Come and Cry at My Funeral - Chapter 134
Chapter 134
Lost in thought, Freesia didn’t notice Thea, who was excitedly helping to style her hair.
“Congratulations, Madam! Now that everyone knows the Master loves you this much, they will serve you well!”
“But who knows when the Duke will change his mind again.”
Freesia muttered, her voice more choked with emotion than she intended.
It would be a lie to say she felt no pleasure, but the situation was too sudden, and the pain splitting her body was still there.
‘The memories of what happened at the Antares estate are still vivid.’
She only endured because Izar whispered softly and touched her gently with a voice full of heat.
<Freesia, look at me directly.>
Each time he changed his position and pushed deeper inside.
‘I didn’t expect him to be with me when I woke up.’
…Yet, despite thinking that, her mouth asked a childish, irritated question on its own.
“Where did the Duke go?”
“Oh… I’m sorry. We don’t know either…”
“…”
“We saw him leave in the carriage, but oh!”
Thea clapped her hands deliberately, as if to make a point.
“Could it be that His Grace went to buy a gift himself?”
“A gift? What do you mean?”
There was a tradition of the husband giving a gift after the consummation night, but Freesia had no confidence that Izar would remember that now.
In the end, she was the one who slept with him while in love, but she felt like she was sinking deeper into the mud.
‘I feel so terrible.’
She had consummated the marriage and became his true wife. Yet, it felt like he had indulged in urgent pleasure and then left her behind.
Leaving all the worries with her.
* * *
…After the long consummation night, when Freesia finally fell asleep exhausted from crying.
Izar had been holding her from behind for a long time. Until the early morning’s translucent blue shadows cast over the bed.
The woman’s body, bathed in the dawn light, was completely marked by him. Each time he looked at her, he felt a mix of satisfaction and an insatiable thirst.
“Freesia.”
Izar whispered softly into the ear of the woman who was sound asleep. His lips brushed against her warm neck. When his lips touched the skin he had teased all night, her round shoulder trembled slightly.
Despite being deeply asleep, even such stimulation seemed burdensome as Freesia let out a groan.
“Nn, mmh.”
Watching her curl up her shoulders, his golden eyes darkened with a renewed sense of hunger.
All night, he had felt as if he was losing his mind with frenzy. If Freesia hadn’t struggled so much in exhaustion, he might have woken her up again.
‘I haven’t yet regained that gaze.’
He tightened his arms around her soft body. The dazzling light green eyes that first stirred his desire had not fully returned.
‘But it doesn’t matter.’
This woman was now his, and as long as he didn’t let her go anywhere, it was fine.
Izar reluctantly planted one last kiss on her shoulder before getting up.
‘By now, word must have spread among the others here.’
The lord’s consummation was a significant event in the household.
Once, Izar had firmly declared that he would not sleep with Freesia, but he had broken his own word quite spectacularly.
While he had struggled to ignore his feelings before crossing the line, his mind was now calm and settled.
The time had come to make a practical compromise with reality, even if it meant incurring some loss.
Especially if he desired only Freesia.
‘I can’t just keep such a woman as a mistress.’
If they were to have children in the future, they couldn’t remain illegitimate.
So, there were matters to be dealt with.
When Izar pulled the bell in the office, it was Charles who appeared first, as always. Charles already had an idea why he had been summoned.
And he was aware that his master had been bewitched by that woman and had made a misguided decision.
“Charles, have you prepared what I ordered earlier?”
“Yes, Milord.”
Charles handed over the organized documents to Izar, trying hard to hide his displeasure.
It was an investigation into Freesia’s mother, the ‘mad woman’.
“She was definitely of noble birth but came from a fallen household. It appears there were no heirs, nor any lands left.”
“Hm…”
“And when she came to the capital, she associated with numerous men.”
The men who had relations with her were members of various noble families or seasoned knights from the provinces.
Moreover, many of them were formally married with several children.
‘This investigation might not have uncovered everyone involved.’
In any case, if he intended to dig up who had been with Freesia’s mother in the past, there would be no shortage of enraged individuals.
“…This will do for now.”
But Izar nodded after reviewing the general findings.
“Very well. Let’s head to the Antares mansion first.”
