Don't Get Caught by Your Husband!

“Can’t you sleep?”

Escalion asked in a low voice. His voice felt like the wind, and my ears felt tickled all over again.

When there was no answer from Bellasonna, he brought his lips to her exposed neck and kissed her lightly.

‘I see.’

As I felt Escalion’s hot lips against the nape of my neck, I realized that too.

That kissing can’t be arbitrarily prohibited between a man and a woman who are close together, especially between a man and a woman who have just become a couple.

So, the closer the two become, the closer they become, but they can’t become farther apart again.

‘First of all, we need to reduce the time spent together like this…….’

Belladonna shrugged her shoulders and thought.

But Escalion used to come to her room every night and sleep with her, so there was no way she could reject him without a reason.

So what should I do…..

As she pondered, his arm around her waist became heavy and regular breathing began to come from behind her.

After having dinner together, he went straight to the training ground saying he had to train young knights in training, and he seemed to be tired from the intense training.

And she’s listening to him breathing….

“…….”

Oh, I’m sleepy too.

Belladonna blinked her eyes slowly, then quickly fell asleep.

The next day, Cindy came by early in the morning and helped Belladonna dress up. She took Belladonna’s long silver hair in one of her hands and began to slowly comb it.

“Ma’am, your hair is always beautiful. Wouldn’t it feel like I was touching expensive fabric and not her hair?”

“…….”

“It’s so soft that it gives off a shine without even having to apply a separate balm!”

Cindy, who was chatting to herself and combing her hair as usual, tilted her head slightly to the side and began to choose the accessories she would wear in her hair today.

“Hmm…Is there any special accessory you would like to wear, ma’am?”

Bella also shook her head. While she was waiting for Cindy to pick out her accessories, she unconsciously shrank her body and lifted both hands to wrap around her shoulders.

Maybe it’s because it’s morning, but it’s eerie…

“Oh, are you chilly? Would you like me to bring you a blanket?”

Cindy, startled by her gesture, ran behind her and returned holding her thick blanket.

She placed it on Belladonna’s shoulder and opened her mouth with a worried face.

“As expected, it’s a very different place from Astanya, where you used to live, isn’t it? No matter how much you turn on the heating, it’s still this cold……”

“…….”

“Starting tomorrow, I’ll change your pajamas to much thicker ones! I’m sorry for not paying attention.”

Belladonna gave Cindy a bright smile as a thank you. For a moment she looked at her face as if in fascination, and then Cindy suddenly clapped her hands and shouted.

“Ah! Instead of that, how about asking the lord to go to a townhouse in the south?”

Southern townhouse?

If it was that place, it was the place Cindy mentioned in passing last time.

“The colder weather will continue for the next two months, and it will be a very harsh season for you, whose body is weaker than others.”

Colder than this?

Bella also glanced at her and turned her eyes to look at the large window. There was frost on the window, making it difficult to see outside. She said it was because of the cold snowstorm that had been driving for the past few days.

It’s still this cold, how can it get any colder?

Cindy lifted her hand again and began to comb her hair.

“Perhaps the lord is very busy and can’t vacate Griblata…I wish you could at least go to the South and stay warm!”

hmm? Escalion may not be able to go with me……?

Belladonna’s blue eyes sparkled as she pondered something.

This is it!

* * *

“What happened to my wife here?”

Escalion, who opened the door to his office and appeared, noticed Belladonna standing in the hallway and raised the corners of his mouth. He brought her inside, gave her a soft chair and opened her mouth.

“It’s not bad to watch you during the day instead of at night, in my own space rather than my bedroom.”

Instead of answering, Belladonna turned her head back and forth and began looking around his private office.

‘It certainly looks bigger and more luxurious than Wolff’s office.’

She looked at the tall bookshelf that filled the wall to her right, then naturally turned her gaze to the portrait hanging on the other side.

‘uh…….’

Belladonna, who had been staring without thinking, opened her mouth slightly.

that…..

“Do you think it suits me?”

Escalion, who was following her gaze, asked in a cheerful voice.

The portrait hanging in the exact center of his office wall was the same portrait that was drawn while sitting on his lap during the last year-end festival.

“I thought about hanging it in the lobby or living room so that anyone who visits my castle can see it, but I changed my mind. It’s a painting I particularly like and I want to look at it every day.”

Belladonna quietly looked at Escalion in the portrait.

Black hair and attractive golden eyes that naturally reflect the warm winter sunlight. His appearance, with a unique, confident smile on the corner of his mouth, was well depicted with the artist’s delicate brush strokes.

‘It’s well-drawn, but do you like it that much?’

Belladonna looked at him in person and in the picture alternately.

No matter how you look at it, it looks much more handsome and cool in person…

“But what’s going on in my office at this hour? When I see you come so suddenly, I think it’s because a request or suggestion was quite spontaneous.”

Wow, it’s a ghost. Bella, who had hit the nail on the head, played with his hair that fell in front of his chest to hide his embarrassment.

“I’ve never seen someone as easy to understand as you.”

“…….”

“What? Tell me, you can write it down.”

Escalion asked, leaning back in his chair. After thinking for a moment, Belladonna got up from her seat and walked to the seat next to him.

She lifted his hand, which rested on Escalion’s thigh, and brought it before her, and she wrote as loudly and clearly as she could.

‘It’s. cold.’

She should have continued by saying that it reminded her of the warm South because it was cold, but she couldn’t bring herself to finish it.

This is because Escalion, who was concentrating on her palms with his brow furrowed, raised both his arms and wrapped his arms around her waist.

What, what!

Belladonna, who was instantly dragged and sat on Escalion’s hard thighs, blinked her eyes to understand the situation. He was hugging her tightly with his thick arms.

“Was it very cold? why you didn’t talk?”

Escalion, who had buried his face in the crook of her neck, spoke in a playful tone. A low, quivering laugh came from just below her ear.

Woo, are you kidding me?

Belladonna raised one of her arms and pushed his shoulder. But his solid, stone-like shoulders didn’t move back at all.

“I guess you missed your husband’s warm embrace, right?”

Escalion muttered.

Bella was dumbfounded and opened her mouth slightly and let out a laugh. That’s not it!

She pushed off Escalion’s shoulder with more force, then brought his hand around her waist in front of her.

Previously, he was holding on like that and not being pushed, but now he was being pushed around with ease, perhaps because he had lost his strength.

‘I want. to go. to the. warm. South.’

“Southern?”

Escalion asked, raising an eyebrow. He asked again as Bella nodded her head towards me.

“Where in the South? You want to go back to Astanya?”

No! Astanya is out of the question!

“Then where…Ah, what is it? It seems like there is a mansion that was gifted by His Majesty the Emperor along with Griblata. He said that it was in South.”

Escalion muttered, scratching his raised eyebrows.

Yes, that’s right! That’s right!

Belladonna looked at him, her eyes sparkling. Escalion, who received her expectant gaze, quickly became embarrassed.

“It’s a southern townhouse….As we enter the full-fledged winter, there is a lot of work to be done, so I can’t afford to empty Griblata.”

yes? Are you busy?

He was a lord with a stronger sense of responsibility than expected.

“…..But I can’t let my wife, who is just starting to get used to Griblata, survive the harsh winter from the beginning.”

yes? Should you at least send me to the South?

It seemed like things were going in the direction she thought.

During the remaining two months of her marriage, she would bide her time in the South alone without him and then get her divorce, which was Belladonna’s new goal.

If that were the case, not only would her early night, but the awkward and strange atmosphere that continued to develop, not only disappear. Then all she had to do was divorce him two months later and let the Pope take care of it, and return to Astanya.

‘I don’t want to go back to Astanya, but…’

If I had to divorce anyway, I thought it would be better than staying here with him and getting caught up in unfamiliar emotions that I felt for the first time.

“Can you go alone?”

Escalion asked, turning his head.

Bella was about to nod at once, but then changed her mind and quickly made a sad expression.

Anyway, would you mind pretending to be regretful?

She looked at him, blinking her eyes as innocently as she could. Escalion, who had been staring at me, lifted his head and let out a deep sigh.

“I’ll find out first. Since I didn’t manage the mansion after receiving it, I don’t know if it would be worth living in. I don’t even know if there are any useful butlers or maids.”

Yes, do it!

Bella also nodded her head. To drive her final thrust, she gently pressed herself against Escalion’s ample chest.

I’m so cold…Understand? I really want to go south! It was a gesture full of meaning.

“ah.”

I don’t know how he accepted it, but his body suddenly stiffened.

What, you even playfully hugged me earlier, but why are you like this now?

It was strange, but it was none of her business.

* * *

“Lady! Do you have a moment now?”

It was a few days later that Wolff stopped a passing Belladonna.

Bella was coming out of the restaurant after finishing her meal a little late in the morning. I nodded and followed after him.

He entered his office and handed out a piece of paper with something written on it.

What is this again….

Half anxious and half hopeful, she took the paper he held out and slowly read the words.

“Have you heard of Sirlenia?”

Sirlenia? I feel like I’ve heard of her before….

When Belladonna made a puzzled expression, Wolff continued his explanation.

“It is a small town in the south where the lord’s townhouse is located. The season at Griblata was so harsh that he expressed his lordship’s wish to keep his wife there for a while.”