Chapter 12

Second method. Recognized as the Duke’s Wife (5)

I wasn’t the only one surprised at the news. Everyone was excited and surprised, but who would object to the Duke’s idea of sleeping with the Duchess? I wasn’t in a position to tell the Duke not to come, either. I thought I would live by watching Carl’s growth while doing the eagle workshop, but now I guess I also have to sleep with the Duke. Wow, that’s awesome..

Still, I didn’t think it was right to do it with my friend’s husband, and it’s already been more than half a year since she left, and now he’s my husband, so I’ve been thinking about it. That’s true, didn’t the original ‘Amanda’ also give birth to a child. Since a virgin cannot have a child, it seems that the Duke and Amanda in the original shared a bed together.

The butler, who delivered the Duke’s words, asked if there was a specific date I wanted or if it was a time to avoid, but there was no need to consider the date separately because I was not my menstrual period and it was not a day to celebrate at some point in the future every year. I didn’t even have to calculate the envious ovulation cycle because I didn’t want to give birth to a younger brother to Carl already. Above all, the present union was closer to the sense that the Duke accepted me as his real wife rather than his wife on paper, rather than the ‘producer of successors.’

Because it has such a symbolic meaning, the Duke may not have sex with me. So let’s not look forward to it. It was yesterday that I decided to live only by looking at Carl!

Usually, my husband, who was clean and prepared, would visit my bedroom, but my room was shabby for the Duke to stay, so I headed to his room. I was in a hurry that I couldn’t keep the Duke waiting for a long time, so the way through the hallway to his room was cold because of the hair that was still not dry. I took a slow, deep breath, hugging my coat tighter over my pajamas.

Will the Duke… be good?

I hope so, but the Duke had no other scandal involving women. The only scandal that stuck to him was the talk of Merilyn and I, the extravagates. In addition, a child was born between the two, and when I thought of Merilyn and the Duke who was so cold….

Oh, I thought of Merilyn for no reason. I tried to erase my thoughts. I don’t know if he’ll really have sex with me, but I’m his wife now.

Entering the bedroom, the Duke was sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace. Every time I look at him, I see him sitting in front of the fireplace, so he must be very fond of it. A scarlet light fluttered over his face and a high nose cast a deep shade. Because it was a three-dimensional face in a good sense, the Duke’s face looked very atmospheric due to its deep shadow.

“Take off your coat and clothes and lie on the bed.”

In a low voice the duke commanded. It was a very hard and authoritative word. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel repulsed, but I slowly took off my coat and moved to the Duke’s bed. He dropped his thick coat on the floor and took off his pajamas. The clothes I took off carelessly were to be arranged by the maid who came to see the fire in the fireplace around dawn. Maybe this is the Duke’s bedroom, so a servant will come and clean up.

And the words same servants would spread. The Duke and the Duchess slept. For the aristocratic servants, their master’s bedroom situation was nothing short of gossip in modern times about celebrity scandals. They giggle among themselves in a place where the masters can’t hear, but at some point, it slowly leaks out and other nobles find out how good the noble couple is with each other.

I walked behind the Duke undressed without hesitation. The broad back flinched at my presence passing behind him. The Duke’s bed was a little hard, and there was a hot water pouch in the blanket, so the blanket was warm.

“Sleep there.”

The Duke picked up the quilt and said, rummaging through the firewood in the fireplace. Once the flame struck, it burned loudly, and I looked at it and asked.

“Aren’t you going to do it?”

“What, what?”

The Duke asked me again what I was talking about, but from his reaction it didn’t seem like he really didn’t know what I was talking about.

“Sex.”

The Duke looked at me with a startled face and turned his head back toward the fireplace. His ears were seen burning red through the scarlet lights. Well, I put my disheveled hair over my shoulder.

“If you’re not going to do it.”

I think it was a bit disappointing. The traces that would remain on the bed when I slept could show more clearly than the Duchess’s clothes on the floor that were disorganized. And if I was to defend myself as a healthy adult woman, she didn’t want to live her life alone, no matter what.

Now that I’m a duchess, I won’t have a chance with another man, but who else can I spend time in bed with if it’s not my husband, the duke?

Well, I’ll do it with the Duke one day, too. Because there was Carl’s half-brother in the book. Maybe not yet. Anyway, as I was about to go under the blanket, the Duke said.

“Can I do it?”

As he stuttered to the end, the question he asked in a hurry sounded very innocent. I put down the blanket I had, and walked towards the Duke, at the foot of the bed. The Duke was still eyeing the fireplace.

“We’re a couple and we can do it if we want to.”

Ah, what I just said wasn’t a very noble lady’s answer. I don’t know what a noble lady means, but when I think of it from the point of view of a modern person, I was quite right when I called it old-fashioned. This is the same as the rumor, but the Duke turned to me at the moment when he was about to regret it. The Duke’s eyes wandered around as he saw me approaching. Looking at his face sitting down, he looked young again.