The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 244

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Chapter 244. Karma (8)

‘It’s not like I didn’t know this would happen.’

I stared up at Kaiden in a daze.

Unconcealed excitement lingered over his expressionless face.

“…Your hands are slower than I thought.”

“Be quiet for a moment.”

When I quietly threw out that comment, Kaiden’s face turned bright red.

“Damn it, why does this cursed dress have so many buttons?”

He kept failing to undo the dress buttons on my back. Whether it was because the buttons were too small or his hands were too large and clumsy, I couldn’t tell.

‘No, is he nervous?’

Kaiden’s fingertips were trembling slightly.

The man who wouldn’t even blink when surrounded by hundreds of monsters was getting nervous over something like this.

‘A little.’

I quietly watched Kaiden, whose ear tips had turned bright red as he complained about why they even put buttons on if this was going to happen.

‘…He might be cute.’

To think the day would come when I’d find a grown man cute.

I lightly pushed against Kaiden’s chest as he was still struggling above me and sat up.

“Your Highness, just a moment.”

Kaiden’s expression changed at my words.

He seemed anxious that I might leave out of disappointment.

“I’ll do it.”

I quickly undid the buttons on my back.

Then I threw off the dress along with the sash. Only thin undergarments remained.

“Now…”

Just as I was about to let down my hair and tell him to do as he pleased.

“Prince Kaiden?”

Kaiden sitting in front of me had frozen like a stone statue with his eyes wide open. His face was dyed bright red as if it might burst at any moment. Yet his gaze that wouldn’t leave me was too blatant.

‘His reaction is somehow.’

I carefully opened my mouth with a feeling of disbelief.

“Don’t tell me, is this your first time?”

“…There isn’t.”

“Pardon?”

“There’s no way you wouldn’t be my first!”

Kaiden raised his voice as if getting angry.

Then he turned his head with an embarrassed expression.

“I don’t do this kind of thing with women I don’t even like either.”

It felt like someone had hit me on the back of the head.

Even if he had feelings for me from long ago, still.

‘A man who grew up in a barbarian village, lived as a mercenary for a long time, and even rose to the throne has never held a woman in his arms.’

I wondered if he was lying, but in the end I had no choice but to believe him.

Because that man’s reaction, perfect in both face and body, was so transparent.

‘This is trouble.’

Now this man really looks cute to me.

I slowly reached out to Kaiden, who was tapping his knees with a sulky expression.

“…What?”

In that moment, Kaiden flinched.

I read his tense gaze and smiled lightly.

“Are we not going to continue?”

“You…”

“You’re not planning to just embarrass me and end it there, are you, Your Highness.”

I carefully caressed Kaiden’s bare skin.

The flesh covering his well-trained muscles was hot and smooth.

“…Ugh.”

Was it because the cold from outside had seeped in, or because he was showing his naked body for the first time?

Kaiden let out a small moan and shrank back as if he had been attacked by me.

“Your Highness.”

I naturally climbed onto Kaiden’s lap.

The position of sitting and embracing each other face to face was extremely affectionate yet somehow obscene.

“…I’ve thought this before.”

Unlike his face that retained delicate lines, I could feel heat and pulsing from his thick chest covered in scars.

“Your Highness has a high body temperature.”

“…Do you dislike it?”

“No, it’s warm and feels good.”

It felt exactly like soaking my body in a warm hot spring.

No, now it seemed not just warm but hot.

“…If Your Highness is alright with it.”

I looked up at him while leaning my face against Kaiden’s chest.

“From here on, may I teach you…”

“Don’t be ridiculous.”

In the blink of an eye, my back touched the blanket.

Kaiden growled with an indignant face.

“Just because I was clumsy at undoing buttons doesn’t mean you should treat me like an idiot.”

“I wasn’t treating you like an idiot…”

“Just because it’s my first time doesn’t mean I don’t know anything.”

Kaiden smiled slyly while meeting my eyes.

“I was just a little nervous earlier.”

“…It didn’t seem like just a little.”

“You always say things that ruin the mood at times like this.”

It was right at that moment when I was briefly captivated by that smile.

The heat of large, hot hands suddenly invaded below.

“…Hah!”

I reflexively opened my eyes wide and stared at him.

Kaiden listened to my breathing and raised the corners of his mouth long with satisfaction.

“I may not have experience, but I’ve spent years hanging around with guys whose hobby is fooling around with women.”

Could indirect experience be called experience too?

Kaiden nibbled at my nape just enough to tickle.

“You know what? You were the first person I lusted after in my dreams.”

My mind grew hazy from the touch that persistently targeted only sensitive spots.

Even though this kind of act wasn’t my first time, was it hard to stay calm because I had been reborn in a different body?

“From that day on, I always imagined doing this only with you.”

I bit my lips at the heat rising from below my navel.

Kaiden also swallowed dry saliva as if he could no longer endure it.

“Rachel, Rachel.”

I had no leisure to respond.

Because Kaiden immediately overlapped his large body on top of mine.

Moreover, he wasn’t just big in body but excessively large in other parts too. Troublingly so.

“Hnngh…”

Soon a sound that didn’t seem like mine burst from my mouth.

I embraced Kaiden’s neck with both arms while biting my lower lip.

‘Damn, and he said it was his first time.’

Could this even be within the realm of talent.

I swayed aimlessly like a boat swept away by waves where pain and pleasure intermingled.

“Ah—!”

The wave carrying me surged toward even greater heights like a tsunami.

At that very moment, I dug my nails into Kaiden’s broad back.

“Ugh.”

Kaiden let out a pained groan yet held me deeper, harder. As if he would never let go again, as if telling me never to let go again.

“…love, Rachel.”

Through my dimming vision, my consciousness sank beyond pleasure.

Through that space, Kaiden’s whisper echoed in my ears.

“I love you, Rachel.”

The last words I heard before closing my eyes from exhaustion were the same words that had ultimately driven my past life to death.

* * *

Dim moonlight seeped in through the window.

Normally I wouldn’t have left my body sticky with sweat, but now I didn’t even have the strength to wash.

“Rachel.”

Unlike me who was completely exhausted, Kaiden looked very energetic.

He swept back my sweat-dampened hair.

“Do I still seem like a child to you?”

“…No.”

I thought for a moment then weakly uttered a single phrase.

“You seem like a lecher.”

“What?”

Kaiden’s eyes widened at my words, then he burst into laughter.

After laughing for a while, he wiped the sweat flowing down my nape with his fingertips and asked.

“You must feel sticky. Should I help you wash?”

“…No need.”

I muttered with my eyes half-closed.

“Washing alone is more comfortable. Washing together seems too much like fuck buddies, doesn’t it.”

I heard Kaiden chuckle softly.

“Then how about wiping with a wet towel. Could you allow that much?”

Since it is sticky after all.

I hesitated briefly then nodded.

Then Kaiden quickly put on clothes and returned from somewhere with a wet towel.

“…You’re fast.”

“I can’t leave you alone for long when you’re in such a defenseless state.”

Kaiden helped me sit up and began wiping me thoroughly with the wet towel.

“…Rachel.”

“Yes.”

He seemed to hesitate for a moment before speaking.

“Do you still have no thoughts of marriage?”

To throw such a difficult question at me so directly.

I clenched my fist while keeping my eyes half-lowered.

“I am…”

If asked whether I had no feelings for Kaiden, that wasn’t the case.

Who could turn away from a man who had lived looking only at me.

‘Yes, Kaiden is the king. He’ll have to marry someday and produce an heir.’

But could I really do that.

It had taken this long just to acknowledge my feelings of attraction to Kaiden.

‘Could I, someone like me, marry this man and build a family.’

A life of trusting someone you love and building an ordinary family together.

That seemed harder than a life of protecting someone with your life on the line.

At least that’s how it felt to me.

‘Once, I had wanted such a life more than anything.’

In memories of the past, Ian smiled at me.

What he left me wasn’t just a sense of betrayal.

‘You made it so I can no longer love someone with peace of mind, Ian.’

When I swore I would never love again, I hadn’t felt regretful.

But now that I’m trying to let someone into my heart like this, you’re holding me back again.

“…I’m sorry.”

In the end, all I could do was apologize to Kaiden.

To be unable to promise a future to a man with whom I’d confirmed feelings and even shared bodies.

“I’m sorry, I…”

“It’s fine.”

Kaiden quietly embraced me.

“For now, this is enough.”

He gently patted my back with one hand.

“So don’t cry, Rachel.”

Offering gentle comfort to the woman he loved who had rejected him.

* * *

Swoosh.

Dark red blood stained the White Marble Floor.

The Elderly Count’s head rolled at the feet of The Man in the Black Mask.

“Master, the cleanup outside has also been completed.”

The Man in the Black Mask raised his head at The Subordinate’s words.

On the wall hung a portrait depicting the dead count’s face from his younger days.

“For a fresh start, we’ll need to commission a new portrait first.”

“What will you do about the name?”

“Keep it the same.”

The masked person slowly removed the mask covering his face.

The man who was neither Ian Angel nor Ian Miller, but had now become Ian Molton, smiled coldly.

“That way Kayla will recognize me.”

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