Running the Romance Fantasy with Baby’s Cash Extra Story (14)
Extra Story 14
“Ah…”
Lucrezia looked at Sidrian with a slightly bewildered expression.
Sidrian’s hand was still tightly gripping her, as if trying to trap her.
It was distinctly different from his usual self, who would cherish her like fragile glass, as if she might break or shatter with the slightest force.
As if he would tie her to himself by force….
“Huh? When did you ever leave me alone, and now you’re acting like this?”
The moment Nabis spoke, Lucrezia’s gaze turned towards him.
“……!”
Sidrian cupped Lucrezia’s chin.
Turning her face, which had been directed towards Nabis, back towards himself.
So that only Sidrian would be reflected in her eyes.
In his violet eyes, a vivid possessiveness and jealousy.
Lucrezia’s eyelashes fluttered as she faced the palpable emotions.
“I have never once left Lucrezia alone.”
Still keeping his gaze fixed on Lucrezia, Sidrian whispered softly.
“I’ve simply stopped waiting.”
Sidrian’s fingers, which were holding Lucrezia’s chin, moved slowly.
Brushing over the sensitive skin beneath her chin and down along her outstretched neckline.
Lucrezia’s skin tingled with a thrilling sensation.
Sidrian’s intense eyes followed that sight.
As if not wanting to miss a single tremor.
“I’m going to do as I please now.”
“Sid…”
“Why, didn’t Master tell me to live as I please?”
Saying that, Sidrian twisted the corners of his lips upward.
A fierce smile that revealed his intense desire.
Lucrezia blinked at the completely different smile than usual.
That smile was definitely.
‘Like a bad boy….’
Sidrian had never acted this way before.
He always waited for Lucrezia.
Enticing her to come to him first with his seductive charm.
Wasn’t that why Lucrezia initiated their first kiss?
But now it was completely different.
Even if Lucrezia were to step back now, he wouldn’t let her go.
He would persistently cling to her, demanding her attention endlessly.
A man who would demand and demand until he completely devoured Lucrezia.
‘What to do….’
Lucrezia, her cheeks flushed red, let out a hot sigh.
She thought her preference was for foxes who seductively waited.
‘I like this side of Sid too….’
Thump, thump.
Her heart pounded at the sight of her lover’s new side.
* * *
Despite the grand welcome banquet, the Emperor’s mood remained uneasy.
It was only natural.
It was already heartbreaking enough to have his only son and heir, the Crown Prince, living under his in-laws’ roof.
Then, strange rumors swept through the capital.
That the Crown Prince and some man had engaged in a bloody battle over Lucrezia….
“Some dog bone who knows where he crawled out from is eyeing our baby!”
The Empress was preparing to leave for Paeraton Territory immediately.
The Emperor, on the other hand, was relatively calm.
He didn’t believe the rumors were true and thought something must have been distorted.
He trusted Lucrezia in his own way.
But as soon as he arrived at the Duke’s estate, the first scene he witnessed was—.
‘Lucrezia attacking a naked dog bone…!’
The persuasions of Duke Paeraton and Marquis Tarenka (which only served to frustrate him more) and the lavish party were of no comfort at all.
Even after the banquet began, the Emperor found fault and raged for a long time.
“No matter how much you try to cover up my son’s affair with this banquet, it won’t work!”
“Th-that’s right…! Now you’re openly bringing your affair partner to the banquet hall?”
“Ha! Holding hands? Are you making your affair partner your partner while my betrothed son is here?!
“I may have to reconsider the engagement with the Paeraton Duchess!”
Just a little while ago, the Emperor had been shouting like that.
But now.
‘If they’re acting like that now….’
The Emperor’s trembling gaze turned to his son.
Sidrian was holding Lucrezia tightly, as if trapping her without a single gap.
Lucrezia was looking at Sidrian with dazed eyes.
It was a scene of a couple full of love that anyone could see.
Completely forgetting their surroundings and lost in their own world….
‘I was so angry, but if they’re like this, what does that make me….’
He had become a fool of a father who was angry and meddling when the people involved were doing well.
‘Even Duke Paeraton is staying still, but I’m acting like a fool…! Ugh!’
It was humiliating.
‘Acting even more like a fool than Duke Paeraton, of all people… . Keuk!’
It was mortifying.
Regardless of what the Emperor was doing, the Empress was grinning, showing her gums.
‘Yes! That’s my son!’
Lucrezia’s friends were also chattering with elongated philtrums [the vertical groove between the base of the nose and the upper lip, often associated with amusement or smugness].
“Oh my gosh!! It’s the first time I’ve ever seen His Highness like that.”
“Wow, he’s such a fox. Look at him captivating Lulu with a new side of himself.”
“Sigh, I thought I was going to see a beautiful love triangle, but it’s like this.”
“It’s no match. His Highness is too strong.”
Meanwhile, in a corner of the grand banquet hall.
There were two men looking at Sidrian with bitter eyes.
“…You scared us half to death.”
“Is that what he meant by not seducing her?”
It was Nemis and Varen.
“We still need to seduce her more, though.”
“Not by harming the other man, but by making the Duchess have no choice but to approach him first. Seductively and thrillingly.”
“I don’t want to.”
They were so surprised to hear Sidrian say he didn’t want to so decisively.
No matter how much they persuaded him, Sidrian wouldn’t change his mind.
“I don’t do that anymore,” he said.
“Does that mean that he’s going to stop waiting for the Duchess to approach him first?”
The two looked at Lucrezia, who was deeply immersed in Sidrian’s active advances.
“…I’m glad they seem to be getting along well.”
They were relieved, but also puzzled.
In Nemis and Varen’s opinion, Lucrezia didn’t have a preference for bad boys.
“If another man did that, he would have been slapped?”
“A slap would be a relief; he would have lost the ability to produce a second generation in an instant.”
Lucrezia’s kick was powerful.
“Honestly, I think it’s only working because it’s His Highness.”
“Because he’s the person the Duchess likes….”
Even as they said that, Nemis and Varen’s faces were awkward.
Because Lucrezia’s dazed gaze was fixed on Sidrian’s face too much.
And her arms were tightly clinging to Sidrian’s body.
“…Isn’t it just because of his face and body?”
It seems like she’s just captivated by his handsome face and the bad boy aura he’s exuding.
“…Eh, she just fell in love with him again because he’s the person she loves.”
“Y-yeah!”
The two decided not to think too deeply about it.
For Lucrezia’s dignity.
* * *
“Lulu is really too much, isn’t she?”
Nabis frowned at the person who approached him.
Regardless, Chaeria smiled brightly.
“We don’t have any connections here, so we have no one to rely on. But Lulu is ignoring us at this party and leaving us alone.”
Chaeria’s hand gently stroked Nabis’s shoulder.
“Thanks to that, we’ve just become spectacles.”
“…….”
“I guess people who treat others like slaves and divide them into classes can’t help it.”
“…….”
“I guess it means that foreigners like us can never be on the same level as them.”
Chaeria’s hand, which had been stroking his shoulder, moved down to Nabis’s chest.
Her slender fingers moved as if drawing on his firm pectoral muscles.
“How is it? Has your thinking changed a bit now?”
Nabis stared at Chaeria with a deeply sunken gaze.
Her pretty face was full of dark and sticky emotions that he hadn’t been able to see at first.
“It didn’t seem like this kind of atmosphere before.”
“Oh my? Are you seeing me in a new light?”
“Yeah.”
Chaeria chuckled.
It was only natural.
She would be much more attractive now than before, when she was just an ordinary girl.
“Because it wasn’t this kind of gloomy feeling.”
“……What?”
“Well, there are people who find the shadows more attractive.”
Chaeria narrowed her eyes and looked up at Nabis.
Nabis’s face was unreadable.
An unknowable man.
But.
‘That’s what makes him more attractive.’
Chaeria opened her red lips.
“Are you one of those people?”
“I wonder.”
Jet-black eyes scanned Chaeria’s face.
“I’m just curious.”
Nabis lowered his head towards Chaeria.
A low voice brushed against Chaeria’s ear.
“What do you want from me?”
‘That’s it.’
Chaeria’s lips formed a shallow arc.
‘This man is as good as mine now.’
It was distinctly different from the last time, when he had roughly brushed her off as soon as she touched him.
Chaeria, intoxicated, turned her gaze past Nabis to another place.
Lucrezia was standing there.
‘How is it?’
Chaeria wrapped her arm around Nabis’s shoulder while maintaining eye contact with Lucrezia.
‘Do you still think everything is yours?’
Lucrezia’s face, saying that everything was hers, was still vivid.
‘But now this man is mine.’
Chaeria knew how great this lonely wolf-like man was.
Power that an ordinary person could only accumulate after repeating their life dozens of times.
Nabis was the possessor of such great power.
Chaeria whispered what she wanted in Nabis’s ear.
‘This time, I’m going to take everything from you.’
Chaeria’s gaze turned to Lucrezia’s side.
‘Even your lover, who is only looking at you.’
Precisely towards Sidrian.
* * *
“Don’t look at any other men besides me.”
With those words, a hot hand cupped my cheek.
A slightly overbearing tone.
Compared to that, an anxious, impatient look.
‘……I think I’ve really discovered a new preference.’
I should keep it a secret from Sid in case he thinks I’m a pervert.
I tried to act as nonchalant as possible.
“I didn’t look at any other men? I looked at another woman.”
“Don’t look at other women either. Only look at me.”
“But that other woman is provoking me?”
Sid’s brow twitched at those words.
“More than me?”
As he leaned in slightly.
Wow.
Wow…….
Sid’s face and collarbone were thrust in front of my eyes.
Even his firm pectoral muscles were visible through his loosened collar….
It was really provocative.
‘No, this isn’t provocative, it’s lewd.’
Suddenly, blood rushed to my face, and I took a deep breath.
I couldn’t have a nosebleed at the banquet hall.
I rolled my eyes to get away from the overstimulation, and I met Chaeria’s eyes again.
Chaeria was glaring at me with a completely annoyed face.
She must be angry that I was distracted when she had gone to the trouble of provoking me.
‘But your provocation is nothing in the face of Sid’s lewdness.’
It was irresistible.
“You keep looking away.”
With those words, Sidrian took another step closer to me.
Naturally, our bodies touched, and my hand rested on Sid’s chiseled abs.
……This is really not my intention.
It’s just that I couldn’t help but touch him because Sid came closer.
But the texture was really amazing.
The way it was wriggling slightly….
‘This won’t do.’
Blood rushed to my face again, so I hurriedly grabbed Sid’s hand.
And quickly headed to my private lounge next to the banquet hall.
‘Wait. Isn’t it more dangerous to go to a private room?’
That thought flashed through my mind for a moment, but I was already out of my mind.
Sid’s purity, let it be threatened today!
I quickly opened the door to the lounge.
And.
“Haa, darling. Are you finally here?”
Cain was lying languidly on the long sofa in a half-naked state.
Gorgeous roses covered his body alluringly.
“I thought I was going to die of longing while waiting. Of course, even that is a sweet pain.”
Cain winked.
‘What the heck…….’
One fact flashed through my frozen mind.
‘Ah, that’s right. I was supposed to meet Cain in the lounge.’
That definitely didn’t mean we were going to meet in that state.
Then, a voice was heard from behind.
A low voice, as if echoing from the depths of hell.
“Why is that bastard here like that?”