It was a gathering he had carefully selected to avoid meeting Sejef. Unable to guess where the information had leaked from, Enoch began growing increasingly sensitive.
Fortunately the two’s conversation wasn’t very long. Soon the curtain opened and Sejef and Luciella appeared side by side from within. Luciella wore a happy smile she had never shown him.
Damn it, he thought the two looked quite well-matched. Unlike his dark and bulky self, the slender and bright blonde Sejef looked like nobility to anyone.
“You seem in quite good spirits.”
So Enoch spitefully spat out words he couldn’t hold back.
“Ma, Marquis.”
“You must have shared pleasant conversation.”
Luciella, who had been giggling just moments before, startled upon discovering Enoch and her expression darkened.
Once again Enoch had to swallow his bitter feelings.
“Haha, Marquis. Did you follow us here because you were worried about your fiancée? You’re unexpectedly a jealous man.”
Sejef said this while glancing at Enoch. He seemed to have conversation he wanted to share with him too.
“Then this uninvited guest will step aside. Let’s arrange another meeting next time.”
But for some reason he left without lingering. Was it because Luciella was beside him?
Enoch had to feel uneasy about Sejef’s incomprehensible behavior. He stood in place staring at the departing Sejef. Only after Sejef completely disappeared from view did he speak.
“I had no idea Your Highness was so close with the Grand Duke.”
Enoch’s gaze turned to Luciella again.
“Why didn’t you tell me beforehand?”
“Should I have told you?”
Luciella’s words were right. She had no obligation to tell him about her private relationships. He had never asked first either.
“……Never mind.”
Nevertheless Enoch replied curtly for no reason.
He wanted to interrogate her about what conversation she had with Sejef, asking about every detail. But if he did that, he felt Luciella would truly hate him, so he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
Enoch was half out of his mind, unable to properly remember how that social gathering ended.
Enoch’s head was filled only with the image of Luciella and Sejef looking so affectionate.
* * *
Fortunately after the gathering, Sejef showed no particular movement. He didn’t contact Enoch either, and quiet days continued like nothing had happened.
Time passed and the wedding ring Enoch had commissioned arrived. It was made quite quickly, making the extra money he paid worthwhile.
He had also embedded a large diamond, supposedly women’s dream. Even though Enoch now knew well that Luciella wasn’t a woman who would open her heart to luxury goods, he felt inexplicably good and his mouth kept turning up.
‘You never know.’
When she actually tries on the ring…… her heart might change even a little.
Knowing it was impossible, Enoch foolishly held expectations again this time. He headed to Luciella’s room.
“Um…… Marquis.”
“Yes, please speak.”
For some reason, Luciella unusually spoke to him first.
Enoch felt really good. Until he heard Luciella’s next words.
“This marriage…… please cancel it.”
Enoch’s face, which had been softly relaxed just moments before, crumpled instantly. He stared at Luciella like he didn’t know what he had heard.
“I can’t return the one billion gold immediately, but I’ll repay it all within a short time. It may be hard to believe, but if I sell everything in our royal family’s secret villa, that amount is sufficient.”
Cruelly, those plump lips continued the assault.
“I also know what you want to marry me for. But that’s the wrong choice……”
“I don’t understand what you’re suddenly talking about.”
Now he was angry.
Frustrated with Luciella for not understanding his heart, hating her for continuing to be stubborn.
‘And what? You’ll return one billion gold?’
Something was strange. Why was she suddenly saying she would repay one billion gold now?
Then Sejef flashed through Enoch’s mind.
There was only one reason after all.
Sejef Winston, whom he had met at the gathering recently.
‘Right, this is it.’
She must have confessed everything to the Grand Duke and decided to receive support.
Thinking this made him angry. His head spun with rage.
“Or are you still unable to grasp your position because I’ve been politely respectful?”
Finally fierce words poured from Enoch’s mouth, unable to bear it.
“Right, now you have someone to rely on.”
“No, what I mean is……”
“Cancel the marriage? You’re probably planning to run straight to Grand Duke Winston like you’ve been waiting. Who wouldn’t know that?”
Even while spitting out each word, Enoch’s head felt numb. He couldn’t judge whether what he was saying made sense, whether he was truly holding onto the thread of reason.
In such confused mental state, Enoch irritably pinned Luciella beneath him.
“Hup, Yo, Your Grace……”
He crudely groped up Luciella’s p*ssy, which he had thought was an untouchable, unattainable sanctuary. He caressed the plump mound then finally penetrated the tender flesh.
Luciella trembling in his arms should have been pitiful, but Enoch wasn’t composed enough to feel such emotions now.
Consumed by anxiety and impatience, he was no different from a beast.
“Did the Grand Duke promise to pay the one billion gold for you?”
“Hic, hhuh, I, really hht, that’s not……”
Enoch finally crossed the line he shouldn’t have crossed. He felt less guilt than expected. Rather, he felt an inexplicable relief.
Watching Luciella’s hole gaping while full of his cum, Enoch felt a strange sense of immorality.
The feeling of seizing what he thought he could never possess.
That was more thrilling than expected.
“What to do, now the marriage can’t be canceled.”
Enoch smiled satisfyingly while looking at his traces pooled between the pale mounds.
“No matter how favorable the Grand Duke is toward the princess, he wouldn’t take and accept a woman whose p*ssy has been loosened by another man’s c*ck.”
Thinking Luciella would give up trying to escape to Sejef by now,
Enoch, blinded by twisted affection, rationalized his own actions.
* * *
Luciella’s stubbornness was more remarkable than expected.
Even after doing such things with Enoch, she still sat there spouting words about canceling the marriage.
“Please think once more about what I said yesterday. This marriage would actually cause Your Grace greater loss……”
Why did she calculate such gains and losses? It was becoming tiresome now.
Enoch spoke self-mockingly while looking at Luciella before him.
“True to being a noble royal, calculating marriage like business with profit and loss makes you look just like those vulgar imperial noble bastards.”
The more she spoke, the greater his disappointment grew. But at some point Enoch’s words must have displeased Luciella, because she muttered aggressively in an uncharacteristic tone.
“Ha, you’re the one who bought me for a purpose to marry……”
Though slightly surprised, Enoch answered naturally without showing it.
“‘You’…… that’s good too. Right, we’ll soon be husband and wife, so we can’t keep being formal with ‘Your Grace’ and ‘Marquis’ forever.”
“You’re not playing word games now.”
“I was sincere too.”
Right, he had always been sincere. When it came to Luciella.
From when he first met her until now.
‘But what if she really hates me as a person?’
Why was he only thinking this now?
Enoch thought with a sneer. Perhaps he had wanted to avoid it out of fear.
After pondering, Enoch opened his mouth quite seriously.
“Luciella.”
“……”
“If you marry me, you can continue enjoying the same peace and leisure you had before, living without worries.”
Now, like he was finally prepared to accept the truth, Enoch felt strangely peaceful even while speaking.
“Even so, do you really hate marrying me?”
“……That’s what’s strange.”
“What’s strange?”
“Why do you want to go so far for me when we’ve never even met before? That’s…… that’s what makes me most uncomfortable. You must want something from me……”
Enoch shook his head at her words about him wanting something.
“I don’t understand why you’re doing this much for me. Like you said yesterday, I’m not only fallen but sold for one billion gold……”
“……”
“Who does that much for a slave they bought with that money?”
Luciella continued speaking slowly, word by word.
“Simply for an heir? Honestly, it’s not like you lack women to bear children. You could find much better women than me, so why……”
Enoch only looked at her silently. Brief silence followed. Then Enoch, gathering courage, spoke first.
“……Men are originally like that.”
Now he had the courage to hear whatever her answer might be.
“When blinded by love, they do stupid things that don’t pay off.”
“……What?”
“Did you think I wouldn’t know? How foolish and stupid what I’m doing right now is?”
Luciella’s answer to his emotions and actions.
“No matter how lowly my origins, I’m not foolish enough to not know such things.”
If Luciella felt displeasure hearing these words, he would let her go without regret.
It would be difficult immediately, but he planned to do what she wanted when he could guarantee her safety.
“Is this answer enough?”
“Li, lies……”
“Are you denying even the truth now? Or turning away because you don’t want to face it?”
“No, no…… it’s not that…… it doesn’t make sense.”
“What exactly doesn’t make sense?”
“When have we ever met……”
Enoch made a subtle expression at Luciella’s words. He knew she didn’t remember, but those events becoming only his memories felt somewhat unfair.
“We’re not in a relationship to discuss…… love.”
“……”
“If I understand correctly.”
“Well.”
Enoch answered shortly and indifferently.
“I answered your question sincerely.”
“But I still can’t understand……”
“I have no obligation to make you understand.”
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Aelthia
Enoch doesn’t hold affection for Luciella. He only wants to possess her & this entire time he has only treated her as an object. He has no care for her feelings, concerns or even the fact she just lost her entire family. He gives no consideration, only throws his unilateral feelings & expectations at her without explaining anything & gets upset unilaterally when she is unable to read his mind & heart. I still can’t feel any sympathy for him because he himself has created this situation with his prejudice & exacerbated it because he doesn’t care or ask what she is feeling or thinking.