The words “I don’t want to do it here” didn’t come out of her mouth. But she also didn’t have the courage to say she wanted to do the rest in the bedroom. 

But Raiden seemed to read Rihana’s unspoken heart and kissed the top of her head before shaking the reins strongly once.

“Hiyah!”

With his booming voice, the horse galloped at tremendous speed. A cold wind struck her face. But even the cold wind was useless—every place this man had touched burned hotly. Her fiancé’s affair had already become hazy, and the unbearable sadness had also vanished like a lie. 

Only Raiden’s touch dominated her entire body. She couldn’t tell if her heart was pounding from breathlessness or from anticipation of what they would do in the bedroom.

But before she could question this, they quickly arrived at the County. Though she had been quite confident in her riding skills, she never imagined her beloved horse could be this fast. 

And she never expected Raiden to handle horses this well either. Watching him drive the horse far more skillfully than nobles who had ridden since birth, the doubts that had been lurking in one corner of her heart once again began to raise their heads.

“Shall I wash you?”

But those doubts quickly disappeared because of Raiden’s words that were confusing enough to be startling.

* * *

Raiden approached with his head tilted at an angle. Lips hot like fire touched Rihana’s lips.

Having chosen to bathe by herself instead of having Raiden do it, Rihana hadn’t even dried her hair properly, worried he might be waiting. 

Though it was a long-standing habit to sleep wearing only a thin chemise that revealed her body lines without any undergarments, today she kept being bothered by the undergarments she wasn’t wearing.

Raiden’s hair was still wet too. As soon as Rihana went in to wash, Raiden headed to the bathroom across the hall and had to first soothe his painfully er*ect p*nis before washing.

His words about helping her forget had been sincere, but he hadn’t planned to touch her that way on horseback. Of course, he had thought to create some atmosphere like a preview for Rihana, who was inexperienced. 

But he hadn’t originally planned to thrust his fingers inside her like that. So his hands had moved regardless of his will.

He seemed to have lost some reason even when touching her over her clothes. His urging for a kiss was also in that context. He truly hadn’t intended to relieve his own desires by teasing and touching the innocent Count who had been hurt by her fiancé in such a way.

Had he always been someone so swayed by desire? 

Thinking about it, he hadn’t been. Born and raised as Raiden du Tarecus, he had never lost self-control like this even once. Not to the extent of needing to comfort himself with his hands because he couldn’t endure the brief time before embracing a woman.

He didn’t know what about this woman made him lose his mind so completely, but he definitely wanted her desperately.

Raiden slipped his fingers between the hair of Rihana, who had also come out with wet hair like himself, and gently licked her lips that were tightly closed with tension. 

When Rihana’s lips slowly parted at his persistent licking asking them to open, he didn’t miss the moment and inserted his tongue. Finding and intertwining with the small tongue hiding in confusion in the hot, soft mouth, a faint moan flowed from Rihana’s lips.

At that moan, his p*nis, already half-er*ect, swelled larger. Twisting her chin so their mouths pressed together without gaps, his tongue penetrated so deeply it reached her uvula, capturing her small tongue.

“Mmph!”

Tears trickled out at the breathtaking kiss she had never experienced in her life. The large tongue that gently wrapped around and pulled her small tongue sucked strongly from the root, seemingly trying to steal away all the saliva clinging to her tongue. 

Rihana hunched her shoulders at that overwhelming sensation and gripped Raiden’s arms tightly like a lifeline.

His hands wrapped around her b*ttocks and lifted her up entirely. Because her body was lifted while their lips remained pressed together, Rihana struggled weakly. Raiden found that struggling cute and chuckled while still kissing her. 

For Rihana, experiencing everything for the first time, even his laughter sent electricity flowing through her entire body.

It was then that her back touched the soft bed. Raiden had carried her straight from in front of the bathroom to the bed and laid her down on it. His movements were quite careful and gentle.

Breathing heavily from the persistent and intense kiss, Rihana could finally properly see Raiden’s body. Raiden wore only loose, roomy pants with good mobility, his upper body bare. 

Below his sharp yet languid sculptured features, his firm, broad deltoids and curved abdominal muscles made her eyes widen. 

The hard, weighty presence that kept bulging under the loose pants hanging around his hips was so large and long that she couldn’t believe it was a man’s member like she knew from theory.

Seeing Rihana’s eyes bulge out from looking at what was below him, Raiden climbed on top of her. Rihana’s gaze and Raiden’s gaze intertwined.

Raiden lowered his head and stole her lips again. This time he didn’t wait and used his tongue to forcibly part her lips. The breath pouring between the parted lips was hot and sweet.

His thick, large tongue gently wrapped around Rihana’s small tongue. He pressed firmly against her tongue with his tongue tip raised, then strongly swept over the tender inner walls of her mouth. 

Rihana, who had been lying frozen like a stone statue until then, made pained sounds when he pressed his full weight against her body, unable to bear the crushing weight. At this, Raiden immediately lifted his upper body slightly.

The lips that seemed like they would stay pressed together forever separated, and Raiden, lifting his face, stared down at Rihana intently. Her lips, glistening with saliva from being bitten and sucked, were swollen. Even that was pretty and cute, making his lower body throb.

Raiden breathed hotly and pressed his lower body closer. Rihana’s entire attention was focused on his hard p*nis she could feel from their closely pressed lower bodies. 

Like he had read her mind, Raiden, who had been meeting her eyes, lifted his hips slightly then pressed down forcefully, stabbing between her split crevice. Instantly, rough breaths burst from both their mouths like they had made a promise.

Raiden rubbed his lower body closer while maintaining eye contact with Rihana. At his movement of slowly pushing and rubbing the blunt object while watching her reaction, flushed heat began to spread across Rihana’s face.

Rihana stretched out both arms and embraced Raiden’s neck as he pushed against her lower area crushingly. The intensely intertwined gazes were burdensome enough to make her face burn, and she also wanted to control her body that swayed involuntarily at his movements.

“Master.”

At the whisper that seemed to melt her ears, she felt something gush out from below. Rihana’s eyes widened in shock.

“Master.”

“Don’t… don’t call me that.”

Raiden, who was in a position leaning over her with his neck held by Rihana, lifted his head slightly to look at her and asked.

“Then?”

“Mmh…”

“What should I call you?”

Raiden asked while subtly rubbing below.

“I… don’t know.”

When Rihana mumbled while avoiding his gaze, Raiden lowered his head to her ear and whispered softly.

“Rihana.”

At the same time, he pushed up below more forcefully, and with a *thud*, his member that had fit between her split crevice bulged and showed off its presence.

“Mmph!”

Because of Raiden’s voice calling her name and the sudden stimulation below, Rihana gushed water like she had been rude. Since she wasn’t wearing undergarments, the chemise skirt that had ridden up over her thighs became soaked with her juices.

Raiden’s lips covered her lips again. Hot flesh pushed between her parted lips. Unlike the previous kiss, he ravaged the inside of her mouth stickily and roughly. 

When Rihana became breathless and let out moans, he briefly separated their lips then immediately thrust his tongue into her mouth. 

The hot tongue pushed inside and stirred everywhere in her mouth, pushing deep into her throat. Rihana trembled weakly as tears trickled out again.

Suddenly, Raiden’s hand entered inside Rihana’s chemise. The hand that caressed her smooth, slender stomach slowly moved up and grasped her small, perky br*ast.

“Mmph…!”

Rihana’s moan flowed between their pressed lips but was quickly swallowed into Raiden’s mouth.

Raiden put strength into his middle finger and circled her n*pple that had hardened and risen. At the same time, he ravaged the inside of her mouth more roughly. 

Rihana moaned helplessly at having her br*ast touched by someone for the first time in her life. She truly felt like her soul might leave her body.

* * *

Casian, holding a whole bottle of wine, stood by the window looking down at the Marquis estate’s garden filled with moonlight. His mind was complicated because of Rihana, whom he had met at the Imperial party.

Princess Melissa had become uncontrollably expl*cit once alcohol entered her system. She had openly expressed her desire to spend the night with him several times, so he had thought he might inevitably have to embrace her tonight. But he hadn’t intended to show that to Rihana.

“Sigh…”

Casian pressed his forehead with one hand. It had been wrong to be trapped against the entrance wall, unable to even enter the lounge because of Melissa’s persistent advances while heated with passion. He never dreamed Rihana would visit the lounge at that time.

Her rigidly hardened face remained vividly in his mind. Even while watching that annoying guard cover her eyes with his large hand and make her turn around, he couldn’t run to her. 

Even knowing she would leave like that, he couldn’t push Melissa away. If he did, everything he had endured and built up until now would become bubbles.

At a time when nobles who had rebelled against the Emperor might start a revolt at any moment, he had to separate Rihana from the Emperor as quickly as possible. 

The rebels would surely join hands with the neighboring country Tarecus to invade the Empire, and to minimize damage, they would only kill the Emperor and the Emperor’s close associates.

The Emperor’s Sword. The captain of the Imperial Knight Order.

When the rebellion occurred, the most dangerous person would be Rihana Ariella. So he planned to use Melissa, who disliked Rihana because of him, to send her to the frontier. 

If she could just avoid the area during the rebellion, after the Emperor died and the Emperor’s brother that the rebels would install took that position, he could bring her back.