My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 219

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Chapter 219
“Why are you so shocked? I’m proposing a deal with you.”
Orsini spoke in a mocking tone.
“A deal—that’s something you enjoy, isn’t it?”
“…Could we wager something else instead?”
“I only want you.”
Orsini let his desire spill out without pretense, then laughed softly.
“Besides, it’s nothing to you anyway, is it?”
A flicker of contempt crossed his eyes.
“You’re the kind of woman who can touch the body of a man you despise if it serves your purpose.”
It was a blatant accusation.
Yet Kanna Adis laughed. Because it was true.
Three years ago, on a certain day, I had resolved to kill Orsini.
But he was an absurdly formidable opponent.
So I touched him to drain his very soul—with my hands, with my lips. Like a female praying mantis that devours her mate’s head entirely after copulation and feeds on it for sustenance, I did the same.
“Yes, that’s right. I’m rather like that.”
Kanna Adis acknowledged it without hesitation.
“If it’s necessary to achieve my goal, there’s nothing I won’t do. So your proposal doesn’t sound so bad to me. I don’t hate you that much, after all.”
In that instant, Orsini’s face went rigid. All expression drained from it. He looked as though he’d been doused with cold water.
“What?”
He asked a beat too late.
“What did you just say?”
“That you were willing to die for me.”
“…”
“You were deceived by the Black Apostles, taken hostage, and died helplessly, or so I heard…”
Watching him clench his fist, I was inwardly startled.
So it was true. What Alexandro Adis said before was really true.
“How could I hate someone like that?”
Kanna Adis smiled gently.
“I don’t hate you.”
And I watched.
The way his earlobes flushed crimson.
“If you help me like that, I can give you whatever you want.”
And I felt his breathing grow warmer by degrees.
Heat was already rising within him.
Without me doing anything yet.
Merely from words as meager as saying I don’t hate him, from a few lines hinting at acceptance—he was already burning with desire.
“But then again, I’m not sure…”
I let my words trail off as I approached the desk. I perched upon it.
The moment my hips settled softly onto the desk’s surface, his fingertips trembled.
“What should I do?”
I swung my two legs, suspended in the air, back and forth. Beneath my skirt, slender ankles flickered in and out of view.
Orsini’s gaze was drawn irresistibly forward.
To the milky-white skin, the delicate ankle that would fit perfectly in the palm of his hand. And slowly, his eyes climbed upward.
By the time they reached my face, his eyes were already hollow with hunger.
In that moment, I flicked my fingers.
“Come here, Orsini.”
He came. His face flushed with explosive heat.
I reached out my hand. The instant I wrapped my arm around his scorching neck, his lips trembled faintly.
I pulled him down and pressed our lips together.
It felt as though breath itself had stopped. At least for him. His breathing, the moment, even time itself froze in this perfect convergence.
Yet his body, unable to resist the surging desire, moved desperately.
He pulled my waist toward him, and with his other arm, frantically swept everything off the desk. With a crash, objects scattered loudly to the floor.
I lay back onto it. So willingly, without the slightest resistance.
Orsini breathed heavily as he looked down at me. I lay on the desk, supported between his two arms.
My lustrous black hair disheveled, my pale face gazing up at him quietly.
The woman of my dreams. Kanna Adis, beneath me.
That image alone sent all the blood in my body rushing, making my head spin. Every hair on my body stood on end.
I felt myself transforming into something so ravenous that I could no longer think.
He quickly bent down and closed the distance between us completely.
That was when Kanna Adis pushed him away.
“….”
Orsini looked down at Kanna Adis’s hand pushing against his chest, then lifted his head.
“Why.”
His voice sounded hoarse, as though torn apart.
“Why are you pushing me away.”
“I don’t like it.”
“What?”
Kanna Adis tapped his thigh with the tip of her foot.
“You let yourself be played with like that and still don’t understand?”
“….”
“Move. You disgust me.”
Only then did the reason he’d half-lost return to him. And he understood.
Again.
It was manipulation once more.
That devilish tongue, that sweet tongue, just like the day it had shattered everything within him.
“Ha.”
Orsini’s lips curled upward. A bitter laugh spilled out.
“Ah, damn it. What the hell is this….”
Most unbearable of all was the fact that this woman’s outrageous behavior surprised him not in the slightest.
I knew this would happen.
Yes, of course I knew. I knew, and yet I let myself be swept along. This tedious cycle, this tiresome repetition—it made my stomach turn.
He covered his face with his hand. Then he muttered something in a very low voice.
“Shameless.”
The next moment, he reached out and seized her pelvis firmly, pulling her close. She came easily, sliding toward him, and he pressed his hardened body against hers.
“You make me like this and now you say you don’t want it?”
Veins bulged across the back of his hand. He lowered his body menacingly, his voice harsh with threat.
“What could you possibly do if I don’t stop?”
But instead of panicking, Kanna Adis drew a smile across her crimson lips. And she spoke.
“Try it. Then you’ll see.”
She glanced downward with a soft laugh.
“Impressive. Aren’t you worried it might burst?”
At her mocking giggle, his eyes twisted savagely.
The grip of his hand on her waist trembled with convulsion. His face flushed crimson with violent rage.
And yet.
Even as he was being mocked like this, he wanted Kanna Adis. So he eagerly fell into the trap despite knowing it was one.
What was more unbearable was the fear that even in this moment—his face burning with shame and humiliation—he might surrender to rapture.
His body touching hers, his hand gripping her waist, felt as though it might dissolve. It was terrifyingly sweet.
“You want me to overpower you and try? Then do it.”
No matter how many times she deceived him, treated him like a fool.
“Can’t you?”
That damnable woman was brilliantly beautiful.
“Can you even undress me with that kind of audacity?”
Kanna Adis spoke with cutting sharpness. The displeasure was unbearable.
This wretch. Orsini, of all people, daring to—to me.
Not Orsini. Anyone else would be fine, but not Orsini.
‘Not like this. Never like this.’
The deal he proposed—there was nothing I couldn’t do for it. Until now, I had thrown away my life countless times for my purposes.
But not like this. Never in a way that made it seem I was being dragged along, unable to resist his tyranny.
‘Rather than be toyed with by that bastard, I’ll be far more ruthless than him.’
The days when I submitted to him were long past. I would never mimic that moment again.
Some silence passed.
Finally, Orsini released his hand from her waist. He stepped back.
“I understand what you want.”
The shame and rage that had burned like wildfire cooled rapidly.
“If you don’t want it, then that’s that. I have no taste for forcing myself on unwilling women.”
Orsini grabbed his disheveled cravat and pulled it completely loose.
“But you see, I’m going mad wanting to hold you.”
“Ah, yes. It certainly looks that way.”
She glanced downward mockingly, but Orsini remained composed.
“If you say you dislike it, I’ll refrain. Besides, you’ll change your mind soon enough.”
“What?”
“As I said, I’ll do everything in my power to obstruct whatever you attempt.”
He wound the cravat beneath his shirt collar and tied it with a knot. His movements were practiced and fluid.
“So if you change your mind, come to my chamber whenever you wish.”
Then he laughed softly.
“The sooner you come, the better. The longer you resist, the harder it will be for you to bear.”
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“What?”
Princess Lilienne sat up in bed.
“The young lady of Duke Adis—you mean Kanna Adis?”
“Yes.”
“Ha, well.”
She let out a hollow laugh. So Kanna Adis had returned.
‘I’d heard she was alive, but…’
There had been so many people claiming to have seen Kanna Adis in the Yalden Kingdom that she had known of her survival.
Yet she never imagined she would brazenly return like this.
Princess Lilienne lay back down and embraced the young man sleeping soundly beside her at the waist.
True to her word to her husband, she had taken a lover—the most celebrated opera singer in the entire Empire.
“They say the master is in conversation in his study. However… um…”
The maid hesitated as she continued.
“It appears there may be violence occurring.”
“Violence?”
“Yes. Apparently something was heard breaking loudly.”
“Is that so?”
Princess Lilienne caressed her lover’s arm as she murmured.
“Orsini despises Kanna Adis. He probably threw something in irritation at her returning.”
Kanna Adis. There was a time when I hated her, but only because she had stolen my objective.
‘Now I have no reason to.’
I never loved Silvien Valentino. I only loved the power he possessed.
“What of Alexandro Adis? Still no word of his whereabouts?”
“There has been no response yet.”
“What is Prince Argon so busy with that he’s being so negligent?”
If my brother asked me to find someone, I would act diligently.
At the thought of Alexandro Adis, my insides burned with a searing ache.
There was one time when I yearned for something other than power.
A man with a wife and child—that man who remained eternally young and beautiful, unchanged from then to now.
In my earliest childhood, I saw him for the first time.
And that night, I could not sleep.
It was a first love. An immature emotion that never ripened, withering away almost as quickly as it had bloomed.
‘So I was pleased with Orsini as well.’
After all, what had captured her heart was Alexandro Adis’s appearance.
That’s why on her first night with Orsini, she had even felt a flutter of excitement. The two men were mirror images of each other, after all.
But after Orsini rejected her advances that night, she couldn’t bear to even look at him.
‘He rejected me because he has a woman he loves?’
How unexpectedly chaste of him. His display of fidelity was positively repugnant.
‘But Alexandro Adis surely indulges in his share of pleasures.’
That must be why he fathered illegitimate children—Kanna Adis and Lucy Adis—with different women.
‘Besides, he’s divorced now.’
The stable power she had so desperately desired was already within her grasp. Now it was time to pursue her next desire. Human greed, after all, knows no bounds.
Just then, a knock sounded at the door.
“Duchess, Prince Argon has sent a messenger.”
Princess Lilienne’s face brightened. She ordered the maid to fetch the message at once. Moments later, the maid returned.
“What did my brother send word of?”
“The whereabouts of former Duke Alexandro Adis.”
“They found him?”
“Yes. However, the location is….”
The maid hesitated as she spoke. Princess Lilienne’s face crumpled upon hearing the location.
“What nonsense is this? He couldn’t possibly be there!”

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