Contract Marriage Interrupted - Chapter 70



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Episode 70. It’s Already Too Late
2023.10.01.

Walter’s face hardened as if he was a little flustered by Odette’s provocation.

However, he soon chuckled.

“I told the princess to deceive me, but I never told her to tell an obvious lie.”

“Everything sounds different to the listener. Lies and truths.”

“So you’re going to tell an obvious lie and tell me to be fooled?”

“Can’t I? They say anything from someone you love sounds true.”

Odette tilted her head slightly and blinked.

“You love me, don’t you?”

“… … !”

The moment Walter’s face hardened, Odette followed.

“You haven’t forgotten, have you? Our contract?”

“… … Oh. That’s what I was talking about.”

Only then did Walter’s expression soften. He

seemed a little annoyed, but also relieved.

Walter slowly ran his hair over his head and sneered coldly.

“I wondered what was going on with you all of a sudden. You couldn’t possibly love me.”

“Come to think of it, I’ve been wondering that for a while.”

As Odette muttered and reached out her hand, Walter leaned down coolly and brought her face closer.

Thanks to this, she was able to caress her husband easily.

“Why do you think I wouldn’t love you?”

“… … Because you hate me.”

“Do you think I’m the kind of person who would do this to someone I hate?”

“Don’t you love Louis Clovis?”

“That’s a lie.”

She whispered with a faint smile, and Walter frowned and clicked his tongue.

“Either that or what you just said must be a lie.”

“Don’t think too deeply. Just think about what’s in front of you right now.”

What’s in front of you, and what we came here to do.

There was no answer to her follow-up question.

Instead, Walter’s hand wrapped around her smooth calf.

The hand that had been caressing the hollow behind her ankle soon dropped the slipper that was dangling from Odette’s toes.

Then, his lips gently touched and fell on the top of her foot.

It was a kiss that was not obedient enough to be a common sign of submission, and impure

enough to be a sign of respect. The faint exhalation tickled her sensitive skin, and the polite act gradually began to reveal her desires. She

stroked her skin and pressed her lips to it as if she was teasing it, and eventually she settled down at the distance where her feet crossed.

The hem of Odette’s dress that had been shaking near her knees had rolled up and exposed her white thighs.

“This time, you pulled me first.”

　
Walter’s face was slightly frowning as if he had already felt the limit of his patience as he spoke.

His expression was clearly lost as he was swayed by Odette’s lead.

The fact that the man who had always been easy-going was making such an impatient expression because of her brought about a strange sense of joy.

And now was the time to put what she had prepared to use.

Odette’s outfit was, on the outside, a muslin dress that looked fine.

And the real thing was what she was wearing underneath.

“… …!”

“You told me. Think about it carefully.”

Walter’s expression was no longer relaxed, but rather cracked in shock.

If he had just been hanging

on to the edge of a cliff, now it was as if the cliff had completely collapsed. Odette, secretly delighted at the plan that had worked, reached out and picked up the glasses that were lying next to her.

One was half-empty, Walter had been drinking from, and the other was full, hers.

Odette held out the full glass and brought the half-empty glass to her lips, smiling languidly.

“How is it? Is this a good enough example?”

* * *

A languid morning with bright sunlight streaming in obliquely.

Odette slowly opened her eyes, the sun stinging her eyelids.

“… … Ugh.”

At the same time, the pain that surged through her made her immediately bury her head back in the pillow.

The bedding, warmed by her body temperature last night, gently wrapped Odette this time as well.

Somehow, it reminded her of Xavier’s banquet the other day, but there was one thing different this time.

“… … !”

At that time, the handsome, half-naked man was not asleep next to her.

Odette was startled by the sight of the man, who seemed to have quietly closed his eyes without even hearing a sound of breathing, but she realized the situation a step too late.

‘… … That’s right.’

Yesterday, I got married.

And today was the morning after the first night.

Only then did Odette understand the situation.

Lying next to Walter, naked—she was almost naked herself—and the terrible pain pressing on her head.

‘Yes, it was like that in the novels, too.’

The descriptions of the heroines who had their first night were always the same.

Their bodies were heavy and heavy, and they usually felt terrible pain in their lower back…

‘… Wait,’

Terrible pain in their lower back?

Odette suddenly felt uncomfortable and sat up.

Why?

‘I… have a headache?’

The pain she was experiencing was none other than a headache.

And in none of the novels Odette had ever read was there a description of a headache after a first night.

‘What on earth happened last night that made your head…?’

… Oh.

At that moment, the events of last night began to flash through Odette’s mind.

The moment when Walter, who had lost his composure, raised his glass with interest.

– How is it? Is this a good enough example?

Odette drank heavily from the atmosphere.

The glass was more than half empty anyway, and she had some faith in him.

This was the item corresponding to the third stage of the .

It was the strong drink that would make Walter drunk.

– People are powerless against alcohol! I stock up on strong alcohol and offer it to you based on the mood. I’ll make the Duke drunk!

– What if I get drunk?

– Your Majesty, you can take this hangover cure before you go in. You’ll be much less drunk.

Odette wasn’t that weak to alcohol to begin with.

It’s just that when she drank… she would fall asleep very quickly.

– If you take this and drink alcohol, you’ll be able to enjoy it to a slightly drowsy degree.

And Ellie trusted Odette’s drinking capacity and offered her the hangover cure, and there was no problem with the plan itself.

The problem was Odette’s body.

Odette’s body, which had to go through a forced march because of Blake the night before and was completely exhausted at the wedding,

was different. Odette’s mind may have been what it was like, but her body, which was exhausted beyond belief, was different.

As a result, Odette began to nod off as soon as she drank alcohol… … and she had no memory of what happened after that.

However, she could guess from her overly refreshed body and the headache that seemed to be from a hangover.

‘I guess… …’ She

must have passed out after drinking.

She said.

When she finally figured out all the circumstances, her face flushed in an instant. She

had ambitiously prepared with the help of Ellie and Emma, ​​and had even worn a pajama dress to hold back her embarrassment! How

could she have fallen asleep after drinking while trying to seduce Walter at the crucial moment?

And Odette was still wearing that pajama dress. Odette

glanced at her clothes, which looked better without them, and concluded.

‘T-T-T-T-T-T.’

She couldn’t possibly face Walter in this state!

But why was the bed so wide?

Odette groaned at the bed that seemed large enough to comfortably accommodate three or four people, and moved around clumsily.

‘Before Walter wakes up… ‘

And just as she finally escaped Walter’s embrace

, “You said you wouldn’t break your promises. Is that a complete lie?”

Seeing her trying to run away in the morning like this,

Odette’s body froze at the words she heard from behind her.

“Uh, how… ”

“How? How? You made a mess of everything, sitting and lying down, and expected me not to wake up? I thought you were trying to wake me up.”

As soon as she got up, she tried to run away.

Walter clicked his tongue and raised his upper body, but then changed his position and climbed on top of Odette.

“I guess my princess’ hobby is making her husband sleep alone. Thanks to that, I couldn’t even sleep a wink.”

“T-That’s not what you meant… ”

Odette, who was trying to roll her eyes, suddenly stopped talking.

The fact that all the hard work and slogging went down the drain in an instant was a second, but the problem was that Walter’s limp upper body was completely visible.

Yesterday was night, so it was fine, but now it was daytime.

And the sun was high in the sky!

The bright morning sunlight was annoyingly revealing Walter’s lean body, and because of that, Odette felt like her eyes were spinning.

No matter how much she had read romance novels, experiencing this situation in person was different.

And Odette was feeling that fact deep in her bones.

‘What should I have done in this situation?’

No matter how hard she tried to recall, nothing came to mind.

However, she kept thinking about Walter’s position where their lips could touch if she just turned her head slightly, and Walter’s thigh between her legs felt unfamiliar and she was out of her mind.

“I left you alone because you seemed very tired, but now that you seem to have recovered, I thought I’d finish what I couldn’t finish last night… … .”

A large hand lifted the hem of her dress along with a whispered voice.

Odette flinched at the unfamiliar sensation and hurriedly made an excuse.

“It’s not night right now… … ! It’s already past midnight!”

“How can that be? It’s still midnight until you leave that door.”

“That’s sophistry! It’s unreasonable!”

“Please understand. “I think I should do something like that now, so that I can relieve my resentment toward someone who seduced me and then fell asleep without permission.”

“… … !”

If it was about last night, there was nothing I could say even if I had ten mouths.

When Odette was speechless, Walter curled the corners of his mouth wryly.

It seemed as if he was enduring or angry.

“You seduced me first, like this, and you thought I would just sit still? And you fell asleep like this. If you were going to torture me, you chose the right method.”

“I, I didn’t mean to.”

“Of course I think so. No, I should.”

Walter smiled, unusually politely.

Was it because he felt that smile was more dangerous than usual?

“You will be held responsible for provoking me.”

… … No, it didn’t seem to be because of his mood.

But it was already too late.

Odette couldn’t leave her room all day, and new rumors began to circulate in the Ertmann residence.

The love between Duke and Duchess Ertmann is said to be extremely passionate.