Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 25

Don’t Get Caught by Your Husband! Episode 25. Kissing is Forbidden Too (25/130)

#25. Kissing is Forbidden Too

2024.03.25.

Escalion was staring at her with deep eyes, his forehead touching hers.

With the sudden decrease in distance, Belladonna felt her mouth go dry and clenched her fists on her lap.

It was hard to meet his eyes this close.

“Surprised?”

He asked.

Belladonna looked away from him, focusing on their foreheads touching, and nodded.

How could I not be surprised when you suddenly put your face so close?

“Sorry.”

“…….”

“But I want to do one more thing that I’ll be sorry for.”

Before she could ask what it was, he grabbed her chin with one hand and kissed her.

Belladonna was startled by the sudden kiss and stiffened her shoulders.

She struggled to come to her senses, barely accepting the insistent tongue that opened her lips and invaded her mouth in an instant.

“…….”

Her face, held tightly by him, was pushed back and pulled forward repeatedly.

Through her ears, which were already flushed, she heard his low breathing escaping in the brief gaps when their lips parted.

When their lips were locked together, a strange and moist sound filled the space between them, one that she couldn’t imagine coming from herself or him.

Belladonna closed her eyes tightly without realizing it.

The act she was doing with him felt so unfamiliar and unreal that she felt like she hadn’t woken up from a dream yet.

‘Besides…….’

This kiss was distinctly different from the one in the forest a few days ago.

Escalion was much more desperate and less controlled than before.

Her breath grew heavier, but he showed no mercy.

The kiss continued, and his hand, which firmly held the back of her head, moved slightly forward.

Soon, when his thick fingers touched Belladonna’s ear, she flinched and trembled without realizing it.

“……Haa.”

Only then did Escalion, who had taken his lips off hers, slowly move away from her.

Belladonna, breathing heavily, raised her trembling eyelashes and looked at him.

His eyes were glazed over, and his red lips were glistening with saliva; she couldn’t tell whose it was.

Belladonna couldn’t bear to look at him and closed her eyes tightly again.

“You’re so lewd.”

Escalion, looking down at Belladonna, who looked no different from himself, muttered as if whispering.

At his blatant words, Belladonna felt the urge to raise both hands and block her ears.

“Why are you closing your eyes again?”

Escalion asked, tracing her eyelids with his finger.

She felt a rush of heat to her eyes where he touched.

“Want me to do more?”

No! No! Belladonna shook her head desperately.

That’s not it…… it can’t be!

“Why? Was it not good?”

Was it not good?

Belladonna slowly opened her eyes. Was he asking if the kiss just now wasn’t good?

Through her slowly opened gaze, she saw Escalion’s golden eyes carefully examining her.

He was watching Belladonna with anxiety, tension, and a hint of expectation.

But she couldn’t really say whether it was bad or good…….

‘I don’t have much experience in that area……!’

The only kisses Belladonna had experienced so far were one at her wedding with him, one in the lake by accident, and one just now when she was caught off guard in her sleep without knowing what was happening.

There was no way she could tell if his kiss was particularly better than others, if his technique was fancy, or vice versa.

‘Right now, my feelings are…….’

Belladonna carefully raised one hand and placed it on her chest.

Her heart had been beating very fast since earlier.

Her slightly dizzy head felt constantly dazed and floating as if she were still in a dream.

Besides, considering that she felt a little disappointed when he took his lips off…….

‘At least it doesn’t feel bad.’

Belladonna, having come to a conclusion in her mind, slowly shook her head.

She could feel Escalion’s face brightening noticeably at her reaction.

He raised one hand and tucked the hair that had fallen onto her face behind her ear with clumsy hands.

“That’s a relief. I don’t have much experience either.”

Belladonna blinked her eyes and looked up at him.

Is my playboy husband pretending to be innocent again?

But he didn’t seem to be lying, at least not as he blushed while saying that.

Belladonna let out a breath with some confusion.

“I didn’t intend to do this from the beginning…… Should we get up for now?”

After scratching the back of his head for a moment, Escalion got up completely and held out his hand to her.

Belladonna stared at his hand for a moment, then reached out and grabbed it, standing up from the windowsill.

Escalion muttered as if making an excuse.

“The windowsill looked narrow and uncomfortable, so I was going to take you to the bedroom. I didn’t know it would turn out like this…….”

“…….”

“Can you walk? If you’re still sleepy or don’t have any strength, should I hold you?”

Escalion sat slightly on the desk next to her and met her gaze.

Belladonna looked at him and shook her head.

“Then? Do you want to sit down and study more?”

Study…….

Belladonna turned her head and looked at the thick ledger that Volf had left on the desk, and frowned slightly.

I don’t want to study.

Escalion reached out and rubbed between Belladonna’s furrowed eyebrows. He raised the corners of his mouth and chuckled.

“It seems my wife hates studying to death.”

That’s not it…… Belladonna, embarrassed that her inner thoughts had been revealed, straightened her expression and blinked her eyes.

Did I show too much that I didn’t want to do it?

Escalion took Belladonna’s hand, brought it to his lips, and showered it with small kisses, making a soft sound.

“Should I tell Volf to stop? If you don’t feel like it, you don’t have to do it. Volf has been doing well on his own so far, so it doesn’t matter if he continues to do so.”

Belladonna looked at him without a word.

She had decided to do her best as a wife for the remaining two months of her married life…….

Escalion, still not taking his lips off her hand, said in a mumbling voice.

“I also like a wife who plays and eats with my money in my castle. You don’t have to learn housekeeping. You must have done a lot of things as a saintess when you were in Astanya, so you can rest and play as much as you want by my side.”

Astanya.

Now, just thinking about that place made her feel like her throat was tightening.

And at the same time, she felt grateful and relieved to Escalion for saying that, even if it was just words.

What if she really didn’t have to go back to Astanya……? If, as he said, she didn’t go back and could play and rest with him by his side?

‘Dare I really do that?’

But soon, Belladonna shook her head in her mind.

She was not the real Saintess Belladonna.

If everything that had gone wrong were to return to its place, and if the ‘real’ Saintess Belladonna, the owner of the body, were to return, Belladonna had to return everything to her.

‘……It’s not something I can do as I please.’

Besides, daring to go against the Pope’s will was not an option in Belladonna’s life, who had lived as a commoner in Astanya.

Belladonna slowly pulled her hand from his grasp.

She could feel Escalion looking up at her with a questioning look.

But there was no need to show him her bad mood and worry him unnecessarily.

Belladonna pulled up the corners of her mouth and made the most natural smile she could.

It was her specialty and her most confident skill to create the Saintess’s unique benevolent smile.

She pointed to the ledger that Volf had given her on the desk and nodded.

“You’re really going to study?”

Nod, nod.

“My wife is very responsible.”

Escalion wore a proud smile on his face.

Belladonna smiled with a slightly guilty conscience.

“Okay, then. Don’t overdo it.”

Soon, Escalion, who had gotten up from the desk he was sitting on, placed his palm on the top of her head and stroked it slowly.

“I was going to spend some time together after a long time, but my wife’s position is so firm that there’s no room to squeeze in.”

“…….”

“I’ll see you in the evening. It seems like we can have dinner together tonight for once.”

After saying that, Escalion raised his finger and lightly touched Belladonna’s cheek before turning around.

Belladonna stared blankly at his broad back as he left the room.

Soon, when he had completely closed the door, Belladonna stretched her arms out on the desk, bent her waist, and let out a big sigh.

“Haaa…….”

Headache, headache!

The current situation was a crucible of confusion itself.

“Why do I keep getting closer to that man…….”

She had to go back to Astanya in two months, but why did she keep…….

Belladonna raised both hands and messed up her hair.

Thinking about what had happened a little while ago, her heart, which had barely calmed down, started racing again.

Belladonna, lost in thought, unknowingly blankly traced her lips.

“What am I really doing…….”

After a while, Belladonna muttered quietly.

It was not good for either her or him to keep narrowing the gap like this.

I must not forget that I am someone who will leave in two months!

Belladonna belatedly came to her senses and shook her head, hitting both cheeks lightly with her hands.

‘Let’s keep our distance little by little from now on! If we get closer like this and get divorced in two months, he will be very angry…….’

It was natural since Escalion was a knight who hated betrayal the most.

‘Besides, to him…….’

Thinking of Scarlett Leyton, who was standing with him, she felt her heart calming down quickly.

In any case, it was clear that she was also an unresolved matter.

“Okay.”

Belladonna repeated very quietly.

From now on, let’s try to keep our distance from him as much as possible and not get any closer!

With a determined face, she raised one hand and rubbed her lips with the back of her hand as if wiping them off.

……Kissing is forbidden anymore!

* * *

“…….”

But how did it come to this?

Belladonna blinked her eyes powerlessly, feeling his warmth clinging to her back and hugging her tightly without any gap.

Lowering her head slightly, his thick arms wrapped around her waist filled her vision.

“Bella.”

His voice, deeply lowered, fell into her ear.

That, so…….

‘I shouldn’t get any closer, but…….’

Belladonna looked at the air with a troubled face. So, this is…….