Nobles could be seen gathered here and there, chatting.

Occasionally, as he came across the gaze of a noble, Cedric would nod as if greeting, and continued his walk until he stopped.

In front of a window beautifully adorned with bright flower pots.

There was Lamein.

His eyes, which were about to proceed after a pause, slowly furrowed at the sight of Duke Haribo walking towards them from afar.

Cedric, with his eyes squinted, looked at Lamein standing right in the middle between him and Duke Haribo.

Duke Haribo, approaching with a leisurely stride.

And his wife, who was glancing at the potted flowers, then occasionally at Duke Haribo.

Capturing both people in a single glance, he slowly blinked.

And he slowly began to walk.

“Lamein.”

He called his wife in a soft voice.

“Ah… Cedric.”

Eyes wide open as if startled.

And lips awkwardly curling up.

She seemed to have not anticipated his appearance.

“What are you doing here?”

“I was looking at the flowers. The flowers.”

“Flowers?”

Cedric asked, tilting his head slightly.

“Yes. There are so many flowers I’ve never seen before. What kind of flower is this?”

She planted her violet eyes on the flower pot in front of her.

One side of Cedric’s mouth, which had been staring quietly, twisted upwards with a lazy curve.

“Well, I don’t know either. It’s a flower I’ve never seen before.”

“You don’t know either. But it’s really beautiful.”

Lamein spoke, a slight smile playing on her lips.

‘Why does he have to show up now? I can’t now.’

Lamein, who had given up on talking to Duke Haribo, faced Cedric directly.

“Isn’t it really beautiful?”

Just as she was endlessly praising the flowers because she had nothing to say.

“You are more beautiful to me than any flower.”

Our Cedric, have you been drinking a lot?

Such words flew out that made her want to ask this.

“Why all of a sudden…!”

Lamein, about to ask why he said such a thing, suddenly shut her mouth.

Her husband, who stepped forward, wrapped his long arms around her waist and closed the remaining gap.

She, who faced such a flustering situation, tensed her body and raised her chin high.

The man’s face, who was looking at her as if to devour her with his blue eyes, was unnaturally calm contrary to his gaze.

That’s why it was even more flustering.

The sounds of conversation and footsteps from everywhere.

At that moment, when she couldn’t push away the man’s body that was tightly pressed against her, causing her nerves to tingle.

“You said there wouldn’t be any rumors about us for a while, right?”

The man whispered in a distance where his breath spread all over.

“Yes. When I was having a conversation with the ladies, I made sure that…”

Lamein couldn’t finish her sentence again and closed her lips.

Cedric gently brushed back a strand of his hair that had fallen beside his cheek with his long fingers.

His cheek and ear. The tickling and mysterious sensation from the light touches caused him to breathe slower.

“But, do you happen to know this?”

An odd smile spread across his husband’s lips, along with a voice that felt excessively affectionate and dangerously tantalizing.

A foreign air of a moment wrapped around his entire body.

That’s when his heart began to pound on his chest, which was closely connected without any gap.

“Rather than a hundred words…”

The face of the man who stayed close was gradually getting closer.

“One act is more certain.”

Along with another breathfilled whisper.

“…..!”

A silent and hot sensation instantly covered his lips.