotted, the hair color and pupil of the child she gave birth turned into angelic powers.

And Bella traveled around the world looking for her former husband, Daniel Mertes, who might have reincarnated. When Bella returned to the Morris Empire, Bella was very surprised to hear her daughter from the waiter.

“What! That man killed his wife a few years after I left like that?”

The fact which she heard was surprising. The couple, who thought the gold trade was a great business for them, said that the money made the husband gone crazy. He became lazy, and immediately did nothing but indulging in pleasure. The man, who resorted to gambling, started to spend a lot of money for that, and his wife was k*lled just because he was cheating on her. The man then covered up his crimes by spreading rumors to his neighborhood that his wife d*ed after giving birth to their second child and suffered from long back pain.

The gambler sold her precious daughter to an old man when she grew up, and her daughter even became a widow at a young age, but now became the Crown Princess.

Hearing the story from the waiter, Bella was hesitant because she didn’t know how to react when she heard her daughter became the Crown Prince’s wife. Although it was said in the end to have had a happy ending, the princess suffered a lot before ascending to the said position.

‘It would be too rude if I just came here and told my daughter that I was the one who gave birth to her.’