This lounge was originally made into one space by connecting two large rooms.

Certainly those who came to have a secret meeting must have taken advantage of the confusion to quietly head to the door on the opposite side.

Sure enough, the two men and women entered the room and began to press their bodies together haphazardly even before the door was completely closed. Carson thought himself very fortunate for his decision to turn off all the lights in the room.

A moist and sticky noise continued, and the two shadows fell onto the sofa, overlapping.

Soon after, the man and woman seemed to discover something and stopped moving at the same time.

“It seems someone was here.”

The man spoke, looking at the glass that Carson had left on the table, but the woman began to kiss him again as if not to worry about it.

“Just a moment.”

However, something seemed uneasy to him, and after distancing himself from her, he looked around while sitting on the sofa. Then, the woman climbed on top of the man.

“It’s okay. Don’t stop.”

“But why did you drink so much liquor?”

The man seemed to be of a lower status, speaking respectfully to the woman. The woman responded in a sharp tone, her breath heavy.

“Don’t spoil the mood. So stop talking and focus. Do you have the mind to talk like that now?”

Despite the woman’s urging, the man could not concentrate and looked around. The moment he turned his head completely to the left, Carson knew who the man was.

It was the knight who had just been pleading earnestly for Ines’s longing in the garden. However, the woman he was holding was not the subject of that longing.

A sudden unpleasant feeling came over him, but he quickly regained his composure.

It was none of his business.

As the squelching sound of the two people intensified, Carson turned his gaze to the door to escape the room. Even if there was some noise, the entranced couple would not hear it.

However, his steps did not proceed as intended because of a woman who was cautiously entering through the door he was about to leave. Even in the dark, he recognized her at once.

Ah, only then did Carson think that the man who Ines said could kill might be the one rolling on the sofa with another woman now.

‘Was it an affair after all? Then it wouldn’t be unreasonable to say he would kill.’

Carson stopped trying to leave and hid further behind the curtain leading to the window. If he moved now, he had to reveal his presence to her. For some reason, he didn’t want to let her know he had seen Ines’s miserable moment too.

Ines, who had entered the room completely, moved quite nimbly. The more she did, the more difficult Carson became.

She carefully moved her feet to find a place where the two people were well visible. Then she began to sneak in toward Carson, who was hiding.

Carson, watching Ines backpedaling toward him, was momentarily caught in deep thought about what to do. Although he was not the instigator of the current situation, he felt like a soldier whose retreat had been blocked.

At that moment, the woman on Joseph’s lap threw her head back abruptly. So Carson knew that the redhaired woman was the daughter of the Earl of Graham. And that this scene, which was visible to him, would certainly be visible to Ines.

She came closer and closer to him. If she took just half a step back here, she had to know he was there. Carson, who could no longer watch the situation, reached out with both hands and simultaneously blocked Ines’s eyes and mouth.

Startled by the tremendous shock, she froze in place with her shoulders hunched. If she had screamed, he would have been ready to flee the room immediately, but fortunately, he was able to prevent a dreadful situation of her screaming.

In that short moment, Carson considered several assumptions about how he should introduce himself.
Carson, or the Prince, or should I call him the Earl of Raymond?

It was impossible not to deeply consider how to speak so that she would react most moderately.

He soon made a decision, leaning close to her ear and whispering.

“I am a lord.”

But something strange happened.

The tension in Ines’s shoulders, which made her tense up as soon as his words fell, instantly relaxed.

Ines leaned entirely on him, as if his body were made of the finest silk from the barbarian country of Soguk Yamanta, like the softest and most comfortable chair.

Then she sighed heavily. Startled, Carson quickly removed his hand from her mouth.

Ines hesitated, moving her arm, intertwining her fingers with his hand that was covering her eye. She thought she would soon remove his hand from her eye, but she stopped.

Then, from the sofa where a woman was rolling about, a damp and sharp voice came.

“Why are you like this today?”

The man’s answer did not come to the abrupt question. Only a rough and unpleasant breath filled the lounge.

“It’s better to stop now.”

“What do you mean?”

“We can’t go all the way here.”

“You talk like a real knight, don’t be boring.”