“Thank you.”

Smelling the savory bread aroma made her swallow. It was amazing that her appetite didn’t disappear even though her body was this exhausted.

“What kind of tea shall I bring you?”

“Hmm…… Please bring rye tea.”

Liana answered while taking a spoonful of mushroom soup. Rye tea was tea she had enjoyed drinking at home too. It helped with insomnia and fatigue recovery, so it might be effective for her current physical condition.

“Yes, I understand.”

“Kelly, wait a moment.”

Liana urgently called out to Kelly who was about to leave the room.

“Yes, Lady.”

Kelly looked at her with a puzzled expression.

“Is His Grace perhaps short or ugly-faced or…… very old?”

“……N, no.”

Kelly answered with a flustered expression.

“It’s okay. I’ll keep it secret from others. Just tell me.”

Liana lowered her voice. If that wasn’t the reason for darkening the bedroom, tying her hands and feet, and even covering her eyes, then what was it? It was really strange.

“I don’t see His Grace often either, and even when I do see him, I keep my head bowed.”

Kelly also leaned her upper body toward Liana and spoke in a small voice like someone might hear.

“But it’s not like what you said, Lady. Rather, he’s tremendously…… Anyway, I don’t know well.”

Kelly, who was about to answer that the duke was tremendously handsome, mumbled her words. It was forbidden for someone who wasn’t part of the ducal castle to speak carelessly about the duke to outsiders.

She only faithfully fulfilled her duties as a maid and didn’t want to get involved in her master’s affairs. Kelly quickly opened the door and left, saying she would bring tea.

“Why is she like that?”

Liana tilted her head toward Kelly who disappeared like the wind. Well, it would probably be dangerous for a mere servant to chatter about the duke’s appearance.

Especially since it was about Duke Pruis, who was rumored to be a demon and murderer, it would be even more difficult to answer.

Liana nodded and continued her meal.

Meanwhile, Dain was sitting in his office recalling the previous night’s events.

He had planned to roughly handle Baron Brian’s daughter who had deceived him, intending to punish her in place of her father, but it had been a sweet night that far exceeded his expectations.

Unlike other women who had spent nights with him before, she had endured to the end even while in pain. And for reasons he couldn’t understand, he also hadn’t wanted to stop in the middle.

After spending the night with her, his head cleared and his vision became sharp. Though the pheromone accumulation that had long tormented him wasn’t completely resolved, the headaches and dizziness that had continued for years since becoming an adult had disappeared.

‘Is it that woman’s effect?’

Was her name Liana…… He still couldn’t properly remember her name, but he had a premonition that he would seek her out often. And his anger toward Baron Brian had also subsided somewhat.

‘There’s no need to kill him.’

Knock knock.

When he was thinking of Liana, knocking sounds were heard and Aaron entered the office.

“Your Grace, what shall we do with the lady?”

Aaron asked carefully. While Dain had spent the night with Liana last night, he had anxiously worried all night whether the duke would chase her away or kill her.

“Prepare her for tonight too.”

Dain spoke with an expressionless face.

“Yes, Your Grace.”

Aaron sighed with relief inwardly. The reason the duke was seeking her again was because his pheromones had been relieved even a little, and if so, there would be no worry of the lady being killed.

Since all of this had happened because he had been deceived by Baron Brian in the first place, his heart had been heavy worrying that something might happen to the baron’s daughter.

He stepped into the corridor with much lighter steps.

* * *

That night, Liana once again received bathing service and grooming from the maids. The maids again covered her eyes and tied her hands and feet to the bed in a n*ked state.

If the duke didn’t come, would she have to remain tied like this until Kelly brought breakfast tomorrow morning?

Liana imagined what would happen to her left alone on the bed.

The fire was blazing in the fireplace so there was no worry of freezing to death…… What if a fire broke out in the bedroom, how would she escape?

Just thinking about it was horrifying. Goosebumps rose on her skin.

Would he keep her tied up and do it? With her eyes covered too?

She wasn’t refusing or resisting not to do the night’s work, so she was curious about the reason for doing this.

‘Perhaps he has such tastes……?’

The duke might be a pervert who felt desire only when tying a woman somewhere. Liana recalled stories she had once heard from theater troupe members.

There were many types of perverts in the world who used various tools or tied up women and tormented them.

When she was imagining all sorts of things, she heard the sound of the door creaking open.

“Hmph……”

Liana held her breath. The same footsteps from yesterday approached the bed with large strides.

“You were awake.”

Dain was wearing only a robe over his n*ked body. He stood in front of the bed and spoke while looking down at Liana with an expressionless face. However, his gaze was quickly scanning her n*ked body.

“Yes.”

Liana answered obediently to the duke’s question like she hadn’t been thinking about anything.

“Were you waiting for me?”

Dain asked once more.

“Yes.”

Liana also answered without hesitation. Though it was an unavoidable situation, it was true that she had been waiting for him.

Dain suddenly felt strange. He realized it was the first time someone was waiting for him.

Unlike yesterday when they had intercourse with him standing in front of the bed, she felt him climbing onto the bed. When the bed swayed from his heavy weight, the flustered Liana fidgeted.

“Do you hate it?”

Dain asked her who flinched in surprise.

“N, no.”

The corners of Dain’s mouth unconsciously rose. He felt the woman lying before his eyes was cute. She was a woman whose thoughts showed directly in her actions.

He reached out and touched her cheek. It was soft and smooth like a baby’s cheek. Then he also touched her small, cute earlobe and stroked her white, slender neck. Wherever he touched, her skin was soft and smooth.

He could see her throat moving with a gulp.

“You seem nervous.”

“……Yes, naturally……”

Not knowing how to answer, Liana trailed off.

Nervous? Of course she was nervous. It was a strange question.

“Naturally what?”

The duke didn’t let it pass easily.

“Naturally it’s not a situation that happens often.”

“You’ll be doing it often from now on.”

What? What does this mean?

Liana’s body stiffened with a start from Dain’s words. From how roughly he had treated her last night, the duke surely hated her. It was natural since she was Baron Brian’s daughter who had deceived him.

Moreover, she wasn’t skilled in relationships either, so she thought the duke wouldn’t find her interesting. Someone of the duke’s status could easily embrace seductive and beautiful women.

So she thought he would do it once or twice and stop. Unexpected words came from the duke’s mouth.

Saying he would do it often meant she had to be held captive in the ducal castle for the time being, and anxiety washed over her that she might never be able to leave this place.

“Ahh……!”

While Liana was lost in thought, Dain who had leaned over her body bit her shoulder and injected pleasure fluid again like last night. A short scream burst from her mouth.

He licked the wound on her shoulder where he had injected pleasure fluid with his tongue. Then the flesh that had been burning and stinging like it was burned gradually calmed from the cool sensation.

Snake beast-humans had lower body temperature compared to humans. So their bodies including their tongues were always cool. For that reason, licking wounds with the tongue made pain disappear and wounds heal quickly.

But though the pain lessened, she felt something strange. Each time he licked her flesh, her body felt like it was melting.

Dain, who moved his lips from her shoulder to her neck after licking it, sucked and licked her delicate neck. Each time, fluffy feelings kept welling up from her nape that touched his lips.

“Mmm.”

A delicate moan leaked from Liana’s mouth. It was a moan that flowed out naturally without intention. When he continued licking her neck, this time the area between her legs became moist like a wet swamp.

‘Hmm, why is this happening?’

Feeling strange energy tickling her p*ssy, Liana slightly closed her legs that were loosely tied. The place that had been burning with searing pain until morning was gushing out love juice.

When Liana closed her legs, Dain used one hand to spread her legs again and fix them. Then he stroked her p*ssy while biting her earlobe in his mouth and chewing it gently.

Each time he chewed her earlobe with his teeth, her p*ssy tingled, but she couldn’t close her legs because his hand was touching her.

Dain sucked her straight collarbone and kneaded her full br*asts with force. Though he used less force than yesterday, her snow-white br*asts were crushed here and there like sticky flour dough from his strong grip.

“Mmm.”

A faint moan flowed from Liana’s mouth.

After a moment, his gaze turned to the pink peak located in the center of her br*asts. On the white flesh that swelled up roundly like a luscious peach, small grains protruded and tempted him.

‘I heard women’s n*pples rise when they’re excited……’

Seeing the n*pples standing hard, she seemed to want him too, which somehow made him proud. His head turned toward Liana’s br*asts.

“……Your Grace, can’t you untie my hands?”

Liana spoke just before his lips touched her n*pples.

Silence flowed for a moment. Though it wasn’t visible to her with her eyes covered by the blindfold, slight wrinkles formed between Dain’s eyebrows.

If he untied her hands, Liana could touch his body, and then she would notice that he had two c*cks.