The Secret Affairs of the Fake Duke Couple - Chapter 44

“Don’t go.”

Cain could have easily shaken off Jane’s hand. He was a robust man and wasn’t drunk.

A drunk woman had no strength to hold him back.

Nevertheless, he sat back down on the sofa.

But instead of looking at Jane, he just glared at the innocent firelight. Somehow, it felt like he shouldn’t look at her.

“Cain, I enjoyed our date today. The dessert shop was nice, and the restaurant… I’ve never had such delicious lobster in my life! Smashing the lobster with a hammer! And the walk.”

Jane paused to catch her breath.

“It got ruined by the rain, but it was still nice.”

Cain listened silently. The woman he thought had become reticent over seven years seemed to have just been holding back what she wanted to say.

Now that she was drunk, she was chattering away.

Cain startled as he realized he had been listening intently, finding her voice quite pleasant to hear.

To think Jane’s trivial stories were enjoyable to listen to.

Had he gotten drunk on just a few glasses of brandy?

“Cain, are you sleeping? You’re not sleeping with your eyes open, are you?”

Jane’s hand that was holding Cain’s wrist slowly crept up his arm. Then she shook his forearm.

Cain’s head spun. He couldn’t understand why he felt dizzy when it was his arm being shaken.

“Cain, look at me. Hm? Tell me how you felt about our date today.”

“You’re quite drunk.”

You and me both.

Cain murmured lowly.

“Hmm, you won’t tell me, huh? Then I have another way!”

Jane let go of Cain’s arm, exhaled deeply, and suddenly stood up from the sofa.

“Ouch!”

As weight shifted to her left foot, the pain revived.

Cain quickly pulled Jane into his arms. Jane ended up sitting on Cain’s thigh. But it wasn’t awkward.

They had been in a similar position the entire way to the cabin.

Instead of tumbling to the floor, she fell into Cain’s arms.

“Be careful!”

Cain yelled. Jane’s eyes, already surprised by the pain, widened even more. Soon, tears welled up in her eyes.

“Hmm, I was being careful.”

Cain was dumbfounded by Jane’s indignant protest.

“Don’t cry.”

“What will you do for me if I don’t cry?”

Pearly tears fell one by one. Jane was pretty even when crying. As Cain tried to turn his head away, Jane cupped his cheeks.

“Don’t look away.”

Drunk Jane was shameless. Cain vowed never to offer her alcohol again.

“Then, don’t cry. I hate crying.”

Hmm, Jane made a nasal sound, then removed one hand from Cain’s cheek and rubbed her eyelids with the back of her hand.

She rubbed so hard that the area around her eyes became red and swollen.

Cain grabbed her hand. She wriggled, trying to pull her hand away.

“Stay still.”

Cain wiped her tears for her instead. It was a very gentle touch. Gentle enough to make Jane’s tears disappear.

“I’m not crying anymore.”

“I have eyes too.”

What a beautiful way to say he could see. Jane pouted her lips.

“More importantly, how long are you going to sit here?”

Although he was the one holding her, Cain chided her to get down.

“I don’t want to. I won’t get down.”

Jane wrapped her arms around Cain’s neck. Cain’s body stiffened.

“Jane.”

Cain called her name warningly, but Jane was full of courage now. She wasn’t afraid of anything. If this was the power of alcohol, she thought it might be good to drink occasionally.

“If I get down, you’ll leave. I don’t want you to go.”

Jane burrowed deeper into Cain’s arms, as if throwing a tantrum. The area under Cain’s eyebrows twitched.

“You don’t want me to leave? You left me first.”

“I waited. But you didn’t come.”

Jane’s voice was tinged with moisture. Soon, Cain’s shoulder where Jane had buried her face began to get wet.

She cried, shaking her body, as if something was terribly sad.

Cain’s hand, which had been awkwardly hovering in the air, stroked her lower back.

She spoke as if Cain had broken a promise.

“What are you talking about, Jane?”

“Did you forget, or are you pretending to forget? We were supposed to meet 7 years ago. I, I… How long I waited…”

Her indirect speech was frustrating. Cain grabbed Jane’s shoulders and forcibly pulled her away.

Jane’s face was a mess with tears. Cain removed the hair stuck to Jane’s face, tidying it as he asked.

“When, where did you wait for what? Tell me clearly.”

“7 years ago! The day I left this place, I waited for you in Lils. I definitely gave a note to the gatekeeper… He said you received it… Why, why didn’t you come? I wanted… to apologize to you one last time.”

Jane revealed the secret and her wound that she had kept in her heart for so long.

When the expulsion order came and she had to leave urgently, Jane visited the Hastings house one last time.

She had asked El to deliver a letter containing her feelings, but that wasn’t enough. At that time, Jane wanted to apologize to Cain in person.

Well, to be honest, apologizing wasn’t the main purpose. She just wanted to see Cain.

Because she didn’t know when she would see him again, she wanted to engrave his image in her eyes, even if just once.

However, she couldn’t even cross the fence of the Hastings house. So she forcibly pushed a note into the gatekeeper’s hand.

She threatened the gatekeeper, and it worked. The gatekeeper went into the Hastings mansion. And after a while, he came out and told Jane.

“The gatekeeper said that?”

Cain asked again. Jane nodded, sniffling.

Cain tilted his head back and sighed.

No matter how much he tried to remember, Cain had no memory of receiving that note.

So one of the two people was lying. Either Jane or that gatekeeper.

“Do you remember who the gatekeeper was?”

Jane shook her head.

“I don’t know his name.”

“What did he look like?”

“Curly hair… mustache… I can’t remember well.”

That was enough. Cain stroked the back of Jane’s head. He looked very troubled.

“But Cain, why didn’t you come?”

Cain kept his mouth shut. First, he needed to confirm the truth. And then.

‘If Jane’s words are true, what will I do?’

Even if she said now that she had waited for him, what would change?

The fact that Cain’s parents died because of Jane’s parents remains unchanged.

‘What do I want to do with you?’

Cain looked down at Jane. Clear eyes were staring at him.

As their eyes met, his mind went blank. He didn’t want to think complicated thoughts anymore.

Instead, I want to roll around with you indecently.

However, it’s not gentlemanly to take advantage of a drunk woman.

And Cain doesn’t love Jane. His desire for her now is simply because he’s a man.

Objectively, she was beautiful, and the body nestled in his arms was ripe enough to tempt a man.

So the heat felt below his waist was something to endure, not to indulge.

“Jane, I’ll look into what happened in the past separately, but you should go to sleep now.”

This time, even if she didn’t want to get down, he was planning to force her off.

Cain put his hand behind her knees.

“Let’s sleep together?”

“What?”

Cain froze in the position of trying to lift Jane.

“The end of a date… is supposed to be like that, right? Hotel…”

“When did I say… Ah, I did.”

Cain closed his eyes as he recalled the conversation they had on the street during the day. At that time, it was words he had uttered intending to shut her up because she was getting on his nerves.

He had no intention of going to a hotel with her. If she got scared, he was planning to return to the mansion as if granting her mercy.

So Cain’s plan didn’t include coming to this cabin, or the scene of Jane nestling in his arms with expectant eyes.

“We’ll sleep separately. You in the bed, me on the sofa.”

“Why?”

Jane gripped Cain’s collar tightly as if she wouldn’t let go of him.

“Am I not attractive?”

Of course not.

“Is it because I’m… a virgin that you don’t like me? You’ve… been with many women until now, so I’m bothersome, right? Should I go somewhere to learn? Then will you hold me?”

“Jane, watch your mouth.”

Cain sighed deeply. Jane said words so nasty that he wanted to give her a good smack.

A severe conflict arose in Cain’s inner self.

The part of him that said to go ahead and do it fought fiercely with another part that said not to take a drunk person’s words seriously. It was a battle between the man Cain and the gentleman Cain.

The victory seemed to be leaning towards gentleman Cain. Of course, that was Cain’s big misunderstanding.

The one deciding the outcome of this fight wasn’t Cain, but Jane.

Jane grabbed Cain’s collar and yanked it, kissing his lips.

Cain’s chest heaved greatly. He barely managed to roll his eyes to confirm what had happened.

Jane, with her eyes tightly closed, was rubbing her lips against his.

Her face flushed with heat, the scent of brandy wafting with each breath, and the soft touch of her lips slowly evaporated Cain’s reason.

Cain gritted his teeth and grabbed Jane’s shoulders to pull her away. Jane, disheveled, lifted her moist eyelashes.

Her eyes, the color of dense foliage, persistently followed Cain.

“…”

Cain’s breath caught. He moistened his dry lips with his tongue.

“Do it, kiss me.”

Jane put her hands around Cain’s neck. As her lips touched Cain’s again, Cain’s mind went blank, and his self-control snapped.

The countless reasons why he shouldn’t kiss Jane right now were swept away by the wave of desire.

“Won’t you regret it?”

Jane nodded to the question asked with their lips almost touching.

Cain cupped Jane’s cheeks and forcibly pulled her away. He whispered in a roughened voice.

“You started it first.”

Further conversation was meaningless.

Cain lunged at Jane. His kiss was like a conquering army rushing towards enemy territory. He conquered Jane’s lips.

Relentlessly attacking, setting her body on fire.

Jane’s heart started beating wildly. Jane slid her fingers into Cain’s hair.

Jane wanted him. All of him.