“Yes. I understand.”
However, Hereis bowed his head, suppressing the deep desire boiling up inside his heart.
Hereis knew how to make Rosenthal his.
If he said dreams weren’t enough and asked for his body, this tender person wouldn’t be able to refuse and would consent. If he appealed that poison attacked him each time he mixed bodies with the Crown Prince—no, even if he just dryly conveyed the facts—Rosenthal would give up both his position as Crown Princess and his love and come to him. He would try to take responsibility for somehow calling out his true name and awakening him as an incubus. There was no need to persuade or cling. He just needed to state the facts.
The Rosenthal Chendewden that Hereis knew was that kind of person.
But he mustn’t do that. He mustn’t take advantage of his good heart.
Hereis thought of his father. A deep shadow was always cast over his beautiful face. The moment Rosenthal left the side of the Crown Prince he loved and came to him, Rosenthal’s smile would disappear too.
Hereis headed to the Crown Prince’s Palace together with Rosenthal. When they arrived at the Crown Prince’s Palace, Raki welcomed Hereis. Rosenthal prevented Raki’s words from growing long and led Hereis to the bed in the Crown Princess’s chambers.
“You must be very exhausted, right? Please take aphrodisiac incense from me quickly.”
Though he must have been scared, though it must have been painful, though he’d nearly died, Rosenthal worried about Hereis without a single word of resentment. Hereis felt the impulse to kiss Rosenthal’s gentle eyes. To greedily devour him, and devour him again. He was swept up in an incubus’s desire to make him his own.
He wanted to confess ‘I love you’ and thrust upon him feelings he could no longer even turn away from.
“A lucid dream is fine too.”
Not knowing his desire, Rosenthal instead worried with a clear face. He must be saying this because he doesn’t remember the last lucid dream. Back then, Hereis had expressed his petty jealousy while taking advantage of Rosenthal’s good heart and sense of responsibility.
“A lucid dream won’t do.”
“I’m fine with it.”
“I refuse. I’ll make you have an erotic dream and tease you about it forever.”
“Whoa, I didn’t see Harry that way but you’re quite a scary person.”
Rosenthal narrowed his eyes and glanced at Hereis. Did he catch on to his true feelings? He waved his hands in surprise.
“What? No, it’s a joke.”
“I know. I was joking too.”
Rosenthal gently closed his eyes with a smile and climbed onto the bed.
“Please give me the aphrodisiac incense quickly.”
“You can do it after your body recovers.”
“I’m perfectly fine! Worry about yourself who’s been starving for four days rather than me.”
Rosenthal took Hereis’s hand and placed it on his eyelids. What a truly cruel person. I won’t be able to escape from this person.
Hereis firmly suppressed his bitterness and infused aphrodisiac incense into Rosenthal.
***
“Ugh…”
My throat was burning and my eyes wouldn’t open well. I couldn’t move a single finger, my stomach churned and my head rang. I tried to move my mouth to call for my attendant Raki, but even my tongue wouldn’t move properly.
What happened? This is different from not being able to wake up. My entire body felt heavily sunken.
I gave up on moving my body and recalled yesterday’s events.
Crown Prince Eldon had taken me to a Hyeon Tribe restaurant by the Serian River. I told His Highness that I would marry Captain of the Guard Hereis, and His Highness blessed me.
And then my memory cut off in the middle of eating in a cheerful atmosphere. Did I drink too much alcohol? But I couldn’t refuse the congratulatory wedding drink His Highness gave me.
Let me get up first. Today I was supposed to go to the dressing room with Captain Hereis to decide on ceremonial robes.
“Raki. Give me some water.”
I barely spoke, moving my stiff tongue. And as I tossed and turned to get up from bed, I heard a ‘clang’ of chains.
My eyes instantly flew open and I bolted upright. A chain was fastened to my right ankle. And the long black chain was connected to red brick.
A desolate red space—this wasn’t my room.
“You’re awake.”
The man sitting in the chair beside the bed spoke in a low voice. Even in the dark space without a single window, the noble silver hair symbolizing the Generoanth imperial family glowed faintly.
Crown Prince Eldon was staring at me with cold eyes different from his usual gentle appearance.
“Your Highness, what’s going on? Were we attacked by the Third Prince?”
“Third?”
I thought the most realistic story would be that the Third Prince Arleigh, who coveted the Crown Prince’s position, had kidnapped us and imprisoned us in jail, but judging from Eldon’s expression, that didn’t seem to be the situation.
“Then who committed such an outrageous act? Could it be the Moheurn Empire?”
The forces that could simultaneously kidnap the Crown Prince of the Keltan Empire and the young duke of the great noble Chendewden family could be counted on one hand. If it wasn’t Arleigh who coveted the Crown Prince’s position, it must have been the work of Moheurn, which opposed the Keltan Empire and waged war for a long time.
Though I spoke with some confidence, Eldon only tilted his head obliquely. Apparently I’m wrong.
“Then the Magic Tower?”
I tried the last possibility, but Eldon slightly shook his head in denial. Seeing his confident expression, he seemed to already know the answer.
“Then who on earth is it?”
Eldon got up from the chair and walked toward me. His ashen eyes clearly stared at me.
“Me.”
“What? ‘Me’? Your Highness, what do you mean…?”
Not understanding his words, I carefully asked, and Eldon spoke in a noble tone.
“I brought Young Duke Chendewden here.”
“You’re joking. Your, Your Highness, why would you do such a thing… You couldn’t possibly…”
I denied his words, but Eldon’s cold expression told me his words were true.
Come to think of it, it was strange. Eldon’s hands and feet were free. Whether by status or martial arts skill, if shackles were to be placed on one of us, it would be proper to restrain Eldon rather than me. If it were the work of Arleigh, an enemy nation, or the Magic Tower, there’s no way they would have only put shackles on me.
“This prank has gone too far! Please release me at once!”
As soon as I realized it was Eldon’s doing, I shouted furiously. But he didn’t move.
“Even if you are the Crown Prince, I cannot overlook this!”
“What will you do if you don’t overlook it?”
Eldon grabbed my chin and lifted it.
There are many things I could do. If Father finds out I’ve been captured, he won’t stand idly by. If the Duke Chendewden family makes an issue of this matter, even the Crown Prince’s position will be in danger. But I couldn’t say anything. His voice was like a beast’s. Like a small mountain animal placed before a beast’s eyes, my entire body shrank.
“Please release me. If you do, I’ll let this matter pass.”
“That’s not possible.”
The hand that had grabbed my chin moved down and tore my shirt right off. Watching the buttons fall away helplessly, I screamed.
“Your Highness!”
“It’s all your fault. How dare you get married? Saying you’ll become another man’s!”
“Your Highness, I…”
“Rosenthal Chendewden, you are mine! I can’t give you to anyone!”
“!”
His Highness had such feelings for me? While I was flustered, his hand tore through my shirt and even tried to remove my pants. I urgently grabbed his hand.
“Please don’t do this! I have someone I’m going to marry.”
“Ah, that captain of the guard?”
Mockery appeared in his indifferent eyes.
“Please don’t sneer. Though he’s not from a renowned family and being a second son hasn’t inherited a title, Hereis-nim is a person with excellent skills and character…”
My mouth was blocked in the middle of my protest. Eldon’s lips lunged as if to devour me, and his hot tongue roughly ravaged my mouth. I pushed Eldon with all my strength in confusion.
“What are you doing!”
“Don’t speak another man’s name in front of me!”
Fierce pheromones crashed over my entire body like waves. I twisted my body. Due to the alpha’s pheromones, an intimate energy penetrated my entire body as if a heat cycle had come.
As I hazily melted and even my reason blurred, Eldon’s hand tried to remove my pants. I firmly struck his hand away.
“Don’t you have a companion, Your Highness? Go to Seha-nim who is the Crown Princess!”
“Companion? I’ve never recognized that vulgar being as a companion. That guy is just a tool to become Crown Prince. The person I love is you!”
“Your Highness…”
“I knew the moment I first saw you. That you were my destined mate.”
“I’m your destiny, not Seha-nim?”
Eldon nodded and slowly stroked my face.
“I feel at ease when I’m with you. No one can replace you.”
“Your Highness, you must not do this. Whatever the reason, Seha-nim is the owner of the Rosana. And I have someone I’m going to marry.”
“The owner of the Rosana? I grind my teeth every time that Seha guy eats the Rosana. The Rosana suits you, Rosenthal! I want to give you the Rosana.”
“Your Highness…”
Eldon’s hand undid my pants buckle. This time I couldn’t stop him. Whether it was because of the alluring pheromones with a musk scent, the feeling that I should refuse hazily disappeared.
Eldon spread my legs and dug between them. Unlike the always dignified Crown Prince, impatience could be glimpsed in his actions. He truly wants me.
“I love you. Rosenthal.”
As if driving a wedge into my wavering heart, Eldon whispered hotly and split my body open. Though his penis pierced inside without any foreplay, it didn’t hurt at all. Far from pain, an ecstatic sensation struck my body as if I were dreaming.
‘This person is my destined mate. We were bound by fate.’
I instinctively accepted Eldon. Each time he moved his hips, my body shook and the chains on my ankle made a chilling metallic sound. But even that felt sweet. The Crown Prince wants me. I pulled his neck into an embrace, and Eldon also smiled and repeatedly told me he loved me.
