Kais firmly cut off her words.

‘No, I have no intention of keeping a bedchamber maid. I’ll do it when the time comes anyway, so why bother? Stop talking nonsense and think about meeting a good man and getting married. If you need a dowry, I’ll contribute to it.’

‘Kais! How can you be so cold? I’m not asking for anything unreasonable! Is it so difficult to embrace me just once?’

It was impossible to maintain a good relationship with Gladys, who didn’t understand how unreasonable her request was.

Then, when Drake suddenly inherited the title of Duke and Kais, who had been receiving knight training, was dragged to the office of Elmano Castle, Kais decided not to bring his wet nurse and Gladys to Elmano Castle.

Drake’s gaze toward Gladys had been growing more and more lecherous day by day, and Kais had been thinking of sending her away soon anyway.

He had provided ample money for a dowry and a comfortable house, so he thought she was doing well…… But how did Gladys end up committing suicide here at Elmano Castle?

“……How is it that I know nothing about this at all?”

Kais’s voice, which emerged after a long silence, was terribly cracked.

Willis, who had been looking at his young master with sympathetic eyes, lowered his graying eyebrows.

“……She was hanging in front of the Duke’s room. And the first person to discover her was……. none other than Your Grace.”

What was this now?

The more he listened to Willis, the more confused Kais became.

“What……. me?”

Willis, whose eyes had grown moist in the meantime, nodded his head heavily.

“When I rushed there after being summoned by Master Drake, Your Grace had collapsed beneath the hanging corpse. Afterward, you couldn’t regain consciousness and were bedridden for three full days. Then, when you finally woke up, you had no memory of the incident.”

Kais pressed his forehead with his hand resting on the armrest.

It felt like his mind was filled with thick fog. Something seemed about to emerge from beyond the grayish fog, but in the end, nothing came to mind.

“Why……. how did Gladys end up like that?”

“I know that Master Drake brought her to the castle the day before, but I don’t know what happened afterward. Sir Worklan would know the rest of the story.”

“Worklan?”

“Yes, he was at the castle that day.”

Kais sank deep into his chair with a sigh.

He still didn’t fully understand what had happened, but it seemed that this “old burden hidden deep in his heart” was not unrelated to this incident.

“When did you say Worklan would arrive?”

“He should arrive before lunch tomorrow.”

“Good, that’s fortunate.”

With those final words, Kais closed his eyes while leaning his head against the backrest.

His head felt extremely heavy due to these unexpected stories.

* * *

Kais tightened his large grip. His fingers buried into the plump br*ast, and the er*ect n*pple tickled his palm.

When he rotated his palm firmly while rubbing the n*pple, Lariella twisted her slender waist and let out a soft moan.

“Mmm……”

How could even this woman’s moans be so pretty?

Kais smiled and took the round n*pple into his mouth. After tapping it with the tip of his tongue, he sucked it into his mouth, causing Lariella to throw her head back and release a louder “Haah!”

Delicious. It was so delicious he couldn’t take his mouth away.

While sucking on the soft br*ast, Kais slid his right hand downward. After stroking the round navel and flat lower abdomen with his long fingers, he parted the coarse pubic hair. The cl*toris, fully aroused, protruded within the thoroughly wet folds. Kais pinched that red pomegranate seed-like bud with his fingers. Lariella’s waist bounced high off the bed.

“Haah!”

Kais circled the cl*toris with the tip of his thumb while inserting his other fingers below. Her p*ssy was as moist and wet as her mouth. Sliding down in one breath, Kais found the wet entrance that was quivering and dripping with hot juices. Then he pushed his middle finger deep inside.

The vaginal walls, which contracted with a start, wrapped around Kais’s entire finger and squeezed painfully. Unable to bear the stimulation, Kais released the n*pple he had been deliciously sucking and clenched his teeth.

“Ugh, Larie, you’re squeezing too tight.”

“Ah, ahhh, Kais, quickly……. ah, quickly.”

He overlapped his lips with hers, which were prettily begging, and began moving the finger inserted below back and forth. Although it was squeezing painfully, she was flowing with so much fluid that his finger was soaked, making the movement smooth.

The wetter the noise from between her legs grew, the more Lariella groaned into Kais’s mouth. Kais swallowed all of Lariella’s soft moans and greedily sucked on her small lips and tongue.

Kais pushed one more finger into the hole that had been penetrated by just his middle finger. While stroking the vaginal walls that squeezed even tighter, he moved quickly, then spread his two fingers like scissors and rotated them inside. The knuckles of Lariella’s fingers, gripping the bed sheet, stood out white.

When Kais added one more finger and thrust vigorously, making a thumping sound, Lariella gushed fluids and let out a high-pitched scream.

“Aah! Kais!”

“Haa, Larei. Haaa, pretty. So pretty.”

Kais lifted his hand, soaked with love juices, and licked it deliciously, making slurping sounds. Lariella’s pale blue eyes, looking up at him, were half-glazed and unfocused.

After briefly kissing the red lips that were helplessly parted and gasping for breath, Kais spread Lariella’s limp legs wide and positioned himself between them.

Between her white legs, the red hole he had been fingering was dripping with remaining love juices. Kais aligned the tip of his fully aroused p*nis with the quivering hole and firmly pushed his hips.

“Haa, haaah!”

“Hnngh!”

Intense moans burst simultaneously from both their lips.

He had only inserted the head, yet his entire spine tingled. Kais tightened his b*ttocks and pushed his c*ck, not even half-inserted, deeper inside. Lariella thrashed about, wildly shaking her golden hair scattered across the bed.

“Ah, too…… too big, hnng!”

“No, Larie. Not yet…… hnng…… it’s not all in yet.”

Kais pulled his hips back and then thrust in hard with a plunge. While Lariella made choking sounds, he gripped her slender waist tightly and thrust his hips upward forcefully once more.

Having barely inserted it to the base, Kais felt he might lose his mind from the sensation of the warm, slippery vaginal walls squeezing his entire large c*ck.

He tucked Lariella’s two legs against his sides and began thrusting in earnest. Each time he moved his hips vigorously, Lariella’s br*asts swayed back and forth, and her hair, spread widely across the bed, undulated like golden waves.

Kais frantically moved his hips while taking in this enchanting sight. Their wet groins made thumping sounds as they stuck together and separated repeatedly.

Suddenly feeling an intense urge to ej*culate, Kais thrust his p*nis into the deepest part of her hole and tightened his b*ttocks, which were pressed firmly upward.

“Urgh! Ngh!”

While letting out a groan-like moan and emptying his t*sticles completely with a refreshing release of seed, something warm dripped onto Kais’s chin and cheek. When he unconsciously raised his hand to wipe his cheek, he opened his eyes with an inexplicable sense of discomfort.

The moment his wide-open eyes saw the dim dawn light and the high ceiling painted with angels, he simultaneously realized that his passionate lovemaking with Lariella had been a dream, that he had m*sturbated while dreaming, and that he was now lying on Lariella’s bed.

Last night, Kais had drunk several glasses of wine. Though he didn’t usually drink well, yesterday was a day when he needed alcohol.

Both Gladys’s death and the fact that he had been living with that memory completely erased from his mind were quite shocking to him.

He couldn’t hear the full story until Worklan returned, which was also frustratingly unclear. So he had drunk several glasses of wine before coming to Lariella’s room.

He came to Lariella’s room faithfully every night, even though he couldn’t properly kiss her and could only lie there all night with his stomach churning, barely sleeping. Even with his head splitting in pain and his stomach feeling like it would turn inside out, he couldn’t bear the anxiety of not being with her.

When Kais came to Lariella’s room last night, she was deeply asleep. He even smiled a little at how cute she looked, with her entire body wrapped in blankets and only the top of her head poking out.

Kais approached quietly, muffling his footsteps, and carefully lay down beside the sleeping Lariella.

Perhaps because she was wrapped in blankets, Kais felt more comfortable lying beside her than usual. And somehow, the strange fragrance that usually filled the room seemed less noticeable. Combined with the several glasses of wine he had drunk, he was able to fall into a deep sleep unlike other days.

And when he opened his eyes, he was in this state. Lying spread-eagled on Lariella’s bed, holding his er*ect c*ck in his hand, waking up from sleep after being hit in the face with his own ej*culated seed.

“Haa…… I’m really going crazy.”

Kais rubbed his head vigorously as he raised his upper body.

Looking to the side, Lariella was sleeping with the blanket pulled over the top of her head. That was fortunate at least. The thought of how embarrassing it would have been if Lariella had caught him like this was dizzying.

After roughly wiping the seed from his hands, chin, and cheeks with the robe he had taken off beside the bed, Kais left Lariella’s bedroom in his pajamas. He needed to hurry and prepare for the morning and have a substantial meal. To make the dream he had last night a reality, he would have many things to discuss with Worklan, who would arrive in a few hours.

* * *

Kais went out personally to meet the knight squadron returning from their territory inspection as they arrived at Elmano Castle. Then he grabbed Worklan as he dismounted and immediately dragged him to his office.