For My Birthday, I Was Gifted Five Husbands - Chapter 73
How many people talk about their parents the first time they sleep with a man?
After using a d-ldo that looked like a magical staff with beads, Eugenie raised the white flag, thinking, “It feels amazing, but if I go any further, I might die.” She had endured Alfred, Percival, Magnus, and Carter, but her younger husband, who brought tools into the equation, was no easy match.
So, Eugenie was now resting with her head on Cassius’s lap. The fruits brought up by the hotel service disappeared quickly, even though the two of them leisurely shared them.
Chewing on a piece of melon, Eugenie muttered to herself, still in disbelief over the situation.
“You’re telling me dark magic really exists, and that someone is tracking you?”
“Hmm, probably,” Cassius purred, like a satisfied cat, rubbing his head against Eugenie’s thigh.
“Strange things kept following me, so I got rid of them before our first night together.”
“Ah, I see.”
Was the chill and faint scent of blood she had sensed when she first saw Cassius somehow related to getting rid of those ‘strange things’?
“So there are people targeting your family? Do you know why?”
“They were probably dark wizards, so they must have gotten on someone’s bad side. Honestly, I don’t know much about my own family either.”
Cassius gave Eugenie a playful smile, his eyes sparkling like a fairy’s.
“Why, Lady? Are you afraid you’ve been tricked into a marriage?”
“Do you think I’m going to complain now?”
She had already secured wealth and support, and she wasn’t about to back out of it.
“Now that we’re legally family, if there’s danger, I need to know so I can figure out what to do.”
“…Hmm.”
Cassius gave a smile that was sharp like sandpaper at her words.
‘Family,’ huh? Well, he didn’t plan to invest his heart into this contract, unlike the other four men. Still, Eugenie Norton’s words made sense, so he decided to share what he knew.
“I think it was when I was thirteen… someone wiped out my entire family. Maybe that person was after me.”
“…Should I be sorry to hear that?”
Eugenie tilted her head, recalling the dark cave full of skulls.
There was a standard thing one would say to someone whose family had died, but when she thought of the young Cassius in her memories, she didn’t sense the sorrow of loss at all.
Cassius, surprisingly, felt a bit pleased by Eugenie’s question. When people spoke of having ‘no family,’ others would usually respond with awkward sympathy, urging them to live strong.
Cassius Lysander despised that kind of soft pity to his core. If someone was going to pity him, they might as well hand him a gold coin instead.
“No, I’m not sad, so no one needs to pity me. If I had good memories, maybe I’d shed a tear or two.”
“I see. So your original last name wasn’t Lysander. Did you come up with it yourself?”
“Yes. I just flipped through the postal code book from the capital and picked something that sounded pretty.”
For a dark magic family shrouded in secrecy, that was an incredibly ordinary naming sense.
“Then, the thing that suddenly appeared in your hand earlier—was that dark magic?”
“That’s just a basic skill for anyone with magical abilities. True black dark is this.”
Cassius spread his palm wide, and now an empty heart-shaped vial appeared as if by magic. Realizing what it meant, Eugenie stared at it in shock, and Cassius smiled with genuine amusement at her reaction.
“The Sabnac family specializes in body modification, you know. This is great for pulling off a big score.”
“Wait a minute. So I was the test subject?!”
She was the one writing the thesis, not the subject of the experiments! As she opened her mouth in fury, Cassius skillfully popped a strawberry into her mouth.
“Oh, come on. I kept asking for your consent the whole time. You willingly participated, so why the fuss? Didn’t you enjoy it?”
“Mmph…!”
“Anyway, I was almost killed in that cave, but Theodora Norton saved me.”
“…And?”
“She saved me, but in exchange, she bound me to this contractual marriage. Maybe she was lacking in strength, so she added ‘my silence’ as an additional price.”
