The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 75

Chapter 75

"She'll be happy if I tell her I saw the Captain's residence today. My fiancée is a huge admirer of the Captain...."

Why was he spouting such useless nonsense?

“Oh, is the señorita an admirer of Cárcel? It would be nice if she could come to Calstera and get closer to him.”

“Yes, she's been looking forward to that day… She doesn't even think about me.”

Jose was unknowingly accumulating more karma. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] How could he boast about such a thing, really….

“Oh dear. Cárcel has committed many sins.”

“No, Señora Escalante. I just live thinking it’s because I’m ugly… It’s alright.”

“Jose, where? You’re handsome and well-built.”

Ines patted Jose's slumped shoulders and tilted her head back dramatically to meet his gaze. She was tall for a woman, but compared to Jose, who was abnormally tall, she looked tiny.

There was nothing he liked about the sound of 'Jose' and the insincere compliments, but that sight was a bit funny. It was also kind of cute….

“Señora, you don’t have to say such insincere things, it’s alright… My body is big, and my head is big too….”

“Jose, your current appearance looks perfectly balanced. And I’m being sincere when I say you’re handsome. Besides, just by being next to you, you make other people’s faces look small, how altruistic is that?”

“For someone who has seen Captain Escalante all her life to say such a thing….”

“You’re being unmanly again.”

He should be speaking properly. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] The manly one was over here, and that one, if he had to categorize him, belonged to the realm of wild beasts.

“But looking back, the construction scale is bigger than I thought, and you’ve already worked on several places inside as well… Have you had a moment to rest since you arrived in Calstera? I don’t know how you’re managing to do all this alone.”

“I haven’t been able to rest at all, but it’s alright. It’s fun to see the changes as I work on it.”

It had only been a week since she started busying herself like she had eaten something wrong, after just eating, playing, and resting the entire time she was in Calstera.

Cárcel inadvertently smiled as he watched Ines shamelessly responding to Jose, then he looked at Jose with a serious expression.

“It seems too difficult for a layman. My fiancée will also be renovating the residence, so I’m worried about what to do if she gets frustrated and complains….”

“I’ll help the señorita. It would be nice for us, wives to get closer as well.”

Helping, wives getting closer… Ines’s recent obsession with doing normal things was beyond ordinary.

Still, whenever he heard such words, he couldn’t help but suspect that there was a different core hidden beneath that shell.

Thinking like a pervert that he would have to strip her naked and examine her as soon as Jose left the house, Cárcel slowly put down his cigar.

The embers glowed red in the sea breeze, then slowly died out as he blew on them. He completely extinguished the end of the cigar in the crystal ashtray and stared at the culprit of tonight's events.

It was time to get rid of Jose.

“Would you really? Just because of the likes of me, she’s already complaining about having to come all the way to this backwater….”

“It’s probably because she’s never been to Calstera. She’ll change her mind once she comes here. This place has its own charm.”

“Her attitude will change completely if she hears that she can get close to Señora Escalante.”

In any sense, no matter how Ines had ruined her own sociability—she was a celebrity whose reputation never died in [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Mendoza.

Moreover, since she had shocked everyone with her sudden change in appearance since the wedding ceremony and then disappeared from Mendoza, if she returned to Mendoza and testified about her recent experiences, Jose’s fiancée, like a symbiotic bird, would also gain fame.

Of course, Cárcel had no intention of watching that happen.

“I’ll also make a close friend thanks to Jose. I hope you two get married soon.”

“Lately, when I see Captain Escalante, I think, like other officers have said, that marriage might not be a bad thing… His expression, you know? He was originally handsome, but he seems to be in a good mood every morning.”

“Is that so?”

He had put out his cigar with the intention of sending Jose away immediately, but seeing him awkwardly flattering him, he watched them for a while, thinking his intentions were noble.

He wondered if he was really like that. A slight self-doubt crept up on him, but he lightly ignored it.

“Yes. And thanks to that, he looks even more handsome, yes.”

“It would be troublesome if he became any more handsome than that.”

That was true.

“There’s definitely a change in him since he got married. This is what they call a positive influence, right…? Señora Escalante’s positive influence is definitely making the Captain more handsome. Yes.”

“Lieutenant, you’re just saying that to please me.”

Ines lightly dismissed Jose’s awkward flattery, as if it were absurd.

“No, Señora, I’m absolutely not flattering you. Absolutely not.”

“Yes, yes. Marriage is good. Jose will definitely make the señorita happy. He’s a meticulous man…. Don’t forget to invite us to the residence first when you get married.”

“Yes, of course.”

“Ah, did I mention it earlier? We’re going to build a glass greenhouse over there. I’ll put a few game tables inside. So you can enjoy them together when you come over. Do you like billiards?”

“…Of course I do, but will the Captain like it?”

“Well, it’s better than him playing alone facing the wall….”

Had his sociability reached a point of no return in Ines’s eyes? He didn’t know who was worrying about whose sociability. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] But more than feeling wronged, Cárcel liked that she cared about his shortcomings.

It was a truly inexplicable feeling. Even though her way of showing that care was like building a playroom for a young boy….

“It seems like he hasn’t been interacting much, so please tell the soldiers and people about him, Jose. He probably acted that way because he knew he was great. He might have been annoying, but I hope you’ll understand. Cárcel is truly exceptional.”

“Yes, I know. He definitely lives for the sake of his own superiority….”

Jose was certainly talented at getting himself into trouble with his words.

However, Cárcel also liked that Ines spoke ill of him while asking for others to understand him as if he were one of her own.

“I’m thinking of inviting the officers and their families once the renovations are complete. With a small dinner and a wine party.”

Even though this was also like asking other young boys to play with her child….

The realization that he was missing the opportunity to send Jose away kept urging him on with the ticking of the grandfather clock, but he listened to Ines’s hypocritical voice for a while longer.

“Lieutenant, please make sure many people attend. If it’s not too late, I’d like to get along with other colleagues besides Jose.”

As Jose had said, no one would dare refuse Ines’s invitation. They had been eager to see even a strand of her hair and say something about it like gossiping sparrows, and Cárcel had long since stopped them from getting excited about when they would be invited to the residence.

Annoyed by Jose’s boasting as if he was the only one she could rely on, Cárcel sent him away before Ines could shower him with more hypocritical praise. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] That idiot, acting like he was something special….

The night was already short for listening to the sound of a bear crying.

***

According to Cárcel Escalante’s closest aide, it was confirmed that he had, unfortunately, been making a fuss only in Mendoza.

Jose Almenara was a man who lived by the childhood adage that he would be thrown into the pits of hell if he lied, so he wouldn’t be able to make up lies for his superior to his superior’s wife. Judging by the fact that he couldn’t embellish his life in Mendoza much….

Ines pushed the disappointing dinner, which yielded no significant results, to the back of her mind. The problem was that Cárcel had no opportunity to meet women in Calstera in the first place.

She couldn’t understand why he didn’t participate in the various social events he had frequented in Mendoza.

While his promotion was undoubtedly due to his lineage, there was no reason for him to deliberately get on the bad side of his superiors. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Besides, parties were right up his alley.

When she learned that he had even skipped several couple events within the military since she arrived in Calstera, she had serious doubts about his sociability in Calstera.

‘…No, it’s too early to be disappointed.’

Contact point? If there was no contact point, she would just create one herself.

The only downside was that she had to pave the way herself since Cárcel’s reputation here wasn’t as good as she thought, but if she just created a setting for him to meet women, he would spread his wings and fly again…….

“…Relaxed? Now you’re even daydreaming while being pounded.”

Her vision suddenly brightened as the lips that were sucking on her chin suddenly bit down hard on her skin.

She had been lying languidly on the bed, vaguely looking at the ceiling with half-closed eyes, just pleasantly swaying along with Cárcel’s thrusts, but now she finally turned towards him.