When You Don’t Get Along With Your Husband - Chapter 31

At the sensation of bare skin, hot temperature, and twitching movement, she lowered her eyes, and he quietly urged her on.

“Look. Aren’t you curious?”

“……”

“You’ve never seen this before, right?”

“……”

“Don’t tell me you have?”

As Gideon’s tone of voice changed subtly, Tatiana quickly shook her head. And using that head shake as an excuse, she stole a glance at that area.

“I hope you like this part too, while we’re at it.”

But even as he said it, Gideon couldn’t help but chuckle.

She had said she liked his forearms and deltoids, but is this too much to hope for? Would she perhaps feel unfamiliar and repulsed? But he must make her like it. Now that he’s heard her say she wants to do it with him, he’s determined to make her say she wants to do it again.

Gideon took a very long time to help Tatiana relax.

He kissed every part of her, from her eyebrows to her fingernails and toenails, leaving nothing untouched, while his hands constantly caressed her.

Nevertheless, Tatiana seemed to have difficulty relaxing her body. As he had felt when being intimate with her before, it seemed that the defensive instinct ingrained over more than a decade couldn’t be overcome at once.

She would occasionally gasp or groan, and Gideon felt his blood racing with excitement.

Was this touch for Tatiana’s sake, or to satisfy his own greed? Around the time Gideon started to get confused about this himself.

The bedding was getting damp and gradually becoming a mess, just as she had said earlier.

This was probably a signal that she was ready too.

But he spread the prepared fragrant oil on her body. Because this was his first experience too. Because he still didn’t know well. Because it was too early to be certain. Because he didn’t want to hurt her.

‘See. I’m not sleeping with you just to satisfy my own desires.’

I want you to know that fact precisely. And wanting you to acknowledge that is probably my real desire.

Gideon buried himself in Tatiana.

Despite taking time and using the slippery liquid, there was still pain at the moment of becoming one.

Feeling her furrowed brow and the pressure transmitted to him, Gideon said, realizing she was struggling,

“I’m sorry. Does it hurt a lot?”

“……”

“But I’m having a hard time too.”

“…Really?”

Gideon was really about to go crazy trying to hold back from going in deeper, but when she looked at him with an expression like she wanted to stamp her feet, he couldn’t help but laugh.

Of course, it was true that it was difficult. He hadn’t had to endure this much very often in his life.

But no matter how difficult it was…

‘Surely I’m not having as hard a time as you right now?’

Gideon decided to hold back a bit more since he’d already held back this far.

Suppressing the desire to rush to the end and reach it at once, he continuously soothed her, licking her tender parts. Until Tatiana got used to this sensation.

And does effort and sincerity really get rewarded someday? Tatiana started to let out slightly heated breaths.

To Gideon, it felt exactly like a reward she was giving him. It sounded that sweet.

He moved his body again and pushed into her, and Tatiana clutched the bedding, then groped the air, waving her hands frantically.

Gideon firmly grasped one of her hands.

“You know where to put your hands, don’t you?”

We practiced this last time, remember? Have you already forgotten?

As if answering that she knew very well, Tatiana wrapped her arms around his neck.

Their skins were slick with sweat, and every time her arms holding him slipped, Tatiana scratched his back with her nails.

The woman’s voice was slightly higher than usual, and the man’s voice was slightly lower than usual. Soon, the room was filled with voices without any meaning.

Who was first? The two signaled the end of the act almost simultaneously. Tatiana with a sobbing sound, Gideon with a long, deep groan.

When Gideon withdrew, Tatiana curled up into a ball and panted heavily. His chest was heaving roughly as well.

But Gideon couldn’t move away from her at all and kept fiddling with various parts of her body.

It wouldn’t be strange to feel exhausted after releasing his first essence, but somehow he felt unsatisfied and even more thirsty than before.

His body responded very faithfully to that feeling.

When Tatiana suddenly felt something hard against her back, she turned around with wide eyes. Gideon grinned awkwardly at her surprised look.

He hadn’t intended to do it again so soon either. He was going to give her at least a little time to catch her breath.

But Tatiana mumbled her lips for a moment, then suddenly looked at him clearly. And she said distinctly,

“I want… to do it again.”

“……”

Along with mental pleasure, he felt blood rushing through his body once more.

It was the best night. He truly liked Tatiana.

* * *

The dawn sky was dim.

Tatiana, who had quietly gotten up, stared blankly at Gideon who had just fallen asleep. And suddenly, she felt a bit… annoyed with him.

‘He looks too comfortable. Must be having a good dream.’

Tatiana was confident in her physical strength. She prided herself on having above-average mental strength as well. But she’s not the only tough person in the world.

Gideon also had the stamina that would make most knights reflect on themselves if they were to be dragged before him.

When two such people spent the night together… despite it being their first night, they had almost seen the end of the world.

On top of that, Tatiana was experiencing another problem.

Although she’s a person who has exercised consistently, muscles originally have different uses. Beauty muscles and labor muscles are different, and the bodies of laborers and knights are also different. Tatiana had to move muscles she didn’t even know existed before in directions that made her think, ‘Is this even possible?’ And for several hours at that.

The aftereffects were considerable. Her whole body was stiff, showing signs that she would suffer from muscle pain for a day or two.

Ordinary people would bury themselves in bed and rest, but Tatiana thought that at times like this, it’s better to move the body little by little. She was already well-versed in methods to loosen up stiff muscles.

In the end, Tatiana got out of bed, leaving behind Gideon who was sleeping with an expression that was beyond refreshed, almost invigorated. After pondering for a moment in front of the desk, she picked up a sword for once.

It was that precious sword Gideon had gifted her.

“Your Hi-Highness…”

When Tatiana opened the door, the maids outside froze in unison. Some were about to let out a shrill scream but quickly covered their mouths. It was because they had witnessed something too intense first thing in the morning.

It wasn’t the first time Gideon had left visible marks on his wife’s body. But that was nothing compared to today, the state was incomparably more serious.

Tatiana’s body, glimpsed through her gown, was covered in red marks as if she had just recovered from chickenpox. In fact, she looked a bit like an injured person.

It seems that last night, something big definitely happened in that room…

The princess consort’s aura today was particularly unusual. There was a languidness in the way she brushed back her drooping purple hair, and a cynical fatigue could be felt when she furrowed her brow.

But in one hand, she was holding something terribly frightening.

The sharply honed blade gleamed fiercely even in the dim light. It was an eerie and ominous atmosphere.

“H-His Highness Gideon…”

Isabelle restrained herself and swallowed the end of her sentence, but she had almost asked, ‘Did you kill him?’ It was because Tatiana, exuding an unprecedentedly decadent aura, looked like an assassin who had just completed a mission.

However, Tatiana, who was just feeling a bit stiff and tired, answered quite carelessly,

“His Highness? He’s sleeping.”

“……”

“Why? Should I wake him up?”

“…No, that’s alright.”

“Right, let him sleep more. He just fell asleep a moment ago.”

Tatiana belatedly stretched her shoulders and yawned. She also cracked her neck a couple of times. Then there was a series of ominous cracking sounds from her joints.

Tatiana frowned and then asked the maids,

“I think I need to exercise and then take a hot bath today. Sorry for telling you so late.”

“Don’t worry, we’ll prepare it. But…”

“Yes?”

“Wouldn’t it be better to rest your body for now?”

“No. At times like this, I need to move. That’s how my body condition improves again.”

But in Tatiana’s eyes and expression as she said this, traces of their intimate encounter still lingered here and there.

Just how tumultuous a night did they spend? When she took off her gown to change into workout clothes, the skin underneath was even more of a sight. It was all too clear whose bite marks those were.