“Considering you were sitting on my lap earlier, sleeping in the same bed isn’t much, is it?”
My face turned bright red.
Hades was right.
But that was acting for others to see, and now it’s just the two of us!
I looked around the room.
I was thinking of sleeping on the sofa if there was one.
Unfortunately, in a room as stark as Hades Croitner himself, it was hard to find a proper place to sleep.
I accepted it.
I… had to share a bed with this giant, cold man who intimidated me and forced me into the role of his consort.
I reluctantly got up and approached the bed.
A massive bed appeared as I pulled back the thick curtains.
It was somewhat a relief.
I didn’t have to sleep right next to him, at least.
Hades watched me with an incredulous look as I fumbled onto the bed.
“You’re going to sleep in that?”
“……It’s cold.”
Hades didn’t seem to like that I lay in bed with my coat on.
It wasn’t a lie.
Hades’s room was actually much colder than mine since he didn’t light a fire.
But the reason I couldn’t take off my coat was different.
‘I can’t sleep in this terrible nightgown!’
The nightgown Amy had chosen was made of the sheerest and most transparent material.
I could only manage it because of the thick coat; had I only worn the nightgown, I wouldn’t even have been able to leave the room.
“Hmm.”
Hades pondered at my words about being cold.
“……!”
My mouth involuntarily dropped open.
Hades, lying next to me, embraced me from behind.
“Your Highness……?”
Since Hades was in a robe, his broad chest touched my back directly.
‘It’s warmer than I thought.’
I thought his body temperature would be lower than others since he uses icerelated skills, but it was rather higher.
Why is that?
Heat rose to my face, and I began to breathe heavily.
To the point where this spacious room felt stifling.
“Stay still.”
Hades scolded me.
“Don’t squirm.”
“……Let me go.”
“Cold, you said?”
“I’m not cold!”
“For saying that, you’ve been shivering since earlier.”
Hades gave me no chance to argue.
“I can’t light a fire, so endure it a bit.”
I didn’t ask why he couldn’t light a fire.
It probably has to do with his skills.
But it was clear that I couldn’t fall asleep in this state.
I could feel Hades’s breath, and his firm chest and arm muscles tensed up as I moved slightly.
I tried to forcibly remove Hades’s arm, but he didn’t flinch.
“Saint.”
If there was one good thing, it’s that when the two of us were alone, Hades consistently called me ‘Saint.’
It would undoubtedly have been difficult to endure if he called me Angel even at a moment like this.
“Yes?”
“Will you stop?”
“If Your Highness lets me go.”
A sigh was heard.
“If you want to fall seriously ill from the cold, fine.”
The arm that had been holding me firmly slipped away.
That day, Hades never touched my body again.
But why?
The heat on my flushed face didn’t know how to subside.
“……So I was able to get a job as a maid!”
I didn’t know, but Aimee was quite talkative.
I smiled and accepted Aimee’s words.
“Lucky for me. Thanks to that, I met Aimee.”
“Right? I’m lucky to have met you too, Saint.”
Aimee smiled broadly.
“It’s done. How is it?”
I looked into the hand mirror Aimee had given me.
My hair, which Aimee had diligently styled for an hour, was truly beautiful.
Aimee chattered as she pinned a butterflyshaped jewel ornament in my hair.
“With such beautiful hair, you should take good care of it. I’ll have to squeeze the butler for camellia oil. There’s no stock since the lady hasn’t been around.”
“Has it been a long time?”
“Ah, the late Duchess gave birth to the Duke and then passed away from childbed fever. I’ve only heard the story.”
“I see.”
I was lost in thought for a moment.
Come to think of it, there was no mention of the Duchess or the late Duchess in the game.
That was fortunate.
It meant there were no tragic women murdered by a corrupt son or husband.
“It will take a while to get the camellia oil from the south. So for a while, even if it’s inconvenient, you’ll have to use another oil…….”
Aimee’s words stopped abruptly.
I looked up, puzzled, and her gaze was directed outside the window.
“Aimee?”
I couldn’t see the window from my seated position, so I called Aimee.
“Oh, it’s nothing.”
Aimee smiled lightly.
“It’s just the demons. Aren’t they bored?”
I immediately stood up and looked outside the window.
‘What, what’s this.’
My blood ran cold.
If they were just ordinary demons, or the elite demon soldiers that Hades had easily defeated, I would have sat back down and chatted happily with her.
But they were…….
Not ‘just demons.’
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
