Chapter 5

Leon leaned back a bit in the bathtub, chewing the inside of his mouth with his molars.

‘I… Have you been patient for too long?’

He hurried a little more. He pulled her out of her water and laid her on her cot beside him. The wet appearance made Leon even more awkward. The watery and translucent slip stuck to the body and looked no different from naked body.

He sighed and eventually peeled off the rest of her clothes. There was nothing he could do to wipe the water off her body anyway.

“Why am I doing this much?”

The towel climbed from toe to leg and hesitated between the crotch. Under the thinly covered bushes, a crack that seemed to be visible stimulated his imagination. The bottom came up more and more stiff. After coughing for a while, he roughly passed by and wiped the water off his upper body.

Even when passing over the chest, his reaction appeared similar to before. After barely wiping the water off, she wrapped herself in a large towel and hugged her with her arm. It felt quite different from before when he breathed out while leaning against his chest.

‘I’m going crazy.’

No one made her do it, and she couldn’t blame anyone because it was what she claimed to do. Of course, it wasn’t that strange because it was a healthy man. No, this job was strange from the moment he first saved this woman.

He laid her on the bed, covered her with a blanket, and hurried back into the bathroom alone. The bathroom door closed with a thud, and inside there was a few low moans of the man and a sound of rubbing his flesh.

After a while, after taking a bath, he glanced on the bed where she was lying and came out of the room. Then, in great surprise, ignoring the horseman who looked at him, he crouched to sleep next to him.

Of course, he couldn’t sleep, and he stayed up all night in that state with his eyes open. She, saved by Leon, slept comfortably in a comfortable bedroom, was lifted up and did not wake up for a long time after arriving at the castle the next day.

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“There’s nothing wrong with her..….”

“But why can’t she wake up?”

Leon pressed the doctor with a stiff look with his arms folded. The Grand Duke Teratius’s doctor was embarrassed and pecked his head.

“Well, waking up to mental shock can be delayed. But there’s really nothing wrong with her body, so she’ll wake up soon.”

Leon’s disapproving expression made the doctor a little bit, but when he soon beckoned to get out, he bowed his head and quickly turned around.

“For a moment.”

“What, what? Your Highness.”

“Don’t say anything”.

“Of course.”

Leon cracked down on each of the servants who waited on her. Of course, the servants he encountered while coming in and the maid who is cleaning the room now have several mouths, so one day it will leak out, but he decided that it would be better not to be known for the time being.

He wondered if he would be in trouble because he was involved in a situation where he didn’t even know what kind of status or who the woman in danger of dying was, and another reason was for the woman’s personal safety.

“Yeah, not yet.”

She was a little worried, but it was still okay. If she is a person who harms him, he vowed to abandon the woman outside the mansion, no matter whether she dies or not, at all.

Leon, who was tapping on the floor with his toes, glanced out the window at the sound of a horse’s hoof. His forehead narrowed sharply as he saw the running servant.

“The capital city sent a man.”

He took a glance at the woman lying down and stepped out of the door. As soon as Leon arrived at the office and sat down, he heard a knock.

“Come on in.”

The knight dressed in a light stadium handed Leon a scroll after taking an obedience posture.

“Is this the only one?”

“Yes, it’s from the capital.”

It was stamped with the seal of his family, Teratius. He unfolded it with an displeased look. And as expected, he rolled it around again and threw it at the corner of the desk.

“Go back.”

“He asked me to get a definite answer.”

“It should be something that can be confirmed, so go back for now.”

The driver glanced at the man sitting in front of him and bowed his head.

“Yes, Your Highness.”

After the servant was released, Leon woke up with a heavier look. Then, he walked straight to the room where his mother, Duchess Sophia Teratius, lived.

His aide, Daniel, followed him, killing the sound of footsteps. Leon stopped at the door.

“Stay here.”