This Life, I Will Save The Duke (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 46

“Kaius!”

Ariel, startled with a gasp, reflexively tried to sit up. In broad daylight, and outside at that, in such an indecent position. She was seriously old-fashioned when it came to relationships between men and women. Even though she had drunk alcohol, one glass wasn’t enough to overcome all that embarrassment. But Kaius easily suppressed her resistance with just one hand.

“Move aside.”

Watching her eyes wandering around, Kaius finished the remaining wine in the glass he was holding. With his now free hand, he grabbed the back of Ariel’s head and drew her gaze toward him. As she met his eyes resembling the night sky, Ariel realized what he wanted.

“Don’t do this. We’re outside.”

“Then shall we go inside.”

With those words exhaled like a sigh, Kaius’s face slowly turned elsewhere.

Ariel, who had unconsciously followed his gaze, was shocked. The place his eyes landed on was the very annex where her artifact had been discovered.

“No!”

Now with her neck flushed red, Ariel shook her head while struggling to free her two hands that he held. It wasn’t that she wanted to reject him, but it was hard to accept right now. In her mindset, intimate matters between husband and wife could only happen after the sun disappeared and night arrived.

“Why. Are you going to ask me to wait again?”

The day after their wedding night, that is, the night before he left, she had said that while sending him away. And it wasn’t an excuse; she had said it because she wasn’t feeling well.

“That’s not it. There are so many other things to do right now. I have to try Damian’s steak and give feedback. And prepare for departure tomorrow, and also… You look so tired.”

Seeing her chattering red lips, Kaius’s Adam’s apple slowly bobbed without him realizing it. Facing the attitude he had expected but hoped would be wrong, he wasn’t in a particularly pleasant mood.

She would smile brightly, but stiffen at her husband’s touch, and try to escape with all sorts of excuses, which was also audacious.

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