Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 31

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Chapter 7. Villains Are Supposed To (2)

The lips that had briefly touched and parted swallowed breath once more.

Edelaine bit her lips and turned her head away, but it was useless. Shane grabbed her chin and turned it back toward him, then bit her lower lip painfully.

“Mmph, ngh.”

“Open your mouth, Edelaine.”

“Mmgh…”

Small kisses continued over Edelaine’s resisting face. Shane kissed beside her lips, the tip of her chin, her cheeks and the corners of her eyes, then smiled crookedly.

“So stubborn.”

If he kissed her one more time, she was going to bite Shane’s pretty lips to shreds. However, Shane seemed to expect this and moved his hand holding her chin down slightly, pressing firmly between her neck and jaw joint.

“Ah!”

Through the gap of her lips that opened with a moan, his thick tongue pushed in. During the kiss that deepened in an instant, Edelaine constantly tried to push against Shane’s chest. But he didn’t budge at all.

Honestly, Shane was good at kissing. No, he must be. Though she didn’t know much due to lack of experience, judging by how her fingertips and mind went numb, he was definitely skilled.

When she was about to feel faint from suffocation due to the warmly pressing lips and the unfamiliar sensation of him licking her mucous membranes, he would release her lips slightly as if he knew, and just as she swallowed a mouthful of air, he would steal it away again as if he’d been waiting. Sometimes her lower back twisted involuntarily.

Eventually, Shane grabbed both of Edelaine’s wrists as if annoyed and pinned them above her head, then pulled his lips away.

‘This bastard, where the hell did he learn to kiss like that…!’

Edelaine fumed. Shane, who was catching his breath with his eyes downcast, chuckled and said.

“I never learned.”

Really, mind reading.

“You looked at me like I was some playboy. That was my first kiss.”

“You’re kidding.”

“It’s true. Well, I’ve fantasized about it countless times.”

“…”

Then just how much natural talent was he born with? As Edelaine stared at him in bewilderment, he lowered his head and slowly licked around her mouth that was glistening with saliva.

“Touching anyone other than you disgusts me.”

“No, wait, Shane…”

This time, if she didn’t push him away, it seemed like they’d go straight to their wedding night, so Edelaine tensed up. There was no chance of winning with force. She had no choice but to cry or plead… but that didn’t seem like it would work either.

Edelaine realized anew how complacent she had been.

If Shane set his mind to it, the genre of this ‘story’ could easily become an R-rated tragedy. Whether Edelaine wanted it or not didn’t matter.

‘Wow, this crazy lack of safety awareness…’

There was no room for excuses. Of course she couldn’t win by force…

Since they were married, there was no way to avoid it situationally or justifiably. By this world’s common sense, refusing marital relations wouldn’t be understood.

Edelaine tensed up and stiffened as she glared at Shane.

She was about to say that if he touched her she’d bite, that this time there would really be blood, when Shane obediently released both hands he had pinned above her head. Then he moved away from on top of Edelaine and lay down beside her.

“Huh?”

“What, were you hoping I’d pounce on you?”

“No! No no! That’s not it!”

“I understand after hearing it once. I’m not deluding myself that you wanted it either.”

“That’s… not it.”

Edelaine slightly raised her upper body to sit up. Shane was lying with his arm as a pillow, eyes closed.

“You’re not angry anymore?”

At those words, Shane barely opened his eyes. He looked at Edelaine with narrow eyes.

She had said it to provoke his anger. To cut things off cleanly and push him away.

Even knowing she would hurt him, she deliberately chose only blade-like words to speak. Until just a moment ago, he seemed to be getting angry as Edelaine intended, but now he had changed masks and become calm, catching his breath, which was bewildering.

Shane spoke. Now he had completely regained his composure and even seemed relaxed.

“If I get angry? What do you think will happen?”

“…We’d fight?”

“How would I fight with you? Physically?”

“…”

“Or with words? Either way, the results wouldn’t be good.”

Shane raised the corner of his mouth in a smirk.

“It’s fortunate I stopped before falling for your provocation and doing something irreversible. Don’t you think?”

His gaze briefly went down below Edelaine’s neck before quickly coming back up. The meaning in that gaze was clear. Realizing what he meant by something irreversible, Edelaine’s cheeks flushed red.

She tried to back away to escape from the bed first, but Shane grabbed her waist faster than she could move. Her balance collapsed and she buried her face directly into Shane’s firm chest.

“Ah, ugh.”

“Please hold back the moaning. My patience is already hanging by a thread.”

“What! Then let go!”

“I can’t do that. Why do you think I held back?”

“Held back what…”

“Do you really not know what I held back, Edelaine?”

“…”

Edelaine was very good at lying, but she could tell that lying at this moment wouldn’t be a good choice.

If she said she didn’t know and he offered to show her, Edelaine would be the one in trouble.

When Edelaine avoided his gaze, Shane said.

“Don’t worry. I haven’t done anything until now, have I? I can’t promise I won’t do things you hate, but…”

“What’s with that ambiguous statement…”

“At least I won’t pounce on you. Unless you want me to.”

“There’s no way I’d ever want that!”

“Wasn’t it your habit to say you never know what might happen in life?”

“This is certain.”

“Alright, alright, so let’s sleep.”

“Go sleep in your bedroom. It’s not like there’s only one bedroom.”

“This is my bedroom.”

“…Then I’ll leave.”

However, the arm embracing her waist was as solid as a boulder and couldn’t be loosened. Edelaine slapped Shane’s arm repeatedly. Naturally, he didn’t budge. She tried struggling wildly, but before long she was caught in a position where even her legs were completely entangled.

“I said I’ll leave!”

“It’s useless, Edelaine. I’ll follow you wherever you go.”

“…”

“So just sleep. This bedroom is the most comfortable anyway.”

“…There are so many bedrooms in the manor. I don’t care if they’re not organized. I sleep well anywhere, you know? Honestly, just laying a blanket on the floor would be fine. I thought my back would hurt, but when I put a haystack under the blanket, it was soft and nice. No, I don’t even need a blanket…”

When she fled abroad, she stayed in temporary lodging for a few months.

The lodging Lucian had arranged was too risky to be discovered. Edelaine trusted Lucian’s abilities, but there was always that one-in-ten-thousand chance in the world. If Lucian’s trail was caught, the lodging he arranged would be discovered immediately.

Edelaine moved to a country much farther than the planned settlement she had told Lucian about. She didn’t tell even Lucian, who had helped with the escape from the beginning, or even Lloyd the final destination.

‘Lloyd’s expression when we got ship tickets at the original destination was worth seeing.’

Even if it wasn’t a fatal wound, the injury where her stomach was pierced was by no means light. To cross another border in that condition, he must have thought she was crazy.

‘Couldn’t you just treat your wound at the place Lord Lucian arranged and then leave?’

‘It’s not that I don’t trust Lucian. It’s not that, but…’

‘You don’t trust him.’

‘…Of course I believe that Lucian will handle the job properly once he’s taken a commission. I believe that. But people are complex beings. You never know what they’re thinking deep inside.’

‘You don’t trust anyone.’

‘Lloyd, I trust you.’

‘You speak well. While keeping secrets from me until this very moment.’

‘I did it because I thought it would be hard on you. You had so many tasks assigned. I felt sorry about that.’

‘If you’re sorry, at least walk properly. Don’t lean on me. Do you know that I’m shorter than you?’

Of course, secretly crossing borders while injured was really difficult. She couldn’t eat or sleep properly. She felt like she was going to die, but the joy of being freed from the nightmare alone was enough to overcome it all.

Lloyd suffered a lot.

Really a lot.

Physical items like jewelry and accessories took a long time to convert to cash and were too conspicuous, so she found a house with only the cash she had brought. Naturally, it had to be shabby.

The furniture and items needed for daily life were severely lacking, so for a while there were days when I had to sleep lying on just a blanket spread on the bare floor. Back then I was even injured, so now that I’m healthy, I don’t even need a blanket.

However, Shane remained unmoved.

“I’m curious why you had to sleep without even a blanket.”

“….”

“But I’ll hold back since I’ll probably get angry again if I hear it.”

“Why would that make you angry….”

“How could I not get angry when you went through hardships.”

“….”

It was an answer I had never even thought of. If you put it that way, you’re the one making me suffer the most right now.

“What was that attendant of yours doing, the one who acted like he was the most capable in the world.”

“Lloyd slept next to me without a blanket too….”

“Ah, next to you.”

“We had no choice. It was a single room.”

Even without looking up, I could almost see his crooked smile. Shane seemed satisfied with that, pulling Edelaine into his arms and resting his chin on the top of her head.

“I have no choice either, Edelaine.”

“What do you mean! Do you think I don’t know how many bedrooms this house has?”

“I can’t sleep without you.”

At his low voice, Edelaine was momentarily speechless.

It would have been nice if I could immediately denounce it as a lie.

“If I’m not holding you, I get anxious and can’t fall asleep.”

Edelaine knew all too well the pain of having trouble sleeping due to anxiety.

“Give up, Edelaine. No matter what you say, I’ll never let you go. You’ll never be able to leave my side for the rest of your life….”

Let’s just sleep.

What kind of terrible words of restraint and simultaneously distant confession was this.

Edelaine stared for a long time at Shane’s face with his eyes closed, looking dazed. Her insides felt noisy and her head was throbbing.

Even without looking, she could tell her face had turned bright red.

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