She should have felt bad about his rude behavior, but strangely, she didn’t feel unpleasant.

Rather.

So this was what a kiss was like… Was it crazy to think she wanted to taste a little more?

Because it was such a short kiss that left her wanting more, Angela almost put her hands around his neck. She wanted to savor the man’s sweetness a little longer.

She barely held back and was about to demand what he thought he was doing, but before she could open her mouth, Dion’s hand touched Angela’s chin and lifted her face up.

What is it this time?

“And this is payment for informing the guards that you were abandoned in the forest.”

Payment again, surely not…

When force was applied to the hand pressing her chin, her mouth opened involuntarily and once again her lips overlapped with the man’s.

It was a sweet kiss that made her forget all the regret she had felt moments before, softly rubbing past the tip of her nose in a pleasantly tickling way.

“Mmh, mmph!”

But the moment Dion’s hand forced her mouth open by applying pressure to her chin, the gentle kiss ended.

Dion entered through her parted lips and began licking every corner of her mouth. Saliva mixed and breath mingled.

The sensation of the slippery flesh brushing inside her mouth was so strange that Angela tried to push away the man’s chest, but it was futile.

Dion grasped her brown hair with one hand and wrapped around her waist with the other, inserting his tongue even deeper. He came at her with the momentum to swallow all her breath.

Angela tried to escape, but he persistently chased her fleeing tongue and then wrapped around it. It was a rough and fierce kiss that contrasted with his controlled gestures.

What on earth is happening…

The man’s solid chest was hard like a rock and wouldn’t budge no matter how much she pushed. Her fists felt merely trivial like children’s play.

Angela’s resisting hands stopped. She was simply swept away by his lead.

‘I feel like I’m being sucked in!’

As their tongues intertwined, intense excitement surged, and strangely, the more they entangled with each other, the more hungry she felt.

When they became breathless, their lips separated as they exhaled ragged breaths. The two people’s saliva connected like thin threads.

Even after Angela’s lips separated, intoxicated by the ecstatic sensation that swept through her frantically, her gaze followed the man.

“Why? Not enough?”

“…”

The moon that had briefly shown its face hid itself, and dawn light was already brightening.

The man’s figure sparkling in the dawn sunlight was so beautiful. Angela slowly shook her head while breathing heavily with a flushed face.

Though she had felt resistance at first, the ecstatic sensation she was experiencing for the first time made it hard for her to breathe. If this continued any further, her heart felt like it would burst.

Then the man chuckled.

“Then we’re all done with our business. Here, this is the case summary explanation you requested and evidence with my signature.”

Soon Dion took out paper from his chest, scribbled something, and pressed it into Angela’s hand. However, since she still hadn’t regained her senses and had no strength in her hands, her grip on the paper was loose.

“What are you doing? Wasn’t this what you needed? There’s a signature here, so you’ll definitely need it.”

Dion grabbed Angela’s hand to make a fist and stuffed the paper inside it. While she nodded in response, the man left without even saying goodbye.

Angela’s gaze remained blankly fixed on him until his figure was completely out of sight.

Ah.

When she later came to her senses, she finally realized what she had done.

She looked at the hand that had touched the man’s member and then touched her lips. When unfamiliar sensations came to mind, her face flushed hot.

The first emotion she felt was embarrassment.

She hadn’t realized it earlier because she was frantic since her life was at stake, but after parting, she was ashamed of herself for trying to do perverted things to a man she was seeing for the first time in her life.

‘It was an unavoidable choice to survive. Right. That’s what it was. Anyway, I did survive, didn’t I?’

She tried to console herself that it was something she had to do out of necessity for survival, but a corner of her heart remained uneasy. Especially the fact that she had enjoyed the kiss kept bothering her.

“No, how could that be? Am I crazy?”

Then she denied her feelings and rubbed her lips vigorously with her hands to erase the man’s traces remaining on her lips.

“Right. How fortunate that I didn’t lose my virginity! Couldn’t I lightly give up my lips in exchange for my life?”

And then she tried to comfort herself again, thinking that good was good. After Angela’s anger subsided, she finally moved her steps toward the village.

She didn’t have money right away, but fortunately she was able to get a carriage on the condition that the coachman would go to the Huntley estate together to receive payment.

However, since going alone again would likely result in being attacked once more, Angela stopped by a trading company on the way to hire mercenaries before visiting the guard unit.

“I came to file a case.”

She slammed the certificate Dion had given her and other items onto the table with a determined expression.

“Huh? Miss, why did you come with mercenaries like someone whose life was threatened?”

Then the guard receiving the case looked at Angela with curious eyes and asked.

“Yes. I almost died last night. So I came to report those who tried to kill me.”

“You really almost died? Oh my. Miss, you almost had a big problem. What’s your name?”

“Angela Huntley.”

“Angela Huntley… Huh? You’re from the Huntley family?”

When he raised his voice with wide eyes, at that moment the gazes of all the guards there turned toward Angela. They all had expressions showing they never expected her to be a noble.

Ahem, Angela cleared her throat and confidently straightened her shoulders even more.

“Yes. I’m the daughter of the late Count Huntley, and the people I want to report are my collateral relatives.”

Angela explained what had happened to her while handing over the evidence Dion had given her to the guard.

“Since there’s certification from a knight, the crime will be acknowledged, but let’s go together and investigate the case first.”

Thanks to her dress covered with mud and leaves, her disheveled hair, the dirt on her face, and the explanatory document with Dion’s signature, she could prove that she had almost been killed by her collateral relatives.

So it was time for the relatives who tried to kill someone to be punished.

‘They must be happy thinking I’m dead, right? I won’t let them get away with this!’

Recalling how she had trembled in fear all night, Angela’s great anger was directed toward her relatives.

“We, we were worried all night because you didn’t come back. Where did you go? If you were going out, you should have said something before leaving.”

When Angela arrived at the Huntley estate with soldiers, the relatives didn’t seem surprised at all but shamelessly pretended to worry about her.

Though they seemed momentarily flustered, they immediately changed their expressions and acted like kind family members.

“You tried to kill me.”

The sight was so disgusting that Angela confronted them openly.

“What are you talking about?”

Then they didn’t blink an eye and pretended not to know their wrongdoing. Like nothing had happened.

Though Dion’s evidence was already sufficient, Angela suddenly wanted to make the collateral relatives also feel the betrayal of being betrayed by people they trusted, so she immediately called all the servants together and tempted them.

“I’ll give thirty gold coins to the first person who tells the truth.”

“I’ll speak first. It’s true that they tried to kill Lady Huntley.”

“No, I’ll speak. The culprit is…”

“I saw with my own two eyes when they ordered the kidnapping!”

As expected, the moment Angela finished speaking, whether maids or servants, it became chaos as everyone tried to speak first.

“Wh, what.”

When their plan to pretend ignorance until the end went awry, the relatives’ faces began turning pale.

“There’s sufficient evidence, so we’ll arrest them.”

The guard captain stepped forward and bowed his head to Angela as he spoke. The sight of him trying to be polite because she was a noble was awkward, so Angela also nodded along.

“Take them away.”

The moment his order was given, the soldiers bound them one by one, and the relatives were arrested for attempted murder, aiding and abetting murder, and other charges.

“Ah, now I feel like I can live.”

Only after confirming that she would no longer be threatened with her life did Angela finally breathe a sigh of relief. She had been anxious about dying last night, but fortunately she could survive and get revenge like this.

‘Was it Sir Dion? I am grateful though.’

Though the process of surviving was annoying, since it worked out well in the end, Angela felt grateful to Dion. If she hadn’t met him, she would have already become bear food and more.

When the tension was released, Angela collapsed right there on the spot. Her eyes seemed to be closing too. Maybe because she slept in the forest, her body felt stiff too.

‘Should I rest for now?’

Come to think of it, so many things had happened yesterday and today that time seemed to have passed frantically without her being able to rest.

Therefore, though there were many things to do since she had suddenly become a noble from a commoner, Angela wanted to put everything down and sleep for a while. Right now she needed to rest thoroughly first.

“Ahh. It was a tiring day.”

Preparing for any contingency, she stationed mercenaries outside her room and collapsed onto the bed, where deep sleep immediately overwhelmed her and Angela fell into sleep frantically.