About Becoming My Ex-Husband's Mistress - Chapter 82

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Chapter 82. A Ravenous Beast
“This mansion isn’t the sort of place a middle-class commoner would live in… Who gave it to you?”
“Madame Laber promised it to me.”
“I thought Madame Laber only cared about making money by selling people… Did she really provide such benefits to a salon designer?”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“She promised it when she came to scout me. She said she’d provide it if I won the Royal Elegance Contest.”
“So Madame Laber provided everything?”
“That’s right.”
Luderne Sellen gazed at the dark mansion in silence, then murmured as if speaking to himself.
“Then you wouldn’t have needed money particularly.”
He nodded once, as if affirming something to himself, then turned his gaze toward me.
….
I found myself holding my breath without realizing it.
Even in the darkness, I could feel the strange heat and that peculiarly persistent yearning in his eyes.
He had clearly rejected the fifth floor of the Casino that Madame Laber had proposed, so why was he revealing that desire I’d witnessed countless times on Heril Island now in his gaze?
Madame Laber’s words came back to me—that it had to be me, Luderne Sellen.
It truly seemed that way.
During the day, I felt melancholy knowing that Luderne Sellen was obsessed with Priscilla rather than me, but now it was night. Or perhaps it didn’t matter because I was still the same person.
Rather than feeling displeased, my face grew hot and my heart raced wildly.
With anticipation stirring within me, prolonging this moment seemed dangerous.
The wisest course was to send him away quickly and catch my breath.
“Th-thank you for escorting me. Please, take care on your way back.”
I quickly bowed my head.
“I don’t want to leave.”
“…Pardon?”
“I haven’t finished what I came for.”
The moment I raised my head again, Luderne Sellen stepped closer in one long stride.
A large hand suddenly touched the back of my head, and soft breath slipped between my lips, rushing in.
Though sudden, the sensation of his lips was so intoxicating that my heart felt as though it might burst.
Just as I reflexively tried to push him away by placing my hands on his shoulders, he pulled me into his embrace in an instant.
Luderne Sellen took my hands and placed them around his neck, then whispered in a low voice against my ear.
“Didn’t you say you’d accept me whenever I came at night?”
My face grew even hotter.
“Th-that was…”
“You said you’d leave the door unlocked.”
“B-but… you said you wanted marriage.”
Luderne Sellen kissed me again, so intensely that I could barely breathe.
His forceful actions, as if determined to have his way, sent a jolt through my lower abdomen. My legs felt as though they might give way, warmth spreading within me.
As my mind grew hazy from his breath, Luderne Sellen buried his nose against my neck and inhaled deeply.
“That condition only applied during the day. It’s night now.”
Only then did I recall exactly what I had said.
“If you’re going to do this in broad daylight like this, please be prepared to do it properly.”
“So marriage and children are impossible at night, then. But I want to keep you within my desire.”
“….”
“I have no intention of letting you refuse.”
A damp, scorching tongue formed a resolute sound as it licked slowly up my neck.
The sensation sent a thrill through me, and I desperately suppressed the moan that threatened to escape.
His hand traced down my back, caressing the boundary between my dress and exposed skin.
“Since it’s deep night and no one passes by, I wouldn’t mind this spot, but with your back so exposed, using the mansion wall as a bed seems rather inappropriate.”
I didn’t believe his claim about doing it outside.
Yet it seemed genuine enough to give me pause.
Still, my decision came quickly. I lacked the courage to test him.
Above all, I missed him.
“Ah, fine. Let’s go inside. I concede.”
Since everyone was deep in sleep, the mansion’s corridor was quiet and dimly lit.
As I walked toward the bedroom, my lower abdomen tingled with anticipation.
‘This is troublesome.’
I took several quiet, deep breaths as I walked down the corridor.
It was an attempt to reclaim some semblance of reason, though ultimately futile.
My heart had already surrendered to him.
The moment I entered the bedroom, where a single candle burned dimly, Luderne locked the door and pulled me close.
The clutch in my hand and the shawl made of fox fur fell to the floor and were trampled, but he paid no mind.
Luderne devoured my lips hungrily, again and again.
As if he meant to consume me entirely.
His hands gripped me with the intensity of someone who would not hear a single word of refusal, holding me as though he would never let go.
He looked like a starving beast.
My halter-neck dress was torn away without mercy by his rough hands.
Being lifted and laid upon the bed, my remaining clothes cast to the floor—it all happened in an instant.
“You’re, you’re too…. Ah!”
I twisted as I tried to speak. His stimulation against my exposed upper body was far too intense.
“You seem, eager, Your Grace. Mmph!”
I swallowed my breath again. His hand had found its way to the place that was already overflowing with need.
“Eager, am I.”
Luderne laughed softly as he continued to caress me.
“Your insides are crying out for me to come quickly.”
“No. That’s, that’s not true.”
I denied it earnestly, squeezing my eyes shut. Embarrassed by the moans that followed the stimulation and the sensation of something flooding forth.
“Still lying as always. I should silence you.”
Lips met lips once more.
He did not cease his invasion of that place. The spring writhed helplessly around the intruding presence, glistening and growing hot.
Heat coursed through my entire body, and I trembled involuntarily.
My toes curled inward, my body quivering as a moan escaped my lips.
But the sound I made didn’t dissipate into the air—it was swallowed entirely by his mouth.
He stimulated me relentlessly, again and again, before finally pulling his lips away.
While I gasped for the breath I’d been holding, he stripped off his shirt and tossed it aside, then retrieved something from his trouser pocket and set it beside him before unfastening his belt.
Soon, his rigid, magnificent form was laid bare before my eyes without reservation.
At that moment, a certain hopeful anticipation stirred within me.
Today, I hadn’t taken my contraceptive. And Luderne Sellen hadn’t asked me to take it today either.
Without thinking, I felt the desire to break free from the curse and found myself calculating dates in my mind.
‘I’m always regular.’
If fortune truly favored me, a child could be conceived.
Then the curse would be broken.
I could live.
“….”
But upon reflection, it was an extremely safe day.
Hope seemed impossible.
‘Even if the odds are low, couldn’t it happen if God willed it?’
At that moment, as if to drive home a final nail, Luderne Sellen grasped what he’d retrieved earlier.
A protective sheath.
He was indeed meticulous about contraception.
Without thinking, I glanced toward the door. The sewing kit that Madame Laber had placed in her clutch came to mind.
Once he’d secured the precaution, he pressed his body against mine again.
“Ah, I’m going mad.”
He gritted his teeth lowly as he pushed inside me.
The sensation of him penetrating was still overwhelming. Even with sufficient foreplay, his entrance always felt this way.
I held him within me and breathed deeply and deliberately.
Luderne Sellen waited briefly before beginning to stimulate me again in various ways. As the abundant wetness smoothed the narrow passage, he began moving his hips slowly.
With his practiced movements, my heated breath began to rise intensely.
My eyes closed involuntarily, yet I seemed to see countless tiny lights of every color bursting forth.
A long and profound time of ecstasy awaited us.
* * *
A languorous heaviness settled over my entire body.
I was deeply content from being with him again, and I wanted nothing more than to fall asleep in his embrace.
But such feelings were fleeting.
Seeing him sleeping peacefully on my bed with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, my mood became strange and my heart grew complicated.
When I was Priscilla, he would never remain by my side after intimacy.
He was the type to coldly leave once our time together ended.
I had never seen such a peaceful, restful expression on his face.
‘Was Priscilla an inconvenient wife in his life?’
I quietly slipped out of bed and made my way to the bathroom, intending to wash and sleep separately.
I longed to fall asleep beside him in that same bed, but it was impossible. I could no longer remain at his side.
If he were to catch even a glimpse of my face without makeup.
If he discovered that the woman he held so contentedly was actually his former wife, whom he embraced out of obligation to soothe a curse.
I could not predict what his reaction would be.
* * *
After giving strict instructions to ensure our guest was treated with the utmost courtesy, I headed to work.
The sun had not yet risen.
I stole a brief moment of rest on the daybed in the empty Salon before attending to my morning duties.
Though exhausted from the lack of proper sleep, the flow of work proceeded smoothly enough.
That is, until Margaret informed me of an afternoon appointment under Zerox’s name.

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