74 - The Karma You Want

"Isabelle. What about your baby?"

I looked back, where Frederick was following me. In this narrow, dimly lit hallway, he could even still be worried about my pregnancy.

"Do we need to rest?" he asked seriously. I straightened my gaze and smiled at the way he was so considerate of me.

'Can we really take a rest here? It's such a narrow hallway anyway.' I thought with an amused chuckle.

"I'm fine," I replied to him. "You said it, didn't you? This hallway isn't that long. So let's just quickly finish this hallway, then find a place to rest."

I still couldn't believe that the day I ran away with Frederick would come. In the list of destinations that I had compiled in my mind, Matthias was still the one who came first.

After he declared his preference for me over Estella, my hopes rose sky-high. But since when did the world spin so fast? I can still feel his warm grip that carried me away, saving me from the princes.

And now, still, in that same hand, I felt nothing but cold. The earth was