Chapter 063. I Didn’t Know You Had This Talent
Just a moment ago, the gaze that had been skillfully dodging here and there was now staring straight ahead.
Raymond’s expression as he looked at such an opponent was cold and sharp, like the snow of a serene snowy field.
“You never wished for it?”
To the words that flowed out lowly, Deborah simply nodded slightly without wavering.
“Yes…… I just like it as it is now.”
Ha, a scoff burst from Raymond’s mouth.
It was because he could guess the implied meaning in the words that she liked it as it is now.
And also the inner thoughts behind showing such a completely different attitude in just a few hours.
Raymond slowly rose from his seat and strode forward by the distance that the opponent had created.
It was only natural to grab that arm that flinched in surprise and tried to retreat, preventing it from escaping.
“So.”
“……”
“So what’s next.”
At the question asking if that was the end, what else was there to say next, the golden glass-like eyes shook greatly once.
“Something like it was a mistake, let’s pretend it never happened. Is it time to say that now?”
In fact, it was a question that didn’t need to be asked.
Because there was no other intention behind deliberately bringing up such a story to turn someone’s insides upside down.
As if that prediction hit the mark, the lips that had been chattering away so well until now suddenly clamped shut as if nothing had happened.
Even though he had asked knowing full well, anger flared up inside his chest at the woman’s silence.
When he pulled the hand that was gripping the arm closer to himself, ah, a short moan burst from the woman’s mouth.
“I didn’t know you had this talent.”
“……”
“The talent for making someone’s mood filthy overnight.”
Words spat out one by one, as if chewing them.
Even though it was obvious that the grabbed arm would be painful, the woman only furrowed her brows and didn’t say a single word that it hurt.
Raymond, who had been glaring at that stubborn behavior as if to kill, soon dragged the gripped hand and walked quickly somewhere.
“W-wait-”
Wait a moment, the firmly closed mouth opened belatedly, but the problem was that it didn’t reach Raymond’s ears, which were already twisted to the extreme.
The struggling Deborah was eventually dragged to the bed as he led, and thrown roughly onto it.
Before she could even sit up properly, a large body covered her from above, and Deborah instinctively reached out her hand to push away.
But this time too, it was blocked too easily.
As the two crossed hands were lifted straight above her head, Deborah finally looked at the man with a face filled with fear.
“Why on earth are you-”
Before she could even finish questioning, a hot tongue pushed in between her parted lips.
Deborah gasped at the foreign sensation of the tongue freely stirring and digging deep into her throat.
She had never known a kiss like this.
Like this, as if a beast was devouring its prey— she had never experienced such rough and fierce behavior even once during those few times.
The force clamping her hands so she couldn’t move, the tongue forcibly opening her mouth and entering, made Deborah unable to think of anything.
At that moment, the man’s other hand moved downward.
She soon felt the hem of her skirt being pulled up, and realizing the intention, Deborah’s face turned pale blue.
“Eup! Eueup!”
She tried to struggle to escape, but the man covering her body didn’t budge.
Deborah, who had been moaning at the helplessness like pushing away a huge boulder, eventually bit down on the thing stirring inside with her teeth.
Eut, with a short moan, the man’s movements, which had been moving like a madman, stopped as if it were a lie.
The moment she felt a metallic scent wafting into her mouth, finally the man’s tongue that had been filling it pulled out.
“……”
“……”
At a slightly distanced space, Raymond and Deborah glared at each other as if to kill.
How much time had passed in that suffocating silence where not even breathing could be heard.
The crack in that precarious atmosphere came from something falling on Deborah’s cheek.
It didn’t take long to realize that it was a drop of blood that had fallen from inside the man’s mouth.
Raymond gently rubbed the vivid red bloodstain smeared on the white cheek with his thumb.
Like a child playing with paint.
Raymond, who had been looking satisfactorily at the long smeared bloodstain, at some point let out a low chuckle.
Deborah stared up at such a man’s face without even breathing.
“Interesting.”
At the man’s sneering behavior, Deborah finally opened her tightly closed lips.
“Let go…… of my hand.”
The action barely stopped, but it didn’t mean he completely retreated.
The body still covering her from above, the force gripping her hand, everything was still the same.
Deborah tried to calm her anxiously jumping heart and repeated the words from a moment ago once more.
In as calm a voice as possible, so that the opponent wouldn’t notice that she was scared.
“This hand…… please let go now, Your Grace.”
Though the end trembled slightly, the tone that carried firmness must have been felt by him as well.
Yet, the appearance that still didn’t move at all, no, the gaze as if looking down at a toy in his hand, made her breath catch suddenly.
That’s why.
What she brought up was something that was practically a reckless move.
“If you don’t let go…… I will scream.”
Finally, a fine crack appeared on the man’s face, which had been wearing a leisurely expression throughout.
Relief at any change happening was momentary.
From Raymond’s mouth, who had raised one eyebrow, a loud laughter soon burst out.
“Scream then.”
After laughing for a while, he looked down at Deborah again with a face full of amusement.
“So, who exactly can stop me.”
“……”
Heh heh, even while speaking, absurd laughter leaked out in between.
It was true.
It was natural to be dumbfounded and absurd.
As he said, even if a scream was heard from this bedroom, who could open the bedroom door and enter without his permission.
No, the important fact was that even if someone entered, there was no one in this mansion who could stop his actions.
Except for one person.
Deborah looked at the man smiling down at her with an expressionless face.
“They can’t stop you-”
“……”
“But even you, Your Grace, couldn’t rape a maid in front of the Grand Duchess.”
“……”
The smile lingering at Raymond’s mouth disappeared in an instant.
The downward gaze pierced down onto Deborah’s face as if to penetrate, and the cold expression without a trace of warmth exuded a sinister atmosphere as if it wouldn’t be strange to strangle the opponent’s neck right then and there.
After a long silence like that, he released the suppressed hand a moment later.
Deborah, who had been struggling and scratching his nerves as much as possible, for some reason didn’t get up from the spot right away.
No, it was more accurate to say she couldn’t get up.
Probably because the tension had released after the continuous sharp confrontation since entering the bedroom.
Rather, it was Raymond who withdrew his body first.
His expression as he got off the bed had returned to his usual impassive face.
Before turning his back, it seemed like his blue eyes briefly skimmed Deborah’s face, but it wasn’t certain.
Because immediately after, a voice like frost pierced Deborah’s ear.
“Get out right now.”
* * *
Deborah, who came out of the bedroom, dragged her body that felt like it would collapse right there and kept walking forward only looking ahead.
The staggering steps looked precarious enough that it wouldn’t be strange if she fell right away, but she walked and walked with all her might.
To get as far away as possible, as quickly as possible from his bedroom.
After walking for a while only looking ahead.
Finally, when the narrow attic door came into view, a sigh of relief escaped through her teeth.
Deborah, who walked quickly, opened the door and went in, climbed onto her worn bed, and covered herself with the blanket up to the top of her head.
-Something like it was a mistake, let’s pretend it never happened. Is it time to say that now?
The man’s mocking words, twisting his lips into a smile, dug into her mind.
No, actually, she didn’t intend to say that much.
From the beginning, there was no way she could say such harsh words to cut off the man with her own mouth.
She was just afraid that something surrounding her would change because of that night.
The more people who knew about the relationship between the two increased one by one, the more scary it was to have that relationship denied, and she also didn’t have the courage to endure all the criticisms and reproaches that would pour onto her because of it.
He would return to his own position anytime, and just thinking about herself left alone with a battered body after that made her suffocate.
So, she just wanted no one to know…… to delay that end that would come someday a little more……
It was just that, but how did it end up like this……
Deborah curled up her trembling body tightly and stayed motionless like that for a long time.
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By Anna 💓
