How to Run Away from Obsessed Men

Episode 60

Kenyan’s heart felt like it was about to burst. He tightened his grip on her shoulders.

If he let go, it seemed like Lindsey might disappear right in front of him.

“W-Who are you?”

Kenyan froze, caught off guard.

The reaction from the woman he held was completely different from what he had expected.

‘She should be angry.’

She should have shouted at him to get his filthy hands off her. But instead, the woman looked at him with fear, as if she were seeing him for the first time.

‘She should have slapped me. She should have told me I was disgusting. She should have glared at me with hatred.’

Yet, the woman—who looked just like Lindsey—reacted in a completely different way.

It reminded him of the old, helpless Lindsey.

The strength in Kenyan’s hands faded. It was then that one of the men standing protectively by the woman pushed him roughly.

“Who are you?!”

Kenyan looked at him, bewildered.

The man looked almost like the woman.

‘This isn’t the Rohan Empire.’

This was not the empire where they had lived. Many people here had black hair and yellow eyes.

‘But how could she look so identical…?’

Was it not Lindsey?

It couldn’t be. It shouldn’t be.

But as soon as Kenyan met the woman’s eyes, he acknowledged the truth.

He had made a mistake.

Her terrified eyes were filled with tears. Lindsey would never cry in front of him like this.

‘It would be more strange if she were Lindsey.’

The dead don’t come back to life.

It was nothing more than a delusion.

“Who are you?”

The man reached for his sword. Kenyan stepped back.

He was here on an imperial mission. Causing a scene would not end well.

“I asked who you are.”

The commotion was drawing attention from the people around them. Kenyan glanced one last time at the woman who resembled Lindsey, then swiftly retreated.

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“I’m fine,” Lindsey said, grabbing Gerard’s arm. She stopped both Gerard and Heis from chasing after Kenyan.

‘Why is he here? That was close.’

Lindsey was impressed by her own quick thinking. The moment Kenyan grabbed her, she had immediately begun acting terrified.

Had she given him any opportunity, Kenyan might have dragged her away on the spot.

‘He was always obsessed with me.’

Lindsey could feel cold sweat running down her back.

There had been too many people watching for Kenyan to make a scene, but he would certainly start suspecting something soon.

‘He’s going to find it strange, no matter what.’

The fact that there was a woman who looked exactly like Lindsey was too odd to ignore. Meeting Kenyan here was something she had never imagined.

Heis, meanwhile, was eyeing her suspiciously.

“Who was that man?”

Lindsey let out a small sigh.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that Heis already doubted her, now she had run into Kenyan.

There was no way Heis hadn’t noticed the intensity in Kenyan’s eyes.

But.

‘Soon, he won’t have any reason to doubt me anymore.’

Lindsey looked calmly toward the Mage Tower.

She had no idea how much her family truly cared for her. She didn’t trust anything under the name of “family.”

She had already resolved to use whatever she could to ensure her own safety.

And she knew exactly what kind of behavior would be most effective.

‘Rosalyn taught me well.’

Acting pitiful, looking sorrowful.

So, Lindsey spoke to them.

“He’s someone who tormented me.”

“What?”

“He’s part of my former fiancé’s family.”

“…”

“My time as his fiancée was horrible. That’s why I pretended not to recognize him.”

At Lindsey’s words, Gerard looked at her with a pained expression.

“He, like the others, thinks I’m dead.”

As she spoke, Lindsey forced a few tears. The things she had endured with the Radian family had been horrible.

But she no longer cried about it. She had shed too many tears; she was dried out.

Lindsey thought of Sylvia.

The hateful look Sylvia used to give her.

“You’re a disgrace to our family.”

“When are you finally going to leave our household?”

“It would have been better if someone like you had never been born.”

Perhaps it was because she was thinking of Sylvia that the acting came so easily to her.

Even Heis, who had been suspicious of her, hesitated at her sorrowful expression.

Gerard was no exception.

He stood with a hardened expression, glaring at the spot where Kenyan had disappeared.

“I didn’t want them to know I was still alive,” Lindsey said.

Gerard wanted to ask what had really happened to Lindsey. He sensed something off.

The man’s face had looked strangely sorrowful, not like someone who had tormented her.

‘He looked as if he was seeing someone he deeply missed.’

The hands that had grabbed Lindsey were trembling, as if letting go meant she would vanish forever. But Gerard chose not to ask about it.

‘Something definitely happened.’

Lindsey wasn’t lying, that much was clear. And that only made Gerard’s heart ache more.

He and Heis had grown up with more than enough love.

They had been raised in the Riken Duchy, treated with all the privileges a noble could have.

No one had ever treated them rudely or looked down on them. But from the little he had heard about Lindsey’s life, it had been completely different from theirs.

“No one will ever look down on you here,” Gerard said softly.

Lindsey gave him a sorrowful smile.

That smile made Gerard feel as though his heart was being torn apart.

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Raysis scowled as he looked at Mikhail, who had come to visit him.

He rubbed his forehead in irritation, his tiredness apparent.

“Are we the kind of people who meet up like this?”

He couldn’t understand why Mikhail had come to him. Raysis disliked the man’s pristine, composed face.

It seemed that Lindsey had relied on Mikhail during her time at the Kesion Marquisate.

Even when she was cold and distant with him, she always tried to be kind to Mikhail.

And now, despite Lindsey’s death, Mikhail seemed completely unaffected.

‘Kenyan was better.’

At least Kenyan had seemed genuinely devastated. Raysis glared at Mikhail.

Mikhail wasn’t one of the people Raysis planned to take revenge on.

Lindsey had cared for him, so it was hard for Raysis to treat him with hostility.

But even that fact left a bitter taste in his mouth.

“Are you just going to leave Sylvia Radian alone?”

Raysis froze.

That was already something that had been weighing on his mind.

Sylvia, the one who had driven Lindsey into hell, was still living comfortably.

From what he had heard, her relationship with her sons had soured, but that didn’t erase the things Lindsey had suffered.

Raysis rubbed his aching eyes. Guilt was eating him alive.

It felt like the room was spinning. He looked at Mikhail with his hollow eyes.

It was then.

Raysis felt as though he could hear Lindsey’s ghost whispering behind him.

It had happened often since her disappearance.

“I’m so tired. I feel like I’m going to die.”

Raysis felt like he couldn’t breathe, as if Lindsey were choking him.

But he didn’t resist. He simply accepted the sensation.

“Why are you living so well, Brother? When I feel like I’m dying?”

“You’re the one who made me like this.”

Raysis clenched his fists.

He wanted to tell Lindsey.

To wait just a little longer.

That he would take everyone who had tormented her with him.

Sylvia, too, was one of the people he had to eliminate for revenge.

But Raysis knew it would take a long time. One reason was the man standing before him.

Mikhail Dweisi.

Crain couldn’t easily get rid of Sylvia because of Mikhail’s need for healing.

In the end, his father would call her back to the capital.

Sylvia would return to her position as the matriarch of the Radian family, living in luxury as she always had.

Raysis snapped out of his thoughts when Mikhail finally spoke.

As always, with a blank expression, Mikhail said:

“I’ll help you.”

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Sylvia paced nervously around her room.

‘Why? Shouldn’t I be the one to heal Mikhail?’

She was confused.

She had been certain that Crain would call for her as soon as Lindsey was gone.

But Crain hadn’t summoned her. It was as if she no longer mattered.

Something was wrong.

Surely, Mikhail needed her to heal him.

‘That wretched Lindsey is gone, so why?’

Hadn’t everything been Lindsey’s fault? Now that she was gone, Sylvia had expected her circumstances to improve.

Yet nothing had changed.

She was still under house arrest, and Crain hadn’t contacted her at all.

She had thought that once Lindsey disappeared, everything would fall back into place.

But reality was proving to be very different from what she had imagined.

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