The Nymph Wants to be Plundered - Chapter 142

The vast lavender garden and fragrant tea fields she had only heard about in words—she wanted to see even those. The old sacred site… apparently the stairs were broken, so it seemed she probably wouldn’t be able to go there.

She was curious. She wanted to know. About the world she had never known until now.

Filled with excitement, she opened her book to study the letters, then stared blankly at the scene of afternoon sunlight gradually being dyed with darkness. In her head, the squiggly letters she hadn’t fully memorized were still floating around. Wondering if it would be easier to study tomorrow if she practiced a bit more while she had time, she was closing the shutters and opening her book when she was startled. A shadow was cast over the white page.

He would often wait like this, without any plan, until she happened to discover him by chance. Not every time, but occasionally—and he found this moment tremendously enjoyable.

“Lord Cassis…!”

This was much earlier than his usual time of returning home. What was going on? As Evelyn broke into a bright smile and tried to stand up, his single comment made her sit back down.

“You were studying so diligently without even knowing I was coming—how far did you get?”

Faced with this sudden progress check, her face turned bright red. Times when she had to prove something she had done always made her nervous, so it couldn’t be helped.

“I… Well, the truth is, I still don’t know all the letters. It’s difficult for me.”

Elvish was quite different from Imperial, the continental common language, or the Kingdom and Elvish languages, which she could somehow read despite their difficulty. The biggest difference from the first two scripts was that sometimes the Elvish letters themselves had inherent meanings carved into them. Ruba had mentioned that in passing. Later, even if she could read haltingly, the meaning wouldn’t immediately enter her mind—and that was natural.

Cassis lowered his head further, making his shining blue eyes completely dominate her field of vision. It was a method he had learned from someone just hours ago.

“If you’ve made this much progress, you should be able to write your name.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Here, try writing like this.”

‘Ah…!’

He came around behind her, and his large hand gently grasped her hand that was still holding the pen, beginning to write letters on the practice sheet.

“E, ve, lyn. This is your name.”

Evelyn was so nervous that she couldn’t even hear the scratching sound of the pen tip on paper properly. Thump, thump-thump. The pounding that started in her heart rose all the way to her ears, so she simply, simply moved her hand as he directed. He looked at her name written with strong strokes and smiled.

“Haha, I wrote it in block letters without realizing. Hmm, it’s not quite cursive, but shall we try writing it again with a slightly flowing script?”

Soon her name was carved again below in the same letters but with elegant handwriting. One was majestic, the other beautiful like birds flying in succession. Looking back and forth between the two names written the same yet differently, Evelyn wanted to stamp her feet in regret.

Ah, if only it had been a blank page with nothing on it, that would have been better. She had been keeping it ever since receiving a note written in the Kingdom language from him, so it was precious. But she couldn’t ask him to tear out a page and write it again. Instead, something else at least!

She suddenly pulled out courage from who knows where and said:

“Please write Lord Cassis’s name too.”

“My name?”

“Yes!”

At her casual question, he couldn’t help but laugh. It wasn’t as if Evelyn would cunningly try to obtain his signature on this occasion to imitate it and forge something. Even if she attempted such a thing, it would be his fault for not recognizing it. He gladly wrote his name in block letters.

“Here it is. Hmm, there’s one letter mixed in that you don’t know yet. If you study diligently, you’ll learn it someday. Ah, don’t go rummaging through books trying to find this letter ahead of time. The proper order is important.”

“Yes.”

Having preemptively pointed out her shallow and cute greed, he put down the pen and placed his hand on the table. Even at that casual movement, Evelyn’s heart lurched, because vivid memories came back of how he had thoroughly licked her lower body here. Come to think of it, it wasn’t just this place but everywhere else too. The bed, the dressing room, the terrace, the wall next to it and near the bookshelf as well…

Under the pretext of being for her sake, Cassis had undressed her anywhere in this bedroom that constituted her space and explored her without restraint. As she had desperately wished, he had grasped her love in his hands and thoroughly plundered it.

‘…I like you. I can’t deceive myself by saying otherwise.’