Chapter 4
Jade stood alone in the large castle hallway. It was an unfamiliar place, but she felt a subtle sense of uneasiness.
Jade walked slowly down the long hallway, then pushed open the large door with her hand. When the door opened, a light exclamation escaped Jade’s lips.
The luxurious bedroom decorated in purple and silver was incomparably more splendid and beautiful than the duke’s room.
Purple was a color that only the royal family could use, so although Jade had seen purple flowers, this was her first time seeing the actual purple color. Jade unconsciously walked over to the window and touched the delicately embroidered silver curtains with her hand. The soft touch on her hand felt like something out of this world.
“You were here.”
Jade turned around at the sound of Erwin’s voice behind her.
Erwin strode over to her and hugged Jade tightly. She could feel how much Erwin loved her as he held her tightly, as if he would never let her go again. Erwin wrapped his arms around Jade’s waist and buried his head in the nape of her neck and whispered.
“I searched for you, for a long time.”
Erwin lightly kissed Jade’s cheek and checked her face with his thumb. Jade was amazed by Erwin’s gaze as he looked at her.
This was the face of Erwin in love. It was so affectionate and longing. Jade couldn’t take her eyes off of Edwin’s familiar yet unfamiliar face.
“Butler…”
“Why are you looking at me like that? It makes my heart flutter.”
Erwin held Jade in his arms as if she were a child, and placed her on the soft bed. Erwin lay down next to Jade and looked down at her.
She could feel how much Erwin’s eyes wanted her, and his eyes fluttered just by meeting hers. Erwin’s soft hands, staring intently at her face and brushing back her hair, melted her heart.
“Chu, chu. Chu.”
Erwin’s warm lips, which came closer to Jade, briefly touched Jade’s forehead, eyebrows, and lips, and then left.
Erwin met Jade’s eyes and smiled, then lightly brushed the tips of their noses.
Then he naturally grabbed Jade’s chin and carefully kissed her lips. It was a light kiss, like a spring breeze, but Jade’s cheeks quickly turned red because it was her first time kissing him.
She was embarrassed, but she didn’t want him to stop.
“ha…….”
As Jade’s lips naturally parted, letting out a small sigh of relief, Erwin pushed his tongue between Jade’s lips as if he had been waiting.
Erwin’s soft and smooth tongue thoroughly explored Jade’s mouth, and he swirled it around her tongue as if teasing her.
When he sucked and gently licked her hot lips soaked with saliva, his breathing became rapid.
Erwin’s kiss was incredibly sticky and persistent. Was this what a kiss was like?
Hot, soft, and smooth, it swirled all over her mouth. When Jade was breathless from the kiss and pulled away, Erwin’s kiss rushed at her as if he was going to lick her breath, so Jade pushed Erwin away.
He asked in a sweet voice as if he was regretting it.
“Why?”
“Haa…….. Wait a minute. I can’t breathe…….”
“I taught you to breathe through your nose when you kiss me……”
Erwin smiled mischievously. Jade let out a sigh and fixed her gaze on Erwin’s red lips as he looked at her. They had kissed, but now all she could see was Erwin’s lips.
“What are you thinking about that makes you look so dazed?”
Erwin smiled slightly and gently stroked Jade’s swollen lips with his thumb and asked.
Jade, who was in this situation for the first time, couldn’t help but be dumbfounded. Jade shook her head slightly and blinked her big eyes repeatedly, flustered by Erwin’s sultry appearance.
Erwin pressed his lips against Jade’s cheek like a seal.
“Why are you being so cute today? How am I going to handle it..”
Jade still didn’t know what he was talking about, but Erwin’s words sounded more like a temptation than a threat.
Jade felt like she could accept anything Erwin gave her. She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around Erwin’s neck. The hot contact with Erwin’s firm body was enough to make Jade tense.
Erwin slightly raised his body and took off the top he was wearing.
Erwin’s body, which had looked slender when he was dressed, actually looked bigger when he was naked. The tough muscles that were firmly positioned under his broad shoulders were bunched and split, showing how beautiful a man’s body could be.
Then Jade’s eyes landed on his center where he had taken off his pants and underwear at once. Something incredibly large and thick was twitching between his pubic hair. In contrast to Erwin’s ascetic and dignified face, his penis was extremely angry.
“If you’re done watching, raise your arms.”
Jade raised both her arms at Erwin’s voice, which was whispering while licking her ear. Without even realizing what she was wearing, her dress and underwear were dropped to the floor by Erwin’s hands in an instant.
Jade, who blushed at Erwin’s lecherous gaze that came right up between her legs, tried to cover her body with her arms, but Erwin grabbed both of her arms with one hand and lifted them up.
“Don’t hide it. I want to see everything.”
Erwin chewed her chin and licked her nape softly. His large hands greedily kneaded her plump breasts. Her nipples, which had quickly become pointed by his touch, were teased by Erwin’s lips.
Jade’s breathing quickened and her body shook every time Erwin licked her with his tongue, scratched her with his teeth, and
sucked her into his mouth. She felt something thrilling pass through her body. It was different from the passionate caresses before taking off her clothes.
Erwin’s persistent caress of her breasts, which he had been rubbing with his fingers for a long time and caressing with his palms, continued, leaving Jade unable to breathe.
Red flowers bloomed here and there on her breasts, which were as soft as pure white pudding. The strange pleasure that enveloped her entire body made the area between her legs gradually hotter, and her toes kept getting swept away.
“Ugh…ugh.”
Jade tried to suppress her moans by biting her lower lip, but it was not enough. Now, Erwin’s large palm snaked around Jade’s smooth skin. He gently massaged her flat stomach, hardened by the heat, and his hands, which had been firmly gripping her plump buttocks, were now moving to the inside of her tightly clenched thighs.
“Spread your legs.”
Erwin licked her ear long and whispered wetly. Jade had a hard time letting go of her thighs easily at Erwin’s voice. However, his strong arms opened one of her legs with ease. She could have closed her legs again, but Jade didn’t want to.
Erwin chewed Jade’s white nape while slowly moving his palm up and down her center. Jade’s body, which had been strained by the slow movements, began to loosen up little by little.
“Huh……huh.”
Within, Erwin’s long fingers parted her slit, and pressed and rubbed her sensitive, moist flesh.
It was a place that Jade had never touched herslef before. Jade’s waist twisted at the unexpected stimulation of Erwin’s fingers. The desire for something stronger and the wish that it wouldn’t get any weirder were mixed. Her body, trembling uncontrollably under Erwin’s touch, and it didn’t seem like her own.
Jade’s lips parted as she let out her ragged breath. Erwin swirled his tongue around the inside of her mouth, while distracting her.
Erwin licked his finger at the entrance of the sticky fluid. He completely soaked her pleasure spot that twitched with every touch, and her wings that were swollen with blood. Jade arched her back in anticipation at Erwin’s ecstatic hand movements.
Every part of her body that Erwin touched felt hot as if it was burning.
“You’re really wet. You must still be having a hard time, right?”
Jade didn’t know what Erwin was talking about. But it seemed like Erwin wasn’t waiting for an answer. Erwin, who had been wrapping himself around Jade, suddenly moved his body between Jade’s legs. Jade, who had been panting with her eyes tightly shut, opened her eyes in a sudden change of situation.
“uh….”
Erwin lowered his head between Jade’s legs, spread her thighs with both hands, and licked the inside of her thighs in long strokes. Jade unconsciously tightened her thighs, but it only ended up placing Erwin’s head at the center of her vagina.
“It’s good because you push me in.”
Erwin, who misunderstood Jade’s reaction, licked the center of her already moist and wet flesh for a long time. The feeling of his long, straight fingers and his thick, slippery tongue were so different.
The place where he had touched was already hot enough to melt her.
Erwin briefly kissed the red flesh that was glistening with saliva and love juice, and sucked the tender flesh earnestly.
The sticky and lewd sound rang in Jade’s ears. It was too stimulating for her to handle.
Jade’s chest and waist heaved as she moaned, almost crying.
This was the first time she felt this way. She wondered if there was ever such an intense, helpless, and cruel sensation.
“Stop… please…”
Jade’s sobbing voice, telling him to stop, was closer to a plea. But contrary to her words, sweet liquid overflowed from the narrow gap where Erwin’s lips met.
“You like it here.”
Instead, Erwin quickly teased her pleasure point with his tongue as her pleasing voice stimulated Erwin’s lust.
The passion that ran up her spine made her brain boil and burn white. Jade couldn’t even open her eyes properly and tilted her head back.
“Ahhh….. Ahhh……. Ahh…….”
An unbearable moan flowed out. Erwin sucked hard on the round flesh that was as firm as a pearl, and inserted one finger into the tight, throbbing passage waiting for the next one.
Jade’s inner walls were already slick and wet, it was swallowing and tightening one of his fingers.
“No…….. Aah……”
At her fervent moans, not knowing whether she was telling him not to or to do something, Erwin carefully inserted one more finger.
He thought it might be difficult since it was the first time, but her inner walls, which had already melted, sucked his finger in as if they had been waiting and did not let go. It seemed like three would be possible. Erwin felt that Jade was prettier and better.
“Thank goodness. Shall we move now?”
Instead of answering, Jade buried her head in Erwin’s shoulder and nodded. Erwin’s thick, long fingers clenched and moved roughly back and forth, causing Jade’s mind to turn white. She shook her waist, forgetting her shame, at the intense sensation stirring inside her. She had no idea how such a sensitive pleasure had been hidden inside her.
“Ahhh…… Aah…….”
Jade’s thighs trembled under Erwin’s persistent caresses that continued without stopping. Jade, who was groaning in unimaginable pleasure, seemed to have reached her limit. Jade was unconsciously clinging to Erwin even more.
“Ahhh…….”
Erwin rubbed the blunt tip of his cock, which had been so excited that even the veins were bulging, against her entrance without even receiving a single touch from Jade.
The place overflowing with hot liquid now welcomed him with a throbbing sound as if it wanted Erwin’s completely.
“Haa…… Melissa…… I’m going in now.”
At that moment, Jade, who was panting from the endless pleasure, felt her head turn cold. Melissa. Who is it? Jade turned her head and looked at herself in the mirror next to the bed. A woman with long blonde hair was looking at herself unfamiliarly.
“Ahh.”
Jade, who had been sleeping, screamed and jumped up. The dream was so vivid that her lower body still felt throbbing. She was crazy to dream about Erwin like this. She couldn’t see how she would see Erwin in the future. He was so sexy in her dreams.
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Jade, who was embarrassed to see Erwin who came in the morning, told him that she wanted to rest alone and sorted out what she had done when she came to the duke’s residence.
Her mind was complicated because of Erwin who shook her heart, and she was also planning to figure out for herself what it took to become the bride of the black dragon.
“Let’s get started.”
Jade dipped her quill pen in ink and wrote down the meaningful things she had done here.
Jade, who had entered the dukedom without knowing anything, was also gradually figuring out the situation. In particular, she read all the books about the myth of Laphnox and the black dragon Winslow that Erwin recommended her to read.
Jade had already heard from here and there that there were four gods who guarded the four directions of this country. However, it was very abstract. The story of the black dragon who chose a bride once every hundred years seemed to be quite well known, but there were many loopholes.
The story that the Black Dragon’s Bride was a human sacrifice was a lie. There were more detailed records of the blessings bestowed on the Black Dragon’s Bride’s family than expected. It was said that the Black Dragon’s Bride could meet her family whenever she wanted.
“Not much is known about the Black Dragon.”
The peculiar part was the story of all the potential bride candidates who had been to Winslow Castle. They all remembered Winslow Castle in detail, but they had no idea how the dragon would choose his bride.
It was said that the black dragon was hiding and watching and selecting the bride, but they did not know the criteria. There were also records of the black dragon’s bride, but they did not say a single word about the black dragon. No one had properly seen the black dragon and recorded it.
“Ah, I don’t know.”
Even after reading the book, her curiosity about the Black Dragon was not completely satisfied. Jade put the Black Dragon’s story aside and started writing about what she had done again.
“Um… I came here and read a book… and….”
When Jade thought of nobles, she first thought of fancy clothes and elaborate hair decorations.
She thought that when she came to the duke’s house, she would naturally learn things like how to choose a dress or how to do hair, but she was shocked to hear that this was the job of the employees, not Jade.
Jade was a little disappointed that she could just ask Erwin if she didn’t like the clothes he had prepared or if there was something she wanted to wear. She had wanted to get clothes tailored at a downtown clothing store, but Alan just took her measurements and that was it.
“I don’t think shopping is my style…….”
Jade was so sorry that Erwin took her out to the downtown area, but she was a little disappointed because there wasn’t much better or more interesting than what she had seen at the Duke’s residence.
For Jade, who didn’t know what to choose among the many items, shopping felt like a difficult homework assignment, so it wasn’t a very enjoyable hobby. However, walking around with Erwin, eating at a crowded restaurant, and sitting in a cafe and talking about various things while watching people pass by were good memories.
In the end, all I could say I learned after coming to this mansion was the etiquette of the nobility, including table manners, horseback riding, and some knowledge I gained from books.
“Do you work that hard every month?”
Alan asked, while placing the snack she had prepared on the desk where Jade was sitting. Jade felt embarrassed to show Alan what she was writing, so she turned it over. Then, to distract Alan, she picked up a warm cookie with a rich almond flavor. She put the cookie in Alan’s mouth and took a bite herself.
Alan asked if there was anything she wanted for lunch and tried to leave, but Jade stopped her. When it came to nobles, Alan probably knew more than I did.
“What do noble ladies usually learn?”
“Well, besides the bride’s lessons, wouldn’t you like to learn horseback riding, dancing, painting, or playing a musical instrument?”
“So, what is something that a woman who will become a bride must learn?”
“Of course it’s dancing! You have to stand out at the ball where you’re looking for a groom.”
Alan’s answer was not wrong. One day, Erwin, who had not taught Jade how to dance for some reason, brought in Madame Shaboneau, a dance teacher for her.
She was a tall, slender, middle-aged woman with a sharp face, famous as the dance teacher of the royal family.
“Raise your head, straighten your back… one, two….”
Learning to dance was hard work for Jade. I never thought I would be this good at it. I thought I was pretty good at physical work, but there was a huge gap between the body I used for work and the body I used for dancing.
Her muscles, tense from the overly strict training, did not move as she pleased. Jade thought she was just following the steps that Mrs. Shaboneau had repeatedly taught her, but all she got in return was a scolding.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Sorry.”
Jade glanced to the side. There, Erwin was standing with the right posture, looking at Jade. It was also one of the reasons why Jade kept getting her steps tangled.
She wanted to show off her cool side in front of him, but it didn’t work out that way.
For several days, Erwin had been bringing Jade to Madame Shaboneau and was always watching her from the side. She tried turning her body so as not to look at Erwin, but when she grabbed Madame Shaboneau’s arm and spun around, she could see Erwin’s face, which was always looking at her.
“Ahh.”
Jade ended up twisting her ankle while worrying about the Butler’s gaze.
A sharp pain shot through her ankle, and Jade let out a single scream, clutching her ankle and falling to the floor. Jade’s eyebrows furrowed at the sharp pain coming from her ankle.
“Are you okay?”
Mrs. Shaboneau tried to take off Jade’s shoes and look at her ankles, but she couldn’t because of her white stockings. In order to pull down the stockings, she had to undo the garter belt on her thighs. While she was feeling awkward, Erwin came over and gently grabbed Jade’s injured ankle and turned it.
“Ah… It hurts.”
“I don’t think your ankle is broken.”
Even though it wasn’t broken, my ankle was starting to swell and it was stinging. Looking at Jade, who was frowning, Erwin said to Mrs. Shaboneau.
“We will end class here for today.”
“Yes, Miss Jade. Get well soon.”
Mrs. Shabonneau, who had been instructed by Erwin to teach all the dances within two weeks, also had a worried expression on her face.
Jade barely managed to get up, while holding her sore ankle, and greeted Mrs. Shaboneau.
Erwin approached Jade and lightly hugged her without giving her a chance to say anything.
“Please let me down. I’ll be able to walk after a little rest.”
“If you’re scared, then wrap your arms around my neck.”
Erwin lightly ignored Jade’s request to get off. Erwin told her to wrap her arms around his neck if she was scared, but Jade couldn’t bring herself to wrap her arms around Edwin’s neck.
Erwin’s hands were wrapped around her shoulders and lower back. She was afraid that if she turned around and wrapped her arms around Erwin’s neck, she would end up hugging him tightly.
“Just let me down.”
Jade was now more concerned about the body of Erwin, which was touching her, than the sore ankle.
The strange scent of perfume and Erwin’s body odor mixed together made her head dizzy. Her growing feelings for Erwin made her relationship with him more difficult.
“I can’t do that before I bandage your wounded ankle. What are you going to do if you can’t dance with the Black Dragon because of your leg?”
“Does the black dragon dance too?”
“I don’t know. Maybe he’s a romantic who likes to dance with his bride.”
Unlike Jade, who was excited and absent-minded by the contact with Erwin, Erwin walked briskly as if nothing had happened, talking about something out of the blue.
Even as he carried Jade to her room, which was quite a distance away, Erwin showed no sign of fatigue.
Erwin, who had laid Jade down on the bed, asked Alan, who was leaning over to find some bandages, wondering what was going on.
“Take off your stockings.”
Erwin spoke calmly and turned around. Jade also turned around, unbuckled the garter belt inside her skirt, and took off the stockings that reached her thighs. There was a slight swelling on the peach bone of her injured ankle.
Jade, who was embarrassed to show her bare feet to Erwin, checked the condition of her ankle and hid her feet inside her skirt again.
“I took it all off. It’s just a little swollen.”
“Show me.”
Erwin, sitting on the bed stool, took Jade’s ankle in his hand. As she said, it didn’t seem to be a serious injury.
If it was something serious then I would have taken her to the hospital, but at this level, it seemed like it would be okay if I just apply a cold compress and applied some pressure to it with a bandage.
“Shall we go to the bathroom? It would be nice to soak it in a cold water.”
Erwin tried to hug Jade again, but this time Jade pushed him away with both hands.
“I can do it by myself. The bathroom is not far away..”
As Jade got out of bed and limped away, her injured leg lost its strength, whereas Erwin, who had been following her closely, hugged her from behind.
“Ahh!”
“What if you can’t get married because you can’t dance with the black dragon?”
Jade was not happy to hear the story of the black dragon coming out of Erwin’s mouth.
She wondered if Erwin was interested in her, but when the story of the black dragon came up, it was distressing because Erwin seemed to only see her as his job.
Erwin, who carried Jade with her mouth open, into the bathroom, sat her down on the bathtub and turned on the cold water, letting it run over her swollen feet.
Erwin’s affection was too harsh for Jade. Jade sighed softly as she looked at Erwin, who was holding her ankles in the direction of the cold water.
“Erwin will be the best husband in the world.”
“……”
“I really envy the woman who will be marrying you.”
For the past two months, Jade felt like she had received all the love she had never received from her parents.
He would listen to her absurd stories with a smile, help her calmly whenever she had a hard time, and take care of her from the moment she opened her eyes in the morning until she fell asleep at night.
Jade waited for Erwin to say, “Of course,” but Erwin was too quiet.
“Why aren’t you saying anything……”
Jade stopped talking when she saw Erwin’s pure white earlobes turn red.
What is it? Why is he so embarrassed? While Jade was wondering, Erwin put Jade’s feet down and went out of the bathroom.
“I’ll get a bandage from Alan.”
A while later, Erwin, who was supposed to be getting a bandage from Alan, didn’t come, and Alan came into the bathroom while holding a bandage.
“Miss, is your ankle okay?”
“Yes. But where is Butler?”
“He said something urgent came up? So he asked me to bandage it.”
While Alan was wrapping a bandage around Jade’s ankle, which had been wiped dry, Jade thought of Erwin’s ears that had turned red at the mention of him being a good husband. It seemed like it would be okay to try to get his mind on it for once.
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