Lenore rejected his touch and got up from her spot.

“If you don’t want to, fine. I’ll go find a lover who will do what I want.”

She didn’t really mean it. She hoped that if she said she would leave, he would stop her. It was a complaint with that wish hidden in it.

As proof, though she said she would go, her bottom remained stuck to the bed without leaving. She just turned her back and peeked at him over her shoulder.

But his eyes looked strange. It was a very dangerous look she had never seen before. Even when he acted like a tyrant on their wedding night, his eyes weren’t this frightening.

Only then did Lenore realize she had made a serious verbal mistake.

“Daniel?”

When Lenore called out in a trembling voice, Daniel raised the corners of his mouth with cold eyes. Then he slowly approached Lenore. The moment she saw his smile, Lenore felt her hair stand on end.

“I-I said that in anger! I have no intention of finding a lover…”

Lenore immediately backed down.

“I know. Surely you wouldn’t think of finding a lover to embrace you while leaving me behind.”

Daniel met her eyes and smiled. Lenore learned for the first time that someone could make another person tremble in fear even with such a gentle tone.

“If you said such things because you want me to embrace you that badly, you must have been mentally prepared enough?”

“Ah, th-that…”

Lenore couldn’t get the words out properly. It was strange that she was getting wetter down there even while being so scared. She couldn’t tell if the chills were from fear of him. Or if it was anticipation because he finally had the mind to do it.

Daniel grabbed her wrist and flipped her over. Then he went behind her and lifted her waist up.

“Dani-ugh!”

Without warning, his thing entered inside. Lenore gripped the bed sheets tightly. Thanks to how wet she was, it wasn’t too tight, but it was still snug since she wasn’t stretched enough.

Daniel applied force to slowly insert his manhood that hadn’t fully entered yet. Lenore panted as she felt her insides gradually expanding.

“You need to relax, Lenore. I’m putting it in because you said it wasn’t enough.”

Daniel said while gripping her bottom. Lenore, who still needed to adjust, lowered her head and exhaled through her mouth. It was difficult to suddenly relax.

Daniel slapped her bottom that wouldn’t relax.

…Did he just spank my bottom?

Having her bottom spanked, Lenore felt sadness well up. Sure, she had said things about finding a lover.

But if he hadn’t drawn the line saying he would only go this far while she was suffering from unfulfilled desire? Then she would never have even uttered the word ‘lover’.

Lenore’s eyes welled up with tears from feeling wronged and sad. She hated that it felt strangely good even though it hurt. She would remember being spanked for a long time. While inwardly vowing this, she tried to recall the sensation of relaxing as much as possible.

Finally her insides loosened. Daniel tried to insert fully in this opening but pulled his hips back instead.

He’s pulling out. Noticing this, Lenore turned to look at him in confusion. In that moment, Daniel thrust his withdrawn hips in all at once with a smack.

“Hic!”

Lenore trembled at the penetrating sensation. Daniel pulled back his hips once more until just the tip barely caught, then thrust in forcefully.

“Ah, ah hic, uh.”

If it was going to be like this, she would have preferred the tyrant. The tyrant from their wedding night allowed her to maintain consciousness no matter how strongly he thrust. But now she was losing her mind from pleasure. She couldn’t think of anything besides gripping him with her lower half.

“Hua, Daniel, ah, nng, Daniel…!”

It seemed tears could come from too much pleasure too. Lenore’s vision blurred. Daniel moved particularly strongly below whenever she called his name.

Because he thrust in so powerfully each time, Lenore worried her body might actually get pierced through.

“Lenore.”

Daniel, who was thrusting like a machine in steady rhythm, called to Lenore. She realized now how much affection he had shown when calling her name before. His voice now was ice cold.

“I told you to relax.”

Slap, Daniel spanked her bottom again. The already sore spot stung from being hit. Tears finally fell from the sadness. As her body rocked from his thrusting, tears dripped onto the sheets.

Her crying mixed with moans and came out sounding like whimpers. But Daniel gradually noticed something strange in her sounds.

When he grabbed her face to turn it, as expected. She was crying. Her nose and eyes were red, and Lenore’s tear-filled eyes were full of resentment.

“Lenore.”

At his much gentler tone, Lenore finally burst into tears with a ‘waaaah’. It hurt her feelings that someone who usually stumbled over himself and whom she secretly found amusing would act so scary over a little joke. And it wounded her pride that her body felt pleasure and enjoyed it even while being scared of him.

Surely on their wedding night it had only hurt. Though he was being rough just the same, she couldn’t understand why there was such a stark difference from then.

Tears were very effective. Daniel who had been acting mercilessly stopped his hips and kissed her, telling her not to cry. At the soothing kiss, Lenore stopped crying.

But her eyes remained the same. Lenore twisted her upper body trying to embrace him. Daniel looked down at his wife reaching her arms toward him. His body wanted to embrace her right away. But his still frozen mind stopped him.

His mind said she needed more punishment. Hadn’t she said the terrible thing about going to find a lover to embrace? He was fine with her teasing him however she wanted. He was willing to accommodate even if she tried to push him around.

But a lover, that was unacceptable.

Though she said it was said in anger, could thoughts that didn’t exist at all in one’s heart come out even in anger?

Daniel believed she held the possibility of a lover in one corner of her heart. He could forgive her wanting separate bedrooms and pushing him into the abyss of wet dreams, but that alone he could not forgive.

“Do you still want a lover?”

Lenore shook her head vigorously.

“They say love is something you do with a lover, not a husband. Do you want that too? Do you want to make love, to do this with a lover instead of me?”

Only after seeing Daniel’s hurt eyes did Lenore realize how cruel her words had been. Though he wasn’t crying like her, he looked sadder than she was.

“Daniel, I’m sorry.”

Lenore reached out and stroked his face. Daniel closed his eyes momentarily before opening them to look at her. When she tried to comfort him, he looked even more sorrowful.

Did she know how much his heart had dropped at her shocking words that were spoken in anger? It felt like the contents of his chest were like crushed tomatoes.

“I don’t want to make love with anyone else. I won’t get a lover. Daniel, I…”

Lenore’s heart beat rapidly as she confessed while looking into his eyes. Her breathing was so loud in her ears as she exhaled.

The cloudiness of sorrow in Daniel’s eyes began to clear. As hope filled them, light returned to his blue eyes.

“I think I’ll be fine with just you for the rest of my life.”

Lenore reached out and embraced him. Daniel, who had been holding back without approaching, bent down and let himself be held.

“So Daniel, I hope I’m enough for you too.”

“I’ve only ever wanted you. Since a very long time ago.”

Daniel smiled and buried his nose in her skin, inhaling deeply. Finally, he felt a little at ease. His frozen heart melted with her warmth.

“If you say that and then meet someone else, I’ll meet two people.”

Daniel, who had been smelling her with his eyes closed, snapped them open. Though he knew it was a condition attached and said in anger, he didn’t like hearing it.

“I’m sorry. I won’t say things like that anymore. Not even as a joke.”

When Daniel glared at her, Lenore quickly backed down, feeling a chill. She knew she shouldn’t make him angry. Yet she kept blurting out words that irritated him. As if she wanted him to punish her.

Was she becoming strange because she was sexually frustrated? Goodness, who would want punishment for themselves? What’s so good about getting spanked?

Lenore patted Daniel’s back, trying to calm his anger and deny her own newly discovered preferences.

Daniel exhaled sharply and buried his nose in her neck. Then he inhaled deeply, filling his lungs. Her body scent, intensified by sweat, calmed his mind.