He pushed his fully er*ect p*nis back into her, and her insides tightly gripped him, seemingly unwilling to let go.

Though still too narrow to fully accommodate him, she accepted him much more easily than before, allowing him to penetrate deeply.

He lifted her body. One hand encircled her waist while the other interlaced fingers with hers. Their lips overlapped as Claude began thrusting his hips.

“Ah. Aah. Ah!”

As his movements intensified, Claude embraced her neck and back. In an instant, their chests pressed together. Though sticky with sweat, she wished only for this ecstatic moment to continue.

“Ahh. Aah!”

Claude penetrated even deeper. The sensation was sweet enough to melt her body.

“More, more.”

He laid her back down on the bed, and she felt the full weight of Claude’s body.

“If I keep stimulating you like this, your body won’t survive.”

True to his warning, Claude embraced Lisette several more times until the aphrodisiac’s effects wore off, and she eventually fell asleep, nearly unconscious.

Her eyelids felt heavier than usual. The sensation of being in someone’s arms. The moment she recognized this, a citrus scent tickled her nose.

The clean fragrance felt pleasant. With warm heat enveloping her entire body, she wanted to stay like this a little longer…

Wait.

Lisette sensed something strange. Having always awakened to cold air, the warmth felt awkward.

Frowning, she barely opened her eyes to unfamiliar surroundings.

‘Where am I?’

Just as she tried to raise her hand to rub her eyes, she felt a heavy weight on her body.

Oh…

Only then did she realize. That she was in Claude’s arms. And that she had done something unthinkable.

‘I’ve gone mad. Completely mad.’

Barely pushing away the man’s arm, Lisette managed to get up.

Where was this place again?

Her memory was hazy. Then she recalled coming to the Usta residence on Celia’s errand yesterday, and once that memory surfaced, it didn’t take long for everything that happened last night to come flooding back.

Eek!

Realizing her body still bore traces of the night’s activities, Lisette covered her cheeks with both hands.

‘What on earth have I done?’

She couldn’t think of what to do right now. Her mind filled only with thoughts of escaping this place.

Lisette hurriedly gathered her scattered clothes. She needed to get dressed and leave quickly. Before anyone saw her!

But the situation began unfolding differently than Lisette had anticipated.

“Oh my goodness, heavens!”

A voice came from the doorway. Thinking no one would enter the basement, Lisette, who had been about to get dressed, was so startled she nearly dropped her clothes.

‘I’ve, I’ve been caught.’

Lisette rolled her eyes from side to side, frantically trying to assess the situation.

In this predicament, which could cause serious trouble if it reached the Marquis’s ears, only that one maid had seen her face.

‘Isn’t hiding my face the most important thing right now?’

Lisette turned her head so that only the back of her head was visible, not her face.

“Ugh…”

Just as she was about to quickly dress and prepare to flee, Claude, heavily intoxicated by the drug, finally began to regain consciousness and tried to get up, simultaneously revealing his lower body that had been covered by the blanket.

Ah… he mustn’t wake up!

Fearing the embarrassment would double if they made eye contact, Lisette grabbed the pillow he had been using and pushed it against Claude’s face.

It must have been an unexpected attack, because although his face, still in a half-asleep state, almost fell back onto the bed, he resisted.

Determined to keep him from getting up, Lisette firmly pressed the pillow against his face. Unintentionally, it became a test of strength, but compared to the man’s power, her strength was lacking, so she had to use every ounce of energy she had.

“Kyaa! Lord Usta is being kill—”

At that moment, the maid’s terrified scream rang out. Only then did Lisette realize what dangerous act she appeared to be committing.

‘I had no intention of killing him, what’s happening?’

Lisette hastily threw the pillow to the floor, then rushed to the maid and covered her mouth to prevent any further words from escaping.

Fortunately, because the basement was deep, almost no one seemed to have heard the maid’s scream.

“I didn’t mean to! It’s a misunderstanding!”

She tried to explain, but the maid showed no intention of listening. She only shook her head, displaying her will to resist.

Letting her go might result in another scream, but Lisette couldn’t keep covering the maid’s mouth forever. She found herself in a difficult situation, having to choose between two undesirable options.

“What exactly did you do to me? Tell me right now before I break that neck of yours.”

This time, a coldly subdued voice came from behind her. When she turned her head, Claude had already risen from the bed, covering his lower body with the blanket.

“I’m, I’m sorry!”

Fearing he might approach if she stayed, she needed to escape the basement quickly. Someone might come down after hearing the maid’s scream, so she had to hurry!

She pushed the maid forcefully toward Claude.

“Kyak!”

After confirming that he caught the staggering maid, Lisette hurriedly climbed the stairs. They seemed much longer than when she had descended them.

Fortunately, Claude didn’t follow her up the stairs.

Running down the corridor, she noticed the surprised gazes of maids who had no idea what was happening, but since no one tried to stop her, she was able to ignore them and escape the mansion.

Thank goodness.

Lisette ran, gasping for breath, until the Usta family mansion completely disappeared from view.

‘No one saw my face, right?’

Having covered her face with her outer garment as much as possible, Lisette believed almost no one had seen her face.

After catching her breath, she began walking toward the town to find a carriage. She hadn’t noticed due to the tension, but once it eased, she felt her body was different from usual.

Her waist hurt so much she could barely walk straight, making it remarkable how she had managed to run earlier. The aftereffects were as severe as her loss of reason the night before.

After stopping to catch her breath and calm her mind, memories of the previous night surfaced.

The more she recalled, the more embarrassed she felt, yet her body heated up. Though the drug’s effects should have worn off, her mind felt hazy, like someone intoxicated.

Meanwhile, the blissful memories of last night wouldn’t leave her mind. Enough to make Lord Usta desirable…

‘Are you crazy? What are you thinking!’

Having heard his threatening tone speaking to her like a criminal, it made no sense for her to develop one-sided feelings, so Lisette immediately denied her thoughts. Then she regretted making the wish to Celia in the first place.

‘I asked her to break off the marriage, not create this kind of situation!’

Lisette covered her face with both hands.

No matter how intoxicated she had been, recalling the previous night made her entire body flush so hot she couldn’t raise her head. 

If she had been drugged with an aphrodisiac, it would have been better to forget the memories too, but the problem was that she remembered everything vividly.

‘I must be crazy. I shouldn’t have asked someone else for help! I knew Celia had been granting wishes terribly all this time, so why did I ask her?’

The more she thought about it, the more absurd it seemed, almost making her laugh in disbelief.

In the Alka Empire, women were expected to remain chaste, but men faced fewer such demands. So unless Claude insisted on marrying the first woman he had slept with, the marriage wouldn’t be broken.

Lord Usta would never suggest marrying her.

Who would insist on marrying a woman they didn’t love just because they spent one night together? 

Therefore, what Celia had done wasn’t breaking the marriage but merely wasting Lisette’s body on that man.

If not for last night, he would have been a man with whom she would barely exchange words for the rest of her life, but now this bizarre situation had occurred.

Isn’t this too much? She felt too ashamed to face Lord Usta when he came to buy potions in the future.