Chapter 42.1

‘I’m probably the one who’s weird. Aven is just trying to help me.’

Seira rubbed her eyes as she replied after a moment of silence, “Do it…”

Even if she stood up and walked around as if everything was fine, it was clear that her arousal was going to flow down. Alphas who were far superior than ordinary people were gathered in the palace now. There was no way she’d let them take a whiff of her scent now.

‘It would be difficult if I caused any more trouble,’ she admitted to herself.

Seira raised her knees and spread her legs a bit wider for Aven to slip his fingers inside her easily.

“Please bear with it for a little while, Duchess,” he said.

Right after he said so, one of his fingers penetrated inside Seira’s vagina.

“Uhn…”

After holding in such a large penis for a long time, she could feel Aven’s finger slipping in distinctly.

His fingers were firm and long, with calluses embedded at every joint. Its well-groomed appearance resembled their owner, and Seira would occasionally gaze at them unintentionally.

At first, there was only one finger, then there were two. Every time that it slipped deeper and pulled out, more of her liquid arousal spilled.

Seira’s grip on her knees tightened. She bit her lips so she couldn’t let out a groan, maintaining her posture so Aven could easily continue his way in and out and clean her faster.

For as long as he kept poking inside, wet and slightly sticky liquid poured out, but he couldn’t distinguish between the mixed semen and her liquid arousal.

When he thought Seira was already at the brink, he pulled out his fingers and wiped her entrance with a cloth and said, “It seems to be done now.”

“Thank you, Aven.”

Seira stood up pretending to be okay, and began to wear clothes one by one. Judging by the scorching heat she felt in her body, she assumed her face might have turned red. Fortunately, there was no lit candle at the moment and her profile was hidden in the darkness.

Instead of a torn purple dress that Calrad tore, she put on a light blue indoor dress and put on a cloak over it so it wouldn’t stand out.

In the meantime, Seira came out with Aven after he finished cleaning the room. The cool night air lowered the heat she felt as they came to pass a quiet hallway.

The biggest crisis had passed somehow, so now all they had to do was to escape the palace. It was time to leave her old dwelling, which she would never set foot again.

“Seira,” a soft voice cut through the darkness and reached out to her.

As Seira stopped and stood alert, someone walked out of the pillars of the corridor leading to the garden.

“Louis… how did you…?”

When Louis Franto fully emerged from the shadows and stood in the moonlight, Seira smelled a familiar scent in the air.

“That’s a relief. At least my expectations were wrong.”

The scent that hung in the air was akin to burnt ashes, like that to the smell of death stuck at the tip of Seira’s nose as she used to wander around the battlefield.

‘What is he going to do?’

He slowly approached her, who was looking around warily.

“I felt like I had to head here for some reason, and apparently that feeling was right.”

The scent that Seira smelled didn’t fit Louis at all, but she didn’t even know if it was his pheromone. She didn’t know why it would be out of control.

“Are you here to find me?” Seira asked calmly as she looked at Louis coming closer.

He stopped a few steps away from her, and answered as he looked down at her with warm eyes, “I was so worried that I couldn’t wait.”

Instead of asking about the weird smell that quickly dissipated, Seira thanked him.

“Thank you for your help earlier. I am totally embarrassed.”

If it wasn’t for Louis, Seira wouldn’t have been able to leave the terrace. She couldn’t do anything because of how Calrad’s power possessed her.

His presence here was suspicious as much as why he was dripping with pheromones, but apart from those, she must express gratitude. It made a whole lot of difference with just attending the banquet with him as her partner, annoying Calrad, and even using his magic to rescue her.

“Your safety is my duty as your partner. Rather, I should be the one ashamed to put you in trouble which you didn’t have to go through.”

Seira smiled brightly at his polite speech.

“Then let’s pretend that we are even for today.”

“Agreed.”

Even though the conversation seemed to end well, what was important was what would happen from then on.

‘The day I offered him a contract, he had asked about my relationship with Aven.’

Seira recalled the conversation of that day to every word uttered. Pretending to be drunk was just to lower Louis’ guard and find out what was on his mind.

‘He must have heard that I had stayed overnight in Jeff, but he had to mention Aven of all people, not Baron…’

But now that he saw her come out with Aven, his confidence in his guess would certainly rise. Even if they cleaned the semen and removed the scent of pheromones, there was no way one wouldn’t notice what was happening. It’s not like he was stupid or anything.