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“Oh my, where are you going? Do you think you can learn something like this from just anyone? It’s better than giving your first to a greasy, plump bachelor who’s full of oil. A pretty girl like you, if you’re still a virgin, you’ll just get sold off for a high price, won’t you?”
Enough. Don’t think about it.
Just think of the antidote, only the antidote. Virginity is a luxury. Think about the home I was driven out of.
Ballestega.
The clear laughter of spirits, the rustling sound of grass blades, and droplets of water bouncing like jewels as they catch the sunlight. The sky, bright blue with a few wispy clouds, and the peacefulness of everything around the spring that was surrounded by all things beautiful and mysterious.
Who, in my position, would pity anyone?
The thin slip brushed against her thighs before falling down. Warm water gently wrapped around her bare legs. The steam rising from the water seemed to welcome Diana, wrapping around her calves. She wanted to quickly hide her body in the water.
However, the water in the bathtub only reached just below her chest. Diana began wiping the man’s body, still holding the towel that had bubbles left on it. She couldn’t tell from which side the man was observing her or what kind of expression he had. She couldn’t predict his next move, and her movements grew stiff because of it.
The man clicked his tongue from up close.
“Did you not receive proper training? I don’t think they would have let someone so clueless into my palace.”
“……”
“Put it down.”
The towel Diana was holding weakly sank into the water. Felix reached out and grabbed her waist with his arm, pulling her toward him.
Diana’s body jerked forward. She barely managed to reach out to steady herself, her hand landing on his abdomen. In an instant, she found herself straddling his thigh, releasing the breath she had been holding in. The master gently asked, running his hand along her chest.
“So, what was it? Your lover, or your master, that you were talking about? Stop with the ridiculous lies.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, master.”
“Shall I guess?”
“Pardon?”
His hand traveled down her slender waist and landed on her plump bottom. Diana, startled, jerked her hips to avoid his hand. But Felix had already secured her waist with his other arm, making it impossible for her to escape.
“No matter what I do,”
His hand grabbed at her backside, making her feel a chill in her stomach. If he slid his hand any lower, it would reach directly to her most intimate part. His rough hands moved recklessly over her backside.
“What you can do is just accept it gladly.”
“Aah, ah.”
“I believe that was the order I gave you.”
The master’s calm words didn’t even reach Diana’s ears. Every time her bottom was pushed, the water hit her sensitive area. She couldn’t close her knees as she straddled him, and fear crept up her spine at the thought of his rough fingers reaching below.
Diana began to grow anxious. As his fingers slid across her backside, they teased the delicate line of her boundary.
I have to endure…
No. She must not speak her thoughts aloud. She had to be cautious with every word, every letter…
But it was so unfair.
In the end, her tongue betrayed her thoughts.
“I’m not a prostitute.”
“Is that so?”
The droplets of water splashed as they bounced up. The master, with wet hands, casually flicked Diana’s nipple and spoke indifferently.
“You don’t seem like one.”
It was an unfeeling touch, as if handling an object. Diana’s cheeks flushed with shame.
The man had made her feel pathetic by undressing her at his command. She knew it was an order she couldn’t defy, yet it stung.
Her pride was hurt. Diana shook her head desperately, trying to deny it.
“I didn’t take any orders from anyone. I was just going to meet someone I know, Master. Really… that’s all.”
She couldn’t understand why she was venting her frustrations where that man could hear them.
Everyone has a last line they can’t cross. She didn’t have some sense of duty to preserve her purity, nor did she have some romantic notion of wanting to lose her virginity to someone she loved.
Diana simply hated things that she couldn’t choose for herself, and that included selling her body.
But what she hated more was the way the master treated her like some cheap woman.
I won’t do such things. Selling my body to survive is something I won’t do.
What Diana had to protect wasn’t just her life. She had to preserve her dignity as a human being too. She wasn’t some lowly peasant with no pride.
Even though the difference in their social status was as vast as the sky and the earth, she wanted him to treat her as an equal human being, even if it meant lying repeatedly. Was that too arrogant a wish?
“I’m not the kind of woman who does that. I’ve spent my whole life running away from it…”
Tiny particles of water around her seemed to react to Diana’s emotions, rising up in the air.
As Diana swallowed her tears, a shallow whirlpool formed around her. This was a force she couldn’t consciously control.
The water pushed Felix away with strength. It was a clear expression of her refusal.
“Yeah, you’ve been running away your whole life.”
Felix’s tone had grown colder than before.
The man’s body heat receded as the water splashed downward. The master rose from the tub.
Diana, still sitting on him, nearly slipped into the water. She flailed her arms to prevent herself from crashing to the bottom of the tub.
Felix sat on the edge of the tub, looking down at her. His gaze, cutting through the steam, was as cold as ice.
“Are you upset that you’re going back to where you came from?”
The man asked sarcastically. Diana couldn’t fathom his intent. She stammered.
“Master, I don’t understand what you’re saying….? Ah?!”
Suddenly, a hand reached out and grabbed the back of Diana’s head, pulling her forward. She nearly slammed her face into his hard abdomen.
The heat radiating from his firm body enveloped her. She realized, just a moment too late, that she was now positioned between his legs.
Diana’s eyes fluttered without focus.
“Your Highness, I…”
“Of course, you shouldn’t be someone like that. If someone like that had entered my palace, I would have killed them already.”
A response laced with slight irritation came after his repeated words. In the dark world around her, a hand reached out from the shadows and lifted Diana’s chin. His trained, rough fingers brushed along her face as though admiring her features.
“It’s a shame that you couldn’t keep your chastity.”
The master only uttered words that made no sense. Diana was confused. What was he saying…?
“What do you want from me?”
“Do it.”
A large palm wrapped around the back of Diana’s head and pressed it down relentlessly. Diana’s body leaned forward, and her lips came into contact with something. It was thick and round. Diana was startled by the intense heat emanating from it.
It was so large that even if Diana opened her mouth wide, it would barely fit. It was hot and firm but didn’t feel like metal.
And the smell that stimulated her senses. It was thick, pungent… not the sour, foul odor of a brothel, but clean, yet fundamentally the same stench of desire.
Felix, holding Diana’s head in place so she couldn’t move, used his other hand to rub her lips.
“You’re lucky. Because nobody can dare to call my maid a prostitute.”
“……!”
“So you can take comfort in that.”
It was a fallacy. But anything that came from the Crown Prince’s mouth was accepted as truth.
Felix smiled gently, an expression that was sweet yet twisted, one Diana couldn’t see.
The kind, domineering order came.
“Open your mouth.”
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Diana could barely breathe. It took her quite a while to fully comprehend what she was doing.
It wasn’t that she had never seen the objects attached to men’s groins. In fact, from the age of ten to fifteen, she had seen them to the point of exhaustion. So she knew what a male’s sex organ roughly looked like.
But what was now filling her mouth was completely different from what Diana had known. Its size, girth, and even its rigidity. It felt as though she were holding a red-hot iron ball in her mouth.
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