Reincarnated As My Husband's Mistress-Chapter 114: [] Take Me

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The guests sat with their backs to him, and because I was sitting in a seat that allowed me to face Roardness, his gaze was only on me.

Roardness seemed genuinely annoyed by these uninvited guests.

"I've looked into it. I had someone do it. Someone from Elacon."

"That's great. Thank you very much. It must have been a lot of trouble."

"No, it's nothing."

I was a little disappointed that the atmosphere was ruined.

However, I couldn't hide my joy at the fact that Victor had found out about the drug written in Blie's diary. I clasped my hands together.

As soon as my interest shifted elsewhere, Roardness looked at me with an expression of utter resentment, standing there.

"Your Highness should come over here and listen too."

"Yes, brother."

Epero immediately agreed with my words.

Roardness looked down at us without uncrossing his arms, but soon, when I tapped the seat next to me with my hand, he walked over slowly as if he couldn't help it.

Roardness sat right next to me as if on purpose. As if there was absolutely no room on the other side.

Epero, who had been chasing after my brother, had a strangely narrowed look in his eyes, and Victor, who hadn't seen Roardness press his lips against my fingertips, had a puzzled expression.

"So, why...."

"Victor. So, what kind of drug was it?"

When I blocked the question directed at Roardness, Victor quickly pulled out a few sheets of paper from his bosom and unfolded them.

It was a chart with translations and effects of the Elacon herb names I had given him.

"Many. So many. Various effects. There is. Famous shaman. In Elacon."

"Hmm?"

"There is only one shaman in Elacon who can handle those herbs."

Due to Victor's poor Imperial language, Epero volunteered to interpret.

"Many Elacon doctors and shamans agreed that these are herbs that are no longer used. There is a great shaman in Elacon who can handle these. However, it is difficult for him to come here."

In other words, it meant that the thirsty person had to dig the well.

"No."

Roardness pulled me tightly into his arms and pushed away the paper that Victor had handed me.

Victor's expression crumpled as he watched his long fingers push away the bundle of paper.

"I can't send him. That guy. From Elacon's point of view. Easily!"

"If you're a prince, then act like one."

"I'll get scolded. By my sisters!"

Roardness clicked his tongue briefly. Epero shuddered for a moment, recalling the sisters Victor had mentioned, and mediated.

"Brother. The great shaman is a respected figure in Elacon and is reclusive, so he cannot come to Ronta. Since we have only barely found his last whereabouts, we may have to search for him for months if not this time."

"No."

"You don't have to move, brother. Since the shaman will only want to meet someone he has business with, if you just refuse...."

"I won't send her alone. If I go, I'll definitely go with me."

Epero clamped his mouth shut at Roardness's firm reply, but his rippling dark blue eyes urged him on for a different answer.

"I'll go to Elacon myself."

"My lady."

"Please call me Countess Acacia, Your Highness."

His face, which had turned completely to me, was instantly clouded with displeasure.

I shook my head firmly.

"I'm not your Highness's attendant, but the late Crown Prince's attendant. My future is my own, and I want to go alone and meet him before it's too late."

"Adrienne."

He tightened his grip on my shoulder and whispered.

"Your Highness and I will discuss it separately, and we'll see you again tomorrow."

"No. Alone. I'm going too. Epero too."

"So it's even more impossible."

"Your Highness."

I pressed hard on Roardness's solid thigh.

"Let's talk."

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Epero did not defy Roardness and left with Victor, who looked a little angry.

Roardness and I left the palace and headed to the grand duke's residence.

We didn't say a word all the way there.

Although I wanted to talk, I could fully anticipate Roardness's stubbornness, so I bluntly offered him a guest room.

I had just informed him that I wanted to soak in warm water and organize our thoughts for a while.

"Ma'am! What are you doing? Your hair! Everyone was so surprised when you returned at dawn and attended the funeral with dyed blonde hair!"

Yona, who had followed me to the bathroom to help me bathe, chattered as she helped me take off my mourning clothes.

I silently stepped into the warm water that Yona had prepared.

Yona, who seemed to have a lot to say, went out without a word when I said I would bathe alone.

I slowly organized the thoughts in my head.

I was going to leave for Elacon right away, whether Roardness came with me or not.

As I was wiping my body roughly and putting on the light dress that Yona had prepared, I saw Roardness standing by the bedroom window.

He had also washed himself roughly, and he was wearing the same black mourning shirt with his hair slightly wet.

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"What are you looking at out the window?"

"I was wondering what you looked at while you were here."

He turned around and approached me.

He pulled me in without hesitation, and his touch was quite natural.

"I'm going to tell you that I'm leaving for Elacon tomorrow."

"...."

Roardness pulled me closer to him without saying a word.

"I want to visit the mana stone mine in Countess Acacia's territory. And if I have the chance, I want to go east and see my father."

His newly dried platinum blonde hair shimmered in the sunset.

I buried my cheek against his chest without saying a word.

The towel that had been wrapped around his head fell to the floor, and his half-dried hair cascaded down my back.

"If you go, I'll go too."

"You have a lot to do, Roardness. You have to take care of the funeral arrangements...."

"Even at the funeral, all I could think about was how to keep you by my side."

His voice, filled with deeper emotions than in his office, tickled my ears uncomfortably.

I tensed up all over in an instant.

"You need some time alone too. It hasn't even been a day since the funeral. Don't push yourself."

"Adrienne. I've already shattered all the illusions that Bardenaldo created for me. Of course, it's a lie to say I don't feel pain. I'm just glad that Bardenaldo isn't in a glass coffin. I couldn't have stood seeing my dead brother's body and still standing."

"Roan."

"But I don't want to chase after a dead man anymore, and I don't want to lose a living person because of it. You're the only one left to me now. You are the very ground I stand on in this world, Adrienne."

The part of my back that he unconsciously rubbed grew hot.

"So I won't send you alone to such an unsafe place."

His eyes, which had been sorting through his thoughts just as I had in the bathtub, were determined.

"But Roan, you've finally gotten the chance to live as yourself, free from Bardenaldo's shadow. You need time to think deeply about your life. I can't ask you to accompany me on my personal business so rashly."

"Adrienne. You may not know this, but I've only ever looked at you for a very long time."

My eyes widened at the sudden statement. Roardness remained unwavering.

"You said you liked strong knights. So that's how I lived."

"...Roan?"

"Because you said you liked someone who was upright and reliable. So I shaved off all my rough edges and lived that way in front of you. You were my personality, my life."

Ah.

Memories of my naive childhood flashed through my mind.

I had said things like, "I like a knight who is so tall that I have to look up at him, and who is so strong that he can protect me from any danger," without any embarrassment.

Roardness smiled darkly at my suddenly embarrassed expression.

"I'm a coward, aren't I?"

"Roan, surely you don't mean to say that because of something I said as a child..."

"It wasn't you who was insecure, it was always me."

"Roan."

"The quickest and most certain way to eliminate your insecurity. In fact, it was to alleviate my own insecurity."

He smiled bitterly. But the force with which he pulled me grew stronger.

"I want you, Adrienne."

"Roan, I don't want to make you insecure either. So there's no need to rush into a decision. Besides the time you need to think about your future, the palace needs you now. I'll be back soon..."

I answered urgently, as if to erase the guilt I felt towards Roardness for having lived as such a person because of my thoughtless words.

"No."

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But Roardness shook his head and said in a confident voice.

"I've been thinking about it all my life. You are my life, Adrienne."

"Roan..."

"I have to protect you, and if I have to become the crown prince to do that, then I will."

I stiffened instantly and looked up at him.

It seemed that Roardness, who had just cut the leash that Bardenaldo had tied around him, was trying to put that leash back on me.

"I told you before, I never want to lose you again. I'll do anything for that."

Roardness said.

"I want you, Adrienne."

Roardness's hand slowly slid up my back and into my wet hair, pulling my neck back.

The sound of Roardness's heart pounding against my chest as his face was pressed harder against mine was deafening.

"I'll prove it all to you. That I'm not someone who will ruin this country, or my mother's darkness. That I'm a man who can protect you and make you happy."

His voice, which was pressed against my ear, was overwhelming.

I stopped breathing for a moment and pushed him away slightly. His rippling eyes looked down at me.

"Believe me, Adrienne."

"Roan..."

Without hesitation, Roardness threw off his black shirt. He didn't even unbutton it; he just grabbed the end and lifted his arms.

The mourning clothes, which still carried the scent of death, were thrown to the floor.

I took a step back in surprise, and his body, like a marble sculpture shimmering in the sunset, approached me.

His body, which was full of large and small scars but could never be hidden by such scars, filled my entire field of vision.

"So..."

The clothes he had hastily thrown off seemed out of place as he approached slowly.

The crimson sunset traced the elegant nape of his neck that I had always secretly admired, the distinct collarbone supporting his broad shoulders, and the hard, thick pectorals that I could feel just by looking at them.

"So... be seduced."

Oh my god.

The familiar scent of soap and his own unique scent mingled and filled my nose as he stepped closer.

"Don't say things like that and leave me..."

As I naturally lowered my gaze, I felt a significant mass beneath his black pants.

"...Take me."

Why was I suddenly thinking of Neil?

I remembered his nonchalant reply, "I'm big in everything," when I admired how big Roardness's hands were.

"Take me. Let me take you."

Ah.

The reason I had been holding back in the office had completely disappeared at the sound of his low voice.

"...Yes."

The unfamiliar desire that had been buried under my dying body and the weight of the truth, which I had forgotten even existed before today, exploded like a popped champagne cork.

My eyes reddened.

I could only surrender to this wild beast who was crashing into me with all his heart and body.

"Yes, I will."

Roardness, who had leaned in as if being pulled by me, immediately swallowed my lips as soon as I wrapped my arms around his neck.

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