The Beast Bit The Throat of the Late Empress - Chapter 8

Eva staggered greatly at Divlik’s rough handling, which seemed more like tearing off clothes than undressing.

“Did you forget in such a short time? Or are you as stupid as Fabian, needing me to personally remind you? Your very breath depends on my hand. Don’t dare to judge anything on your own, including such tricks. I’m telling you even when you fall here, you have to ask for my permission.”

Grabbing Eva’s arm tightly to prevent her from losing balance and falling, Divlik whispered in her ear, gritting his teeth. Trying hard to steady her breath to answer, as opening her mouth might first result in a cry of pain from her gripped arm, Eva responded.

“I will do so, Lord Divlik.”

“Whose idea was it? Was it yours, or that maid who was still acting as if you were her empress?”

“It was mine…”

“No. I don’t need your answer. You would naturally say it was your own idea. You keep trying to protect someone presumptuously. Not just that maid, but do you also think you’re still the empress?”

Divlik brought up the issue of Eileen, which he seemed to have let go, and paused for a moment. That silence froze Eva’s heart more deeply than the winter air touching her bare skin.

Should I kneel here again and beg for mercy?

If I ask for forgiveness half-naked, will he stop questioning Eileen’s actions?

Or conversely, will he try to kill Eileen because I beg so desperately for forgiveness?

“Come to think of it… even undressing you like this was treating you like an empress. You’re not handless, so take off the rest yourself. On second thought, watching you undress might be more entertaining than undressing you.”

Fortunately, while Eva was pondering, Divlik concluded his words there and took a step back. Eva was relieved when the conversation returned to clothes. She had worried he might persist with threats about Eileen’s fate. Or that he might demand she give herself to him right here…

“I will do so.”

Eva didn’t hesitate for a moment. As soon as she answered, she removed the last chemise she had worn, leaving only a slip with shoulder straps, a bra covering her chest underneath, and petticoats covering to her knees on Eva’s body.

“Miss Eva… sob…”

With each thin piece of cloth that barely covered Eva’s body falling away, the maids’ crying grew louder, but Eva showed no hesitation in undressing. Her only worry was whether Hannah and Sophie would be scolded for crying so noisily over such a trivial matter.

Thus, amidst the soft thud of clothes falling to the floor, the whisper of fabric sliding against skin, and the maids’ sobs, Eva’s last piece of underwear dropped to the ground.

“It’s beyond my expectations. Have you been saving a body like that? It’s so perfect that my hands tremble with the desire to touch it.”

“Thank you.”

Divlik openly expressed his admiration for Eva’s body as if he was appraising a beautiful work of art, but Eva could only manage to smile with a deliberately composed voice, fearing Divlik’s hands might touch her body at any moment.

“It’s truly… a beautiful body.”

If it seemed that Divlik’s breath wavered for a moment while casually commenting on Eva’s body, was it just an illusion?

“It’s almost too beautiful to keep to myself. I’m very much looking forward to the day you crawl into my bed.”

Divlik continued speaking in a voice devoid of any emotion, but in reality, he was taking special care not to reveal his disturbed breathing while looking at Eva’s body. He had to forcibly tear his eyes away from Eva.

The clear and unblemished skin, the br*easts neither too much nor too little, the slender waist leading to the steep curves of her ample hips, and the straight legs below — Eva’s body revealed under the afternoon sun was beautiful enough to make any man want to rush over and bury his face in it.

Divlik unconsciously licked his lips as he looked at the bite marks on Eva’s neck. He felt like leaving another bite mark on that neck right away.

He wanted to take her n*pples, hardened perhaps from the cold, into his mouth, spread those long, slender legs, and enter Eva immediately while grasping her firm buttocks that weren’t visible from here. Only then did he understand the feelings of women who threw themselves at him recklessly after seeing his body. The pure, physical attraction, regardless of who the person in front of them was.

“Miss Eva, we’ll hold you. Please come this way quickly.”

The maids, having hurriedly wiped away their tears, took Eva’s hands and led her towards the hot spring. They were trying to cover Eva’s body in this way.

To be shaken by this much… It’s not even funny.

Divlik lowered his eyes, feeling pathetic, then bit his lip lightly as he watched Eva about to enter the hot spring.

“Who gave you permission to enter?”

“Didn’t you tell… Miss Eva to go in first earlier…?”

“Did I give permission to enter now, just because of that?”

Unable to give a negative answer, the maids fidgeted anxiously. They might have decided to stay for Eva’s sake, but they probably didn’t expect to feel their lives in such direct danger. Understanding the maids’ feelings, Eva stepped forward to ask instead.

“Would you please allow me to enter the hot spring now?”

“I will not allow it. Stay where you are.”

At that answer, Eva’s feet were bound. Completely naked in a wide-open space.

This was Divlik’s intention from the beginning when he led Eva here. She was an empress who had lived carefully, not even showing her ankles. She would feel shame at exposing her naked body, which she had never shown to anyone except the emperor and a few bathing maids.

He wanted to see her trying to cover herself while inevitably trembling. He wanted to see that great empress unable to do anything in front of his eyes, finally crying.

“It’s cold, Lord Divlik. You’ll catch a cold like this.”

“Lord Divlik, please…”

But even as the maids stamped their feet anxiously, Eva still showed no sign of surrender.

It’s not that she doesn’t know what shame is. Even now, her fingertips were trembling finely, too much to be just from the cold. She knows. She knows that if she shows a weakness now, she might be devoured in one bite.

Just because no weakness is shown doesn’t mean she can’t be devoured.

“Why are you all making such a fuss? Your empress seems completely unbothered.”

Divlik said, scanning Eva’s body up and down with his eyes.

“For someone who said you dislike serving me at night, you seem quite bold in exposing your body. Does that mean you’re that confident?”

Divlik grabbed Eva’s arm and pushed her into the hot spring as if throwing her. He quickly stripped off the rest of his clothes and entered the hot spring, grabbing Eva’s arm, who was still floundering due to her lack of sight, and pulled her up.

“Why are you making such a commotion? It’s not even deep here.”

Divlik pulled the still wobbling Eva tightly into his arms.

“Thank… thank you, Lord Divlik.”

Eva’s ample br*easts were pressed against Divlik’s chest. With each breath Eva took, her soft br*easts rubbed against him, and the clear sensation of her hard n*pples made Divlik hold his breath for a moment. Even just this bodily contact was intensely stimulating, and Eva’s appearance, wet and panting, was something else entirely. Being pressed together like this without a stitch of clothing, Eva’s reactions felt similar to those of women who had melted into his body in bed, making it almost impossible to endure.

Divlik sat Eva down in a suitable spot, then sat down opposite her and slightly averted his gaze. It felt like a mistake. In such situations, it’s the man who is weak. Besides, how long has it been since he, who knows the joy of embracing a woman better than anyone, has been unable to hold anyone?

He almost lost the battle of wills, nearly pouncing on her despite all the time he had endured so far. To approach such a dignified person, who maintained her composure even when naked and wet, like a beast with no sense of propriety…

“How long are you two going to stand there?”

“Pardon?”

Even though no one would say anything if he laid Eva down here, Divlik hoped that he wouldn’t be embracing Eva in that manner. If his goal from the beginning had been simply to embrace her body, there would have been no need to bring her all the way here in such a complicated way. It would have been nothing to break her limbs, render her immobile, and torment her day and night.

“I won’t stop you if you want to keep watching like that.”

Only then did the maids understand Divlik’s meaning and hurriedly turned around. Divlik suppressed his wavering with one deep breath.

“By the way, did your lord think of running away alone, leaving behind such a body? It’s a problem when one is so blinded by a woman’s body that they can’t even distinguish a place of death, but with a body like yours in front of them, it might be worth dying foolishly once.”

Divlik once again praised Eva’s body in a light voice and then mocked Fabian with all his might.

“Do you know, Former Empress? That while you were staying in the tower, there was not a single attempt to find you.”

It was also a mockery of Eva, asking if she had given up her life for such a man, calling him her lord. Whether Fabian had run away alone and hidden behind his brother out of fear or whatever, there was not even a trace of him despite continued searches.

“Your emperor has disappeared without a trace, as if he doesn’t care about you at all.”

“Is that so.”

Even though Eva had been composed when showing her body, Divlik thought she might waver at the news that the emperor, for whom she had been willing to give her life to protect her chastity, had completely abandoned her. Yet Eva showed no agitation even at these words.

When would that noble figure break? Seeing Eva’s appearance, indifferent to all situations except for the death of a maid, anxiety began to creep up from the bottom.

“Finn.”

“Yes, Lord Divlik.”

But there was plenty of time to make Eva kneel. Someday, he would see that excessively neat body trembling in his arms to his heart’s content. Divlik brushed back his disheveled hair with a leisurely gesture.

“Won’t you come in too? This hot spring is even better than I heard in rumors.”

“What? You mean… me too?”

“What’s wrong with the three of us enjoying the hot spring cozily? It’s certainly different from heated water; I already feel refreshed. Come in, you too.”

Not only himself, but he wants his subordinate to bathe in the same place. Does he want to humiliate the former empress to that extent?

Finn, who had glanced sideways, turned completely around after confirming that Eva’s body was somewhat submerged in the hot spring, but at the instinctively felt gaze of another man, Eva’s body involuntarily shrank.