Chapter 6
From the wedding until now, it had been an exhausting day for Alice. She felt so tired that she thought she might faint at any moment. Even now, she was so fatigued that she doubted she would wake up before someone entered the room in the morning.
In the end, Alice carefully took off her pink pajamas and placed them, along with her teddy bear, into the bag she had brought. Feeling cold while being n*ked, she shivered and quickly slipped under the blanket.
The problem came after that. Although she pulled the blanket over herself because of the cold, Daniel was also sleeping under the same blanket. Alice felt her cheeks and the corners of her eyes grow hot. She could feel Daniel’s warmth beside her, and his scent was close. And here she was, completely n*ked.
Something felt strange. There was a tingling sensation somewhere inside her body, and because of it, Alice couldn’t fall asleep for a long time.
Her initial assumption turned out to be wrong, as Alice woke up before the maids entered the room. She squinted her eyes, feeling the sunlight pouring through the window into the room.
She had been so distracted by other things that she had forgotten to draw the blackout curtains before going to bed. Moreover, the thought of sleeping n*ked next to Daniel had made her so tense that she hadn’t been able to sleep deeply. Not wanting to show her n*ked body to Daniel in such bright light, Alice sat up.
She noticed that she had more of the blanket wrapped around her than she had before falling asleep. It seemed that, in her sleep, she had pulled the blanket toward herself because of the cold.
Worried that Daniel might be left without a blanket, she turned her head to look at him—only to be startled.
Daniel had been left with almost no blanket, barely covering his stomach with the edge of it. While he had been tossing and turning in his sleep, the front of his bathrobe had come undone, and Alice accidentally saw Daniel’s p*nis standing er*ect, pointing toward the ceiling.
Alice let out a silent scream. Her face turned bright red with embarrassment, and she quickly lowered her head. After a long moment, she cautiously raised her head again.
‘I should cover him.’
Trying her best not to look at his lower body, Alice adjusted the blanket to cover Daniel. But as she was about to do so, she caught another glimpse of his er*ect p*nis, standing tall again, and felt her heart drop.
‘This is just a physiological phenomenon. It’s natural. It means Daniel is healthy.’
Even though she repeated these words to herself, seeing a man’s p*nis for the first time in her life left Alice’s mind completely blank.
‘It’s bigger than I expected… What do I do?’
Daniel’s p*nis was larger than she had imagined.
Was that supposed to go inside me?
Alice briefly imagined that entering her private area.
‘It really will tear me apart….’
Her mother’s words had not been an exaggeration. Alice felt her chest tighten with anxiety.
‘What should I do?’
No matter what, they were married now, so they had to have children. And to do that, she and Daniel would need to consummate their marriage.
‘I don’t think I can handle it….’
Tears began to well up in Alice’s eyes.
The attendants knocked on the bridal chamber door much later than usual that morning, and Daniel woke up at the sound of the knock.
‘Was I that tired yesterday?’
It had been a long time since he had slept so deeply. Despite how exhausting yesterday had been, Daniel felt almost fully recovered.
“Did you sleep well?”
Alice greeted him, and Daniel turned his head toward her, only to be startled when he saw her completely n*ked, covered only by the blanket. Quickly, he turned his head in the opposite direction.
“Oh, you haven’t dressed yet?”
“…You told me not to dress.”
“Ah….”
Daniel was flustered by the realization that Alice, completely n*ked, was sitting right next to him. As he scrambled to get up, the tie of his bathrobe came undone, and his body was exposed. Panicking, he hurriedly adjusted his clothes. Then, he quickly got up and looked around the room for something Alice could wear, like a bathrobe.
“Have you woken up, Young Master?”
Hearing the noise he was making as he moved around, the butler called out from outside. Daniel sighed and replied,
“Yes, I’m awake, but Alice doesn’t have anything to put on.”
“We’ve brought her clothes. May we send the maids in first?”
“Let them into the bedroom, but you can come to where I am.”
With Daniel’s permission, the locked door opened, and the maids entered, bowing their heads. The butler approached Daniel and began helping him dress. While doing so, the butler noticed Daniel’s injured finger.
“What happened to your hand?”
“I broke a bottle while washing my hair yesterday.”
Only then did the butler notice the broken shampoo bottle on the floor. He instructed a nearby servant to clean it up and call for a doctor.
The doctor carefully examined Daniel’s hand to ensure no glass shards were embedded and that the wound wasn’t too deep. He then applied some ointment, relieved that the injury was minor.
Meanwhile, the bedroom was noisy with the sound of maids dressing Alice and changing the bed sheets. Once Daniel was fully dressed in the formal attire of a nobleman, the head maid approached him with the neatly folded bed sheet and presented it to him with a polite bow.
“The ‘evidence’ is awaited by the family heads.”
“I’ll take it myself.”
The butler took the sheet from her and led the way, while Daniel followed him to the Earl’s study, where the heads of the two families were waiting.
The Earl’s study, usually a busy place with secretaries and staff coming and going, was empty today, likely because of the wedding yesterday.
The butler knocked on the study door and spoke politely.
“Earl Lawrence, Young Master Daniel is here.”
The voice of Lawrence, the Earl, answered from inside.
“Come in.”
When they entered, Daniel’s father, Lawrence, and Alice’s father, Duke Mistry, were both standing by the window, waiting for him. Neither of them was sitting on the sofa.
Lawrence spoke in a tone that could almost be described as solemn.
“Well. The evidence?”
“We’ve brought it.”
The butler bowed his head and unfolded the bed sheet in front of the two family heads. Both men stared at it intently. Their expressions grew increasingly pale.
Daniel’s heart pounded nervously.
‘What if they find out?’
I’ve never seen the evidence of someone else’s first night before…