Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 14

#14. What Couples Are Originally Like

March 14, 2024

“When it gets too cold, the nobles from the North often head to their townhouses in the warmer South and stay there for a few months.”

Cindy is such a chatterbox…….

Anyway, a townhouse in the South?

When Belladonna turned with a look of interest, Cindy excitedly opened her mouth.

“Our Lord doesn’t get cold easily to begin with, and he’s so busy that he’s never gone to the South… but if Madam makes a special request this time, he might go!”

Does Escalión also have a townhouse in the South?

Belladonna nodded, her face showing interest.

She was sensitive to the cold, but basically, the cold was unfamiliar to her.

Even after becoming a Saintess, and in her life before that, she had only lived in Astanya, so she wasn’t used to this bone-chilling cold.

It’s not like we’ve gotten that close…….

But it seems like he might grant my request if I ask?

The thought of a townhouse in the South seemed to lift her spirits slightly.

“Oh my, look at me. I’ve been talking too much while holding onto the sick Madam! I’ll be on my way now. Please call me anytime if you need anything, and get some more rest, Madam!”

Belladonna smiled and waved at her.

Yes, go on now.

* * *

Belladonna opened her eyes in the darkness.

Did I fall asleep again…….

Intoxicated by the medicine, she slowly blinked her eyes and stirred.

Since getting sick, she had nothing to do but lie in bed and rest, so she often woke up in the middle of the night like this.

‘Should I sleep more…….’

She slowly turned over, rustling the blanket, when she felt someone’s presence behind her.

Hmm……? Who is it?

Belladonna carefully turned her head.

“Ah.”

Escalión, standing blankly in the dark, stopped what he was doing and opened his mouth as he slowly and carefully unbuttoned his thick coat.

“Did I wake you up?”

Belladonna shook her head.

No, I just woke up because I had enough sleep…….

He looked down at her with an uncharacteristically embarrassed expression and quickly headed towards the bathroom, opening his mouth.

“It’s very cold outside.”

After saying that, he entered the bathroom, and the sound of water splashing in the sink echoed.

Why is he washing up in my room, leaving his perfectly good room……?

Belladonna stared at the closed bathroom door with a puzzled look.

After a while, Escalión appeared, dripping water from the ends of his hair, as if he had only washed his hands and face briefly.

He approached Belladonna on the bed without hesitation and lowered his head to touch his forehead to hers.

So close……!

With the rush of heat and his scent, Belladonna unknowingly closed her eyes tightly.

‘Hmm……?’

It was moist, but she felt a hot forehead.

So his face was very warm, unlike someone who had been outside in the cold until just now.

“Your fever has gone down a lot.”

Escalión said in a nonchalant voice.

Could it be…… that he washed up separately inside because he was worried his body would be cold when he touched me?

After speaking, he lifted his head and gently brushed the hair that had fallen over her forehead with his thick fingers.

Belladonna looked up at him with a slight confusion.

She couldn’t understand why he was being so nice to her.

Even though they were a married couple, weren’t they not on the same page……?

“……You know, by any chance.”

At that moment, Escalión frowned and opened his mouth in a low voice.

Me what?

Belladonna quietly waited for his words.

Escalión hesitated as if he was worried about something, opening his lips, sticking out his tongue to lick his lower lip slightly, and then closing his mouth again.

It seemed like there was something he couldn’t spit out clearly.

‘What’s wrong with him…….’

Belladonna waited patiently.

After all, after becoming a Saintess, all she had learned was to wait quietly.

“……That, the Saintess power.”

Saintess power……?

At the unexpected topic, Belladonna’s heart sank. She was currently unable to use any Saintess power.

“It’s true that it puts a strain on your body every time you use it, right?”

At Escalión’s question, Belladonna quietly pondered.

Is that so? I need to have used Saintess power directly to say for sure……. Since he says so, that must be right?

Belladonna carefully nodded.

But why is he asking this? She was anxious because she didn’t know what question he would ask.

“So you haven’t used it much recently?”

Recently…….

Certainly, after being reborn as the Saintess, Belladonna had never been ordered to use Saintess power even once.

However, that was not because Pope Pronos was worried about the Saintess’s body and showed consideration, but rather because her Saintess power had been mainly used during her time as a Cardinal to help him rise to the position of the next Pope.

Now that he had established himself as Pope, he no longer needed the Saintess’s power, and recently he had even told her not to abuse that power.

The Pope had firmly stated shortly after she woke up as the Saintess.

But there was no need to explain all those circumstances…….

Belladonna raised her eyes to meet Escalión’s gaze and nodded. Let’s just explain it roughly like that!

“Then don’t use it here either.”

“……?”

At the firm voice, Belladonna blinked her eyes.

Escalión looked at her and opened his mouth.

“Now you are not the Saintess of Astanya, but my one and only family and wife. Whatever people ask of you, treat them only as the wife of the Lord of Gribalta, not as a Saintess.”

“…….”

“There seem to be quite a few people who expect you to heal the people of Gribalta to your heart’s content, but I’m telling you to ignore them all.”

Belladonna quietly looked up at him.

So now……. Is he worried about me?

“If you refuse appropriately and they still bother you too much, tell me.”

“…….”

“Answer.”

Belladonna nodded absentmindedly.

Since she couldn’t use Saintess power anyway, it was a good thing if anything.

I don’t have to worry about Saintess power for the time being…….

Just as she was feeling relieved, Escalión stretched his neck to the right and left for a moment, then crossed his arms in an X shape and took off the top he was wearing in one swift motion.

Huh? What suddenly?

He turned around, half-naked in an instant, and opened his mouth.

“I’ll go wash up the rest of the way.”

Oh, oh……?

Belladonna, left alone, stared at the bathroom entrance where he had disappeared with a bewildered look.

Ah, anyway…….

‘……My room’s bathroom must be much better, hahaha!’

After a while, the bathroom door opened, and Escalión, emitting a warm heat from his whole body, returned to the bed where she was lying.

He boldly pulled back the blanket and came into the bed next to her.

When Belladonna looked up with a puzzled face, he looked down at her with an even more puzzled face.

“……?”

“What.”

“…….”

“What’s the problem?”

Look at how shameless he is…….

“It seems like this room is much colder than my room. I originally have a lot of body heat, so I thought that sleeping with me would help my wife recover her health.”

Ugh, it’s cramped…….

Belladonna reluctantly made room with an unhappy face.

It was a normal-sized bed, but when a man with a huge physique came in, it quickly felt cramped and stuffy.

If she made any more room, it felt like she would fall to the other side as soon as she tossed and turned while sleeping.

Besides, this man…….

‘He’s completely naked on his upper body.’

She didn’t know where to put her eyes at all.

His angry muscles, which were dark, bumpy, and full of small scars, were unfamiliar, but they kept stealing her gaze.

“Don’t peek at me with such lecherous eyes, just look at me as much as you want.”

Escalión said playfully.

What? When did I?

Belladonna glared at him, feeling unnecessarily guilty.

Escalión shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows.

“There’s no one to show it to except for my wife anyway.”
Hmph! Here we go again, here we go again!

She felt like a scoff would come out because it was so absurd.

Does that mean he already showed it to the owner of the beautiful ruby necklace to his heart’s content?

“Do you want to fall to the floor while sleeping? Come a little closer.”

At that moment, Escalión stretched out his arms, grabbed her, and brought her to him.

She wanted to resist, but she didn’t have the strength to resist.

Belladonna was dragged powerlessly and trapped in his arms again.

‘The same position as last time…….’

Being in his warm embrace, it was definitely warmer than when she was lying alone.

However, her heart was not completely at ease.

She kept thinking of his unknown mistress, and more than anything, the more faithful she was to their marriage life, which would end in three months, the more it felt like she was doing something she shouldn’t be doing to him.

‘I shouldn’t get so close like this…….’

After thinking for a moment, Belladonna soon hardened her heart and wriggled to get out of his arms.

“Why?”

Escalión asked with a sunken gaze.

Belladonna took his big hand and unfolded the finger pen again.

‘I. ‘M. O. K. A. N. D. G. O. T. O. Y. O. U. R. R. O. O. M.’

Before she could even finish a sentence, Escalión took out the hand that was being held by her.

And he looked down at her with a stubborn face.

“You’re telling me to go back to my room?”

Nod, nod.

“Was my wife this stingy originally?”

S, stingy……?

No, isn’t it better to go back to each of our beds and sleep comfortably and widely?

Escalión narrowed his eyes and looked at her.

“Am I uncomfortable?”

Of course! How can I be comfortable when you’re half-naked and lying right next to me?

But Belladonna didn’t nod right away.

She shook her head and smiled to make it seem like she was sending Escalión back to his room not because she was uncomfortable, but just as a favor to him.

“Then why?”

Escalión still had a sullen face.

Ah, he really can’t understand what I’m saying…….

Belladonna tried her best to explain, but Escalión shook his head as if he didn’t want to understand and moved his huge body to find a comfortable position.

He lifted one arm and brought her back into his arms again.

“Couples are originally supposed to sleep together in one bed.”

“…….”

“At least my parents did that for their whole lives before they passed away, and since that’s all I’ve seen and learned, I have to do that too.”

Belladonna blinked quietly with her face buried in his chest.

“Ah, does our noble Saintess not understand that kind of thing?”

Escalión spat out sarcastically.

“Unfortunately, your husband is from the lowest of the low commoners, so he doesn’t know such things.”

I didn’t say anything…….

Belladonna leaned on him and quietly pondered.

Come to think of it, I’m actually from an ordinary farming family too…….

“Now that your fever has completely gone down, let’s sleep together in my room from tomorrow.”