Chapter 1.3

A man as dreamy as in a dream.

But thinking that the stranger would bathe and sleep in this house made her feel strange. The unstable excitement didn’t calm down.

She never imagined she would be attending to the bath of a man who wasn’t her husband.

In fact, travelers visiting a small village like Ferindale were few, so they were usually sent to the village chief’s house.

That man…. The fabric covering one thigh was strangely bulging. Was it just wrinkled pants? Or did he put something in his pocket?

Surely it’s not the kind of thing that women gossip about only great men having… .

“No. It’s disrespectful to keep thinking like this.”

Rian scolded herself as she dusted off the bath. Her clumsy imagination soon vanished like smoke.

Knight. Traveler. A noble as kind as her father, with a remarkably good physique.

If she was excited and thrilled that a man she had never even dreamed of meeting had been driven here by a sudden downpour, it would be too selfish and wicked.

“The water seems to be warm enough. Would you like to take a bath now?”

Rian placed the bath in one corner of the living room and straightened her back, smiling politely.

* * *

Kaiden stared blankly at the woman who was filling the bath with water heated in a pot.

Hosting guests, especially those of high status, was the homeowner’s natural duty.

But conversely, as a knight, he had a duty to help the weaker woman.

Yet he stood motionless, staring at her.

He couldn’t take his eyes off the ample cleavage revealed inside the wide-open collar of her dress whenever she bent over. All his senses were focused on her chest.

The suppressed desire overflowed like a river swollen by the downpour.

He wanted to look closer at those br*asts. Her complexion was fair, so her skin would be even whiter. If he gently grasped them with his hands, the flesh would squish and ooze between his fingers, and if he licked them, they’d be sweeter than goat’s milk with sugarcane….

“Ugh.”

He barely swallowed the groan that escaped his throat. But his lower body, which had just calmed down, pushed against the front of his pants again, clamoring. 

There was no way to stop the lewd curiosity loudly buzzing in his mind. Though he was a virgin who had never experienced a woman, he was well-versed from what he had seen and heard. 

Not just the vulgar tales shared by fellow knights or servants, but having grown up in the hands of the ruffians in the harem, he had witnessed couples engaging in their affairs all over the streets late at night.

Could that be a n*pple slightly protruding over the tunic…? Is it true that when you suck a woman’s n*pple, it hardens like a man’s member? Has Rian ever experienced that? Has she ever shown her br*asts to a man and let him suck them? She too….

Ah. Would she be interested in such acts? What does she think about the man standing beside her now? Does she want to see my body… my member….

The fellow knights who knew Kaiden’s impressive endowment would often egg him on, saying he could have even the king’s daughter if he wanted. They boasted absurdly, claiming that if he showed it to any woman, he could get whatever he wanted.

Madmen. Who wants to ruin someone’s life by seducing women with such depraved acts? 

Kaiden would always reprimand them politely, but he was curious whether his member truly had such exceptional allure.

Now, for the first time, he felt the urge to have the woman before him verify the allure of his member.

Had he ever felt such intense s*xual desire in his life?

Rian. Look at me, my body….

If he were to lower his pants and show her the massive thing, would Rian really smile with joy as the lewd jesters claimed, and would she offer to fulfill all his desires, lowering her tunic to let him suck her br*asts?

“I’ll do it, Rian.”

The hastily uttered voice cracked miserably.

Kaiden, excited to the point of stripping off his tunic and breeches, felt guilty about his intense fantasies and snatched the bucket from her hands.

“I’ll bathe and sleep on my own, so you should go rest first.”

He was too embarrassed and ashamed to even make eye contact.

What filthy thoughts am I having about a decent woman?

Kaiden even prayed internally to Avalore’s guardian angel to prevent him from committing further sins against her.

It seemed as if the steam rising from the bath would suddenly turn into the steam of hell to engulf him.

He should know that indulging in more than this is shameless while enjoying excessive luxury when he had only wandered to catch a glimpse of the woman he admired. Thinking so, he felt sorry for Rian, who had become a victim of his wicked fantasies.

Rian probably wanted to soak in warm water rather than attend to him now….

In fact, filling the bath was a luxury enjoyed only by some nobles. Rian probably hadn’t brought out the bath for days.

She would want to enjoy it too. Stripping off cumbersome clothes and revealing her bare body, massaging and washing her soft neck and br*asts until the gloss of her melted skin was restored to shine like silk….

Ah, he wanted to watch her bathe from the side. He wanted to touch her with his hands and wash her….

Ah, please. Let me touch that beautiful woman. Her softly curling hair, her lovely cheeks, her slender neck, her round shoulders, and her br*asts….

And he wanted to lower his hand further to gently stir the spring hidden in the deep, secret forest. He wanted to suck the sweet water pooled in the secret spring with his lips until it ran dry, kissing the sacred pillars supporting the shrine of little fairies, going down to her toes and licking each one….

“Hurry inside your room, Rian.”

Kaiden urged, feeling her presence behind him.

It was dangerous like this. In mere seconds, his fantasies had run wild to the end. The boiling heat from his swollen center climbed up to his head.

Why is she lingering instead of going quickly? You’re telling me to take a bath. Are you going to watch me undress?

“Ah, well, yes. I’ll leave the towel here.”

Rian hesitated, showing the towel she placed on the shelf by the wall.

“Understood.”

He didn’t care about the towel, just wanted her to leave quickly. Before the vile beast attempted to strip her and thrust his filthy member inside.

“And, um….”

But Rian lingered, seeming to have something to say. Her breath, trembling with tension, tingled under his abdomen.

The fantasy accelerated in an instant. He had already pinned her to the ground, pressing his lips to her pants and blowing breath into her. He plunged into her overturned skirt, placing his tongue between her legs and sucking greedily.

Somewhere here, there must be a hole for his thing. Worried whether his massive member could fit into the narrow passage where even his tongue barely entered, he drank greedily from her spring.

But no matter how much he drank, his thirst didn’t subside.

His throat burned dry.

“What do you want to say, Rian?”

Kaiden broke free from the thirsty fantasy and looked back at Rian. It wasn’t to forcibly spread her legs under the pretense of unquenchable thirst from mere imagination.

It was to urge her once more to go to her room.

“Ah….”

But the moment he saw her blushing peach-colored cheeks, shyly mouthing her lips, it was irresistible that the scene of him swallowing her lips without permission and thrusting his member into her narrow womanhood unfolded before his eyes again.

He wanted to know if she would rejoice in his size and hardness. Whether she preferred being thrust intensely, or liked it slow and sticky. Whether she would enjoy shallow and fast movements, or wanted deep and heavy thrusts.

“Could you call me when you’ve finished your bath, Sir?”

Kaiden held Rian warmly, shaking his hips. Her innocent face looking up at him overlapped with the image of her moaning in pleasure from their union.

He wanted to know if, while shaking his body intensely like this, she would make some sound when he released inside her….

“Since it’s rare to fill the water… I’d like to bathe before you dispose of it….”

Her words worked like magic.

In the blink of an eye, his fantasy changed.

Now Kaiden was watching her shyly immerse herself in the water he had washed in. Imagining all sorts of obscene and vulgar ways to embrace her, while she bathed in the water he had m*sturbated and released in, washing her womanhood with the water mixed with his seed.

“Ugh.”

A low groan echoed from his throat, submerged in sordid imagination. He cleared his throat, pretending to be hoarse.

“Then.”

His member, swollen to its limit, seemed ready to burst through the fabric of his pants.

“You bathe first. I’ll do it later.”

Kaiden returned his gaze directly.

Then Rian, startled behind him, waved her hands.

“No, no! How could you bathe in the water I washed in, Sir….”

“I’m just a guest imposing on you, what Sir am I? You bathe first.”

It was finally time to turn around and quietly step aside.

While thinking this, he couldn’t easily turn toward Rian, who blocked him with her back. He couldn’t move because the front of his pants protruded so embarrassingly. It had gone beyond the point where it could be covered with his top. If he moved his legs and the tunic lifted, the thick veins of his member, taut and visible through the thin fabric, would be exposed.

“…Sir?” 

Rian peeked slightly from behind Kaiden, who stood like a statue.

“Are you alright?”

He stood there with his head bowed. 

He should have left naturally earlier…. In his unspeakable predicament, he aimlessly rolled his eyes and reached for the shelf.

“I’ll borrow this.”

He quickly passed by her, covering his front with the towel meant for after his bath.

…Ha. 

A hollow laugh escaped him.

Isn’t it quite a strange contradiction? His boiling desire made him want to show her his monstrous lower body immediately, yet his rational mind made him sweat with fear of her noticing his bulging front.