Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 33

#33. How to Tease Your Husband

2024.04.02.

Comfort…….

“You always comfort me, and you want to do more?”

Belladonna blinked slowly, and Escalio’s Adam’s apple bobbed.

Then, taking a deep breath, he quickly lowered his head towards her neck.

He pressed his hot lips heavily against her neck.

“……!”

Belladonna felt a dizzying sensation and hugged the back of his head.

“Haa…….”

“…….”

It felt like her mind was going blank.

Escalio breathed out excitedly and showered her with kisses.

Passing her beautiful neck, collarbone, round breasts, and flat lower abdomen…….

He wanted to leave his mark on every part of her he could reach.

“…….”

Barely holding onto the edge of reason, he stopped kissing her.

The groaning sounds that had been intermittently coming from above had completely stopped.

“Bella.”

He took his lips away and raised his head.

Belladonna, who had covered her mouth with both hands, was looking down at him with a flushed face.

Her tearful eyes kept stimulating his dangerous instincts.

Damn it…….

Escalio lifted his trembling arm and pulled Belladonna’s hand, which barely covered her mouth, and bit it gently.

“Don’t hold your breath, and don’t close your eyes.”

He could see Belladonna’s eyelashes fluttering at the ticklish sensation.

Escalio, who had been staring blankly at her, frowned.

He had barely been holding back, but the desire to completely strip off the nightgown that covered her and push her down violently according to his desires dominated him.

“Ha, Bella…….”

Feeling that this was dangerous, he forcibly took his eyes away from her.

He closed his eyes for a moment, took a breath, and tried to think as calmly as possible.

He couldn’t hurt his wife when he wasn’t prepared like today.

“…….”

Feeling that his rising emotions had subsided a little, he opened his eyes again and reached under her dress, which had already rolled up to her thighs.

He pressed down on her white thighs, leaving his handprints, and raised his head.

He was about to lift her skirt when he noticed something and stopped.

“Koo…….”

No way. It can’t be.

“Bella……?”

Escalio blinked his eyes in dismay and asked in an unbelievable voice.

His voice, which cracked at the end without him realizing it, was terrible.

He cleared his throat for a moment and moved his upper body closer to Belladonna.

“Bella, are you sleeping? No, right? Bella?”

“Kuu…….”

Belladonna had already closed her eyes and was sleeping with her mouth slightly open.

The smell of alcohol wafted from her lips.

“Bella……? Just open your eyes for a second. Did I take too long in the middle? Just……. Ha, damn it.”

Escalio cursed and bowed his head over her.

He was in a hurry right now, but he couldn’t do anything to someone who was sleeping.

He raised one hand and ruffled his hair wildly. Damn it, why did I stop in the middle…….

“Haa…….”

Escalio sighed in annoyance and raised his upper body.

He was almost resentful of his wife, who had fallen asleep carelessly with her white thighs exposed.

Nevertheless, her face, sleeping soundly with such a comfortable expression, was cute and pretty.

He stared at her for a moment and let out a hollow laugh.

“Well, it’s enough if it was comforting.”

He kept staring at Belladonna, rolled over, and lay down next to her.

He lay down facing Belladonna, who was breathing regularly, and muttered quietly.

“……I’ll never let my wife drink again.”

He had a feeling he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.

* * *

Ugh, my head hurts……. My head feels like it’s breaking…….

The next morning, Belladonna woke up with a throbbing headache.

Is this what a hangover is? It’s so painful……!

She frowned and slowly got up. Her queasy stomach didn’t feel good.

“Drink.”

At that moment, when she couldn’t even open her eyes properly, a cup of hot tea with rising steam suddenly came into her view.

When she slowly raised her head, she saw Escalio, looking somewhat disgruntled, standing askew with a teacup in his hand.

Ah, thank you…….

Belladonna weakly took the teacup and brought it to her lips.

“It’s very hot, so don’t gulp it down like you did last night.”

“……Cough.”

Belladonna swallowed the tea wrong and coughed softly at the very intentional words.

Escalio turned and pulled out a few tissues and handed them to her.

Ah, thank you for this too…….

Belladonna wiped her mouth and looked up at him.

“Is this what happens with just two glasses of wine? Anyone would think you drank two bottles by yourself.”

“…….”

“My wife should know that she can’t even have a glass of wine in front of me now.”

“…….”

Belladonna rolled her eyes and took small sips of the hot tea.

*I* thought I was good at drinking…….

If I have such a bad hangover, I won’t drink first!

“But I’m glad you slept well. It means my comfort worked.”

Escalio sat on the edge of the bed and brushed Belladonna’s hair back.

Belladonna silently repeated the word he had uttered.

Comfort…….

Um……? Wait a minute, comfort……?

<……Shall I comfort you?>

Belladonna’s mind was filled with the sensual scene from last night.

Escalio, breathing heavily and showering her with kisses.

His appearance, with his eyes red and making moans as if scratching her neck, kept flooding into her mind.

Wait a minute. W, what is this memory……!

“Ah, are you finally remembering now? Judging by your belatedly blushing face.”

Escalio asked, raising the corners of his lips.

Belladonna quietly put down the teacup and raised the blanket to cover her face.

She couldn’t bear to look him in the face.

“Why are you being shy now? I saw your face so red a lot last night.”

Escalio playfully pulled the blanket down.

Stop it! Belladonna shook her head and burrowed further into the blanket.

“There are many ways to tease your husband, Bella. Huh?”

“…….”

“Thanks to you, I didn’t sleep a wink.”

Escalio finally pulled the blanket down and met Belladonna’s eyes.

She turned her eyes away and kept avoiding his gaze.

Escalio looked down at Belladonna and then chuckled, flicking her cheek with his finger.

“I’m just kidding. It’s enough if you slept well. If you want to drink again next time, ask me.”

“…….”

“But know that there will be no comfort if you drink.”

When Belladonna nodded, Escalio got up from his seat.

“I was just going to see you wake up. Volf has been looking for me since earlier.”

Ah…….

Belladonna, feeling a sense of disappointment without realizing it, only raised her eyes to look up at him.

So, he’s leaving now……?

Escalio looked down at her and frowned.

“Don’t look at me with those puppy-dog eyes. If you do that, I can’t leave. Try taking a walk around here today. It’s similar to Astanya, so it’ll be worth walking around.”

Nod, nod.

When Belladonna nodded weakly, Escalio bent down and gave her a light kiss on the forehead before turning around.

“…….”

Belladonna looked at the door he had disappeared through with a strangely sad face.

* * *

“The weather is really nice, isn’t it?”

Cindy, who had been squatting in the flower bed, picked a white flower and stuck it in Belladonna’s hair.

Belladonna, who was sitting on the bench in the back, smiled and looked down at the flower bed.

White wildflowers, which are easily seen in Astanya, were blooming in one side of the flower bed in the Cirellenia Town House garden.

‘Pretty!’

It was a flower that she hadn’t actually seen in the Papal States, which were full of expensive improved varieties.

Belladonna bent down and carefully stroked the delicate petals.

“Madam! Is Astanya really this warm all year round?”

Cindy, who had been fiddling with the white flower, turned her head and asked.

“Um, compared to Astanya, it seems a little warmer here since it’s further south, but it’s roughly the same, right?”

Belladonna nodded slowly.

“Wow, really? It would be so nice to live in a place like this……!”

Cindy replied, her eyes shining.

It seemed that she thought this place, which is warm all year round, would be a better place to live than Gribalta, which has to endure harsh cold.

“How about you, Madam? You also like this place much better than the terribly cold Gribalta, right?”

Me? I…….

Belladonna thought for a moment and shrugged her shoulders.

It was certainly colder than Astanya, but Gribalta had its own charms.

Unlike the cold weather, the people of Gribalta were all warm…….

She unconsciously raised the corners of her lips as she thought of Escalio, who always exuded a hot heat from his whole body.

There are also people who are more than warm; they’re hot.

“Actually, the Lord would have wanted to live in a place like this if it weren’t for the northern land that he was forced to receive…….”

Cindy, who had been fiddling with the white flower, muttered quietly.

Is that so? Escalio seems to dislike this place because it’s too hot…….

Belladonna tilted her head, and she said once again.

“I once overheard Lord Volf and the Lord talking, and he said that Astanya was the most memorable place he had ever lived in. So, the Lord must like places with mild climates.”

Astanya?

At the unexpected words, Belladonna turned to Cindy with wide eyes.

Escalio…… lived in Astanya?

“…….”

Come to think of it, Belladonna didn’t know anything about Escalio.

Except that he was a knight from a commoner background and that he had received a title and territory a few years ago for his services in the war…….

At Belladonna’s reaction, who was hearing it for the first time, Cindy got up from her seat and sat next to her.

“Why, our Lord lost his parents when he was young and joined a mercenary group early on, right? He wandered around with the mercenary group and stayed in Astanya for a few years, and he said that was the most comfortable and best time.”

Lost his parents? Mercenary group……?

These were all stories she didn’t know.

Belladonna had never heard his past stories from Escalio separately.

Belladonna, feeling awkward, silently fiddled with the ends of her sleeves.

Even if they were in a political marriage, is it okay for her to know so little about him?