Chapter 8

“I asked how many times you did it with your husband.”

She did not know. Adeline merely shook her head. As though merely shaking her head was not enough for him, he asked again. He did not even hesitate to threaten that if she did not answer, he would put in one more finger.

His ring finger began prodding insistently at the opening beside the one already holding two of his fingers. Not three, not three, I can’t take it. The answer burst from Adeline’s lips like a m*an.

“Hngh, I, I don’t know.”

“Why don’t you know?”

Wouldn’t there be fewer people who counted such things? It would have been nice if she could have given such a logical answer, but Adeline’s head could no longer think properly because of the rising pleasure.

She merely mumbled that she did not know and shook her head, without realizing that only spurred Ishiel on further.

“Ah, is it because you did it too many times to count?”

So you weren’t a couple in name only after all. He muttered. D*mn, this is awful. Adding curses that the Ishiel of the past would never have dared to utter aloud.

“Well, you were husband and wife for five years, so of course you must’ve done it more times than you could count. Even if it was only once a month, that’s sixty times. Then why are you squeezing me like some maiden who’s never even taken fingers, hmm?”

His wild assumption left her dumbfounded. She wanted to explain that it was not like that. But his fingers curved like hooks and scraped along her inner walls, and instead of an explanation, only a soft, suggestive cry slipped from Adeline’s mouth.

“That’s enough, stop going on about your dead husband now.”

“…Hngh, wh, when did I ever, ngh.”

That felt a little unfair. It was Ishiel who kept going on about her husband, not her. Adeline had only mentioned her husband once. After thoroughly leaving Adeline feeling wronged, Ishiel withdrew his fingers from her opening and stepped back slightly.

Wetness streamed down from the opening left parted. At the shamelessly exposed sight, Ishiel’s jaw tightened.

He looked as though he might shove himself into her that very instant and drive into her like an animal. Adeline feared he might hear the pounding of her heart, beating with anticipation before she could stop it.

Is this really all right. If it is only to save Susanna, I can do anything, but even so, this……

The moral sense Adeline had had instilled in her over a long time, half by force and half by habit, kept catching at her like a torn nail.

Strangely enough, that only fed the pleasure further. Just as Adeline was swallowed by confusion, Ishiel suddenly lifted her up.

“…Ah.”

“We can’t really manage the position from behind properly here.”

Speaking such indecent words as though it were nothing, Ishiel simply carried Adeline over and set her down on the bed.

When Adeline found herself sitting on the bed in an instant and looked up at him with wide eyes, he shrugged and began undoing his belt buckle.

The moment the buckle came loose, what had been pressed inside his trousers seemed to stretch out boldly.

“…Ah.”

His arousal, thick and heavy and reaching nearly to his navel, was enough to frighten her. Adeline felt again the same shock she had the first time she ever saw him.

Unlike Ishiel’s refined face, his arousal was, no matter how generously one viewed it, not something that could be called pretty. It looked like a huge, fearsome club. The bulging veins running over the dark red shaft looked brutal beyond measure.

Just when she had thought she had adjusted well enough before, seeing it again after so long made it feel startlingly large. Surely it hadn’t grown even more in the meantime?

“What’s wrong, it’s not like this is your first time seeing my c*ck.”

He ran his hand slowly over himself.

“Ah, is it nice to see it again after so long? Want to greet it or something?”

Greet it? It wasn’t as though it had a personality. Adeline stared at Ishiel as though he had lost his mind, then turned her head away.

“How does it compare to your husband’s?”

Ishiel caught hold of Adeline’s chin and turned her face back toward him, then gently rubbed the blunt head of himself against her lips.

“I heard Marquis Hartmann was famous for being quite well-endowed too, hmm? Well? I asked you, Adeline.”

Again, the answer was ‘I don’t know,’ but she could not even manage that properly. The moment she parted her lips, she nearly ended up taking the tip of him into her mouth.

He frowned faintly for a moment, then slowly rubbed himself against Adeline’s lips with a troubled expression.

“Adeline, I’ve stayed abstinent all this time.”

Everyone kept asking me if I was planning to become a priest.

“That makes me different from you, who spent an uncountable number of times sleeping with your husband.”

He had just told her to stop bringing up her husband. So who exactly was the one doing that now? Adeline wanted to snap something back, but she could not carelessly open her mouth.

The moment she did, it felt as if something large would immediately push inside.

“So I don’t think I’ll be able to stop with just once.”

No matter how troubled he made himself sound, in the end it was simply a warning that he did not intend to stop at only once.

“That’s all right, isn’t it?”

As though about to push between her lips, his hips moved a little more roughly. At the silent threat that if she did not nod here, he would put it in her mouth, Adeline quickly nodded.

Seeming satisfied, Ishiel moved the fearsome thing away from Adeline’s lips. The moment he did, Adeline protested.

“Th, the rule was always that the payment was only once……”

“Only once, Adeline? You’ve been shut away in this backwater for so long your arithmetic has gotten worse. There’s no way the price of your life could be worth only that little.”

With a faint scoff, Ishiel lifted both of Adeline’s legs onto the bed and in one motion pulled down the loosened nightdress whose knot had already come undone.

“W, wait, Ishiel……”

When even her undergarment, dampened with wetness, was stripped away by his hand, Adeline felt dizzy between the reason telling her this must not happen and the instinct in her, already burning hot.

“You have to make it out of here alive, Adeline. Don’t you? And save Susanna too.”

Bringing up a justification Adeline could not bear to turn away from, Ishiel rubbed the thick shaft along her slick folds. Every time a bulging vein dragged across the tender flesh, her lower belly tingled sharply.

“You have to spread your legs properly.”

The blunt tip forced the opening wide and entered all the way to the root in one stroke.

“Hah, ngh.”

At the opening stretched so fully, Adeline let out a strained cry and clutched the sheets. The pressure of being filled so completely made her pant for breath.

“Shh, be quiet. What if someone outside hears?”

“…Hngh!”

So focused on the burden of merely holding him inside that she had not even thought about the sound, Adeline jumped and quickly clapped a hand over her mouth.

“Your butler said earlier that the servants patrol every hour. If moaning comes from the bedroom of a widowed master, what do you think they’ll assume?”

“…Hh, then, gently, please?”

Perhaps because it had been so long, even simply holding him inside without moving was difficult. Adeline let her struggle show, intending it as a plea. But at that sign, Ishiel seemed only more aroused, and his hips stirred again.

“I told you, it’s been too long, so I’m not very good at controlling myself.”

Quietly looking down at Adeline, he whispered in a low voice.

“Madame, you can simply endure it well on your own.”

And after saying that, he deliberately took hold of both her wrists and lifted them up. So that she could not cover her mouth with her hands.

“Hngh, mm.”

After cornering Adeline like that, he began to thr*st. Filled tight to the brim, he nearly withdrew all the way out, only to drive back in to the root again. Thud, thud, the sound of flesh striking flesh echoed through the quiet room.

Every time the ridged length scraped along her tender inner walls, pleasure bloomed through her whole body.

“Uu, ngh.”

To keep the sounds from slipping out again and again, Adeline bit her lip. If she could not stop Ishiel, then at least she had to keep them from being discovered.

But each time Adeline managed to hold back her sounds well, Ishiel’s movements somehow grew rougher. The louder her involuntary cries became, and the louder the wet joining sounds of her body clinging and releasing, the more satisfied he seemed.

Though he himself had nothing to gain from being discovered in a scene like this, he seemed almost like a man going out of his way to get caught. But Adeline could not even protest. The moment she opened her lips, a helpless sound of pleasure might spill out.

“Wait, do you hear that sound?”

All at once, he stopped moving and turned toward the door. Could someone really be coming in? The thought made Adeline tense at once. Unintentionally, she tightened around him too.

He frowned and let out a low exhale.

“My, Adeline, what am I supposed to do if you tighten like that just because there might be someone outside?”

“Th, that’s, hngh, not why……”

Though she wore a wronged expression, having become a degenerate unlike ever before, Ishiel muttered as though he could not see her face at all.

“Trying to make use of a c*ck that hasn’t been used in five years, it’s hard to hold back. I don’t want to finish too quickly after so long, so cooperate with me a little, Adeline.”

So don’t rush me too much, hmm? Though his voice whispered almost pleadingly, his arousal immediately struck the sensitive place inside her.

“Ahh.”

At the pleasure that burst through her like flame, a high cry escaped Adeline’s lips. Her trembling inner walls gripped him tightly.

This was clearly deliberate. There was no way someone who knew her body better than anyone could have done this by accident.

“Th, there, there, hhh, no……”

“No? Ah, farther inside?”

Again, the blunt head struck precisely against the place that felt so sensitive. Adeline’s hips jerked upward. The feeling of wetness spilling out from inside made her tremble.

For a body that had already been heated for so long, it was too much stimulation to endure. Hhngh, ah. Her trembling sounds, tinged almost with tears, slipped out before she could stop them.

As if he had never intended to give her any chance to hold her sounds back from the start, Ishiel drove her harder. He knew every corner of Adeline, knew exactly what made her sensitive.

Adeline liked to be pressed deep, and she liked it when he moved slowly at first and then more quickly at the end. And if he gave her the full length all the way to the root, she would wriggle with pleasure and tighten around him so fiercely.

“Ah, hngh……”

Every time she heard the creaking sounds mixed in with the wet, suggestive noises from where their bodies met, Adeline’s nerves tightened. The anxiety rushing over her at the thought of someone hearing mixed with the sensations Ishiel gave her and became part of the pleasure itself.

“Hah, g, gently, mm, Ishi, el……”

Her head was a complete mess. The sense of wrongdoing from doing something she should not be doing and the pleasure driving her to the edge tangled together so badly she felt she might go mad.