“… I’m Liv Rhodes.”
While greeting, Liv couldn’t shake off her bewilderment. The man was quite handsome, but she couldn’t understand why he talked to her.
In the first place, this was a birthday party for Millian, and the attendees were friends of Millian, parents of Millian’s friends, or acquaintances of Baron and Baroness Vendons.
Then it meant that the man in front of her was also one of them.
“You must be surprised because I talk to you all of a sudden.”
“I’m sorry, but yes. That’s right,”
Liv readily affirmed and Camille laughed cheerfully.
“I was happy to see you, so I immediately initiated the talk. You might not know me, but I know you a little bit.”
Camille quickly continued before Liv had a strange misunderstanding.
“Millian talks about you in every painting class.”
“Aha… Then you are…”
Come to think of it, I think I heard that Millian had found an art teacher.
Liv belatedly recalled the words Millian chattered about. She couldn’t think of anything because she was trying to think of it in a hurry. Millian usually chatted about various topics, so she roughly passed over her story about the art teacher, which had been mentioned a few times.
However, the memory of being quite surprised to hear the name of the school that the art teacher graduated from remained clear. She was impressed by the fact that the Vendons barony brought a man with a good academic background.
“The one who graduated from the Eglantine School of Art…?”
“Yes, I’m Millian’s new painting teacher”
He, who nodded with his eyes folded, creased his nose and grumbled.
“It seems that Millian has told you about me. I hope you’ve only heard good things.”
“They were good stories, of course.”
Liv quickly rummaged through her memory. Besides his academic background, all she could recall was praise for his good looks.
At that time, she just overlooked it, thinking that Millian was at an age where she would be very interested in the opposite sex, but it didn’t sound like a compliment that could be told to the person involved. She wondered whether she should say that Millian complimented his skills.
“Seeing that you can’t speak…”
“No, it was a really good story. She said the art teacher is very handsome…!”
Liv, who spoke in a hurry because she was surprised by Camille’s sad gaze, closed her mouth at once. It was when she had already blurted out the words, however.
Blinking in embarrassment, Liv parted her lips to apologize. But before she did it, Camille burst into laughter.
“Haha, that’s a nice compliment! I have to thank Millian.”
Fortunately, Camille didn’t look offended at all.
Is it okay because it’s not a bad praise in any way?
Liv was relieved inwardly and looked away awkwardly.
“Actually, Millian always brags about you, Miss Rhodes. I really wanted to meet you because of that, and I’m very happy to have that chance today.”
“Yes, thank you for your words, Mr. Marcel.”
“You can just call me Camille.”
“No, how could I…”
“It’s because I want to call you Liv.”
Liv opened her eyes wide. Liv, who was taken aback, soon stared at Camille with strange eyes.
No matter how busy she was with her livelihood, she had been courted by some male students at boarding school.
Although the experience in her student days couldn’t be of much help, she wasn’t a fool that couldn’t even recognize the romantical interest the other person showed her in this situation.
“I’m sorry, but it’s our first time meeting today, so I think it’s right to keep our manners.”
Straightening his face as if it was a lie that he was puzzled by Liv’s words, Camille laughed awkwardly
“Oh, I’m so sorry if I offended you. I’ve gotten ahead of myself.”
“It’s fine. It seems like Millian has praised me too much.”
What in the world did Millian say that would make a stranger show his interest as soon as he saw her face? Liv thought she should indirectly ask Millian to be more cautious in the next class.
“I’ve never heard that I have no manners, but I’m ashamed that I somehow made a bad first impression.”
His cheeks were tinted with a light flush as if proving that he was truly embarrassed. The look of the man with an affable impression blushed naively made it hard for anyone to stay angry.
Wouldn’t there have been a lot of occasions when he benefited from that face?
Having that guess, Liv took a step back.
“It’s all right. Courtesy is not a one-time thing. You just need to be more careful from now on.”
“You are really strict as Millian said.”
Millian said she was strict?
Liv was genuinely puzzled, so she turned to look at Millian in the distance.
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