Schuden was silent for a moment.
Is this what it’s like when someone storms in with something huge?
Schuden started to genuinely get curious. He wondered if the mercenary that raised Valia had taught her some military tactics. Valia had a different interpretation to Schuden’s silence, so she carefully opened her mouth.
“I’m sorry if my question offended you.”
“You don’t have to apologize. It’s not like that.”
It was nothing to apologize for. Most of what Schuden said to Valia was close to the truth. He was not someone with a timid personality who would be offended by just one question.
“I don’t hate sweet foods.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
It’s just that I’m reluctant because of a personal memory.
If Valia had not asked like that, Schuden would not have realized that he was intentionally avoiding a kind of taste called ‘sweet’. He had never put much meaning on anything in his life, he did not even want to do that. Everything in the world was only trivial to do something like that.
But the woman in front of him…
Because it was a question from Valia, he distinguished and answered about his personal preferences for such trivial things. Even while talking, he did not understand himself. Why was he so concerned? Even though it was not much, he was reluctant to answer it right away when he thought that Valia might get hurt.
“But I heard you don’t like sweet things…”
“I ate all the tarts you sent me.”
Didn’t Shaun tell you properly?
Schuden was about to ask like that but he could barely endure it. Even in his opinion, it did not seem good to mention his subordinate in this situation.
“It’s not that. When eating…”
“When I eat?”
Schuden raised his eyebrows a little.
Who informed her of my preference for food this time? Why are there so many people who add useless personal anecdotes to my wife?
“Who said that?”
Valia did not expect that question and just blinked her eyes without finding anything to answer. Schuden’s eyes subsided a little more.
“Is it Paul?”
“No, it’s not him. I found out myself while I was watching you during our meal.”
“During the meal?”
He heard something from Valia that could not be overlooked. A playful smile began to bloom on Schuden’s lips.
“So, you’re saying that you personally observed me eating.”
“Uhh…”
“In case I hate sweet things.”
“I mean…”
Valia slurred the end of her speech. She wondered how she should properly say that she peeped at him because she wanted to see whether he ate sweet desserts or not during meals. Valia imitated the worries that Shaun had a few days ago. A red color began to spread like a rising tide on her cheek.
‘How did it turn out like this?’
In fact, Valia had been measuring her timing lately. For the past few days, she was determined to ask the question, but could only ask it after contemplating. She was under the assumption that Schuden would not think deeply and she could catch him off guard if she asked him one question after another. Did Schuden dislike sweets, what was his favorite food, and so on. If she was not conscious of it, she could ask the question naturally, but she found it rather difficult to say once she was conscious of it.
But Valia ended up even confiding that she peeped at Schuden during the meal. She barely suppressed her desire to slap her mouth. Valia would have hidden under a blanket if she were in her bedroom, but she could not because she was in the study. She was so busy turning away from Schuden’s gaze that she failed to see the smile that appeared in the red eyes.
Schuden stood up.
He circled around the wooden table and sat near Valia. Then, he grinned. Perhaps because her skin was unusually white, once she turned red from blushing, even the tip of her ears turned into a different color.
“Valia.”
“Yes…”
Valia answered in a very slow voice. She was still avoiding his gaze.
“You seem to never want to see my face for the rest of your life.”
“No, it’s not like that…”
Valia was ashamed to be too much like a lover. No, she was so embarrassed that she was caught sneaking a peek. She would not even say anything if she looked at him confidently.
Then, Schuden kissed Valia’s soft earlobe. She flinched and trembled, it was the first time for her to do this kind of physical intimacy in a place other than on the bed. Startled, Valia looked back at Schuden.
“Schu?”
He kissed Valia’s slightly opened mouth. Soft flesh penetrated directly into the slightly parted lips. The silvery-gray eyes opened wide only for a moment and then closed.
His tongue ran through her mouth, teeth, and throat, and was entangled all the way to its root. As the kisses poured out without warning, Valia began to get out of breath. When she was pushed back a little, Schuden held Valia’s head to support her. Her long black hair curled into his hand.
Perhaps Schuden forgot they were in the study on a sofa, or perhaps he did it knowingly? Valia did not know at all.
Schuden had no intention to strip off Valia’s dress. He grabbed her chest with one hand over her dress, strangely aroused even though he was not directly touching her.
He wished that her dress would be a little thinner. He felt that something was amiss, he could not put the soft touch and the hardened peak in his mouth. Schuden’s other hand dug into the inside of her skirt.
He lifted the hem of her skirt, his hand invaded through her underwear.
Valia felt the firm hand caressing her thigh. When she straightened her back a little, Schuden pulled her thin underwear down. Touching the soft and firm chunk of flesh, his hand slid forward.
Even when they had ordinary intercourse in bed, Valia did not see where Schuden had touched her. The way his hands moved was all too erotic, too lewd, and too explicit. She could not even look that way and was just gasping for breath.
But it was a little different this time. Knowing that the skirt of the dress was completely blocking her view, Valia had some courage to look down. To be exact, it was an act of faint courage that arose from knowing that she could not see anything if she lowered her gaze.
The dress blocked Valia’s view. The touch that took place in it stimulated her too vividly. Schuden’s hand, that which she could not see, felt so hot.
It’s too erotic.
The moment Valia thought so, her vaginal discharge fluid burst out. It poured out on the long fingers digging inside her.
A squeaking sound was heard as Schuden dug through her flesh. Each time his fingertips scraped her wrinkled inside, Valia held back her moaning and bit her lips. The fact that she was neither in the dark bedroom nor on her familiar bed had strangely aroused her.
When her view was a little blurry, Valia noticed that Schuden had unbuckled his pants. His penis stood hard as if it were about to eat her. She still could not get used to the size and could not even look at it properly.
The ends of the couple met. When Valia swallowed her breath a little at the huge shaft that was about to break in, Schuden penetrated all the way to the root.
“…Hngh!”
For a moment, it felt like her back was going to break. The firm part of his suddenly spread her body apart. There was no time to even catch a breath. Schuden began to move as if he was crushing her. The thrill that climbed up her waist made it difficult for Valia to pull herself together.
“Ah!”
Her sticky vagina rose in a sensitive way and tightly clenched Schuden’s penis. In an instant, the chills flowing like ripples had now become huge waves. She could not tell anymore, whether it was her body or Schuden’s that was shaking.
“Hngh! Uhn…”
Valia barely managed to hold back her moaning. The bedroom and study had different degrees of sound insulation. Perhaps the people outside could hear all the sounds from the room. Even if she gritted her teeth and endured, she could not stop any small sounds from leaking.
Furthermore, as Schuden’s shaft and her slit collided, the explicit and violent sounds were not something Valia could block.
The sofa was smaller than the bed. Where the range of movement was limited, Valia wept and hung onto Schuden. Her slender legs shook and so did her arms, wrapped around his neck. His penis gave a rough thrust, penetrating her inside. The heat that rose all over her body kept making her toes curl. It was suffocating but Schuden’s movement kept becoming rougher and rougher.
“Hngh…”
In the end, Valia wanted to push this feeling that had badly cornered her, so she pushed Schuden’s chest away. But it was to no avail. Rather, Schuden held Valia’s hand tightly. As if a child was tightly hugging a doll, Valia was completely in his arms.
“Schu, uhn…. Ah!”
His sword was stuck in her sheath. Schuden’s movements became rougher. The love fluid that smeared his penis was already flowing through. She felt like bursting into tears. Her whole body was hot with pleasure. But on the other hand, it was chilling.
“Hngh, hmph!”
It had been a long time since she stopped thinking of holding back her moans. Valia’s seductive voice had become higher and higher. Schuden liked it, he liked Valia’s moaning.
Not only did he like to hear it, but it also felt addictive.
It was weird. They were only exchanging body temperature, but why did they feel like that? Beads of sweat on Schuden’s forearms glided along his muscles. Although Valia’s body was already wide open, it was still lacking. Schuden wanted to dig deeper into her sweet body that seemed like it would still not be enough even if he coveted her all day long.
Even though he was already holding her, he wanted to keep holding her still. The strange thirst swallowed Schuden up. At the height of her climax, her inside was severely convulsed, adding to that thirst every time she clenched. Schuden kept thrusting, he had a limit on how far he could endure his ejaculation. He grabbed Valia’s wrist and moved hard. He felt her back bend. He did not let go of her trembling body. She could not get out of his arms even while convulsing.
“Hngh…”
Both of them moaned at the same time, almost simultaneously. Schuden’s ejaculation erupted into the innermost part of Valia. After having been mercilessly screeched, only then did the sofa become quiet. And so, too, did the quietness spread into the whole study.
Schuden felt a lingering feeling as he hugged Valia drooping in his arms. Their breathings were intertwined for a while. Her body was so warm and soft that he did not want to let go of her for a moment.
At the same time, he began to get an erection again.
Valia’s face turned red in a different sense. She immediately noticed the change in Schuden’s body. It was interesting that she could not say anything even though she was embarrassed. As a test, Schuden moved his waist a little and her thighs immediately flinched.
“Hngh…”
He wanted to do more there if he could.
But Schuden smiled and pulled out his penis. The emission mixed with love fluid came along and overflowed. He roughly finished off and helped Valia, only lowering her skirt because her underwear seemed to have already been wet with the fluid.
Contrary to what Valia had expected, Schuden did not do more. She had a puzzled face, he lightly kissed her lips.
The reason why he had been patient for a while now was because of her lips. There were blurred marks there as she bit it gently while holding back her moans. It was clear that further biting would injure her.
‘Huh?’
Valia wondered when she saw Schuden bending down and packing the documents. The documents included that of the Marchioness, making her tilt her head.
“Hmm, what’s with that document? Are you going to your office?”
“I’m going to the bedroom.”
“Bed…room?”
“Yes.”
How could she not know what that meant? Valia opened her mouth slightly, her cheeks were slightly red.
Save for their nuptial night, it was actually not very embarrassing because Schuden had never finished with just ‘once.’ But she was still a little worried.
“…Schu, can you go first?”
“Hmm?”
“I think it’s going to flow… So I’m going to take a while…”
Valia stammered with a red face. Her underwear was wet so she did not want to wear it again. Putting aside the fact that she had to go all the way to the bedroom without wearing anything under her dress, Schuden’s ejaculated semen was likely to flow down her thighs.
‘Oh my gosh. It’s so embarrassing to even worry about this…’
It was more embarrassing to say it out loud. Valia covered her face that was slowly heating up again. Then, she felt his arm wrapped around her shoulder, and her body was lifted. Valia was surprised and wrapped her arms around Schuden’s neck.
“You don’t have to worry anymore like this.”
“Pardon? No…”
“Or… I don’t mind continuing here.”
“No!”
Valia was at a loss but eventually buried her face on Schuden’s chest. She did not understand. It was clearly the first time for both of them. But why was he so relaxed when she was still as embarrassed as ever? She could not figure it out.
Schuden headed toward the study door hugging Valia. Without even opening his mouth, the door opened right away. The employees were heard giving greetings casually.
Schuden hugged Valia, who was digging further into his arms, tightly.
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Valia woke up like a habit early in the morning before the sun rose.
Every time she woke up, her body was stiff because of her short sleeping time. Valia blinked slowly without even thinking of moving. It was a contradiction; her consciousness could not sink deep into slumber, and yet her body was tired and she could not easily wake up from her sleep.
‘How long will I keep waking up early like this?’
Her stamina was exhausted. At least she did not attend social events, else her tiredness would increase. Valia thought she had to force herself to get more sleep but then stopped. It was because she recognized the light breath that touched her forehead. Her round forehead slightly touched the firm jaw.
‘…Come to think of it…’
Today again, Valia fell asleep while hugging Schuden.
‘It’s been like this every day since we got married.’
Whenever she woke up, she was in his embrace. Today too, Valia fell asleep while hugging Schuden and woke up still hugging him. It was not like Valia slept like a log, she tossed and she turned, but seeing that he did not let go of her, it must be a sleeping habit of his.
She never imagined that the day would come when she slept in the arms of a man covered with firm muscles. Valia’s vague expectation of marriage life with Schuden was something much more dull than this and a lifestyle where no affection could be found.
In all honesty, Valia was happy.
She had to be, Schuden was a good husband after all. He always had dinner with her and picked her up on a rainy day. She had even braced herself that they would be using different rooms but she never slept and woke up alone. Rather, it was Valia who always left Schuden alone in the bed.
‘Have I always been this quick to adapt?’
It was her first time in the past and present to sleep in someone’s arms but she had already gotten used to it. Valia had never felt uncomfortable sleeping in Schuden’s arms, and she liked these trivial facts. Her heart was beating so fast that she was afraid Schuden would wake up.
‘I don’t know.’
Even if she did not know what the future held, she was really happy with the present. Vallia stared at her hand that rested on his chest. It seemed that her hand was raised there while she was sleeping. She was a little shy but she did not want to take it. Valia quietly listened to the sound of Schuden’s heart beating. His heartbeat was slower than that of Valia’s, this should be the normal beat. She was aware that her heart had been beating too fast right now.
‘This is strange.’
Valia was slowly looking for the cause of this ridiculously pounding emotion. Just because Schuden was great and handsome? Because his gazes were decadent and erotic? Valia had rarely felt her heart pounding but that did not mean she was just insensitive.
[I ate all the tarts you sent me.]
Being a special person to someone. It sounded like that. The emotions made her feel like she was floating, even though she needed to be careful. Her heart beat so fast that it was scary.
…Valia did not know what love was.
So she was scared.
Valia knew the future, and later, knew who Schuden loved. Even though she knew, she still volunteered as the temple princess. She could neither blame anyone nor regret her choices no matter what happened in the future. Even though she knew it deeply, she was more scared than ever because she wanted to be soaked in this sweet honey-like happiness.
Nevertheless, right now, Valia took courage and stretched her neck a little bit. She lightly kissed Schuden, who was right in front of her.
Valia had never initiated a kiss with him before and was excited even at the short kiss. She closed her eyes again. Her body was comfortable in his embrace, a drowsy happiness was in the air. Strangely enough, she did not want to get up.
A warm bed, a soft blanket, moderate temperature, and the man who made her heart pound; everything was exciting and all was good.
Not long after, Valia went back to sleep.
It was her first time sleeping so comfortably since she came to the Marquess Garth’s Manor.
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Valia’s pulse slowed down and even her breathing subsided deeply below the surface. When she completely fell asleep, the red eyes showed themselves. Schuden raised his hand and fiddled with his neck, where Valia just kissed.
As a knight and a soldier, a neck was a place directly connected to life for Schuden. When the breathing that touched his neck changed slightly, he was already awake. Had it not been Valia who kissed him, he would have grabbed her shoulder and pushed her away. It was a kind of survival instinct.
Schuden looked down at the sleeping woman in his arms. Long straight black hair. The flowing strands were scattered over the pillow like the night sky. Schuden swept Valia’s forehead slightly. He wrapped the white skin contrasting with the color of her hair in his palms. Her regular breathing proved that she was in a deep sleep for the first time.
‘She slept too little so far.’
Schuden was secretly concerned about it, his wife’s too short amount of sleep. It was so short that he would even believe that his wife was a soldier in wartime. He was even more concerned because she did not even get a deep sleep.
Schuden did not get any reports of her taking a nap during the day. Even though her radius of action was narrow because she was only in the manor, she slept excessively little. Had her inappropriate sleeping time lasted just a few more days, Schuden would have called the family doctor.
But today, she kissed Schuden’s neck and fell asleep.
Schuden was silent for a moment.
Is this what it’s like when someone storms in with something huge?
Schuden started to genuinely get curious. He wondered if the mercenary that raised Valia had taught her some military tactics. Valia had a different interpretation to Schuden’s silence, so she carefully opened her mouth.
“I’m sorry if my question offended you.”
“You don’t have to apologize. It’s not like that.”
It was nothing to apologize for. Most of what Schuden said to Valia was close to the truth. He was not someone with a timid personality who would be offended by just one question.
“I don’t hate sweet foods.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
It’s just that I’m reluctant because of a personal memory.
If Valia had not asked like that, Schuden would not have realized that he was intentionally avoiding a kind of taste called ‘sweet’. He had never put much meaning on anything in his life, he did not even want to do that. Everything in the world was only trivial to do something like that.
But the woman in front of him…
Because it was a question from Valia, he distinguished and answered about his personal preferences for such trivial things. Even while talking, he did not understand himself. Why was he so concerned? Even though it was not much, he was reluctant to answer it right away when he thought that Valia might get hurt.
“But I heard you don’t like sweet things…”
“I ate all the tarts you sent me.”
Didn’t Shaun tell you properly?
Schuden was about to ask like that but he could barely endure it. Even in his opinion, it did not seem good to mention his subordinate in this situation.
“It’s not that. When eating…”
“When I eat?”
Schuden raised his eyebrows a little.
Who informed her of my preference for food this time? Why are there so many people who add useless personal anecdotes to my wife?
“Who said that?”
Valia did not expect that question and just blinked her eyes without finding anything to answer. Schuden’s eyes subsided a little more.
“Is it Paul?”
“No, it’s not him. I found out myself while I was watching you during our meal.”
“During the meal?”
He heard something from Valia that could not be overlooked. A playful smile began to bloom on Schuden’s lips.
“So, you’re saying that you personally observed me eating.”
“Uhh…”
“In case I hate sweet things.”
“I mean…”
Valia slurred the end of her speech. She wondered how she should properly say that she peeped at him because she wanted to see whether he ate sweet desserts or not during meals. Valia imitated the worries that Shaun had a few days ago. A red color began to spread like a rising tide on her cheek.
‘How did it turn out like this?’
In fact, Valia had been measuring her timing lately. For the past few days, she was determined to ask the question, but could only ask it after contemplating. She was under the assumption that Schuden would not think deeply and she could catch him off guard if she asked him one question after another. Did Schuden dislike sweets, what was his favorite food, and so on. If she was not conscious of it, she could ask the question naturally, but she found it rather difficult to say once she was conscious of it.
But Valia ended up even confiding that she peeped at Schuden during the meal. She barely suppressed her desire to slap her mouth. Valia would have hidden under a blanket if she were in her bedroom, but she could not because she was in the study. She was so busy turning away from Schuden’s gaze that she failed to see the smile that appeared in the red eyes.
Schuden stood up.
He circled around the wooden table and sat near Valia. Then, he grinned. Perhaps because her skin was unusually white, once she turned red from blushing, even the tip of her ears turned into a different color.
“Valia.”
“Yes…”
Valia answered in a very slow voice. She was still avoiding his gaze.
“You seem to never want to see my face for the rest of your life.”
“No, it’s not like that…”
Valia was ashamed to be too much like a lover. No, she was so embarrassed that she was caught sneaking a peek. She would not even say anything if she looked at him confidently.
Then, Schuden kissed Valia’s soft earlobe. She flinched and trembled, it was the first time for her to do this kind of physical intimacy in a place other than on the bed. Startled, Valia looked back at Schuden.
“Schu?”
He kissed Valia’s slightly opened mouth. Soft flesh penetrated directly into the slightly parted lips. The silvery-gray eyes opened wide only for a moment and then closed.
His tongue ran through her mouth, teeth, and throat, and was entangled all the way to its root. As the kisses poured out without warning, Valia began to get out of breath. When she was pushed back a little, Schuden held Valia’s head to support her. Her long black hair curled into his hand.
Perhaps Schuden forgot they were in the study on a sofa, or perhaps he did it knowingly? Valia did not know at all.
Schuden had no intention to strip off Valia’s dress. He grabbed her chest with one hand over her dress, strangely aroused even though he was not directly touching her.
He wished that her dress would be a little thinner. He felt that something was amiss, he could not put the soft touch and the hardened peak in his mouth. Schuden’s other hand dug into the inside of her skirt.
He lifted the hem of her skirt, his hand invaded through her underwear.
Valia felt the firm hand caressing her thigh. When she straightened her back a little, Schuden pulled her thin underwear down. Touching the soft and firm chunk of flesh, his hand slid forward.
Even when they had ordinary intercourse in bed, Valia did not see where Schuden had touched her. The way his hands moved was all too erotic, too lewd, and too explicit. She could not even look that way and was just gasping for breath.
But it was a little different this time. Knowing that the skirt of the dress was completely blocking her view, Valia had some courage to look down. To be exact, it was an act of faint courage that arose from knowing that she could not see anything if she lowered her gaze.
The dress blocked Valia’s view. The touch that took place in it stimulated her too vividly. Schuden’s hand, that which she could not see, felt so hot.
It’s too erotic.
The moment Valia thought so, her vaginal discharge fluid burst out. It poured out on the long fingers digging inside her.
A squeaking sound was heard as Schuden dug through her flesh. Each time his fingertips scraped her wrinkled inside, Valia held back her moaning and bit her lips. The fact that she was neither in the dark bedroom nor on her familiar bed had strangely aroused her.
When her view was a little blurry, Valia noticed that Schuden had unbuckled his pants. His penis stood hard as if it were about to eat her. She still could not get used to the size and could not even look at it properly.
The ends of the couple met. When Valia swallowed her breath a little at the huge shaft that was about to break in, Schuden penetrated all the way to the root.
“…Hngh!”
For a moment, it felt like her back was going to break. The firm part of his suddenly spread her body apart. There was no time to even catch a breath. Schuden began to move as if he was crushing her. The thrill that climbed up her waist made it difficult for Valia to pull herself together.
“Ah!”
Her sticky vagina rose in a sensitive way and tightly clenched Schuden’s penis. In an instant, the chills flowing like ripples had now become huge waves. She could not tell anymore, whether it was her body or Schuden’s that was shaking.
“Hngh! Uhn…”
Valia barely managed to hold back her moaning. The bedroom and study had different degrees of sound insulation. Perhaps the people outside could hear all the sounds from the room. Even if she gritted her teeth and endured, she could not stop any small sounds from leaking.
Furthermore, as Schuden’s shaft and her slit collided, the explicit and violent sounds were not something Valia could block.
The sofa was smaller than the bed. Where the range of movement was limited, Valia wept and hung onto Schuden. Her slender legs shook and so did her arms, wrapped around his neck. His penis gave a rough thrust, penetrating her inside. The heat that rose all over her body kept making her toes curl. It was suffocating but Schuden’s movement kept becoming rougher and rougher.
“Hngh…”
In the end, Valia wanted to push this feeling that had badly cornered her, so she pushed Schuden’s chest away. But it was to no avail. Rather, Schuden held Valia’s hand tightly. As if a child was tightly hugging a doll, Valia was completely in his arms.
“Schu, uhn…. Ah!”
His sword was stuck in her sheath. Schuden’s movements became rougher. The love fluid that smeared his penis was already flowing through. She felt like bursting into tears. Her whole body was hot with pleasure. But on the other hand, it was chilling.
“Hngh, hmph!”
It had been a long time since she stopped thinking of holding back her moans. Valia’s seductive voice had become higher and higher. Schuden liked it, he liked Valia’s moaning.
Not only did he like to hear it, but it also felt addictive.
It was weird. They were only exchanging body temperature, but why did they feel like that? Beads of sweat on Schuden’s forearms glided along his muscles. Although Valia’s body was already wide open, it was still lacking. Schuden wanted to dig deeper into her sweet body that seemed like it would still not be enough even if he coveted her all day long.
Even though he was already holding her, he wanted to keep holding her still. The strange thirst swallowed Schuden up. At the height of her climax, her inside was severely convulsed, adding to that thirst every time she clenched. Schuden kept thrusting, he had a limit on how far he could endure his ejaculation. He grabbed Valia’s wrist and moved hard. He felt her back bend. He did not let go of her trembling body. She could not get out of his arms even while convulsing.
“Hngh…”
Both of them moaned at the same time, almost simultaneously. Schuden’s ejaculation erupted into the innermost part of Valia. After having been mercilessly screeched, only then did the sofa become quiet. And so, too, did the quietness spread into the whole study.
Schuden felt a lingering feeling as he hugged Valia drooping in his arms. Their breathings were intertwined for a while. Her body was so warm and soft that he did not want to let go of her for a moment.
At the same time, he began to get an erection again.
Valia’s face turned red in a different sense. She immediately noticed the change in Schuden’s body. It was interesting that she could not say anything even though she was embarrassed. As a test, Schuden moved his waist a little and her thighs immediately flinched.
“Hngh…”
He wanted to do more there if he could.
But Schuden smiled and pulled out his penis. The emission mixed with love fluid came along and overflowed. He roughly finished off and helped Valia, only lowering her skirt because her underwear seemed to have already been wet with the fluid.
Contrary to what Valia had expected, Schuden did not do more. She had a puzzled face, he lightly kissed her lips.
The reason why he had been patient for a while now was because of her lips. There were blurred marks there as she bit it gently while holding back her moans. It was clear that further biting would injure her.
‘Huh?’
Valia wondered when she saw Schuden bending down and packing the documents. The documents included that of the Marchioness, making her tilt her head.
“Hmm, what’s with that document? Are you going to your office?”
“I’m going to the bedroom.”
“Bed…room?”
“Yes.”
How could she not know what that meant? Valia opened her mouth slightly, her cheeks were slightly red.
Save for their nuptial night, it was actually not very embarrassing because Schuden had never finished with just ‘once.’ But she was still a little worried.
“…Schu, can you go first?”
“Hmm?”
“I think it’s going to flow… So I’m going to take a while…”
Valia stammered with a red face. Her underwear was wet so she did not want to wear it again. Putting aside the fact that she had to go all the way to the bedroom without wearing anything under her dress, Schuden’s ejaculated semen was likely to flow down her thighs.
‘Oh my gosh. It’s so embarrassing to even worry about this…’
It was more embarrassing to say it out loud. Valia covered her face that was slowly heating up again. Then, she felt his arm wrapped around her shoulder, and her body was lifted. Valia was surprised and wrapped her arms around Schuden’s neck.
“You don’t have to worry anymore like this.”
“Pardon? No…”
“Or… I don’t mind continuing here.”
“No!”
Valia was at a loss but eventually buried her face on Schuden’s chest. She did not understand. It was clearly the first time for both of them. But why was he so relaxed when she was still as embarrassed as ever? She could not figure it out.
Schuden headed toward the study door hugging Valia. Without even opening his mouth, the door opened right away. The employees were heard giving greetings casually.
Schuden hugged Valia, who was digging further into his arms, tightly.
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Valia woke up like a habit early in the morning before the sun rose.
Every time she woke up, her body was stiff because of her short sleeping time. Valia blinked slowly without even thinking of moving. It was a contradiction; her consciousness could not sink deep into slumber, and yet her body was tired and she could not easily wake up from her sleep.
‘How long will I keep waking up early like this?’
Her stamina was exhausted. At least she did not attend social events, else her tiredness would increase. Valia thought she had to force herself to get more sleep but then stopped. It was because she recognized the light breath that touched her forehead. Her round forehead slightly touched the firm jaw.
‘…Come to think of it…’
Today again, Valia fell asleep while hugging Schuden.
‘It’s been like this every day since we got married.’
Whenever she woke up, she was in his embrace. Today too, Valia fell asleep while hugging Schuden and woke up still hugging him. It was not like Valia slept like a log, she tossed and she turned, but seeing that he did not let go of her, it must be a sleeping habit of his.
She never imagined that the day would come when she slept in the arms of a man covered with firm muscles. Valia’s vague expectation of marriage life with Schuden was something much more dull than this and a lifestyle where no affection could be found.
In all honesty, Valia was happy.
She had to be, Schuden was a good husband after all. He always had dinner with her and picked her up on a rainy day. She had even braced herself that they would be using different rooms but she never slept and woke up alone. Rather, it was Valia who always left Schuden alone in the bed.
‘Have I always been this quick to adapt?’
It was her first time in the past and present to sleep in someone’s arms but she had already gotten used to it. Valia had never felt uncomfortable sleeping in Schuden’s arms, and she liked these trivial facts. Her heart was beating so fast that she was afraid Schuden would wake up.
‘I don’t know.’
Even if she did not know what the future held, she was really happy with the present. Vallia stared at her hand that rested on his chest. It seemed that her hand was raised there while she was sleeping. She was a little shy but she did not want to take it. Valia quietly listened to the sound of Schuden’s heart beating. His heartbeat was slower than that of Valia’s, this should be the normal beat. She was aware that her heart had been beating too fast right now.
‘This is strange.’
Valia was slowly looking for the cause of this ridiculously pounding emotion. Just because Schuden was great and handsome? Because his gazes were decadent and erotic? Valia had rarely felt her heart pounding but that did not mean she was just insensitive.
[I ate all the tarts you sent me.]
Being a special person to someone. It sounded like that. The emotions made her feel like she was floating, even though she needed to be careful. Her heart beat so fast that it was scary.
…Valia did not know what love was.
So she was scared.
Valia knew the future, and later, knew who Schuden loved. Even though she knew, she still volunteered as the temple princess. She could neither blame anyone nor regret her choices no matter what happened in the future. Even though she knew it deeply, she was more scared than ever because she wanted to be soaked in this sweet honey-like happiness.
Nevertheless, right now, Valia took courage and stretched her neck a little bit. She lightly kissed Schuden, who was right in front of her.
Valia had never initiated a kiss with him before and was excited even at the short kiss. She closed her eyes again. Her body was comfortable in his embrace, a drowsy happiness was in the air. Strangely enough, she did not want to get up.
A warm bed, a soft blanket, moderate temperature, and the man who made her heart pound; everything was exciting and all was good.
Not long after, Valia went back to sleep.
It was her first time sleeping so comfortably since she came to the Marquess Garth’s Manor.
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Valia’s pulse slowed down and even her breathing subsided deeply below the surface. When she completely fell asleep, the red eyes showed themselves. Schuden raised his hand and fiddled with his neck, where Valia just kissed.
As a knight and a soldier, a neck was a place directly connected to life for Schuden. When the breathing that touched his neck changed slightly, he was already awake. Had it not been Valia who kissed him, he would have grabbed her shoulder and pushed her away. It was a kind of survival instinct.
Schuden looked down at the sleeping woman in his arms. Long straight black hair. The flowing strands were scattered over the pillow like the night sky. Schuden swept Valia’s forehead slightly. He wrapped the white skin contrasting with the color of her hair in his palms. Her regular breathing proved that she was in a deep sleep for the first time.
‘She slept too little so far.’
Schuden was secretly concerned about it, his wife’s too short amount of sleep. It was so short that he would even believe that his wife was a soldier in wartime. He was even more concerned because she did not even get a deep sleep.
Schuden did not get any reports of her taking a nap during the day. Even though her radius of action was narrow because she was only in the manor, she slept excessively little. Had her inappropriate sleeping time lasted just a few more days, Schuden would have called the family doctor.
But today, she kissed Schuden’s neck and fell asleep.
