The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 338

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Special Side Story 1. The Shape of Love (3)

Kayla Adamant.
An unfamiliar name, yet not entirely foreign.
Rachel stared wide-eyed, turning over the name Kaiden had spoken.
“It’s a fine name, isn’t it? Though if you dislike it…….”
Perhaps because she hadn’t seemed entirely pleased,
Kaiden’s voice softened a little.
“What if our child dislikes it once she grows up?”
Then, unexpectedly, Rachel’s true feelings spilled from her lips.
Kaiden’s eyes widened at her words.
“Even if parents have the right to name their child as they see fit, and we choose a good name together, wouldn’t our daughter resent learning that her name was once the name of an Assassin Guild leader?”
And that her own mother was someone who did such things.
Rachel gripped the hand Kaiden had been fidgeting with, squeezing it firmly.
“If she ever became ashamed of her name…….”
“That won’t happen.”
How could he speak with such absolute certainty?
Rachel studied him with a furrowed brow.
Yet he continued, his voice brimming with conviction.
“I’ll make sure she never has reason to be ashamed of it.”
A name that would rise from the lowliest places to the most noble heights.
Though he still lay in bed, the intensity in his gaze left no room for distance—as if every word he spoke carried not a shred of falsehood.
“Then what is your wish?”
Who would dare object after he’d said so much?
Rachel looked at her husband’s face, waiting for her answer, and gave a small shake of her head.
“Do as you please.”
“But if it’s a son, let me name him as I wish.”
“I haven’t really thought about it.”
“Is there no male name you’re fond of?”
“Hmm.”
Seeing his serious face, she suddenly felt the urge to tease.
Rachel touched her chin thoughtfully, then curled one corner of her mouth upward.
“Kaiden?”
Kaiden’s eyes widened at her suggestion, then narrowed to slits.
“…Don’t provoke me, Rachel.”
“When have I ever provoked you?”
“Those actions just now—they’re provocative.”
“You asked me to name a male name I liked, so I did. How is that provocative?”
Rachel laughed and stretched both arms out.
She rolled back and wrapped her arms around her husband’s neck.
“Your patience is rather lacking, Your Highness.”
“I said don’t provoke me.”
Kaiden growled the words low.
“It’s already a struggle to restrain myself just looking at you…….”
“Then why do you restrain yourself?”
“What?”
“The physician visited today.”
The two of them drew closer together.
Rachel lowered her voice as if sharing a secret.
“He said we’re now completely in the Stable Period and that it’s fine.”
“Fine? What do you mean…….”
“Marital relations.”
“Wha…….”
As Kaiden, flustered, moved his lips,
Rachel brought her own lips down to his.
Though they’d met countless times before, every kiss felt new, burning hot each time.
“So.”
Their lips parted with a soft, sticky sound.
Rachel looked up at him with drowsy, languid eyes.
“Do you object?”
His eyes—deep as molten gold and heavy with desire—flashed with the feral brightness of a beast.
“Of course not.”
Who would have thought that a single word—Stable Period—could bring such relief.
Kaiden tugged her garment downward with one hand. The moment her pale throat came into view, he barely suppressed the urge to bite, loosening the belt that bound his own robe.
“…Don’t you dare regret this halfway through.”
There had been a time when she thought a man’s hungry gaze was not altogether pleasant.
But this man above her was the sole exception. Watching Kaiden, his eyes raw with desire that he couldn’t bear to contain, made her suspect she harbored her own hunger for possession as well.
“Of course not.”
Exchanging the same words, they soon fell silent, wholly drawing each other close.
Rachel embraced Kaiden’s massive frame with all her strength. And as he pressed relentlessly into her, without restraint now after so much waiting, she confessed her true heart to him, habitually, against his ear.
“I love you, Kaiden.”
How could she not love a man who would make even her old, unhappy name happy?
“I love you.”
An ordinary dark night like any other.
The two of them confessed their feelings for each other again and again, overlapping, intertwining.
Becoming one complete world unto themselves, taking on the complete form of love.

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The Imperial Princess Palace of the Bentrum Empire was uncommonly noisy this evening.
All because of its mistress, the Empire’s sole princess—Emilia—whose mood had soured.
“Waaaahhhhh!”
“Oh dear, Your Highness is being especially fussy today. Whatever shall we do? Are you hurt somewhere? Or perhaps not?”
“No, I don’t like it! Waaaaahhhhh!”
Catherine was at a loss.
She was accustomed to seeing the young princess cry and throw tantrums.
But Emilia’s bedtime complaints had reached an extreme today, leaving even Catherine, seasoned in coaxing others, bewildered.
“Your Highness Emilia, you must sleep early tonight so you can appear bright-faced at tomorrow’s ceremony. You wouldn’t want to stand before His Majesty the Emperor or Prince Edwin with dark circles under your eyes, would you? Isn’t that right?”
Tomorrow was the Foundation Day Ceremony of the Bentrum Empire.
At the event where Edwin had once performed a martial dance with the Second Prince, Emilia would now be showcasing her own talent.
“But I practiced so hard!”
The young princess had spent months practicing a difficult group dance called the Flower Festival, all for this moment. Not yet ten years old, the child had poured enormous effort into this for several reasons, but the greatest among them was that the King and Queen of Adamant were visiting the Empire for the first time in three years.
“How could they suddenly say they’re not coming!”
Emilia threw her head back.
Just years ago, the child had barely reached Rachel’s or Catherine’s knees, but now she had grown into quite the young girl. The face that had once seemed identical to her brother’s had developed its own distinct character.
“Rachel promised she’d come first! So why is she suddenly breaking her word!”
Originally, both the King and Queen of Adamant were to attend. Yet the sudden notice had come that the Queen could not participate due to internal matters of the kingdom. The child, receiving word of this unilateral cancellation, was furious.
“Promises are supposed to be kept! Why does she just break them on a whim!”
Not only the princess but the Empire’s nobles also viewed the Queen of Adamant’s unilateral notice negatively. A few gossips whispered that the Adamant Kingdom, now firmly established as the dominant power of the West, was looking down on the Empire, but notably, neither the Emperor nor the Crown Prince showed any displeasure.
“I don’t care, I don’t! Ria won’t perform tomorrow!”
Catherine thought she’d seen the last of the habit where the girl referred to herself in the third person.
Catherine embraced the child burrowing into her, offering an awkward smile.
The princess often let old habits slip out whenever she wanted to act childish.
“Your Highness.”
“The princess isn’t here.”
“So you’re upset because the Queen of Adamant says she cannot come tomorrow? But King Kaiden will be here, won’t he? Aren’t you happy to see your uncle’s face after so long?”
“No!”
“Pardon?”
Emilia, who’d been practically burying her head in Catherine’s arms, jerked it up. Her pretty face, streaked with tears and mucus, was flushed with anger.
“Not the Queen of Adamant! Rachel! She’s Rachel to me!”
Rachel Brown.
Once the caretaker of the Crown Prince Edwin and Princess Emilia of this realm, the shadowed hero who had protected the very foundation of the Empire from forces of treason. She had long since departed as a queen of another nation.
“That’s true, Your Highness. To you, she will always be Rachel.”
Catherine thought of her taciturn, kind-hearted friend and smiled gently, patting Emilia’s back.
“But as you yourself know, Rachel is now the queen of a nation. You know how busy our Empress is, don’t you? Rachel is equally occupied in Adamant. Though she cannot come tomorrow, she has promised to come for your birthday celebration…….”
“But Rachel promised me first!”
Emilia’s voice rose, her face flushed with indignation.
“She said she’d definitely come to see Ria tomorrow! And she didn’t come last year or the year before!”

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