It was amazing that she would meet that knight again like this, but the fact that the famous Enoch Walter was the same person was also shocking.

“Re, really…… I don’t know what to say.”

“You don’t need to say anything in particular.”

“But……”

“I just wanted to let you know that the place I first met Your Highness wasn’t the auction house.”

Hearing those words, Luciella sighed briefly. She remembered what she had asked Enoch recently.

Feeling unnecessarily embarrassed, she coughed and avoided his gaze.

‘Of course……’

He wasn’t the type of person to fall in love with a woman after seeing her in such a place…….

She felt like a fool for having suspected him, even briefly.

With Enoch’s touch, Luciella’s damp hair had dried completely before she knew it. Enoch, who had put down the towel, carefully approached and sat beside her.

They sat side by side, blankly looking only at the burning firewood in the fireplace.

Then Luciella carefully leaned her small head against his shoulder. Enoch showed no particular reaction. He just silently offered one shoulder.

‘This seems better.’

Even if the coup hadn’t happened, Luciella would have been destined to hurriedly marry some man she didn’t even know, pushed by her brother.

Rather than that happening, she thought becoming husband and wife with Enoch would be much better.

‘Since I have nothing more to hide from him……’

Where in this world would there be a man who wouldn’t mind the fact of infertility? Luciella thought this while fidgeting with her innocent fingers.

“You asked me something the other day, Your Highness.”

Enoch, who had noticed her moving her body little by little, broke the silence and opened his mouth.

“You asked why I would go to such lengths for Your Highness.”

Luciella’s gaze quietly turned to him at his voice.

“If I could, I would have given you my heart and soul from the moment I first met Your Highness.”

“Come on, that’s a lie.”

“Don’t disparage my sincerity.”

Enoch playfully retorted and let out a small laugh.

“Your Highness wouldn’t know.”

While saying this, he recalled in his mind the day he first met Luciella.

“That day I encountered Your Highness in Bert. Though all I could do was look from afar, even so, how brightly Your Highness was shining.”

Luciella fell into brief contemplation, thinking things like ‘Was I?’ It was something she had never felt herself.

“I found myself looking only at Your Highness like I was possessed by a ghost.”

Enoch smiled awkwardly for a moment, seeming embarrassed. Then he scratched the back of his head unnecessarily and continued speaking.

“Unlike then, now I’ve become someone who can do anything for Your Highness, so I’m simply doing so.”

Luciella, who had been quietly listening to those words, answered softly.

“Thank you.”

Crackle crackle, comfortable silence came along with the sound of firewood burning. Luciella fidgeted with her small hands and then carefully placed them on top of Enoch’s hand.

Because of the significant difference in hand size, it was insufficient to interlock fingers and hold his hand. Instead, Luciella carefully wrapped around one of Enoch’s long fingers.

He could feel each movement of her small hand clearly. Enoch, who had been pondering briefly, coughed and withdrew his hand. Then the flustered Luciella followed and grabbed his hand again.

“Are you uncomfortable by any chance?”

“What? No. How could that be.”

“Then why……”

Luciella looked up at him with strangely disappointed eyes. Then Enoch turned his head to the other side to hide his reddened cheeks. The problem wasn’t just his face that had turned red like a beet.

“Yes? Marquis.”

Luciella stuck her head out once more while looking at Enoch who was avoiding her. Thanks to this, the two people’s bodies became even more closely pressed together.

Luciella’s appearance, wearing only Enoch’s large long-sleeved shirt, was damnably stimulating.

Though Enoch tried hard not to pay attention, it was difficult to completely ignore. His mouth went dry because of things like her small fingertips barely peeking out from the drooping sleeve ends and her thighs that were precariously covered.

Enoch, who had been glancing at Luciella’s appearance briefly, averted his eyes again, seeming to think it wouldn’t do.

“No, it’s not that.”

Was she innocent or naive?

Though he had thought this before, Luciella really seemed fearless. She seemed completely unaware of how her appearance looked to a man.

Her sparkling silver eyes blinked slowly in the air. Her gaze was persistently directed toward Enoch.

Enoch used all his strength to avoid her gaze, closed his eyes, and repeatedly recited the national anthem in his mind.

‘I must not commit rudeness like before anymore.’

In the past, he had expressed lust while making excuses that it couldn’t be helped, but now he no longer wanted to do that. Because Luciella had become cooperative about marriage. Also, since he had learned that she had a body that couldn’t conceive children, there was no longer any need to do such acts.

He felt his lower body growing heavy and heated. He wanted to jump up from his seat and escape from here…… but he couldn’t do that for fear that Luciella would be surprised to see his bulging front.

‘Damn……’

Enoch suppressed his lust while chewing the tender flesh inside his mouth. But it wasn’t an easy task. Their bodies were so close that every time he inhaled, Luciella’s body scent rushed deep into his lungs.

Enoch slowly took deep breaths and squeezed his eyes shut. He couldn’t even grasp how to overcome this crisis.

Luciella, watching Enoch, brought her body even closer, seeming to find it enjoyable. Though Enoch didn’t notice, Luciella had already figured out the reason he was avoiding her. Even so, his appearance of trying not to show it was quite cute and stimulated her desire to tease him.

Luciella placed her hand on his thigh with an innocent face that showed she knew nothing.

“Marquis.”

Then this time Enoch was startled and shook off his body.

“Why, why are you doing that?”

“Oh, no. You seemed hot. You were sweating a lot……”

From the moment he began suppressing his excitement, cold sweat had been streaming down Enoch’s forehead. Luciella still had an innocent face and gently caressed his leg bit by bit.

The moment she moved her hand slightly, she touched the flesh that had swollen tautly inside his pants. The bulging thing was of a size that couldn’t be ignored.

“Yo, Your Highness!”

“Yes?”

When Luciella’s hand finally touched the center, Enoch pushed her away and showed a serious expression.

He was firmly misunderstanding that Luciella had touched it by mistake without knowing anything.

“Th, that’s my c*ck.”

Flustered Enoch didn’t even have the presence of mind to choose his words and blurted out whatever came to mind. Thanks to this, an unsuitable vulgar word popped out. Though he realized it belatedly, it was too late to take back his words.

Luciella, flustered by Enoch’s unexpected explicit word choice, burst into small laughter.

“I know that.”

“……What?”

“Who wouldn’t know that? I mean, I’m not an idiot……”

Then she continued speaking while laughing loudly, seeming to find this situation enjoyable.

“I just did it because it was fun. I’m sorry.”

Only then could Enoch realize it. That Luciella had been teasing him.

Along with a small sense of betrayal, Enoch rubbed his face dry.

“Oh, that’s really too much. I was trying so hard to endure……”

“Why? We decided to marry anyway, didn’t we?”

“But there’s no reason to do such things.”

Luciella tilted her head at Enoch’s incomprehensible words.

“……Because Your Highness wouldn’t want it.”

Enoch buried his reddened face low and muttered softly. Watching Enoch, Luciella added a word.

“Hmm, what if I wanted it?”

“Please don’t joke around.”

“I’m not joking.”

Enoch glanced at Luciella. She was babbling with her small lips with an innocent face that seemed not to know what she was saying.

“For Your Highness to want to do such…… things with me again, that’s impossible.”

“Why do you think that way?”

Luciella had a face that showed she really didn’t understand.

“Well……”

Enoch opened his mouth then hesitated. Well, because he was far from the type of men Luciella would like.

Enoch could instinctively feel it. That Luciella would like white and neat men like Sejef.

But compared to that, he was too crude and unsightly. Common black hair and black eyes. Skin darkly tanned by the sun. Was that all? He had muscles stuck all over and many scars throughout his body.

Enoch knew better than anyone that such a person like himself was far from elegant and refined typical noble young men.

“I know that Your Highness is marrying me reluctantly.”

Enoch continued speaking in a dejected voice.

“I also have no intention of forcibly holding onto Your Highness.”

“Hmm…… So?”

“When Your Highness’s safety is secured, I’ll divorce you then……”

“No, I don’t think that’s particularly necessary.”

“What?”

“Like you said, Marquis, it’s not like I have anywhere to go.”

“But previously……”

“I just didn’t want to cause you trouble, Marquis. With a body that can’t bear children and even has experience of divorce, even if I became free, where could I go to meet someone and what could I do?”

Those words were right. Enoch couldn’t particularly refute and just nodded his head in agreement.

“Now I know that was all a misunderstanding…… and I didn’t hate doing such…… things with you, Marquis.”

Perhaps feeling embarrassed while confessing the truth, Luciella’s face heated up hotly.

“You didn’t hate it, what does that……”

“……I want to stop talking.”

Luciella turned her head while covering her face with the back of her hand to hide her heated cheeks. Then this time Enoch pressed his body close to Luciella.

“Your Highness.”

“……”

“Really?”