Melissa tapped her restless heart a few times with her palm and checked the mirror. Inside the mirror was a woman with a flushed face, not knowing what to do with herself.

Her dark brown hair, wavy down to her waist, had such good texture that it gleamed with shine. Her brown eyes, slightly lighter than her hair color, combined with her spotlessly clear white skin to create an overall pure atmosphere. 

In fact, judging by appearance alone, she had a beautiful face that anyone could fall in love with at first sight. Born with the Empress’s beauty inherited directly, she had grown up praised as a beauty, and with the added title of the Empire’s only princess, her beauty became even more noble.

It was natural that many nobles admired such a woman, but Melissa looked at no one other than Casian. She proved the saying that beautiful things love beautiful things, falling under a spell and in love the moment she saw Casian. Though she had hesitated due to the petty emotion called pride and lost him with her eyes wide open to that completely black, haughty, unfeminine knight.

When she heard the news that Rihana had requested Casian as her fiancé from the Emperor, she thought the sky was falling. The Emperor gladly bound Casian and Rihana in engagement to praise Rihana’s achievements, and Melissa spent years rotting inside with resentment toward the Emperor and hatred toward Rihana. But one day, an opportunity arose to get closer to Casian.

She understood how much stress he must feel being forced into engagement with that rigid, frustrating woman who wouldn’t even wear a dress to parties. So this time, she threw away her pride and approached him first.

For Princess Melissa, the title of someone’s fiancé posed no obstacle regarding Casian. They weren’t married, and an engagement could be broken anytime. 

Of course, since it was an order directly from the Emperor, it would be somewhat troublesome, but anyway, with her mind set on it, becoming Casian’s companion wouldn’t be too difficult as the Emperor’s only daughter and the only sister of the Crown Prince who would become the next Emperor.

This matter was in the same context. In fact, she didn’t want to know any man other than Casian, but Rihana’s guard slave was different enough from the outside to arouse curiosity. 

Despite his lowly status, he had dazzling golden hair and blue eyes – a rare slave possessing two characteristics of foreign royalty naturally caught her eye. Plus that exquisite beauty.

Unlike Casian, who exuded slightly rough masculine charm and sensuality, he possessed sharp lines and very cool beauty. His sculpted high nose bridge and sharply angled eyes, along with his surprisingly fitting threatening broad shoulders and solid upper body, made it hard to look away.

‘What could the Empire’s only Princess not have, what could she not take? Take everything you want. You may take everything.’

‘Wasn’t he a subject as beautiful as I am? So wouldn’t it be fine to have him just once?’

‘How could I dislike you having a doll you want? My heart isn’t so petty that I’d show jealousy over you favoring a pretty toy, Your Highness.’

Casian had permitted it. Since she had never thought he would allow such a thing, she was truly moved. His words that he felt no displeasure about having a doll she wanted made her desire for that golden-haired doll grow even stronger.

“Haah…”

Melissa took a deep breath, seemingly nervous. The thought of bringing a creature beautiful like God’s creation into her bedroom to see and touch made her fingertips tingle.

Normally, slaves from outside the palace shouldn’t be brought inside, but since he was the slave of the Imperial Guard Knights’ Captain, this was an exception. 

She had even provided a carriage from the Princess’s palace, ordering them to hurry and bring him before the night deepened, but no matter how long she waited, he didn’t come, making Melissa gradually more anxious.

* * *

Riding in the carriage the Princess had sent directly, Raiden took out a small red box from his jacket’s inner pocket while heading to the Princess’s palace. Opening the box revealed six small medicine bottles containing red liquid the same color as the box, lying side by side. 

Raiden took out one of them and poured it into his mouth without hesitation. The quite bitter medicine made one eye scrunch involuntarily. He had been carrying erectile suppressants just in case, but he hadn’t expected to use them in this situation.

In fact, due to the nature of his status, he had to meet separate conditions to impregnate a woman with his seed. So even if the Empire’s Princess took his body, nothing would change, and he didn’t really need to use erectile suppressants. He carried the suppressants because his aide and longtime friend Beriel had forcibly packed them for him.

She had given sharp advice that he shouldn’t carelessly play with his noble body against the Empire’s women, along with warnings that since the medicine had severe side effects, it was better not to drink it, so he shouldn’t create situations where he’d need to drink it in the first place. 

Even remembering this, he had stubbornly taken the erectile suppressant with side effects because of the small, cute little animal who kept shedding tears while reluctantly sending him away.

“Hoo…”

A low sigh flowed from Raiden’s mouth. Seeing how he already missed her, this too seemed like a disease. Having such feelings for another country’s Marquis’s fiancée would itself be problematic, but for some reason, he had no desire to stop at all. 

Eventually he would have to leave her and return to his own country anyway, so having such feelings wouldn’t be good for either of them, yet seeing how he had no intention of stopping, he seemed out of his mind.

Raiden took in the scenery of the black forest whipping past outside the carriage and thought of Rihana with her similar black hair. Even though there was no sign of arousal below due to the erectile suppressant, his lower abdomen tingled with l*st. 

It seemed that even that high-performance suppressant would become a useless medicine when it came to Rihana. Raiden unconsciously smiled and shook his head.

Finally entering the tiger’s den, he had to make good use of this opportunity. Though he had been surveying around the imperial palace as Rihana’s guard knight, he hadn’t expected to be able to enter the Princess’s palace. 

The Princess’s palace, Crown Prince’s palace, and Emperor’s palace each had connecting paths, so if he could properly examine even one of the three palaces, hiding his identity and coming here wouldn’t be in vain.

Anyway, accidentally meeting Princess Melissa at the hunting festival and having her show interest in him was good in many ways. Though it felt a bit unpleasant that he was going to get screwed.

* * *

Melissa’s eyes widened seeing the perfect subject with dazzling golden hair standing tall before her. During the hunting festival, she hadn’t noticed because of his somewhat casual commoner’s clothing, but seeing the uniform he wore to come to the Princess’s palace, he looked believable even as a nobleman. 

With his superior and noble feeling languidly looking down at her, she couldn’t help but be mesmerized.

Melissa swallowed dry saliva and reached out her hand toward Raiden. Her fingertips touched the uniform’s shoulder strap. Raiden stared only at her hand with an expressionless face.

“What’s your name?”

“…Is there any need for you to know a slave’s name?”

Melissa drew in breath. The low baritone voice filling the room made her heart pound. A face and voice of different color and feeling from Casian. Apart from wanting to have him, she wanted this rare doll.

“I shall personally learn your name.”

“…”

“Will you make me ask twice?”

“Rai.”

“…Rai.”

Melissa’s tone trembled lightly. She whispered Raiden’s name like a murmur while gently stroking his solid chest with her hand.

“Take it off.”

Not liking the thickness of the uniform, she removed her hand and stepped back. If she had ever undressed a man’s uniform herself, she could have enjoyed the pleasure of personally undressing Raiden, but she had never undressed a man’s clothes. 

Of course, if she set her mind to it, there was no reason she couldn’t undress him, but for various reasons, she couldn’t rush at Raiden and undress him herself. At Melissa’s command, a barely audible sigh escaped from Raiden’s mouth.

“I have something to say before undressing.”

“Can’t you say it while undressing?”

Raiden unconsciously let out a laugh. It was because Melissa, who blatantly revealed her feelings the moment his words ended, somehow felt slightly similar to Rihana.

When Raiden laughed at her words, Melissa’s face began to flush red. Though it was just a glimpsed smile, his laughing appearance was truly handsome. It was quite different from his expressionless face. 

Wanting to see that face again, she commanded him to smile, but Raiden’s face instantly hardened. She regretted it briefly because of that, but seeing Raiden smile brightly at her, that regret quickly flew far away.

It was all because of that smile. Melissa considered the Princess’s dignity and a woman’s modesty all useless and began undressing Raiden with her own hands. Having never even undressed herself, her clumsy gestures continued throughout opening the uniform and unbuttoning the shirt. 

As she opened the shirt buttons, revealing his solid chest muscles and abs, she began getting wet below even though nothing had started yet. And her expression gradually began to harden too. Because of the marks embroidered all over his body.

“Countess Ariella does this kind of thing…?”

Melissa knew what kind of marks these were. She too had deliberately left such marks on Casian’s neck and had commanded Casian to leave them on her neck as well.

At Melissa’s question, Raiden only looked at her hands touching his body without answering. 

She didn’t press for an answer. She had no leisure for that, and since such marks would disappear with time anyway. If she didn’t like them, she could leave her own marks after they faded. Though she didn’t particularly want to leave her marks on any body other than Casian’s.

Melissa seemed to lack the patience to open all of Raiden’s shirt buttons, putting her hands inside his shirt to trace his solid muscles. Even as the hand that invaded his clothes touched various parts of his upper body, Raiden showed no particular expression, looking indifferent.

Melissa grabbed Raiden’s wrist and led him toward the bed. After making him sit on the bed, she positioned herself between his legs and began earnestly groping his body with her hands inside his shirt.

“Take it off, Rai.”

When she urged him to undress so her hands could touch his body more easily, Raiden obediently unbuttoned his shirt and threw off his top like a well-behaved doll. 

As his firm chest, hidden by clothes, filled her vision, she unconsciously swallowed dry saliva. Melissa caressed his broad shoulders and neck, then traced the cute n*pples on both sides of his chest with her middle finger.

“You need to take off your pants too.”

At Melissa’s command, Raiden’s hand moved to his pants belt. With a click, the belt came undone, and then he slightly lifted his hips and pulled down his pants along with his underwear in one go. 

Melissa’s eyes, directed downward, widened to the point of popping out. It was because his p*nis, not yet er*ect at all, looked unusually large. Even Casian’s p*nis was big enough to be difficult to accept, but Raiden’s p*nis looked threatening even without being er*ect.