So you’ve been keeping the holy water matter in your heart. It was fortunate that Hereis had left.
“There probably isn’t. Besides, a destined mate and a soulmate are different. And what if the holy water was wrong? Even if I have a soulmate, what use is it when I can’t remember? I was simply afraid that while walking this excessive dream path of being the Crown Princess, I might obstruct Your Highness’s path ahead.”
Eldon stared at me silently, then touched the slave brand with his still-sticky hand.
“Don’t worry. You’re the second son of the Chendewden ducal family. You’re helpful to me.”
“……”
“If Duke Chendewden doesn’t overstep, I’ll guarantee your position as Crown Princess. Even if, as you say, my destined mate appears.”
It was a statement driving home the point: ‘What determines your future isn’t you, but Duke Chendewden. You’re merely the subject of a political marriage.’ It was something he always said and nothing new, but I could understand why Eldon was angry at me.
“I am deeply honored. I will be careful not to speak presumptuously in the future.”
Whether Eldon finds true love, becomes immersed in happiness, or regrets it—it wasn’t for me, who was merely a political marriage partner, to interfere.
The current Eldon is a beast running toward the imperial throne. He probably doesn’t think even a speck that he’ll become a romanticist blinded by love, so if I meddle and worry about his love life, it would only be annoying.
Right, now I understand Eldon’s position. But I had my own circumstances too, and it felt unfair that he only condemned it as hateful words.
Anyway, when I bowed my head politely, as if to tell me my thoughts were correct, Eldon untied the tie that had been binding my penis. Instantly white semen burst out, and my body, liberated from pain, melted languorously.
As I exhaled ragged breaths, Eldon reached down again. I urgently grabbed Eldon’s hand trying to spread my legs.
“Your Highness, pl-please stop…”
“Don’t refuse me. Don’t remember or care about whether it’s a destined mate or soulmate or any such nonsense.”
“Yes, yes. I will do so.”
I nodded urgently and pushed his hand away. Then Eldon suddenly twisted my nose sharply.
“Ah!”
“Aren’t your words and actions different? I told you not to refuse.”
“However, I’m truly exhausted. If we do more here, I think I’ll die.”
“What to do. I’m only just beginning.”
Eldon raised the corners of his mouth and spread my legs again. This XX bastard!
I shook off his hand and fled to the edge of the bed. But my ankle was caught and I was futilely dragged back. Eldon finally penetrated my body. I screamed at the pain of my body being torn, but he smirked and thrust up his hips. Perhaps because of the jam, I could vividly feel his testicles sticking to my buttocks with smacking sounds.
I was swept away by him mindlessly. Eldon ejaculated a second time, and I collapsed onto the bed, completely exhausted. I had no energy to even move a finger. Then Eldon climbed on top of my body again.
“No! I’ll really die.”
I clasped my hands and pleaded.
“Who said I’d do it?”
Eldon raised the corners of his mouth and began licking up the jam on my body. I stared blankly at Eldon licking deeply as if he would really eat it all.
Just like a rich person’s cat. An incredibly haughty, pretty, horny cat.
Anyway, if I’m going to suffer like this, it would be better to just proceed according to the original work. Rather, just ignore me like looking at a cow or chicken.
Should I drag Eldon in front of Seha right now? Tell them to try being destined mates together? If Eldon falls for Seha, he won’t even glance at me, right?
If Eldon and Seha fall in love, I’ll ask them to spare my life in return for connecting their love. Then everything will be smooth sailing… right?
By the way, when they fall in love, will he do this kind of thing too? Will he lick every corner of Seha’s body like he’s doing to me now? Meticulously and carefully, as if it’s very precious?
I don’t want that. I really don’t want it. There was no such scene in the novel. I’m the only one who knows Eldon spreading jam on someone’s body and licking it devotedly. I want to be the only one who knows. I don’t want it to be taken by Seha.
Wait, taken what? Eldon is Seha’s to begin with. I was startled by the villainous instinct that suddenly boiled up and pushed Eldon’s head away.
“Your Highness, eating too many sweets isn’t good for your health.”
“Then we should eat together.”
Eldon lowered his eye corners and kissed me again. Jam that had become even stickier than before passed over my tongue. My head was dizzy from the excessively sweet scent of Rosana.
Eldon stirred the inside of my mouth sweetly, then bit my upper and lower lips and reluctantly separated his mouth slowly. Then he hugged me tightly and whispered in my ear.
“I’ll announce that we performed the first night ceremony at the Founding Day celebration.”
“On Founding Day?”
At the Founding Day event where in the original work he declared he would appoint Seha as a concubine, he’s going to announce the first night ceremony?
“Right. You are my consort in both name and reality.”
Eldon rubbed my cheek and kissed me again.
***
According to Jackin, Hereis’s twin brother Frision had recently returned to the Imperial Capital. It was fortunate. If Frision were still traveling abroad, they might not be able to find him even after a year.
He needed to hurry and obtain the antidote before Frision left again. But something bothered him.
Why did Frision suddenly return to the Imperial Capital? He had said he was going on a long journey. The one who said he wouldn’t come for 10 years had suddenly returned after 2 years.
What on earth is his scheme? He was the type who clung annoyingly. If he had returned, he should have come to find Hereis first. But he hadn’t shown even his nose, and instead asked Jackin to keep it a secret.
Somehow he had a bad feeling. He needed to figure out Frision’s purpose for returning. It was right to act carefully. But his rational judgment melted away hazily as time passed. With every minute and second that passed, he missed Rosenthal. Whether it was affection or the influence of the chain, he didn’t know, but he wanted to see Rosenthal right now. However, to return to his side, he needed the antidote.
The Poison of Covenant wasn’t a deadly poison. But poison is poison. If one continues to suffer from it, they will eventually lose their life. Hereis wasn’t afraid of that. However, he hoped Rosenthal wouldn’t know this fact. If he learned about the Poison of Covenant, Rosenthal would refuse to sleep with Eldon.
Hereis didn’t want to suppress Rosenthal’s heart using the marriage ceremony as leverage. He hoped he would achieve love with the one he wanted. He hoped he would grasp that happiness that his own father could never achieve to the very end.
Hereis ultimately succumbed to his desire.
‘I want to see Rosenthal. I’m worried. For this, I need the antidote.’
With only that thought, he headed to Frision’s mansion. No, this place was his home. The house where Hereis, Frision, and his father had lived together.
The mansion he visited again after several years had a much more shabby appearance than his memory. Weeds grew thick in the garden, and marble sculptures were broken hideously and rolling on the ground.
Hereis looked up indifferently at the spot where his father had fallen, then headed to Frision’s room.
Fortunately, his room was empty. This room too was filled with chilly coldness like other places, but he could sense traces of a person—no, a demon—from the empty plate on the table and the two teacups that still had warmth remaining.
Strong Dellock coffee and cocoa… So Lefu is with him too.
Hereis calmly looked around the empty room, then immediately moved. He already knew where Frision kept important items. He also knew the safe’s combination.
He had no intention of asking permission from the start. Hereis planned not to meet Frision until the marriage ceremony was over. Let’s just take six months’ worth of antidote and hurry away.
As Hereis placed his hand on the safe, hot blood suddenly gushed out.
Rosenthal had relations. The Crown Prince had dug into Rosenthal’s insides and poured out his essence. A jealousy more serious than the body’s pain covered his entire body.
He roughly wiped the blood with his sleeve and touched the safe again, when a familiar voice was heard.
“Hereis?”
A man with odd eyes, having the same face and same voice as Hereis, stood at the door.
Frision gave a bright smile and walked toward his twin brother.
“It is my older brother.”
“…Long time no see.”
Hereis looked at Frision standing right in front of him, then turned his gaze away. Unlike Hereis, who was beautiful but had an ascetic atmosphere, Frision released bewitching sensuality without filtering. Looking at his twin brother covered in a precarious and bewitching scent made him feel strange, like looking at a distorted mirror.
“Hyung, I missed you. Didn’t you miss me?”
Frision lowered his eye corners and hugged Hereis. When he felt the same chilly body temperature as his own, a comfortable sensation filled Hereis’s body, making all his worries until now seem pointless.
“You’re the one who suddenly left…”
He had absolutely no intention of meeting him until the marriage ended. But seeing the innocent face in person made him feel sorry for having such thoughts, so he trailed off.
“A writer needs to be well-traveled. But hyung, what’s that blood?”
Suddenly Frision whispered chillingly in Hereis’s ear. Hereis flinched in surprise and pushed his brother away.
“I got splattered a bit while working.”
“Did you get hit by the Poison of Covenant?”
Frision ignored Hereis’s excuse and asked coldly. He borrowed the form of a question but was already certain.
Hereis and Frision sensed each other’s wavelengths. It wasn’t telepathy, but when something big happened to the other, a tingling sensation rang in their ears somewhere. And the category of ‘something big’ included marriage ceremonies.
Hereis felt faint signals whenever Frision entered into marriage. This was why he had no qualms about stealing Frision’s antidote. Frision was currently free. Since he wasn’t bound to anyone, he had no need to use the antidote.
But Hereis had hoped Frision wouldn’t sense the signal. And he thought the possibility was high. He wasn’t as sensitive as Hereis.
But it seems the wavelength was transmitted after all. Even so, to even notice the Poison of Covenant—he seemed indifferent but was sharp in strange places.
This is why he tried to avoid him until the marriage ended.
He considered denying it unconditionally, but having been caught trying to take the antidote, an obvious lie would only ignite the spark of suspicion.
“Yeah. I enjoyed myself a bit, so my condition got bad.”
Hereis answered nonchalantly. His behavior was extremely natural and no awkwardness could be found. But Frision’s eyes rose strangely.
“Is hyung really me? To be playing around with your dick less than a month after getting married?”
