Chapter 1.1 – Something Is Really, Really Wrong

“Wa, wait a moment……!”

“What do you mean, wait a moment? Don’t hesitate now that you’ve come all the way here.”

“No, it’s not like I came here because I wanted to. Hey. Get a grip.”

Inside a snow-white hotel room, a man and a woman were having a conversation. The man, pinned beneath the woman, wore an extremely flustered expression.

He tried to push the woman off him somehow, but she clung to him like a leech and showed no sign of letting go. He couldn’t just hit her to knock her out, so it was a very awkward moment.

“What kind of woman are you to be this strong?”

The woman covered the man’s mouth with one hand. Her soft fingers tickled his lips.

“Shh! Enough. Men who talk too much aren’t attractive.”

With her other hand, the woman boldly and unhesitatingly slipped under the man’s clothes. Before he could even react to her skillful hands, his pants were pulled down in an instant.

“Hngh.”

At her touch, the man let out a low moan. He wondered what kind of woman she was, but the drunken, reckless woman was stronger than he expected.

The unfamiliar sensation trailing over his body made him feel like he was melting.

“Feels good, doesn’t it?”

Sitting atop him, the woman asked confidently.

“I’ll make you feel even better.”

With half-lidded, drunken eyes and a slurred tongue, the woman took the lead. Her head began to move lower and lower.

“Heh……. It’s big. I like that it’s big.”

‘What? Big? She’s a truly shameless, crazy woman who doesn’t even know embarrassment.’

Maybe it was the alcohol, but the woman continued to say shameless things. Unable to take it anymore, the man flipped her underneath him.

“I think it’s best to stop here.”

He bound her arms so she couldn’t keep touching him.

He bit his lip so hard it felt like it might bleed, holding himself back. If he didn’t hang on to his reason, something he’d never even imagined might happen.

‘That can’t happen.’

“If you pretend tonight never happened…….”

But he soon realized that was a mistake. The glossy red lips looking up at him, the disheveled hair, and the unfocused eyes all provoked an irresistible, animalistic urge.

His lower body, already about to burst, filled with even more blood.

“Damn it…….”

He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to end this absurd situation. If he stayed any longer, he truly wouldn’t be able to resist.

Even now, with the slightest touch, it felt like something would explode. He didn’t even believe in God, but at this moment, he desperately sought Him.

His mind was screaming ‘no,’ but his body wouldn’t obey.

At that moment, the woman’s red lips parted. It seemed her mouth was the most dangerous thing about her.

“What’s this? You’re more forceful than I thought? I like this kind of thing too. Ha……. Do whatever you want.”

He should have silenced that vulgar mouth first.

Even pinned underneath him, the woman laughed, clearly delighted, bewitching Windsor. ‘Bewitching’ was the perfect word. Normally, he never would have given in to such temptation.

Strangely, her overwhelming voice was hard to ignore. She seemed much younger than him, yet she could pin him down so he couldn’t move at all. For some reason, he felt as if he had no choice but to follow her lead. Like a dog that couldn’t refuse its master’s command. In truth, he’d never met such an aggressive woman before.

‘How foolish, to waver at such a blatant temptation.’

Just then, the woman wrapped her long legs around his waist. Soft flesh pressed tightly against his sensitively heated lower body.

Seeing this, the corners of her lips curled up in amusement.

“You’ve already gotten this big. You actually want me, don’t you?”

At her words, he felt something snap inside. He hungrily devoured her lips.

The woman accepted him without hesitation.

“Haa……. Let’s get to the main event now.”

The main event?

Could I really go all the way like this? 

He hesitated even at this moment. As he wavered again, the woman, apparently frustrated, climbed back on top of him.

Then, brushing her soft brown hair to the side, she licked her bright red lips.

“I prefer being on top like this.”

She sensually traced her fingers down his firm chest.

“Hngh…….”

He could no longer refuse her. No, he didn’t want to refuse anymore.

* * *

“Ugh…….”

Keira clutched her splitting head and opened her eyes. The dazzling sunlight made her frown automatically.

Turning her head to the side, a pain like her skull rolling separately from her brain struck her.

“Ugh… My head feels like it’s going to explode. Just how much did I drink? Huh?”

Keira stiffened and looked around the unfamiliar room. A room this white was definitely not hers. Unless all her furniture and wallpaper had been replaced overnight, this couldn’t be her room.

Judging by the layout, it looked like a hotel, but why was she here?

No matter how much she looked around, she couldn’t figure out why she was here. There wasn’t even anyone beside her to suggest she’d slept with someone else.

“All my clothes are off too……. Wait, did I sleep with someone?”

Keira began to piece together her memories from the night before, one by one.

“Definitely…….”

After saying she had something to tell Ronnie Randolph, she’d agreed to meet him at the fountain in thirty minutes. 

What happened after that? 

She couldn’t remember well, probably because she drank too much champagne during those thirty minutes.

Keira desperately wracked her brain.

What on earth happened!

“Think, Keira!” 

Huh? A carriage? 

Suddenly, a big black carriage came to mind.

Oh? That’s right……!

She’d seen Ronnie, whom she wanted to talk with, hurriedly leaving the Imperial Palace and had followed him without thinking. He was tall and had striking blond hair, so he was easy to spot even from afar.

If she let him go like that, it would ruin Keira’s reputation for her 100% success rate. She’d boasted so confidently to Emilia that she’d seduce Ronnie! And she’d even bet the blue diamond ring she’d won in a wager last year!

She didn’t know when she’d see him again if she let him go, so she ran after him and got into his carriage.

And then Ronnie pulled her into the carriage……?

“Climbed on top of me so hotly, didn’t he?”

Even if she couldn’t remember anything else, she definitely remembered Ronnie’s burning blue eyes as he desired her. He turned out to be more aggressive than she thought. He looked so innocent, like he’d never even held a woman’s hand, but he had such a manly and rough side.

Oh no! I really liked it……!

She knew she hadn’t been wrong.

“But did Ronnie have blue eyes?”

Keira tilted her head, trying to remember the color of Ronnie’s eyes.

Ronnie had pitch-black eyes. Maybe her memory was distorted from the alcohol. Anyway, there was another complete blank in her memory after that…….

The next thing she remembered was herself moving wildly on top of Ronnie’s body.

“What? So I did it with Ronnie?”

It seemed it was pretty intense. She recalled his strong hands gripping her waist and his broad, firm chest, and Keira unconsciously buried her face in the pillow and kicked her legs up and down.

Maybe it was because he was a soldier, but his body was definitely solid and nice.

“Oh no, oh no!”

But where did Ronnie go? Was he in the bathroom?

It was her first time waking up without the man she’d slept with, so she was confused.

Keira put on the white gown hanging on the wall and pressed her ear to the bathroom door, which was tightly closed. It was unusually quiet to think someone was inside, but she called out anyway.

“Ahem, Ronnie, are you in there?”

Holding her breath, she listened closely, but there was no sound from inside. With a bit of apprehension, Keira opened the bathroom door.

“Oh? He’s really not here.”

It seemed like the night had been good, so why did he leave?

Now that I had slept with him, was I not good enough? 

Keira opened her gown and, gathering her ample chest in one hand in front of the mirror, murmured to herself.

Did he think chests like this were common? And my face, what about my face…….

‘Ah, there’s eye booger in my eye?’

Even like this, I am cute and pretty, wasn’t I? I was this lovable, my face and my body……!

“At this level, I think I’m perfect?”

Ha, and yet he left me behind? Really? Why?

He just left without a word? He could at least have said goodbye, couldn’t he?

Suddenly, her headache felt even worse.

“Ow ow……. My head.”

Keira pressed her throbbing head with both hands and sat on the table beside the bed. At that moment, she felt a small piece of paper under her hand on the table. Suddenly feeling annoyed, Keira thought she might as well crumple it up and throw it away, so she picked it up.

“What is this? Hm? Is this a note?”

『- Something came up, so I had to leave first. If there’s a problem, contact Naval Operations Headquarters, Unit 1. -』

Of course……! There’s no way he would just leave me alone.

It seemed something urgent had come up.

Still, she wondered why he hadn’t left a way to contact him personally. What’s more, the note’s content, so concise and cold, felt unfamiliar compared to Ronnie’s gentle appearance.

“Eh, he must’ve just been busy.”

Come to think of it, he lived in the Official Residence, and he’d be there all day, so it would be odd to give her another address.

(T/N: The Korean word 관저generally refers to the Official Residence of a high-ranking public figure.)

Besides, when summer came, she would be staying at the Official Residence with her father and brother, so maybe she could visit the Operations Headquarters then?

She had a feeling something very interesting was about to unfold.