Resetting Lady - Chapter 133

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It was early morning. As she passed through the corridor toward the hall with the central staircase, she heard the sound of someone moving.

It was Raymond. Karen saw him bathed in light pouring through the open glass that stretched from the first to fourth floors in the center. He was working diligently as always. He always worked hard at everything. Except for one thing.

“Good morning, Lord Raymond.”

At Karen’s words, Raymond looked up and saw Karen. Then his lips curved into an arc.

“You’re awake? Please wait a moment. Breakfast isn’t ready yet.”

“Why are you cleaning there?”

“You pass through the hall every day. Wouldn’t it be better if it were clean?”

“Do you clean it every day?”

“Yes.”

Raymond was cleaning. And he was always neat.

Karen regretted not being able to check what state he was in during the mornings. Even while living together, Raymond rarely showed his disheveled appearance. Except for cases when he overexerted himself like on the first day, Raymond always woke up before Karen and went to sleep after her.

“You don’t have to work so hard. I’m fine with it.”

“I’m just doing what’s necessary.”

Maybe his sexual desire disappeared because he worked too much?

Raymond did everything by himself – managing and cleaning the castle, feeding the remaining chickens and ducks, laundry, and meals. Karen, unable to bear watching, eventually tried to help, but Raymond disliked even Karen moving around. Because it was dangerous.

“I’ll just take care of everything myself.”

Was that really good?

“Men who do housework are the sexiest.”

The maids who used to live here had unanimously declared this about their ideal type.

Most servants didn’t try to work well, and most of the maids’ mothers were also maids. The maids had poured out complaints to Karen about how retired women could never rest at home and worked all day long.

So a man like Raymond who tried to do housework himself was incredibly considerate and attractive. A man who would never come again.

“But…”

Was it really attractive for someone with enough wealth to employ 100 servants to act like this? Wasn’t he just creating unnecessary work? Karen wished he would delegate all the work that could be done by employees and spend more time with her in the present, rather than spending time anxiously worrying about a future that hadn’t come yet. When you had money, not using it was more wasteful.

“I’ll finish soon.”

She wasn’t even sure if it was sexy.

Karen stared at Raymond’s movements. His rolled-up sleeves revealed sturdy forearms. Even though his clothes were ordinary, what was beneath them was extraordinary. Karen already knew how the muscles under those clothes moved. And what was further below too.

Lick.

Karen licked her lips with her tongue.

“Karen, is something wrong?”

Raymond, who had been wiping the floor, felt Karen’s gaze and stopped. He hadn’t even stopped when greeting her in the morning, but he seemed to have noticed that Karen’s condition was unusual.

“Why are you looking at me with such frightening eyes…”

Raymond asked Karen in a tense voice. It was a voice as if he had done something wrong. Of course, he had done many things wrong. The sin of neglecting his marital duties.

“Lord Raymond.”

“…Yes.”

“Stop what you’re doing and come here.”

Raymond hesitated, then pushed the mop aside and came to Karen. Karen watched Raymond’s movements as he climbed the stairs.

Certainly steady without wavering, and his exposed forearms were firmly packed with muscle. Despite his simple outfit, his body’s proportions and form were perfect. He seemed better when wearing military uniform. But even these work clothes looked good on him. Raymond looked up at Karen from a few steps below and touched Karen’s cheek with his hand.

“Are you feeling unwell? You don’t seem to have a fever, but your face is red.”

No, she was very hot.

“Sleep with me.”

“You woke up late today. It might sound like nagging, but you tend to sleep too much.”

Was he doing this on purpose? Karen grabbed Raymond by the collar. Since he was a few steps below, it wasn’t difficult to grab him. Raymond was grabbed by the collar with a bewildered expression. Karen looked down at him and said.

“I can’t stand it.”

“…I’ll try harder. The supply wagon will come tomorrow. What we need…”

Karen looked directly into Raymond’s eyes and spoke again.

“I’ll say it again without beating around the bush. Let’s go to bed right now and do it.”

“…What?”

Raymond froze.

Karen momentarily had the illusion that she had told him to go die. Because Raymond’s face had turned like a stone statue. What was that expression, as if he had heard something he shouldn’t have heard? Raymond first turned pale, then turned red. Even his ears turned bright red.

“Karen… that… we… we’re not even married yet…”

What are you talking about now? Karen stared at Raymond in disbelief.

“How many times do we have to get married for it to count?”

“Ah, um. Karen, so…”

Raymond stammered without being able to look at Karen properly.

“Right now… here… it’s not just the two of us.”

“So what.”

“So, considering your situation too… we shouldn’t live without restraint. There’s still a lot of time left… already from now…”

“…”

Karen looked at Raymond, whose ears had turned red, and felt like she had become the most lustful woman in the world. Was he joking? But Karen felt all the strength drain from her body. How could she do anything to Raymond?

“Yes…”

“Karen?”

Karen let go of the hand that had been holding Raymond. She felt deflated. Yes. This time too, Karen had to suppress her desires. Just like she had to suppress gluttony, gambling, and adventure.

“…I understand.”

“Thank you for understanding.”

“…”

Karen thought about where she should hit Raymond to hit him well, then immediately grabbed Raymond’s collar again and kissed him. It was a kiss filled with the feeling of venting anger. She bit down hard on Raymond’s stiff jaw and lips that wouldn’t open.

“I understand, so I’ll go ahead. Bear with the pain. It’s me venting my anger.”

After pulling away, Karen glared at Raymond, who was still stiff, and spoke as if spitting out the words. Raymond just nodded blankly. He still seemed to be out of his mind.

“…Yes.”

“…Lord Raymond.”

Karen spoke repeatedly to Raymond who was holding onto her.

“…Yes.”

“I said I understood. So I’m going ahead.”

Karen let go of Raymond, but this time he held onto Karen and wouldn’t let go. Karen suppressed her irritation with Raymond and tried to remove his hands. Honestly, she was embarrassed too, so she didn’t want to look at his face anymore. But Raymond seemed to have many excuses and continued to not let go.

“Lord Raymond?”

Raymond looked into Karen’s eyes and breathed several times, then grabbed Karen’s face and kissed her again. It was a rough movement that made his previous words meaningless.

Breathless from the sudden kiss, she pushed against Raymond’s shoulders. This wasn’t something to throw at her to endure with, and Karen became even angrier at his urgent movements.

“What… are you doing now.”

Karen was about to scold him for that movement that contradicted his own words, but Karen couldn’t say more. Raymond’s eyes were filled with a deep color. It was such a deep gaze that it would give the viewer goosebumps.

“Karen.”

Raymond pulled Karen’s waist toward him.

“Karen.”

Raymond called Karen once more. It wasn’t a call that required an answer.

Karen regretted it. At the very least, she shouldn’t have gotten angry at him in the hall. A place where no one was around literally meant there was no need to worry about anyone’s gaze. The entire mansion was practically like a bedroom. It started on the stairs in the hall.

And in the corridor, sitting on the windowsill.

Karen pleaded several times to go to the bedroom, but Raymond heard it only much later. Karen couldn’t even calculate how much time had passed.

“Ugh…”

Karen’s whole body ached as if she had been bruised all over. It was practically no different.

How much time had passed?

Karen stared blankly out the window. When she opened her eyes, the sun was up, but she couldn’t even distinguish whether it was dawn or afternoon.

Her whole body ached and was sticky. There were even bruised parts.

“Lord Raymond.”

Karen called Raymond softly.

“…”

He didn’t wake up. Karen looked at Raymond. As if the light was too bright, he was covering his eyes with one hand. His breathing was steady, as if he was still deep in sleep.

Finally.

Raymond’s body wasn’t completely clean either, but due to the extreme difference in physique, all that remained were some nail marks on his skin. His skin was so tough that even when she bit him, hardly any marks remained. She had bitten his shoulder hard, but he didn’t even care. Karen was almost amazed to see the shoulder with no bite marks left. She was in pain all over like this. At most, Raymond just had a few nail marks on his back.

Karen looked at Raymond sleeping soundly beside her and wanted to wash up. She wished he would let her go. Raymond’s behavior was too extreme and hard to keep up with. She didn’t think he was like this before.

“Heavy…”

The arm placed over her body was heavy.

“Lord Raymond, move your arm.”

“Mm… yes…”

Karen lifted Raymond’s arm because it was heavy and pushed it aside. But even so, he didn’t open his eyes. He was tired too. At least two days had passed. During that time, let alone eating, he couldn’t even properly leave the room. Except for brief moments to wash for physiological needs, they had been in bed continuously.

“Ugh…”

She couldn’t tell if she had fallen asleep or collapsed from exhaustion. During this time, she couldn’t eat properly either. She had thought Raymond spent little time on her because he had many things to do, but after a day passed, she desperately wished he would please do something else.

For a person to move, something had to enter their mouth, but Raymond had such better stamina than Karen that his active time was extraordinarily different.

Karen really thought she might die from something like a heart attack at this rate. They say when a man dies during the act, it’s called dying in bliss, but could a woman die too? Dying in… bliss?

Karen blinked while having such thoughts. She wanted to get up because she couldn’t leave the bed for too long. It was like throwing someone who asked for a glass of water because they were thirsty into a water tank.

Thinking that way, Karen belatedly noticed that her throat was also parched. Karen reached her hand toward the water bottle. She couldn’t reach it. She had to get up.

“…Don’t go.”

Karen found Raymond’s voice almost frightening.

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