Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 45

Don’t Get Caught by Your Husband! Episode 45. The Emerging Past (1) (45/130)

#Episode 45. The Emerging Past (1)

2024.04.14.

Escalion found the first-floor dining hall about thirty minutes later.

He had intended to quickly wash up and head down, but Hazel came and unnecessarily detained him, making him later than expected.

‘Bella will be very uncomfortable if they are left alone.’

Escalion hurriedly went down and pushed open the dining hall door, stopping in his tracks at the sight before him.

He frowned and opened his mouth.

“What on earth is this……”

“Oh, you’ve arrived, friend?”

Graham, his face flushed red, shouted, raising his glass.

And in front of him…….

“……Could my foolish friend have truly gone mad?”

Escalion muttered quietly.

Graham, seemingly unaware of the situation, held up his glass high and yelled at the top of his lungs.

“Gone mad! Did you know your wife could drink so well? She’s drunk almost as much as I have!”

Escalion narrowed his brows and placed a hand on his throbbing forehead.

He approached his wife, whose cheeks were flushed red as she swayed gently from side to side with her eyes closed, and glared fiercely at Graham.

“If you’ve really made her drink as much as you, you’re dead.”

At his fierce gaze, Graham finally came to his senses and quietly put down his glass.

He blinked and muttered softly.

“……She drank a little less than me. Yes, definitely a little less.”

“Bella, are you alright? Do you want to go in and rest?”

No, no!

In response to Escalion’s question, Belladona shook her head vigorously, still with her eyes closed.

“She says she can drink more!”

“Ha……. What is this……”

Escalion, looking perplexed, grabbed Belladona by the shoulders and looked down at the scattered pieces of paper on the table.

“I had a little written conversation with your wife. She seemed curious about your childhood, so I told her all sorts of things!”

“Haah…….”

“I told her how you grew up in the mercenary团 [mercenary group], what battlefields you roamed! Why, that, you know, that idiot who betrayed you in the sandy desert? I even told her in detail how you dealt with him……!”

Instead of answering, Escalion moved his hand and rummaged through the countless papers on the table.

[Please tell me about when my husband joined the mercenary团.]

[What cities have you visited with my husband?]

[Has my husband ever been seriously injured?]

“You’ve asked quite a variety of questions.”

Escalion muttered quietly.

He wore a displeased expression, but he didn’t dislike her interest in him.

It was infuriating that she asked this drunken fool instead of asking him directly.

[What was my husband like as a child?]

[Cute.]

[Liar.]

“Heavens…….”

From then on, perhaps because she was getting drunk, the handwriting in the paper began to become slightly distorted.

At the same time, the questions became shorter, and more familiar words appeared.

“Looks like the two drunks had fun without me.”

“Yes! It was much more fun than with you!”

“Then I’ll take Bella in first…….”

Escalion turned his gaze to Belladona, intending to take her in first, but stopped when he noticed a piece of paper placed closest to her hand.

It was a new piece of paper that hadn’t been passed to Graham yet, perhaps because she was about to ask him the next question.

“…….”

Escalion’s golden eyes gleamed as he picked up the paper that was touching her fingertips.

Soon, his face hardened as he read the contents.

[Who is Scarlet Layton?]

* * *

“…….”

Belladona frowned and twisted her body.

She remembered Graham repeatedly filling her glass and excitedly gulping it down, but there seemed to be gaps in between, and she felt dizzy and breathless.

“Are you coming to your senses?”

At Escalion’s voice, which sounded close by, Belladona opened her eyes wide.

Where, where am I!

As if it were still night, the familiar bedroom was filled with darkness.

Escalion, who had been sitting on a chair away from the bed, got up and approached her.

“It’s still a long time before morning.”

“…….”

“Don’t be surprised that I brought you here since you were heavily drunk with Graham from early evening.”

“…….”

“You kept groaning, are you dizzy? Shall I get you some water?”

She was about to nod, but Escalion was faster as he bent down.

He bent down and kissed the top of Belladona’s bare foot.

“Ah……!”

Perhaps because she wasn’t fully awake from the alcohol, a careless voice burst out.

Belladona was surprised by her own voice and quickly shut her mouth.

Escalion didn’t seem to care about her voice as he pressed his lips against hers deeply.

She felt her whole body quickly heating up.

“I have something I want to give you, but I wonder if you’ll properly remember it in this drunken state.”

“…….”

Escalion kissed her a few more times before stopping and raising his head.

Belladona looked up at him, her lips slightly parted with longing.

Escalion’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he met Belladona’s flushed gaze.

He barely managed to hold onto his reason and opened his mouth.

“I heard about the conversation you had with Graham in the dining hall. You asked all sorts of things. Was it fun?”

Belladona nodded quickly. But her mind was already far away from that dining hall.

“Damn it, please stop looking at me like that…….”

Escalion muttered softly and raised a hand to cover his eyes completely.

After catching his breath for a moment, he asked in a low,沉声 [deep] voice.

“……Are you curious about Scarlet Layton?”

Scarlet Layton.

At the woman’s name, she felt as if she was instantly sober from the alcohol and sleep.

Belladona looked up at Escalion with eyes that had already become clear.

“I saw the question you wrote on the paper.”

“…….”

“I didn’t realize you had been keeping it in your heart all along, I’ve been too oblivious.”

Belladona let out a small breath.

The truth that he was about to reveal was both 궁금하면서도 [curious and] and frightening.

If Scarlet really is Escalion’s mistress, what should I do?

“Haah…….”

Escalion frowned and ran a hand through his hair with a low sigh.

Seeing him like that, the fearful and 불안한 마음 [uneasy feeling] grew, shaking Belladona’s heart wildly.

Perhaps I’m forcibly bringing out an uncomfortable truth that would be better left untouched? What if everyone gets hurt because of this, and we can’t go back to the way we were before?

Belladona raised a hand and clutched at her pounding heart.

‘Sometimes it’s better not to know…….’

She began to rationalize.

“So, Scarlet Layton is…….”

“Don’t say it.”

Belladona muttered in a very small voice.

It was such a small voice that it might not reach him, but Escalion stopped immediately.

“What?”

He asked back, his golden eyes gleaming. Belladona strained her throat and spoke a little louder this time.

“If you don’t want to say it…… I mean, if you don’t feel like it, you don’t have to.”

“…….”

Instead of answering, Escalion stared intently at her.

Belladona, feeling burdened by his burning gaze, slyly turned her head.

“Keep going.”

“……?”

“Anything. Say it again.”

Escalion moved and sat on the bed above her as he spoke.

In an instant, Belladona, trapped between his solid chest and thick arms, blinked blankly.

Escalion raised a hand and began to caress her plump lips.

“Perhaps it’s because I can only hear it very occasionally, but it’s driving me crazy with anticipation.”

What, what are you suddenly talking about…….

Why has your gaze changed like that again?

Belladona, flustered by the suddenly changed atmosphere, parted her lips.

But when she actually tried to speak, the words wouldn’t come out properly.

“Ah, you don’t want to make a sound anymore?”

“…….”

“I know a very easy way to hear your voice.”

Escalion said, raising the corners of his lips and fiddling with the hem of Belladona’s skirt.

Soon, she blushed as she realized what method he was talking about.

“I’m sorry, but can we drink the water later? I’m a little urgent. I’ve been holding back since this afternoon.”

“……Eup.”

Before she could even utter a reply, her mouth was blocked first.

Belladona closed her eyes, accepting the hot breath that broke through her lips. A dizzying sensation quickly surged from her toes to the top of her head. Without realizing it, a labored voice burst out.

Escalion bit her lower lip and smiled 만족스러운 [satisfactorily].

“Sounds good.”

* * *

It was around the time when the hazy dawn was breaking through the window that she regained consciousness.

Belladona turned her head and glared at Escalion, who was lying diagonally next to her.

“Why are you angry when you like it?”

Escalion asked, shrugging his shoulders with a truly clueless expression.

Even so, this is too much……!

As Belladona blushed and glared at him even more fiercely, Escalion chuckled lowly and caressed her reddened cheeks.

“Looks like an angry little bird.”

“…….”

“Don’t be angry and go to sleep.”

When Belladona shook her head, he gently tucked the 흘러내린 [loose] hair behind her ear and asked.

“Have you decided to be silent again?”

“…….”

“Do as you please. No, this might be better. Because the thought of others hearing your voice makes my blood run cold.”

Why so much again……. Belladona turned her gaze away with a 심드렁한 [sullen] face.

Escalion chuckled and pulled the blanket up, covering her body thoroughly.

Belladona wriggled inside, finding a comfortable position.

“Then it’s my turn to tell you my story. Since my wife has told me a secret, I’ll tell you one too. That’s only fair, isn’t it?”

When Belladona moved only her eyes to look at him, Escalion opened his mouth without hesitation.

“I met Scarlet Layton eight years ago.”

‘Eight years…….’

Belladona lowered her gaze at the unexpectedly long relationship.

Compared to her, who had only been married to him for two months, Scarlet and Escalion seemed to have a very deep and thick relationship.

“One day, I received a letter from someone I didn’t know. It contained her simple personal information. It said that she had lost her mother a few months before contacting me and was living alone, wandering from place to place.”

Simple personal information……? Who sent it?

Belladona frowned and focused on his story.

“There was something written that I didn’t really want to believe, so I decided to go and see for myself. I thought that if I saw it with my own two eyes, I might feel something different. The feeling I had when I first met her after going to see her was…….”

Escalion narrowed his eyes as if recalling the past.