AWWEWNR Chapter 61

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Taking the two young ladies to a dessert shop, Rosaryn chatted with them as they ate sweet cakes and drinks. 

 

Nowadays, dessert shops with cakes and fruits are more fashionable among young women than tea parties with tea, so Rosaryn thought that she would change the atmosphere of her tea party by serving drinks and fruits like this one.

 

As they chatted for a while, she noticed that the chatter among the women in the shop had been growing louder since someone had entered the dessert shop. 

 

‘Cool,’ ‘handsome,’ and ‘oh my,’ they said, and she wondered what was going on, so she put down her fork and moved to turn her head.

 

And then…

 

“Oh my god, is that a real person?”

 

The young lady sitting next to her, her gaze fixed in the distance, said in astonishment.

 

‘If there is a male god of beauty, it would be him.’ 

 

“I thought His Highness the Crown Prince was the most handsome man in the empire, but here’s a hidden gem.”

 

Turning away, wondering what on earth the women at the table were talking about, Rosaryn saw Shia standing in the doorway, slowly turning around as if searching for someone. 

 

His eyes then widened when his gaze met hers, and he stared, unable to look away.

 

There was a saying that blondes and silver-haired men were handsome, but this man surpassed it. 

 

Handsome didn’t even begin to capture his beauty. 

 

There was an innocent beauty to him that even the most exquisitely handsome Crown Prince did not possess. 

 

With a face so beautifully handsome and so pure that it seemed to burn with the slightest touch, Rosaryn, like many women, could not take her eyes off him.

 

When he spotted her, he strode over to her, and the women in the dessert shop, including the young ladies with whom Rosaryn was sitting, began to chatter, looking back and forth between Rosaryn and him.

 

“Lady Thearine.”

 

Scream~ 

 

‘That voice is insane.’ 

 

‘Thank God, the doll is talking. Is that the handsome young man from your house?’ 

 

‘Are you the lady’s lover?’

 

While the young ladies in the dessert shop chattered, Shia stared down at Rosaryn, waiting for a yes to come out of her mouth.

 

“Can I help you?”

 

Rosaryn, who had already been hit on by quite a few men, was unperturbed by Shia’s beauty and treated Shia as she would have treated any other man who approached her.

 

Shia was uncomfortable with the noise and the women’s stares, but Hanaella had asked him to do this, so he forced himself to speak to Rosaryn.

 

“May I speak with you privately for a moment?”

 

‘Oh! My! Dear me’, 

 

‘Lady Rosaryn, did you save a country in a past life?’ 

 

‘The sculpture speaks!’

 

The young women at Rosaryn’s table covered their mouths with their hands and looked at Shia, listening.

 

Shia was already feeling uncomfortable in the suit and forced hairstyle that Hanaella had forced upon him, but the stares and blatant comments from the women made him want to flee this place as quickly as possible. 

 

It took courage to even enter the all-female dessert shop in the first place.

 

“If you’re not going to take up too much of my time.”

 

Normally, she would have said no and turned a cold shoulder, but Shia’s looks and physicality made that impossible. 

 

Tharrott was the only man she had ever known, and marriage was not on her radar unless it was with a man of Edward’s stature. 

 

But she figured it would not hurt to give the man who looked like a god of beauty she would never see again a chance.

 

“I won’t keep you long.”

 

Shia said, offering his hand politely.

 

The surrounding chatter grew louder as Rosaryn rose to her feet, taking his hand in hers. 

 

A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth as she realized that every woman in the dessert shop was looking at her enviously, and she felt a sense of superiority she had never felt before.

 

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Brandz glared at Tharrott who was asleep in her bed. 

 

When they brought him in unnoticed, her heart pounded with the realization that things were really starting to happen.

 

I set several of the enchantment scented candles I’d purchased around the room, just in case. 

 

‘As it is, if he wakes up, we make consensual love, and when he’s sober, he feels responsible enough to take her as his wife.’ 

 

This was the best-case scenario, but it’s not a world where people marry based on the mere sharing of their bodies, and I couldn’t get pregnant without Atheronia’s blessing.

 

But he’s a responsible man, so I figured it would benefit me in some way, and I wondered when I’d get to spend the night with such a gorgeous man.

 

He was the most upright, good-hearted man she’d ever seen, with the appearance of a paladin and the righteousness of a man of his caliber. 

 

Little did she know that such a man was in love with his step-sister, and that he intended to use Hanaella to further that relationship, so she scrambled to get ready before he woke up.

 

Lighting several enchanting scented candles, she began to warm up. 

 

She quickly stripped Tharrott of his clothes before he woke up. Then she stripped off her own clothes and lay down beside him, clad only in the slip she had prepared.

 

‘Okay, we’re ready, now open your eyes, and the plan begins.’ 

 

Brandz beamed brightly as she looked at the sleeping Tharrott.

 

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Leaving the dessert shop with Rosaryn in hand, Shia escorted her to the carriage Hanaella had arranged for them. 

 

As they sat across from each other in the spacious, luxurious carriage, there was an awkward silence, and neither of them spoke first. Rosaryn fidgeted in the carriage, uncomfortable with the awkward atmosphere.

 

The carriage bore no family insignia, but it was a fairly nice carriage, so he wasn’t some pathetic man with nothing to show for it. In this empire, money was more important than titles that could be bought and sold, so as long as he had it, he was worthy.

 

Despite being a Count, Thearine was treated as well as any duke due to their wealth, rather than their reputation as paladins, so I doubt he’d be considered anything less than a one-time fling.

 

‘Oh, he’s passable.’

 

It’s been a long time since I’ve been this nervous to be alone with a man. I didn’t hate this excitement. In fact, I enjoyed the blood-pumping tension.

 

 But she realized that this innocent, protective boy would only keep his mouth shut for so long if she didn’t speak up first, so she asked him.

 

“So, what is this conversation you want to have with me?”

 

“… About… my lady…”

 

Shia opened his mouth to say something, but stopped short. 

 

All he had to do was spit it out like Hanaella had taught him, but for some reason it stuck in his throat and wouldn’t come out. 

 

Forcing myself to do something I didn’t want to do made my head hurt, and the smell of her perfume made it worse.

 

Closing his eyes, he opened them again, hoping to get this over with, but his eyes were drawn to Rosaryn’s accentuated voluptuous breasts. 

 

Under Shia’s gaze, Rosaryn instinctively thrust her breasts forward a little further. It’s no secret that men are drawn to a full, beautiful cleavage. 

 

Rosaryn was used to men’s eyes on her breasts.

 

Rosaryn deliberately moved her body to show off her best feature, her bust, a bit. S

 

he wished she had worn a dress that emphasized her bust a bit more. 

 

A little regret made her feel sorry for herself. But the corner of her mouth lifted of its own accord as she felt Shia’s eyes flutter lightly as they remained fixed on her chest.

 

“Me, what?”

 

Rosaryn asked Shia, trying to hold back her laughter. 

 

Staring at her with the facial expressions and gestures of a woman trying to convince a man of her beauty, Shia averted her gaze in embarrassment.

 

‘You’re not used to girls. You’re so cute.’ 

 

Rosaryn laughed. Shia’s eyebrows twitched at the lewd and uncomfortable tone of Rosaryn’s demeanor, but he tried not to let it show, and did as Hanaella had taught him. 

 

Make eye contact with her and speak in a flirtatious manner, but that seemed difficult, so he kept his eyes on the chair.

 

“At my coming-of-age ceremony… I fell in love with you at first sight.”

 

Tharrott, who had fallen asleep under Delphiter’s influence, slowly opened his eyes. Seeing himself lying next to Hanaella, naked, he couldn’t tell if this was a dream or reality.

 

Mistaking Brandz for Hanaella due to the excessive use of enchantment candles, Tharrott pounced on her before Brandz could finish asking if he was awake.

 

Flustered but willing to accept him, she realized that he was actually interested in her. 

 

Brandz was also under the spell of the enchantment candle.

 

With their instincts overriding them under the influence of the mesmerizing candle, they had each other, and the act continued until the candle was extinguished.