Chapter 4 – Seize (Part 4)

At that moment, she felt a slight sense of liberation and took a sweet breath.

Breathing in while kissing him was unbelievably sweet. Even if she were accused of being greedy, she wanted to suck up everything inside his mouth.

“Haah.”

But with that deep breath came the sudden realization.

‘My corset!’

The fine hairs on her back where his fingertips touched stood on end, and she was abruptly brought back to reality.

‘If this gets undone now.’

Even in her spacious room, several maids had sweated profusely to tighten her corset, and she didn’t even want to imagine what would happen in this cramped carriage.

However, the man, thoroughly intoxicated with lust, seemed determined not to stop his restless hands.

His hand, persistently reaching between her legs, slipped inside her stockings fixed under the garter belt. As he pried the space between the thin stockings and her soft skin, he pulled them down.

With a snapping sound, the garter belt’s fastening was torn, and the stockings slid helplessly down her thighs.

“Have you gone mad?”

Olivie lowered her voice as much as possible and furrowed her brows.

At this rate, everything she had painstakingly prepared would be ruined by his fingertips.

‘No.’

She couldn’t possibly let that happen. She pushed against his shoulder. However, Robin, pulling Olivie’s hips closer to prevent her escape, held her tightly against him.

Inside his pants, his er*ect m*mber was making its presence known. Rem*mbering how it had split her tightness and pushed inside, Olivie swallowed hard.

It seemed his stamina was truly inexhaustible.

‘Well, I’m no different.’

Olivie, barely regaining her composure while recalling her own moist and sensitive area, pushed against his shoulder.

“I put effort into looking nice. Don’t think of ruining it…”

“I’m not very patient.”

Robin interrupted her, bringing his nose close.

“The scent wafting so strongly from beneath you is driving me crazy. Isn’t it too cruel to ask me to wait? And…”

The moment his fingers brushed over her w*t underwear, Olivie gasped, grabbing his arm urgently.

“Ah.”

“What about this?”

Feeling dizzy from the sensitivity swelling below, Olivie buried her face in his shoulder. The tingling sensation and ticklish feeling seemed to spread throughout her body, and she breathed heavily. Her shoulders trembled slightly.

“Haah.”

With a breath mixed with an involuntary moan, Robin grasped Olivie’s chin. Then he licked her lips with the tip of his tongue. Like savoring soft cream, he licked her parted lips, and her tense shoulders relaxed under his teasing kiss.

It was a much more gentle and tender kiss than when she first embraced him.

Olivie swallowed, wondering if the man before her was truly the Robin she knew, as the sweet kiss left her breathless.

“Haah.”

‘I’m going crazy with pl*asure.’

Even just the kiss seemed to be enough to make her lose her mind.

That day, the encounter with him was so intense that she couldn’t even remember the kiss.

“Haah.”

Even in the cramped carriage, just the kiss made her feel like her whole body was melting.

She was breathless.

Only now did she understand why people undressed during s*x. She wanted to feel only the sensations he provided, without anything constraining her body. She just wanted to roll around on his mansion’s bed like this.

“Ha.”

If it were the usual Olivie, she would have surely done so.

The moment she read the lust contained in his fingertips that were digging into her body, she might have collapsed into his arms right here in the carriage without even needing to go to the mansion.

But.

“Wait a minute.”

Olivie lifted her head, as if to push him away.

‘Get a grip, Olivie.’

Yes, wasn’t this the first banquet she was attending since the breakup rumors?

Today’s party had a different meaning and purpose than the ones she had attended before.

She had to quell the tangled rumors and raise her value.

Only then would those trashy people give up on her.

Not wanting to see the trash they would send starting tomorrow, Olivie barely opened her lips.

“Our deal is for a night after the banquet.”

“……”

“So, for now, hold back.”

Olivie, pushing against his shoulder, looked up at Robin.

Perhaps due to her still dazed vision, his face appeared blurred. Yet, even so, his lips were unusually red and vivid. Since they had been touching hers until now, she wondered if hers were as red. As she touched her lips with her hand, she thought.

“Hmm.”

Robin tucked her hair behind her ear as it fell forward and met her gaze.

“With eyes full of lust, saying no—”

“……”

Olivie, feeling awkward at his pointed words, bit her lips inwardly. Her nape seemed to warm up. She subtly averted her gaze, lowering her head, worried her flushed face might look unattractive.

“You shouldn’t run away.”

Robin, holding her chin to face him again, shook his head.

The tips of her ears burned with heat, and she felt a throb at the nape of her neck.

“You got me all excited.”

‘He’s really mean.’

At his teasing tone, which was clearly meant to torment her, Olivie bit her lip. Laughing, he tilted his head to the side as he slipped his hand inside the last remaining garter belt.

“Hmm?”

As he urged her to answer, his hand subtly moved between her legs, and Olivie clenched her fists, swallowing hard. Putting all her strength into her toes, she glanced at his mischievous face and whispered softly.

“After it’s over.”

At her barely audible voice, Robin leaned a little closer.

“Can you hold out until then?”

“Uh, ju—just one dance!”

His hand, brushing over the prominent peak above her underwear, delved inward. In that moment, trying to suppress a moan that seemed ready to burst forth, Olivie bit her lip as she glanced ahead. Sure enough.

Knock, knock.

“Miss, are you alright?”

Elcia’s voice accompanied the knock.

Olivie raised her voice to answer, hearing the concern in Elcia’s voice that seemed ready to open the window any moment.

“Oh, oh, I’m fine. Nothing’s wrong.”

“Okay.”

At Elcia’s innocent response, Olivie silently breathed a sigh of relief and sharply turned her head to glare at Robin.

“We almost got caught!”

Olivie, suppressing her voice as much as possible, furrowed her brows in anger. However, Robin, who smiled faintly at Olivie’s expression, moved his face away from right in front of her. Then he loosened the corset fastener that was tightly binding her back.

“No!”

“At this rate, you’ll collapse before you even get out of the banquet hall.”

“But.”

“Why do you need to do this? It’s already enough.”

With a snap, Olivie, who had completely forgotten she was supposed to be angry at the gradually loosening corset, took a deep breath. As fresh air flowed into her throat, a blush finally appeared on Olivie’s previously pale face.

“Haah.”

Feeling the blood circulate, she exhaled deeply, and with a chuckle at her breath, he tightened the strings just slightly, leaving them loose. His touch was very natural. The skillful ease suggested this wasn’t his first time, which made jealousy suddenly flare up within her.

But unable to show it, Olivie bit her lower lip tightly. After tightening the last corset string and pulling up her dress, finishing the knot, he looked at her.

“Done.”

At his bright smile right in front of her, Olivie blushed instantly. She hurriedly averted her gaze.

Her heart pounded loudly.

‘It must be broken.’

No, how can a person live if their heart races like this all the time? She shook her head. Indeed, Robin should remain just a one-time s*x partner. Otherwise, she felt she wouldn’t live to her full life span.

‘Not that he would think otherwise.’

For some reason, Olivie wrapped up the thread of her thoughts that had gone far away, hiding it as she slowly rose with the gradually halting movement of the carriage, and moved to sit across from him.

“We’re almost there, it seems.”

She dusted off her skirt, which had risen to her waist, and let it fall to cover her ankles without a wrinkle, then turned her head as if nothing had happened.

No, she had to appear that way.

However,

“We have arrived.”

“Welcome… ”

With the coachman’s voice announcing their arrival, the inside of the carriage, opened by the Earl’s servant, was filled with heat mixed with humidity, and the large, clean window had become so foggy that one could draw pictures on it.

Just from that, the servant, experienced enough to guess what might have happened inside, bowed his head deeply and finished his sentence.

“…Please.”

At his hesitant words, Olivie bit her lip.

The rumors will spread in an instant.

‘Damn it.’

The thought of receiving embarra$sing gazes made her chest ache.

She sighed, thinking that another scandal might be layered on top of the existing one.

‘It would be troublesome if the rumors spread.’

It wouldn’t matter if it only spread in Plen, but it would be a bit troublesome if the rumors reached neighboring countries like Ingdon or Sdein.

Of course, it was something beyond her control.

“Sigh.”

With a long sigh, she glared at Robin.

But unlike the tense Olivie, Robin stood up as if nothing was wrong. Then he leaned slightly towards Olivie. He rubbed off the lipstick that had blurred below her lips with his thumb and whispered softly in her ear.

“The promise you just made, you have to keep it.”

“……!”

Then, calmly rising and stepping out of the carriage, he extended his hand to Olivie.

“Shall we go, Lady?”