Chapter 67
“Viern…?”
Her green eyes, which had been staring blankly at him, widened momentarily, and then, with a soft gasp, she clapped a hand over her own mouth. All sleepiness vanished in an instant.
Seeing that reaction, Viern was certain. Her memories had returned. And she was… hiding that fact from him.
“When… did your memories return?”
“Uh, that is…”
Under his sharp, cold interrogation, a flustered Diana’s eyes darted around as she stammered.
“Actually, I, um…”
Even a cover story was needed, but her usually sharp mind wouldn’t turn properly. What should she say? When should she say her memories returned?
“A, a little while ago, no, not a little while ago, I mean…”
Once her words tangled, they kept tangling further.
“Your Highness.”
Viern interlocked his fingers with her fumbling hands and squeezed them tightly.
“From now on, there must be no falsehood in anything you say to me.”
He pierced her with an intense, penetrating stare into her green eyes.
“I-I…”
“A little while ago, when we were intimate. Did you have your memories then?”
Nod.
“What about the day you got out of the sickbed, and we walked in the palace garden, saying we’d find your memories together? Then?”
Nod. Nod.
Her timid, consecutive nods while sneaking glances at him made Viern’s pupils tremble slightly.
“When you were kidnapped by those men…”
Nod.
“Don’t tell me, even the last time we were intimate in my office…?”
Nod…
Diana’s face gradually transformed into that of a child who had committed a monumental mistake. Viern couldn’t believe it, tightly shutting and then opening his eyes.
“What about during the Founding Day banquet?”
“…….”
“Don’t tell me… even that day… you had your memories?”
“…….”
“Your Highness.”
This time, unable to answer easily, Diana rolled her eyes and averted her gaze, only for her chin to be lifted by a thick finger. As her eyes rose and met his, Diana hastily nodded again.
“Ha…”
A sigh of disbelief escaped him.
“You told me you liked Aisen. So you said you needed experience and brought male prostitutes from the street into your bedroom. Were you acting with your memories even back then?”
“Um, that was…”
“No, don’t answer. So all of this…”
Diana timidly opened her mouth to say something, but Viern immediately covered her lips.
“It was all lies and acting, wasn’t it?”
“…….”
“Let me ask just this one last thing. Did you—”
His face twisted violently at the assumption he couldn’t bear to voice.
“Were you ever, even for a single moment, truly without your memories?”
“…….”
“In fact, did you never lose your memories at all from the beginning?”
“…….”
Diana couldn’t give any answer. But that was answer enough.
“Ha! Haha!”
A rough, savage laugh burst from between his teeth. At the sight of the man who had always been composed and courteous before her now like this, Diana timidly protested in defiance.
“Y-You got angry first!”
“…….”
“You were the one who got angry at me first, that day by the lake! So I-I didn’t want to see you angry at me anymore, so that’s why…!”
“No wonder… it felt strange. A woman who supposedly lost her memories suddenly developing a conscience she never had.”
But her continued excuses were sharply cut off by his cold voice.
“You felt sorry for the Marquis’s daughter? So you thought you shouldn’t do ‘that’ with me anymore?”
She flinched. Diana shrank back and scooted away while sitting, inching backward. Facing his bloodshot, terrifying eyes, her instinctual sense of danger kicked in.
“I-If I said that… it was because I thought you’d stop being close with the Marquis’s daughter… huh…?”
At that moment, her body was suddenly grabbed and flipped over.
“Viern? Vier… Haahht!”
Plunge! Without warning, he drove himself between her spread legs.
“W-Wait, Vier, ah, mm…!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack. Each time he mercilessly hammered his hips, her body, folded over like a dog, shook violently.
“Why? Didn’t you trick me because you wanted to do this?”
“No, that’s not, ahhht!”
That wasn’t it. It was never a performance aimed at his body. That’s how it ended up, but regardless, Diana felt a little wronged.
“Were you having fun until now?”
Viern was both astonished and furious at the sight of her, moaning and drooling as she chewed on him even now, and equally disgusted with himself for getting aroused in this situation.
“Ah, aahn, ah…!”
“You made a complete fool of me. What were you thinking, watching me beg you?”
“Hhhng, too, too deeeep, Viern, Vier, rnnn…!”
“In front of my declaration of love for you, you kept dripping that bastard Aisen’s name and watched me suffer—was it amusing?”
“Y-You too, ahhht, every day, mmph, in front of me, you were, with other women, hhah…!”
At her words, Viern’s movements halted for a moment, and his handsome face twisted in anguish.
“Damn it.”
A crude curse left his lips as his large palm gripped the curve of her b*****k. He gritted his teeth, seemingly pulling himself out of her clenching entrance, then slammed back into her deepest part in one forceful thrust.
“Hhaahnn!”
“So I, I said I was sorry, didn’t I!”
“Ahhng, hh, ah…!”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you I liked you sooner, sorry I couldn’t love you sooner, sorry that I love you this much…”
He pressed his body against her back, murmuring something continuously, but amidst the violent lovemaking that made her vision flash white and her mind go blank, Diana couldn’t think of anything at all.
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