Droit du Seigneur: His Lordship's Right of the First Night - Chapter 39
“Evan, my poor child… He can’t even call me mother once, not knowing who his real mother is. In the eyes of the world, this child is an illegitimate child, and the other two are princes, so everyone would consider them more valuable. But to me, Evan feels more precious than anything in this world.”
“Your Majesty….”
“Especially Richard, even though he is my child, I can’t feel any affection for him. It must be because he resembles that heartless man so much.”
So Evan was his mother’s child. Could it be that his younger brother, who was said to have died at birth, was actually Evan?
Richard, feeling his world darken, got up but then pretended to be asleep again. However, from that moment, the soft sheets around him felt like prickly thorns, heavy and painful.
Mother loves me. She’s only strict on the outside because she wants me to do well…. The belief he had held onto like a mantra crumbled, and his world turned gray.
The ordinary thirst he felt in his throat turned into a painful noose around his neck.
“He really doesn’t cause any worries. It’s unusual for a child to strive to do everything so well… On the other hand, my Evan is weak and delicate, and I constantly worry about him and want to protect him from all the hardships of the world. He always occupies my mind and makes me anxious….”
It was the first time he had heard his mother’s voice so gentle and full of concern. His tightly shut eyes felt unbearably hot. Yet, no one noticed the silent shaking of the sheets as the seven-year-old prince sobbed through the night.
After that day, Richard stopped visiting the Empress’s palace every day.
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The morning after her night with Richard, Louise woke up late, still feeling the aftereffects of the previous night. She lay there for a while, feeling disconnected from her body, and when she tried to stand up, she let out a short yelp and fell back onto the bed.
“Ack! Ouch….”
The dull, throbbing pain from her intimate area vividly brought back the memories of the previous night.
After one wave passed, Louise, exhausted from the excessive stimulation, thought it was finally over, but Richard’s member swelled inside her again. The lovemaking continued almost until the morning star appeared.
The intimate caresses, the obscene sounds of their wet bodies, the overwhelming pleasure that made her vision go white. She remembered how she clung to Richard, trembling and crying out in climax repeatedly.
She might have even left serious scratch marks on his broad back in her excitement….
Remembering how she had wrapped her legs around him, pulling him deeper as she clung to his neck, Louise wanted to faint from embarrassment.
“Shh, it’s okay.”
As their coupling lasted until the early dawn, she had no strength left to even move a finger and lay half-supported by the cushion he provided. Though she was embarrassed by her nakedness, she didn’t have the energy to cover herself.
She could only stare blankly at the red blood trickling down her open legs. The fluid, a mix of Richard’s sxmxn and her own fluids, stained the insides of her pale thighs with a light pink hue.
“It’s because it’s your first time. Don’t be scared.”
Perhaps thinking she was frightened by the sight of blood, Richard comforted her, patting her soothingly.
He brought a soft cloth soaked in warm water from the bathroom connected to the bedroom and cleaned her body. He wiped her face and body, sticky with sweat and tears, and even the sticky traces of their passion between her legs….
When Richard tried to lift her thin arms to clean her underarms, Louise resisted as strongly as when he had cleaned her messy intimate area. Of course, her resistance was meaningless as she couldn’t effectively fend him off….
“It’s a bit red, but there don’t seem to be any tears. Was it always this color?”
“I don’t know….”
Remembering how he examined her, holding her legs apart and gently cleaning her sore entrance with the wet cloth, brought her back to full consciousness, sharper than any stimulant could.
She hadn’t seen it herself, but she was sure her entrance was a mess, sore and soaked with various fluids, without even the chance to close.
‘I must have been crazy….’
She had been the one to seduce him first. She hadn’t known he was not only sexually functional but also this vigorous.
However, she had no regrets about her choice. Even the slight, lingering pain inside her felt like a pleasant ache.
Despite Richard cleaning her thoroughly with the wet cloth, she felt slightly uncomfortable and sticky, but her body was clean.
Last night, she hadn’t even dared to go to the bathroom and had fallen asleep in his arms. Feeling the faint scent of Richard on her freshly washed skin, Louise blushed and hugged the sheet.
At the same time, the unfamiliar emotion she had been feeling towards him became clear.
…I like His Lordship.
The fluttering in her chest, the trembling of her heart as if it were broken, and the longing feeling every time she saw him… it was because she liked him….
First love.
Realizing the unfamiliar feeling she had experienced for the first time, the world suddenly became vibrant with color.
