Chapter 81 [part 2] (2/2)

“Is everything done? Get up, quickly.” (Lucia)

Seeing the closed door, she was restless and worried that someone would come in. Hugo was unhappy that she kept being conscious of other people. Was it because she didn’t want to show their intimacy? He was secretly feeling bad so he wanted to tease her a little. He took her bandaged foot and lifted it up.

When her center of gravity suddenly moved backwards, Lucia supported her body so she wouldn’t fall on her back. She was startled out of her wits and looked at him with wide eyes.

Hugo looked into her eyes and kissed the top of her foot. She looked cute with her eyes and mouth wide open with astonishment. Her face was completely red.

“Hugh!”

He didn’t seem to care, rather he laughed mischievously and raised the train of her dress to her lap then he kissed her calf and bit it.

“Ah!”

Lucia screamed in frustration.

“Who is he?”

“Who?”

“The man earlier. Minuet.”

“What? Ah…I don’t really know. They said he was Count Yungran or something.”

“You’re saying you danced with a man you don’t know?”

“People dancing with people they don’t know happens a lot. It’s not like you don’t know that.”

Lucia struggled to remove her foot from his grasp.

“Refuse them in the future.”

“Alright. I got it so let me go.”

He let go of her ankle but she only got a moment of relief before he sat right next to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Then he brought his lips to her ear and whispered to her.

“Is your foot really okay? Should I carry you?”

“You seriously–. I told you to look at the time and place!”

Even if she replied with, ‘Will you?’ as a joke, if it was this man in front of her, he would really do it. Lucia was alarmed and pushed away from his chest. The more she pushed, the firmer he held her waist. His flirting increasingly disregarded time and place. It had been a long time since it deviated from the bedroom.

Hugo hugged her tighter as she kept twisting to try and escape then he grabbed her chin and kissed her lips. He looked into her eyes that were filled with surprise and smiled. He promptly invaded her small mouth with his tongue and swept through to the deep ends of her mouth. When he removed his lips, she was blushing to her neck and looking at him in a daze. She looked so cute that he descended for her tender lips again, sucking her upper and lower lip interchangeably.

Lucia was caught in his grasp and had given up halfway but when she found the door moving, she was startled and pushed him as hard as she could.

“Someone is here.” (Lucia)

Hugo was annoyed and stared at the slightly open door.

“What is it?”

When Hugo raised his voice, the door opened cautiously and a servant hesitantly entered. The servant had asked for permission from outside several times but because there was no answer, he opened the door, poked his head inside and jumped back in surprise. If he was a servant of the Duke, he would have given up when there was no answer and gone away.

“His Majesty was concerned about the Duchess and sent an Imperial doctor.” (1)

What a useless interruption. Hugo was annoyed at King’s excessive thoughtfulness.

“It’s fine. There is no need for an Imperial doctor. Tell His Majesty that I will be there soon.” (Hugo)

The servant affirmed and withdrew while Lucia’s maid came in with a pair of shoes. Hugo watched Lucia change her shoes with an objecting expression. He really wanted to go home. Was there any trick he could use to get out of here quickly? He thought really hard about it.

“Milady. Some elderly nobleman entrusted me with an item to give Milady.”

The maid carefully watched Hugo’s expression as she informed her Madam. Hugo knit his brows.

“Are you saying you’re delivering something with an unknown identity? Do you do things like normally?” (Hugo)

The maid who was being criticized hunched her shoulders. She did consider that she might get scolded. However, the eyes of the elderly nobleman hanging onto a mere maid was so earnest that she couldn’t disregard it.

“She isn’t a careless child, I want to hear what happened.” (Lucia)

Hugo asked the maid to bring the item she had to the table. The item that the maid took out from her inner pocket was a handkerchief. Hugo’s expression was getting worse as he looked at the suspicious object which was a man’s handkerchief.

“I was told to ask if Milady knew this by any chance.”

The maid spread out the handkerchief and showed one side of it. Hugo picked up the handkerchief to check it. The seal of a noble family was stamped on the handkerchief. The head of an eagle.

Hugo couldn’t remember any family with such seal. He made sure there was nothing suspicious with the handkerchief then he handed it to Lucia.

Seeing the seal, Lucia’s eyes shook tremendously.

“This…a nobleman asked you to deliver it? Did he say anything else?”

“He said he is the Count of Baden.” (2)

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