CHAPTER 55 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Crack! The cue ball, struck by the tip, bounced off the cushion and traced its path. As it narrowly grazed past the object ball, Jasper tapped his cue lightly and let out a sigh. “…What a shame.” The Count of Blaise, setting his cue down on the table, narrowed his eyes slightly. "What do you mean?" It was clear from Jasper’s distant gaze that he wasn’t referring to the state of the billiard table. The...
CHAPTER 54 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Bonus chapters~ (3/3) A faint trace of satisfaction settled on Edmund’s face as he boarded the carriage. Savoring the lingering sensation on his lips, he lightly tapped the window frame. Soon, Adam approached the entrance and saluted. With a nod granting permission, Adam obediently took a seat across from him. The carriage soon passed through the iron gates, moving across the estate’s garden. Adam finally...
CHAPTER 53 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Bonus chapters~ (2/3) When Cynthia came to inform her of Edmund’s return, Rosella merely nodded slightly without meeting her eyes, as she usually did. She rose from where she had been sitting idly and adjusted her clothes, when Cynthia stepped closer to straighten her collar. The moment Cynthia’s hand brushed her sleeve, Rosella unknowingly flinched. Cynthia was simply doing her job, but for some reason, it was...
CHAPTER 52 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Bonus chapters~ (1/3) The daily newspaper from yesterday and the photographs of unknown origin still lay on the table exactly as they were. Rozella didn’t have the courage to look at them again, so she simply left them covered. Instead, she went into the dressing room and opened the display cabinet where her personal belongings had been neatly arranged. There were far too many lace gloves to know which one might...
CHAPTER 51 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Huge thanks to beloved Virginie for the support! (4/4) Rozella parted her lips blankly. Then, as he brushed the veined shaft slowly against her entrance, she let out an involuntary moan. The tip moved back and forth over her folds, making wet, slick sounds in her arousal. Each time it pressed and slid over her clitoris, her entrance quivered and leaked more fluid. “You just keep getting wetter, Rose.” “Mm…...
CHAPTER 50 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Huge thanks to beloved Virginie for the support! (3/4) Though she was the one who had led him into that kiss, it felt as though she had been caught off guard, she couldn’t gather her senses at all. His heated breath swallowed Rozella’s lips, forcing its way between them with urgency. It was nothing like the light brush of lips they had shared on their wedding day—it was something entirely different. Each time...
CHAPTER 49 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Huge thanks to beloved Virginie for the support! (2/4) 「An indecent secret tryst in the royal palace! The duchess’s affair scandal—who is the man involved?」 Beginning with the few photographs that arrived at the ducal residence, news of the duchess’s “affair” spread through the entire capital as though the city had been waiting for it. The black-and-white photographs that arrived for Rozella had been...
CHAPTER 48 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ Huge thanks to beloved Virginie for the support! (1/4) snusnu in the chapters ahead~ “Haa, haa.” The place she fled to in near-panic was a small balcony. As she gasped out the breath she had been holding, reason slowly began to return to her mind, which had gone white with shock. Why was he here? I heard he was only a provincial noble, so how could he possibly attend the princess’s engagement ceremony…? No,...
CHAPTER 47 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ The engagement ceremony opened in the Crystal Banquet Hall of the Central Palace. The Central Palace was where the king came whenever great affairs were held, and among the many palaces, it boasted the most stately and luxurious exterior. Its interior was equally grand and old-fashioned, as though one had stepped into a scene from a fairy tale. “His Grace the Duke of Hayden, and Her Grace the Duchess, are...
CHAPTER 46 Translator: Rae ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ “Well, that’s enough. I’m just glad you came down at all, even if you’re late. My knees are acting up, so I was wondering what to do.” The countess drew Dante closer with a welcoming voice and spoke to him. “Dante, show the duchess around the gallery in my stead. You can manage that much, can’t you?” Though her tone was gentle, there was a hint of warning in her eyes. Dante shrugged and answered...