Episode 8. First night (2)
I’ve been singing a song since a while ago…Did you really even hear me sing last time?
Belladonna tensed and swallowed her dry saliva once.
She brought his large hand, which was on her waist, in front of her.
Belladonna lifted the fingers of her right hand and placed them on his palm, using them as a pencil, and she moved slowly.
‘wh.at so.ng?’
He raised his eyebrows and looked down at Belladonna’s actions before she opened his mouth.
“What song do i want?”
Nod.
“If I tell you, do you really will sing to me?”
Escalion chuckled and raised the corners of his mouth.
Of course not, but I wanted to know if he really remembered the song i was singing.
Belladonna stared at him without saying a word.
“What song should I ask you to sing….”
Escalion let out a low breath and rolled his golden eyes.
If words like ‘labor song’, ‘sky’, ‘plenty of harvest’, or ‘little bird’ came out of his mouth, she would immediately leave this place.
She was married at that time and she had to immediately run away to Astanya and hide in the Vatican.
‘Because I was caught unawares that I could speak out…….’
Belladonna held her breath and looked at his lips.
Soon, his lips moved upward again in a smooth arc.
“Singing is an excuse. I was asking an unreasonable request to my wife, who had no voice, and i didn’t expect her to ask what song it was.”
Ugh……Rather, I passed on it.
Bella frowned without realizing it.
Escalion gently rubbed the area between her eyebrows with his thick fingers and opened his mouth.
“I’ll look after you today, so relax. Because I’m not scary at all.”
Are you looking after me?
When Belladonna looked confused, he playfully poked her on the cheek.
“Anyway, I’m a little tired today so I won’t touch you.”
“…….”
“I can’t hurt my wife by pushing her from the first day, right?”
I couldn’t completely understand what Escalion was saying, but he didn’t seem to mean anything pleasant.
Belladonna slowly slid out of him behind, trying not to provoke him as much as possible.
“But you.”
she failed
She moved little by little to the edge of her bed, but Belladonna was grabbed and dragged by him again.
He grabbed Belladonna’s slender wrist and looked around.
The white, slender wrist, which lasted a long time even when held with one hand, fluttered up and down along Escalion’s grasp.
“How do you survive with wrists like this?”
That’s because yours are so strangely huge……
Bella protested against him in her heart, but on the outside she put her saintly, sunny smile on her face.
Lol…..
“What do you want me to do if you just laugh like that?”
Ugh, that doesn’t work……?
Belladonna wrote a little embarrassed and her mouth tightened.
In the past, as long as i smiled at any question, people would roughly agree or find new meaning and accept it in their own way, but this man in front of me was not so gentle.
Escalion tilted her head and played with her wrist.
“When you moved your fingers across my palm earlier, I thought it was some kind of feather moving, not a finger.”
Again, that’s because you are so strangely huge…..
Belladonna pressed the corners of her mouth and did not erase her smile.
Escalion lifted his golden eyes and looked at her like that.
Why, what, why.
“Are all women like you?”
Women?
This time I couldn’t keep my smile straight.
What about women?
Belladonna twitched the corners of her mouth as she began to flutter, recalling the ornate necklace she had found in her assigned room a moment ago.
‘What is this man doing now? Are you showing off in front of your wife?’
Where did you pretend to be so innocent?
“I don’t even know how much force I have to use.”
Escalion looked at his rough, callused large palm alternately with her small palm, then seemed to lose interest and laid it down on the bed.
Belladonna looked down at her own free wrists.
Are you seducing women like this?
“It’s sad to be treated by a simple husband from the first night.”
Escalion turned around looking at the ceiling, his arms pillowed on her, hia eyes closed and his mouth open.
Bella looked down at him, and after snorting so loudly that he couldn’t be heard, she lay down next to him.
Why don’t you get rid of that sad situation with other women?
It wasn’t my intention, but I felt fortunate that I found out early on that he had another woman.
Otherwise……
‘If not, I would have felt bad for refusing to spend the night with him over and over again.’
Belladonna turn little by little to find a comfortable sleeping position for her.
She will continue to make excuses about being sick, or lying that she needs to consecrate her body because it is prayer week!
Even if that wasn’t the case, Escalion was the lord of Griblata, so it was clear that he would be busy every day.
‘He won’t come to me every night!’
Three months.
If I lasted just three months, I could return to the Vatican.
“……..”
Bella Donna, continuing her thoughts of biting her tail, slowly blinked her eyes.
…….Going back? To the Vatican?
‘Is that really what I want?’
Belladonna unconsciously bit her lower lip.
‘What will I have when I return to the Vatican?’
If she returns to the Vatican, she will once again have to live in the Vatican’s internal confessional, listening to people’s concerns day by day.
She fits the analogy of the greedy Pope, and at times she had to do her emotional labor by being dragged into his hands.
‘If the Vatican’s finances run out again……’
She could have had to enter into a second or third arranged marriage with men in the same situation as Escalion.
Belladonna glanced at the man next to me with her disturbed eyes.
He must have fallen asleep before he knew it, and I could see his strong chest shaking up and down.
‘But I can’t end my marriage with this man any longer.’
Whether she wanted it or not, the Pope would reveal Escalion’s secret three months later and annul their marriage.
Belladonna closed her eyes in her sudden frustration.
She said, ‘Compared to my previous life, it is a very comfortable life.’
At least i won’t be hungry or sick.
Okay, this is it. Let’s not keep being greedy.
It’s okay to live like this…..
She kept repeating it to herself as if she were casting a spell, and she slowly fell into an uncomfortable sleep.
* * *
It’s heavy.
It’s heavy……stuffy…..
Bella also woke up to her frowning.
Something heavy and huge was wrapping around her.
‘what is this…….’
When she forced herself to open her eyes, the unfamiliar ceiling and structure of the room came into dazzling view.
here is…..
‘It was a bridal room, indeed.’
As I slowly blinked my eyes and looked down, I saw thick, scar-covered arms tightly embracing my body.
‘This is why I can’t sleep properly…….’
Belladonna whimpered and struggled to get away from him.
Oh, why are we so close!
Belladonna was nervously moving her body, and she looked down at his arms, which didn’t budge.
Seeing as she was moving this far without even a single movement, Escalion seemed to be the type of person who slept really deeply once she fell asleep.
Should I hit him a little?
‘My arms can’t move for that.’
Then should I bite him?
After thinking seriously, she moved her head and adjusted the angle of his arm so that it touched her mouth.
Can you feel me biting?
I’m not leaving for no reason……? Let’s ask with all our might…..
She put his arm in front of her mouth and as she was turning her head this way and that, making calculations, a faint sound of laughter reached her ears.
“Pfft….”
I could also feel the bodies that were pressed together shaking.
Woo……! Were you awake?
“What are you doing since morning?”
Escalion asked in a low voice.
Belladonna, embarrassed by what she was about to do, didn’t move and just blinked her eyes.
“You shouldn’t have told me when you were hungry. Don’t think about biting off your husband’s arm.”
“…….”
embarrassing.
As she lowered her head in exasperation, he moved his thick arms around her and pulled her closer to him.
“This woman hits harder than I thought.”
Escalion nuzzled the bridge of his nose against her Belladonna’s messy hair.
“It’s soft and softer than I expected, so it’s good to hold and sleep on.”
From last time, really…..Am I a pillow?
He hugged her a little more and moaned in satisfaction, then slowly pulled away from her.
“Unfortunately, it looks like دع wife is hungry, so we’ll leave it at that.”
Okay, thank you.
Belladonna finally lifted her free body.
Escalion turned his back on her and seemed ready to go down the bed.
Bella, who was unconsciously looking at his back, was startled and turned her gaze away.
‘Uh, since when were you naked?’
His sculpted, bare back muscles were shining in the morning sunlight.
He stood up, swiveled his shoulders, and bent his neck to lightly stretch.
‘Please wear something!’
Belladonna just stared out the window, feeling her face heat up at her embarrassment.
“Are you going to eat breakfast?”
Of course……
Oh, why aren’t you wearing clothes!
Belladonna unconsciously turned her head to answer him, but when she saw him still standing naked, she jerked her head to the other side of her again.
she fumbled around on the bed, picked up the robe he had taken off, and held it out to him.
“It’s tricky.”
Escalion grunted and began to put on his revealing gown.
It’s not that I’m being picky, people usually live in clothes, right?
It was only then that she turned her head and lifted her body up from the bed.
“Just lie there. I’ll ask to bring you a meal.”
Escalion spat out, glancing down at her as she raised her body.
huh? Here?
Since she was born, Bella had never eaten in bed even once.
In her previous life she couldn’t do that because she didn’t have a bed, and after becoming a saint there were so many restrictions on her attitude……
“You probably couldn’t sleep comfortably because I was holding you. you need to eat comfortably.”
Escalion reached out and cupped her cheek.
He looked down at Bella, who clearly had just woken up, for a moment, then turned his body around.
“I will eat separately, so you can lie here and eat comfortably by yourself.”
huh? Weren’t we supposed to eat together?
After speaking, he walked to the door, slammed the door, and disappeared from sight.
Belladoma leaned her bodyagainst the head of her bed, feeling relieved.
• ❁ • ❁ • ❁ •By Esraa• ❁ • ❁ • ❁ •
