Chapter 135. After the Magic is Broken

A beautiful melody filled the piano room.

The music was magic blooming from his fingertips. In the dim space where moonlight poured through the glass windows, Ellen stood quietly beside the black grand piano, listening to Enoch’s performance.

The piece he said he composed for her had a lyrical and gentle feel. It would suddenly become fast and lively, but soon settle down calmly, flowing like a tranquil river.

To think that this was how she appeared in his eyes. Feeling somewhat shy, Ellen lowered her gaze slightly.

Grateful, embarrassed… and sad.

“How is it? Do you like it?”

However, unable to reveal all of her feelings, Ellen gave him a smooth smile as he finished playing and asked.

“I really like it. Thank you, Enoch.”

“Then give me a reward.”

“…What kind of reward?”

“You’re asking while knowing full well. What else could I want from you?”

He grinned and closed the lid of the grand piano. At that moment, Ellen was helplessly engulfed by an ominous feeling. Surely not…

“I’ve always wanted to try it once. On top of the piano.”

“Are, are you crazy?”

Regardless of Ellen’s shock, Enoch lifted her and laid her on the piano. He rolled up her thin nightgown to around her ribs, revealing white underwear adorned with lace. Slipping a finger between them, he gazed down at Ellen, who was trembling with an expression that seemed to want to run away.

“This is all part of the experience, Ellen.”

“I don’t need this kind of experience…”

Ignoring her mumbling, Enoch unbuckled his belt. As soon as he lowered his pants and underwear together, his p*nis sprang out, standing er*ect like a weapon.

Ellen’s expression hardened and her eyes widened in shock at the sight of that monstrous thing. Enoch let out a small ‘hmm’ and finished removing the nightdress that was still covering her chest. Then, grasping his own member, he said,

“I’ll do it after I finish.”

Frowning, not understanding what he meant by finishing, Ellen watched as he began to move his hand quickly.

The thick, bulky shaft thumped against Ellen’s lower abdomen, hitting it repeatedly. Only then did Ellen grasp what was happening. Enoch Bayern was m*sturbating using her as his visual stimulation.

“Haa…”

Letting out a rough breath that had become ragged, he increased the speed of the hand gripping his p*nis. His gaze was fixated intently on her face, which was at a loss with embarrassment. Tap, tap, tap. The intervals of hitting her flat lower abdomen grew shorter. The muscles of his tightly packed upper body writhed, signaling the impending climax.

Eventually, his firm thighs tensed up. As if holding back his ej*culation, he gritted his teeth and let out a groan. Then, in a voice filled with excitement, he asked,

“Haa, can I cum on your face?”

Shocked by the unbelievable request, Ellen’s mouth fell open. A moist tongue peeked out between her pink lips. Barely suppressing the urge to thrust his c*ck into that mouth and cum, Enoch changed his words.

“If you don’t like that, I’ll cum on your cleavage or stomach.”

“……”

It was so perverted that Ellen couldn’t say anything. She was completely at a loss for words. Meanwhile, Enoch muttered that he couldn’t hold back any longer, pulled his position up a bit higher, and finally ej*culated onto her cleavage.

“……!”

An alarming amount of s*men flowed from her sternum, not just trickling but even splattering onto her face. Enoch blankly stared at Ellen, who had her eyes tightly shut, covered in his s*men. Then, suddenly coming to his senses, he offered a soulless apology.

“Ah… sorry?”

He reached out his hand to wipe the s*men off her face. However, far from wiping away the s*men pooled between her br*asts, he spread it widely with his palm.

“I came quite a lot, didn’t I?”

Ellen was so dumbfounded that she even trembled as she criticized him.

“You… you really are a pervert, no doubt about it.”

“I know, thanks for the compliment.”

The man, who seemed unaffected by whatever words she used to berate him, smiled with an annoyingly brazen expression.

He slowly kneaded her br*asts with his hand, slippery and sticky with s*men. Seemingly unbothered, he even lowered his head to lick and suck.

“Mmnh…”

The f*replay that followed was so gentle and kind that Ellen felt as if her entire body was melting away.

Looking down at her as she breathed heavily, Enoch grinned. It was a mischievous and playful smile. Even in the midst of doing such things, he somehow managed to look as fresh as a young boy.

“Do you want to try it yourself?”

“What? N-no, I don’t want to, ah-ahh…!”

He pulled her hand and made her touch her own s*x. He helped her find her cl*toris with her middle finger and press it firmly, causing Ellen to look down and whimper. That innocent face, completely at his mercy, heightened Enoch’s excitement and stirred his sadistic desires.

“You’re doing well… You have talent.”

“Hic, please, that mouth of yours…”

“Hmm, you want me to close my mouth?”

As if agreeing to close his mouth obediently, he lowered his upper body and grabbed her chin, kissing her. Moist breaths intertwined and saliva mixed. He persistently chased her fleeing tongue, entangling, rubbing, and sucking it in.

All the while, their hands remained overlapped, moving diligently. They pressed firmly on the swollen bud, stimulating it by rotating their wrists in circles. Every time the sensation built up, Ellen trembled her lower body and jumped like a fish.

“Hah…! Huuh, mmph!”

She reached her climax with her lips captured by his. The heat that had been concentrated in her lower abdomen spread out, engulfing her entire body. The pleasure was so intense it almost took her breath away, causing even physiological tears to flow.

“Hnngh…”

Her pulsating entrance gushed out love juices. Their overlapped hands slid down to touch the entrance. As if testing whether to insert their fingers or not, both of their middle fingers suddenly pushed in together.

“Nngh, ah…!”

Ellen desperately pushed against Enoch’s shoulder with her free hand, but he remained unmoved. The inner flesh, which she was feeling for the first time with her own fingers, was soft and moist. The inner walls moved as if alive, tightly gripping both fingers.

Enoch, who had separated his lips from hers, chuckled and looked down at Ellen’s face, which was a mess with tears. Then he whispered mischievously.

“Look at this, it’s gripping tightly and won’t let go.”

“Hic…”

“Now you know what this feels like too, right?”

“P-pull it out, please…”

“Okay, I’ll pull it out and put something else in. Do you want it in quickly?”

Even if she shook her head saying that wasn’t what she meant, the man, excited like a beast, wouldn’t listen. Just as the fingers slipped out, before she could mentally prepare herself, something thick and long plunged in all at once.

“Ahk…!”

“Huu…”

He grabbed her hips and thrust his waist upwards. With each powerful thrust, Ellen gasped like a fish speared on a harpoon.

“When I’m inside you like this…”

“Hic, huuh…”

“It’s so tight… and feels so good, I feel like I’m going crazy.”

Moonlight flowed through the wide windows, illuminating the piano and the two of them. Enoch gazed entranced at Ellen, who was letting out lovely cries of pleasure, and reached out to gently stroke her body, as white as her eyes.

“It’s not bad, is it? Doing it here.”

“…No, I don’t, huuh…”

“The moonlight is beautiful. And you, bathed in moonlight, are even more beautiful.”

Beautiful, cute, lovely, such words. He had whispered them more than a hundred times already, but no matter how many times she heard them, she couldn’t get used to it. Ellen groaned with the overwhelming pleasure and tightly gripped his thick forearm.

“Aah…”

“Does it feel good?”

“Huuh…”

His mischievousness in constantly asking questions she didn’t want to answer remained unchanged. As Ellen shook her head and opened her eyes after squeezing them shut, she suddenly noticed the crescent moon-shaped mark near his heart.

“……”

Ellen slowly reached out and gently caressed that mark. …It wasn’t her imagination. The color of the crescent moon had become fainter than before. Like the dim purple of the dawn sky.

“…Why?”

Enoch followed her fingertips with his gaze, then let out a long sigh as if he had realized something.

Eventually, a cold chuckle followed.

“I think I know what you’re thinking.”

“Ah…!”

He thrust his hips forcefully. Grabbing the waist of the struggling woman tightly, he drove into her like a fierce storm. Ellen even felt fear as the overwhelmingly large member pounded her inner walls at a terrifying speed.

“Love magic, contract period… forget all that. Stop thinking about it already.”

“Ahh…!”

“Especially in a situation like this.”

“Ah, stop…!”

“Focus only on me.”

Growling like a beast, he lowered his upper body deeply and sank his teeth into her neck. As if leaving a mark that would never fade.

Even though he was leaving his traces all over her body like this, conquering her to her deepest and most intimate parts, he felt like he was going crazy with desire. A thirst that just couldn’t be quenched.

If only they could become completely one. Would that resolve this maddening longing? Such an insane thought even crossed his mind.

Looking down at the woman trembling and crying softly beneath him with complicated eyes, he recalled a conversation they had not long ago.

‘The contract will end soon, won’t it?’

Startled by those words she had suddenly brought up as if just remembering, he had fumbled with his words for a while before mumbling carelessly.

‘…I suppose so.’

Then, after a pause, he had added eagerly.

‘As I’ve said many times, I want you by my side even after the contract ends.’

‘No, you’ll rather wish I’d disappear.’

The woman’s attitude, drawing a firm line, was cold. Her following words were also as stiff as if they were business partners, not a married couple.

‘And don’t worry. The magic will surely be broken.’

He momentarily felt anger rising at her insensitive attitude, seemingly anticipating his thoughts, but he managed to hold it back and quickly wrapped up the conversation that could have sparked a conflict.

‘That’s not what I’m worried about. Let’s talk about this later. I don’t want to argue with you about this issue again.’

‘As you wish.’

Postponing that ‘later’, again and again, until tonight.

Inevitably, that issue festered and burst. The end of the contract. Their true reality that would hit them after the magic is broken.

“…I’m asking just in case.”

His intuition was sharp as always, like that of a wild animal. That’s why he keenly probed a secret she might be hiding.

“You’re not thinking of running away in the middle of the night, are you?”

“……”

After staring at him silently for a while, she slowly shook her head. Her voice that followed contained no emotional fluctuation.

“Do you think I have the energy left for that? You wear me out every night.”

“…I don’t do this every night.”

“It’s ‘almost’ every night.”

“……”

He closed his mouth, left speechless. Instead, he changed position to make her lie face down, and grabbing her fair b*ttocks with both hands, he thrust his c*ck into her hole.

“Ahugh!”

Thrust, thrust, thrust! He pounded fiercely. To make all the unnecessary thoughts in her head fly away.

Soon, fireworks exploded in her whitewashed mind. He tightly embraced her, who was moaning like a high-pitched scream, with both arms, overlapping their bodies without any gap. As if they would truly become one, just as he wished.

Nevertheless, the craving that still troubled him remained unfulfilled.

No matter how much he indulged, it wasn’t enough.

“…I can’t let you go yet.”

Muttering in a low voice that scratched his throat, he picked her up and strode towards the bedroom with hurried steps.

The night wasn’t over. It was just beginning.

* * *

“Any suspicious points? Really none?”

Why is he asking about this?

Jasmine was terribly perplexed. However, since the one asking was none other than the Grand Duke, she answered diligently.

“There are no such points. She’s always the same as usual.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes……”

“Alright, you may go.”

Finally, as the dismissal was given, Jasmine bowed deeply and quickly left the place.

After coming out into the corridor and walking a bit, she felt like she could finally breathe.

I thought I was going to die from tension…

‘Suspecting Her Highness. Why is he doing this? Could it be he’s jealous……?’

Jealousy…… In the past, she would have laughed it off as a word that didn’t suit the Grand Duke at all. But since he got married…… He’s changed so much that it seems like a different person might be inside that handsome shell. So it’s not unreasonable if he’s become jealous. The Grand Duke is, indeed, to the extent that everyone in this Evitern Castle has noticed…..

…obsessed with Her Highness.

“……”

Even though there was no cold wind, Jasmine suddenly felt goosebumps and rubbed her arms.

It’s scary, so scary. The obsession of a man who has wealth, power, and force…… Such things are certainly only exciting and good when it’s someone else’s romance.

‘I’m more worried that Her Highness might suffer unnecessarily……’

I should probably give Her Highness a little hint. Just enough not to interfere too much between them…..

Jasmine hurried her steps towards Ellen’s room. It was already April 29th, and looking out the window, lilacs and roses were in full bloom in the garden.

* * *

“……You mean Enoch seems to be paying too much attention to my every move.”

“Yes……”

Ellen smiled lightly, pretending to be nonchalant at the story Jasmine conveyed.

In fact, a chill ran down her spine and cold sweat trickled down, but.

‘So he is suspicious after all.’

She thought he might be, but she didn’t expect him to assign Jasmine something akin to surveillance. Is it fortunate that Jasmine is on my side…… No, it might be unfortunate. Ellen felt somewhat uncomfortable. It felt like she had unnecessarily involved an innocent person.

“……I’m sorry, Jasmine.”

“What? No! You have absolutely nothing to be sorry for, Your Highness! It’s just that the Grand Duke is jealous—”

Jasmine, who was pouring out words like a burst dam, suddenly closed her mouth. Ellen smiled towards her, who was carefully gauging the situation, to indicate it was okay.

“You say Enoch is jealous, it is a bit like that, isn’t it.”

“Haha……”

That jealousy is truly reasonable.

Because she really is planning to run away in the middle of the night.

To execute that plan without being discovered…… it seemed she would need to be more cautious from now on.

“Anyway, thank you for relaying the information. I’d like to have a light cup of tea before dinner, could you bring some?”

“Of course! Please wait a moment, Your Highness.”

After Jasmine left to fetch refreshments, Ellen approached the window and sighed quietly while looking out at the garden.

The purple waves of lilacs filling the garden. On one side, deep pink roses were also blooming brightly.

And the clear blue sky……

This beautiful scenery, too, will soon become a memory.

Indeed, a little…… no, in fact, unbearably.

It was a lonely feeling.

* * *

The next night, May 1st, she went to sleep earlier than usual.

This was because Enoch, who had been busy with all sorts of matters that day, had sent word for her to go to bed first.

Ellen, who fell asleep just after 9 PM, dreamed of her mother for the first time in a long while. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a nightmare. However, after waking up, she forgot the entire content of the dream.

“……”

In the pitch-black darkness. Enoch’s figure was reflected in Ellen’s dazed eyes that had just woken up. He had come at some point and was sleeping soundly beside her.

Although he usually goes around with a fierce frown during the day, when sleeping, his face looked young and innocent like a boy’s. Ellen unconsciously smiled slightly and reached out to him. It was the moment she was about to brush back the black hair that had fallen onto his straight forehead.

Click—

The sound of the clock’s hand stopping as it struck midnight. Simultaneously, Ellen’s body stiffened involuntarily.

A strange sensation.

Some indescribable ominous feeling flowed through her like an electric current.

‘……No way……’

But, it’s still far from May 27th……

Ellen, who was moving her lips while frozen, slowly slid her gaze downward. And, as if receiving a sentence—

‘……Ah……’

It came into view.

The crescent moon mark that was gradually disappearing.

Thump thump— Her heart pounded fiercely as if it might burst at any moment. Her consciousness became dizzy, and it felt like her vision was turning pitch black.

The crescent moon mark eventually disappeared completely.

Cleanly, without a trace.

Ellen’s eyelids trembled, overwhelmed by shock.

The magic…… was broken.