CH 53.1

When Anne opened her eyes the next day, the Grand Duke was nowhere to be found. Perhaps, he had already started his day’s duties.

Anne gazed blankly through the window while occupying a large portion of the bed. The afterglow of the climax clung to her, and she didn’t want to move. Maybe the curtains were left open so she could see the scenery outside the window clearly from the bed she was lying on. If the window was open, a fierce wind would immediately rush in, but at least the sunlight is warm.

She was still unfamiliar with northern life. However, unlike her unfamiliar mind, her body was terribly accustomed to Grand Duke’s actions. Obviously, the relationship with him was close to a beast’s mating, but her body had already changed to welcome the affair.

“It doesn’t even hurt anymore.”

She laughed because it was so absurd.

Anne couldn’t believe her own body, which had become terribly lewd. Rather, she hated herself so much that she felt guilty. The first sharp pain ended in overflowing pleasure, and it seems that she clung to her hazy mind scratching his back with her nails.

She wasn’t happy with either memory. This kind of abnormality in the relationship only corroded her and caused her to fall apart.

Her emotions, which had permeated her heart for a moment, transformed. The man who had affectionately embraced her until he left for the subjugation had been eaten by the monster, and the beast was inside him instead.

“No. He was that kind of person from the start.”

Anne winced and lifted her weak body. She didn’t want to run into the Grand Duke, who would walk in at any time.

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Their relationship was back to square one.

From a certain point on, the Grand Duke blocked all of her official activities as Grand Duchess and did not even want Anne to leave the castle. For some reason she didn’t come looking for him as she thought he would just refute her.

The Grand Duke held her more roughly as before. He openly shamed her for being a lousy Grand Duchess and spat out merciless words. He disapproved of everything she did and mocked her even in bed.

Every night, she cried as she lay beneath him in his rage. Even now, it was difficult to estimate how much time had passed. The two legs stretched out in the air twitched randomly. Even the burning sensation between the legs, which were spread slightly, was erased a long time ago.

“H-uh! Haah . . . stop . . .”

Anne was shaken enough to not be able to tell if the castle was shaking or if she had gone out of her mind. As her twitching inner walls tightened again and again, a grim laugh pierced her ears.

“Isn’t this the only way to have a child? You proudly asked me to even state it in the marriage contract, and from the beginning it was your purpose to spread your legs for me.”

“Huh . . . Huuhhn, haanh!”

As soon as the cold sneer appeared, the thick pillar that came in succession scratched her inner walls and roughly pressed her deep inside. The feeling of the blunt point crushing her was familiar, but it was driving her crazy.

“Or are you taking medicine without my knowledge?”

“Hah. Hahn, not like that, hu-uh . . .”

As he said, by now it would be time for her to have a child, so the Grand Duke’s suspicions were not at all baseless, but Anne felt that it was unfair.

“Then you dared to make such a proposal with a useless body in the first place.”

The Grand Duke narrowed his signature cold eyes and grabbed her delicate ankles. While staring at his genitals ravenously digging through her already wet little hole, he didn’t miss Anne’s expression as she squinted her eyes.

“Hah! Ha-uh . . . please . . .”

The Grand Duke, who had mercilessly hammered the thick piece of flesh into her swollen opening, twisted his mouth. He pressed the inside of the woman’s body beneath him, revealing the pubic area even more.

“Ha-ahn . . . haahn . . .”

It had been a long time since the peak swept through his body. Even so, he showed no sign of stopping, and he was terrifyingly thrusting his back.

As her swaying breasts caught in his cool grip at the same time, Anne twisted her waist violently in a struggle. The air heated by the hot breaths exhaled by the two people made her mind confused.

“If you’re thinking of fainting, cut it out. I don’t know what to do with a sleeping woman.”

Tears streamed down her cheeks. The corners of her eyes had been wet for a long time.

She was foolish to expect that he had begun to be considerate of her for even for a moment. She didn’t know why she softened her heart even for a moment when he hadn’t shown how two-faced he was just once or twice.

Instead of a refusal, Anne closed her eyes, and then their hot lips overlapped. Even today, she clung to the frozen heart and swayed at his will.

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