“It was a mistake!”

I pushed away his hand and tied the bathrobe strap again.

“Well then, make mistakes. After all, making mistakes is natural, but if you immediately correct them, what does it make me, who suffered right in front of my eyes?”

Rinel sighed deeply, looking disappointed.

“To make someone like this and call it a mistake… Doesn’t it make me angry, or not? There is already a place where I get angry, but…”

He cleared his throat, looked down, and then, muttering, looked back at my face, saying, “Take responsibility.”

“We’ll be late for lunch at this rate.”

“Then let’s change the location to the main palace banquet hall.”

Rinel made that decision, and I hesitated for a moment.

Then he put his hand on the back of my head and exerted force.

My head nodded in his hand.

“That’s right. You have the same thought as me. Approved, bang.”

?

He firmly stated as he loosened the strap of my bathrobe again.

“Zelda, how can you make a mistake that I would like, no matter how you make a mistake?”

With a feeling of self-indulgence, I just closed my eyes and smiled.

In fact, his love that yearned for me was desperately needed.

As long as I was close to Rinel, it felt like I could escape from all troubles.

“Huh? Dare to disobey the emperor’s words? Don’t you know you’re committing a huge crime right now? You won’t be able to avoid punishment.”

As he said, a terrifying punishment soon followed.

It was so sweet and fatal, making me even shed tears…

Without realizing, I lost my sense of reality and lightly bit his lips.

“Ah!”

“I’m sorry.”

As I apologized with a smirk, he silently stared at me and said menacingly, “Not only did you disobey the emperor’s words, but dare you bite your lips?”

Making a disgusted expression, he rushed towards me.

“I can’t live if I’m treated like this.”

Rinel leaned against the bedhead and watched Zelda, who walked toward the bedroom door.

Even after the door closed, her lingering image remained, and he smiled.

He muttered to himself.

“It was an excellent choice.”

Today, by eliminating all the breaks in the middle of the meeting and forcibly proceeding with the meeting, he was able to have such a quiet time with Zelda before dinner.

He hadn’t planned it from the beginning.

Last night, he clearly had passionate love with her, and he woke up in this bedroom this morning.

After having a simple breakfast together and receiving a deep kiss from her, he happily returned to the main palace.

However, as soon as the meeting started, instincts spoke to him.

Was there a need to prolong the meeting when they kept making the same noise every time?

Accept the things that could be accepted quickly and cut off the absolutely unacceptable matters immediately. Wasn’t that the way?

Today, his instincts were far more rational than his reason. If he did that, he could probably shorten the morning meeting by about two hours.
Rinel faced dozens of substitutes, raising documents above his face to conceal a smile of satisfaction. Normally, he would deliberately take breaks during meetings, even for matters he could approve immediately.

Among the suggestions of the substitutes, he didn’t outright reject proposals he would never accept. Instead, he pretended to contemplate continuously, eventually refusing in his own way.

However, today, approvals and rejections proceeded swiftly, unlike usual. The substitutes, bewildered by Rinel’s decisions throughout the meeting, were reluctantly led and the meeting concluded.

The Emperor’s usually composed and dignified behavior showed a different pattern today. After the morning meeting, he headed towards the Empress’s palace as if he had urgent matters. Along the way, he took moments for self-reflection.

“Is it wise to adjust work hours to see her during business hours?”

Anyway, they would spend time together at night. It seemed whimsical, and despite thinking so, he was surprised at his unwavering determination not to turn away.

However, such thoughts vanished the moment he saw Zelda.

Instinct was correct.

The moment he saw her, he realized that before the night fell, it was essential to hold her in his arms, talk nonsense for a while, and share a moment of laughter. Although it was a short time, her warmth would linger around his body all day.

While waiting for Zelda with a sense of satisfaction, Rinel explored the bedroom where she spent most of her time during the day. Come to think of it, every time he came here, he had never really focused on this space because he was preoccupied with other things.

As he wandered around the bedroom, his gaze fixed on one place. He walked toward the open terrace door and stopped in front of the decorative table next to it.

Looking at the roses in the vase, he absentmindedly scratched his chin.

“I distinctly remember instructing to send red roses…”

He picked up a white rose and sniffed it. The fragrance was the same as the scent of the red roses he had smelled before. Two days ago, Rinel had looked at the blooming red roses in front of the main palace, thinking of Zelda.