I Didn’t Know I Had Two Husbands - Chapter 9

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“……”

Not expecting her question to be returned with another question, she could not find any words. Her mouth opened and closed soundlessly before she slowly began to answer.

“…Was that something I could even refuse?”

It was a marriage with a severe difference in rank. Her parents had already welcomed it with open arms, and the news had spread throughout the entire capital in a single day. With her personality, it hadn’t been a situation she could bring herself to refuse.

At the same time, she had secretly hoped. That he still loved her after all.

She wanted to believe that their separation had only been temporary, caused by some reason or by his fickle emotions, and that the feelings they had built together all that time had been sincere.

Elaria suddenly felt as if tears might spill, so she pressed her lips tightly together. It had always been like this. Even while they were dating, questions had constantly lingered.

Why is he dating someone like me?

Why did he not make our relationship known to others?

And why had our dates always been only at his residence?

Now that her feelings for him had grown so large, the unfairness she hadn’t noticed back then rose up again and again. Even though she knew it was too late to dwell on it after already getting married, she could not help feeling hurt.

At that moment, he reached out. His calloused fingers pressed firmly just beneath her eyes. The tears that had gathered in her large eyes rolled down.

“You’re… You’re always like this.”

At his incomprehensible words, Elaria lowered the corners of her eyes even further. The more she did, the darker Lucian’s gaze became. Soon, his red eyes seemed to emit a burning intensity.

As he quietly wiped away her tears with his fingertips, he muttered as if speaking to himself.

“…Well, you can’t run away anymore.”

“What?”

Her voice, thick with suppressed tears, came out before she realized it. He had always spoken in fragments that were hard to understand. At his unchanged manner of speaking, Elaria did not ask in anger, but with simple curiosity.

Looking down at her intently, Lucian slowly leaned towards her.

“Mm…”

A cool, clean scent reached her first. She naturally closed her eyes and accepted his lips. Even after so long, her body remembered exactly. As if praising her for parting her lips so naturally, he gently stroked the cheek he was holding and slipped his tongue inside.

Tilting his head, he pushed his tongue deeper. Curling the tip slightly, he slowly rubbed against her palate.

“Mmm.”

She immediately let out a soft sound. He had always teased her palate when they kissed in the past, and her body still reacted the same way. As if confirming the body he was seeing again after two years and five months, Lucian pressed into her mouth in detail.

He licked as if checking her even teeth, then slowly traced along her gums below. Before long, she grabbed his wrist. It was a sign that she was beginning to struggle.

But he easily ignored such a signal, twisting his head further and pushing even the base of his tongue into her small mouth. He pressed down on her small tongue as it tried to retreat, trapping it firmly.

“Nnh…”

As if she could not breathe, she drew in air through the slight gap between her parted lips. Lucian firmly held her face and sealed their lips without a gap. He moved through her mouth as if it were his own.

As Elaria’s strength gradually left her body, she fell backward, and he followed her down. While exploring her mouth, which was filled with the bitter scent of wine, he pushed his own saliva into her.

Half spilled out past her lips, and half slid down her throat. Even so, he did not stop, as if urgently trying to fill her with what was his.

Elaria could not regain her senses under the kiss, which had become far more persistent than when they were dating. Whenever she ran out of breath, she tried to turn her head away to escape, but Lucian immediately followed and sealed her mouth again, making it impossible.

Unintentionally, she kept seeming to retreat, and she did not even notice that her robe had been removed and her slip had been pushed far up. Only when a hot hand touched her thigh did Elaria realize her state, and she opened her eyes wide as she gasped.

Unlike her, Lucian had kept his eyes open the entire time as they kissed. Meeting her gaze immediately, he pushed her slip up even further. After pulling it back enough to reveal her chest, he finally pulled his lips away.

Their lips had been pressed together for so long that the sound of them separating was wet. A thin strand of saliva stretched between them like a silver thread before snapping.

“Haa, haa…”

She understood in her head that tonight was their first night, but she was not prepared. The lingering, intimate kisses alone already made her feel like she might lose her senses.