CH 14

“Ah…”

At her first kiss, Diana’s legs literally loosened up.

The sense of urgency was incomparable to when she met him on the street of Parmandy the other day.

At first, Cayden, who had been playing with her lips, bit Diana’s lower lip.

Surprised, she grabbed his arm and opened her mouth without realizing it, and his tongue slipped right through the gap.

It was kind and gentle, but it also seemed like if she were to run away, it would hold onto her tenaciously.

It’s like giving and receiving heat from their bodies through their mouth.

Diana, who frantically accepted his kiss, trembled with her fingertips because of her lack of breathing.

She must be glad his lips fell the moment she thought she was about to faint.

“Hah…”

As soon as Diana’s lips fell, she hurriedly caught her breath.

Cayden, who took a similarly small breath, made a bizarre face as he looked at her flushed lips.

‘Why so…’

He felt like someone was lighting a fire inside him, even though they stopped.

He didn’t want to stop.

He wanted to swallow every breath of this person.

Such irrational impulses continued to incite him.

Cayden unconsciously moved his hand and pressed his thumb against her lips.

“Cayden?”

As soon as Diana licked her lips curiously, he felt a shivering sensation on his back.

Cayden, who had almost lost his mind for a moment, hurriedly removed his hand and took a step back.

The sound of applause and bells ringing in line with it marked the end of the ceremony.

Cayden smiled and whispered softly as if trying to extinguish the passion remaining inside of him.

“May the light be on you. A warm welcome to the Imperial Palace, Diana Bluebell.”

The moment she caught the smile in her eyes, Diana’s heart suddenly sank.

Thump, thump.

Whether it was because it was sudden or it was because of something else, the sound of her heart beating loudly filled her ears.

Before Diana’s return, she had never really seen Cayden as the opposite sex.

He was awkward and friendly to her, and she was busy avoiding him.

But what happened a while ago, the mixed breaths, the touching heat, the sensation for a moment was so clear.

Diana’s face began to heat up at the realization.

~*~

After the ceremony, a reception followed.

Viscount Susfield poured generous investments into the marriage as if to relieve the pain of daily efforts to get closer to the status of the imperial family.

As if to reveal that, the diamonds radiated brilliant light throughout the reception hall.

“Anyway, I wonder who is not a pawn…”

“Look at that smiling face with a tear in his mouth. Without dignity.”

The aristocrats scoffed at the Viscount Susfield, who was smiling brightly while surrounded by people on one side of the reception hall.

However, his wealth was so seductive that it was hard to deny it, as indicated by the crowds around him.

Just looking around him right now, it was felt that Susfield’s wealth was enormous.

Not to mention the diamond decorations wrapped around, as well as the mountains of wine bottles and endless finger food.

Whether he hired a fire spirit or even a fountain where gold was flowing nonstop, Viscount Susfield was an outstanding merchant, and he knew well that it would be better for him to show his overwhelming wealth if he would be despised in any way.

Thus, the nobles internally regarded Viscount Susfield as lowly, but they were busy smiling in front of him.

According to such an atmosphere, Diana, his daughter and today’s protagonist, naturally also drew attention from people.

Diana and Cayden were dancing in the middle of the floor under a chandelier studded with diamonds.

The daughter of a kite who fell off a string and an abandoned prince.

So, the relationship between the two was more dramatic.

The nobles laughed at the two of them inwardly, saying that they were really a perfect match based on the modifier alone.

“What…”

“…It fits well.”

However, the appearance of them spinning around in a smooth curve was so beautiful that even they couldn’t deny it.

Cayden tilted his head slightly and spoke softly to Diana.

Seeing that the corners of her mouth were raised slightly, people thought that they were talking about something friendly between the couple, and they immediately turned off their minds.

But the reality was a little different.

“Diana.”

“Yes. Yes?”

Cayden burst into laughter like the wind as he tried to make eye contact with her but kept failing.

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“You.”

“…”

“Diana.”

Diana avoided his eyes with an astonishing reflex whenever Cayden put his face in her sight.

And yet again, they were dancing in a way that didn’t look strange, so it was absurd.

Eventually, veins quickly sprouted from Cayden’s forehead. He gritted his teeth with a grin.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t expect kissing to feel so bad for you.”

“That’s not it.”

“Then will you look at me if you cover my eyes with a ribbon?”

‘Please don’t say something like that…’

Of course, Diana was well aware that Cayden did not mean that.

However, once her thoughts began to flow toward it, she couldn’t stop.

The hands, waist, and breath that are in close contact while dancing are what bothers her every moment.

“Who can help me…’

Diana looked desperately around, but it was empty around them.

It is against the common manners of the social community to interfere with newly formed newlyweds.

No matter how poor and shabby the main characters of the marriage were, it was the same.

Therefore, people were dancing by switching partners except for Diana and Cayden.

Each of their faces had a proud smile.

This is the consideration of intellectuals! Real dignity!

‘I’m not thankful at all.’

Diana was in despair.

Meanwhile, Cayden, who was somewhat thirsty for absurdity, said with a slightly disappointed face.

“Anyway, I should have asked and acted on your will in advance in any situation. I’m sorry…”

“Don’t apologize.”

At that, Diana unknowingly raised her head.

The reaction was so fast that he didn’t even realize that he had stopped talking.

Cayden suddenly closed his mouth, his shoulders flinched from the blue-purple eyes facing him.

‘How can you have such clear and straight eyes?’

Diana continued with a firm voice, forgetting the awkwardness she had felt for Cayden a while ago.

“You don’t have to apologize. Your Highness has never done anything to need to apologize to me.”

Before returning, she even took Cayden’s life.

Even if he doesn’t have any memory now, apologizing in any words will be insufficient.

So, Cayden shouldn’t have dared to bow to her.

And in addition to that.

“It’s…”

Cayden tilted his head as Diana blinked.

“I can’t hear you well.”

“…I’ve said this before, but it’s not because I don’t like it. It’s just a little awkward.”

Diana quickly spat out her answer out of embarrassment and then wiggled her hand for no reason.

Cayden stared blankly at Diana’s face, a little below him.

He was trying hard to capture her expression, but seeing her move her hands from place to place, as if she wanted to leave as soon as possible, made him laugh.

‘When was the last time I heard that?’

Before the death of his mother.

Cayden has always led a life of shun after that.

He is a child who never knows when he will be killed. A child who might live the hatred of the current empress and first princess.

He was such a child, and when he reached out, people would squeal and step back.

They always called his touches creepy and eerie.

Only now have there been at least a few people like Patrasche, but the memory of that time was quite strongly entrenched inside Cayden.

So, Diana’s words, ‘it’s not that I don’t like it’, made him a little bit happy.

Cayden, who quickly brushed off his sadness, returned to his usual appearance.

Isn’t it the job of a good husband to relieve his wife’s heart so that she doesn’t feel uncomfortable?

He deliberately opened his mouth with a very serious attitude.

“But,”

“Yes?”

“Even though I’m a decent husband, if you keep stuttering like that, it’ll be hard for me too.”

“…When did I say I was stuttering?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know? Keep your hands like this”

“Wait a minute…!”

Diana squealed at the tickling as Cayden’s hand that was resting on her back tried to move.

He eventually giggled and whispered playfully.

“That side looks weak. I’ll remember that.”

“…Pervert.”

“I think the pervert is in your head, not me. What were you thinking?”

“As a decent wife, I think I need to crack down on His Majesty’s debauchery.”

Diana pursed her lips as she pouted.

Cayden thought it was funny and cute that he couldn’t stop his pranks.

As he opened his mouth again with a smile on his face, the music stopped.

Cayden, regretful, lifted up the hand that wrapped around Diana’s waist.

At that time, a voice was heard between the two.

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