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Aileen's lips parted on their own accord. It was the words she had been waiting for all week. Before she could even speak, she nodded her head in haste, then quickly replied.
"Yes! I don't think I need treatment anymore. It doesn't hurt at all. I'm all better."
Perhaps it was due to anticipation. From earlier, she felt a throbbing heat in her lower region, where a strange sensation lingered. However, Aileen reminded herself that not applying the ointment afterward did not necessarily mean the fulfillment of her desires.
Cesare could have passed tonight without doing anything. He might not even come to the bedroom at all.
'He's busy... It was strange that I've been seeing His Excellency every day until now.'
He wasn't so free as to be concerned about her alone. Aileen stopped tormenting the ruthlessly chopped asparagus and cautiously asked Cesare.
"Will you... be returning tonight...?"
She didn't ask directly what she wanted but beat around the bush. Cesare chuckled and replied.
"Of course. It's the day you receive Erjetz's name; I can't just let it pass."
He leaned his upper body slightly forward. He didn't get much closer, but for some reason, her heart pounded with surprise.
"Shouldn't we commemorate today, just the two of us?"
It was a dining room where the morning sunlight streamed brightly through the window. But for a moment, she felt as if she were naked on the bed in the middle of the night, facing him.
Her cheeks flushed uncontrollably. Cesare would surely read the fact that she was having lewd thoughts. But even as she was aware, she couldn't control her body.
A tingling sensation lingered in her secret place between her legs. Her body, which had been heating up and cooling down for days, reacted immediately to even the slightest stimulation. Aileen held her breath at the sensation of her lower region becoming slightly damp.
His red eyes were watching all the changes Aileen was undergoing. She slowly swallowed her saliva under his gaze. Aileen belatedly opened her lips. A very small, cracked voice leaked out like a feverish breath.
"Yes..."
Cesare, who had been gazing intently at Aileen, gave a slow smile. The shape of his lips curving slowly was beautiful. Aileen couldn't take her eyes off him.
Cesare also opened his lips while maintaining eye contact with Aileen.
"You liked sleeping with me."
It was a story from when she was very young. Once, after entering the Imperial Palace, there was a sudden downpour, and she had slept at the Imperial Palace.
She was left to sleep alone in a large bedroom, but she couldn't fall asleep because of the thunder and lightning tearing apart the night sky. Scared, Aileen hugged her pillow and trembled, eventually going to the Imperial Highness's bedroom.
The attendant she encountered in the hallway didn't stop Aileen but took her to the Imperial Highness's bedroom. The Imperial Highness let Aileen, who couldn't even properly say that she was scared and was just trembling, sleep in his bed.
Because of that, the Imperial Highness himself couldn't even lie down on the bed. He sat on a chair placed next to the bed and read a book all night long. Aileen could barely fall asleep while listening to the sound of him turning the pages.
It was something that had only happened once, but he spoke as if it had often happened in her childhood, completely nonchalant. Cesare uttered lewd words with an innocent face.
"Now, we can sleep together in the bed."
Knowing that the meaning of 'sleeping together' had completely changed, he deliberately spoke ambiguous words. When Aileen couldn't answer and only blushed, Cesare stood up.
He was scheduled to enter the Imperial Palace before Aileen. Aileen quickly stood up to see him off.
However, instead of leaving the dining room, Cesare walked around the table and approached Aileen's side. He bent down and kissed her cheek. When Aileen remained still, he grabbed her chin with his hand and lifted her head.
Then, he kissed her lips again. Aileen let out a low moan. Her body trembled, and even her eyelashes fluttered.
The kiss, which had started like a simple greeting, gradually turned into caresses. His fingers explored Aileen's body. It was a bold touch, as if he were touching his own body.
He parted her lips and deeply inserted his tongue, stroking the back of her neck with his hand. Then, he gripped it tightly and twisted her head, probing deeper into her mouth. With his other hand, he firmly grasped her waist.
Aileen clung tightly to his arm and was swept away by the kiss.
"Hng, hmmm..."
In the past, she would have been afraid of such an intense kiss. But now, she was simply delighted. As if urging for more kisses, she clumsily moved her tongue, trying to follow him.
When Aileen wiggled her tongue, Cesare responded by rubbing his tongue against hers. Her head was spinning because too much blood was rushing to it. Aileen leaned her body against Cesare and looked up at him.
He narrowed his eyes as he licked the roof of her mouth. It was the moment his hand, which had been wandering past her neck and near her collarbone, moved downward. His large hand grasped Aileen's breast.
Aileen, surprised, made a sound, but it was muffled by his lips and didn't come out properly. Cesare saw all of Aileen's surprised flinching but didn't care.
He roughly gripped her breast and gently circled the tip with his hand. Aileen realized that her breasts were pointed only after his touch.
Each time the tip of his finger brushed against the protruding peak, heat gathered below, and she involuntarily tensed up.
Trying to suppress the moans that were about to burst out, she kept making sounds like someone in pain. She couldn't suppress her moans when Cesare touched her.
'It was a part I didn't even know existed properly in the past...'
Aileen thought fleetingly and tightened her legs. A sensation similar to but different from needing to urinate made her lower region tingle. Knowing it was a shameful act, she wanted to be kissed even more deeply by Cesare and sucked on the tongue that was frantically stirring inside her mouth.
Then, when Cesare pinched one of her breasts, she couldn't help but arch her back and let out a very pleasurable moan.
"Hnggg...!"
At that moment, Cesare's breathing faltered slightly. His movements, with his eyes narrowed sharply, became fierce. Cesare somewhat roughly removed his lips. Following that, he slowly removed the hand that had been grasping her breast.
He scanned Aileen with his red eyes. Aileen, completely limp, looked up at him with dazed eyes.
Her tongue was sticking out from her parted lips, but Aileen didn't even realize that she hadn't fully retracted her tongue. She only wondered why he wouldn't kiss her more, now that the kiss had suddenly ended.
Cesare lightly sucked on Aileen's tongue, which was looking blank. He then bit her earlobe and told her the reason.
"If I do more, I don't think I can hold back."
Aileen couldn't come to her senses at all. She muttered whatever came to her mind.
"I want to do it now..."
Her body, which was burning up, was too painful. When she grabbed his sleeve and panted, Cesare gently coaxed her.
"You have to enter the Imperial Palace, right?"
His center was swollen enough to clearly show its outline over his pants. Aileen looked at it, which extended long down to his thighs, and belatedly realized what she was doing and quickly averted her gaze. Her heart pounded and fluttered.
"I'll enter the Imperial Palace first, so come slowly, Aileen."
He removed Aileen's hand that was holding him and kissed each of her fingertips one by one. He even slightly sucked and bit the fourth finger with the wedding ring.
"I'll be waiting at the Imperial Palace."
Cesare, leaving behind those simple words, left the dining room first. Aileen, left alone, sat down slowly on the chair with her face flushed red.
Her breathing was heavy, and her legs were all wet. The heat circulating beneath her skin made her lower abdomen ache painfully. Aileen, who was unconsciously pressing her thighs together as if to compress her lower region, suddenly came to her senses.
'I'm crazy.'
She slowly released her legs again and tried to calm her disordered breathing. Waiting for her face to cool down, Aileen thought.
'Quickly...'
She wanted to be with Cesare in the bedroom as soon as night fell.
