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Chapter 2
Amelia thanked the man with a quiet voice. He placed a hand on her shoulder, as if he was sympathetic to her shame.
“I am Count Cornell.”
“Yes, Count Cornell.”
“It seems that Miss Laszlo was not really involved in the Empress candidate selection…”
The man patted her bare shoulder. As she flinched and lowered her head, the man grinned.
“I assume that while Count Lazlo was trying to make contact with the capital, he forced you out.”
After all, whether he was a capital noble or not, he saw through her situation accurately. Her uncle was obsessed with sucking up to the imperial family and the capital nobles.
“Why? Did you run into some problems?”
“…”
His touch became more daring as she bowed her head, unable to speak. These explicit gestures that took place in the middle of the Imperial Palace—she was well aware of how people with those eyes acted. And that she couldn’t resist against them.
“If that’s the case, I can help you. What do you say?”
The Count’s hand fiddled with her earlobe. What should she do? She never thought she could seduce someone so easily. This man wanted her body. This person knew that she was in a predicament. And she couldn’t refuse this either. It was when she tried to respond that another voice spoke up.
“I can’t stand looking at this.”
Amelia raised her head, startled by the sudden sound of the voice. A young man was standing some distance away. Amelia forgot the situation for a moment and stood there blankly. Because the young man’s appearance was so outstanding.
Dressed in black, he had broad shoulders and a tall, well-developed [hysique. However, unlike his thick frame, his face was elegantly beautiful. Well-groomed black hair, and golden eyes set beneath it. His tall nose and closed lips were like the manifestation of a god holding a torch that she had seen long ago.
The young man made eye contact with her and gently curved his eyes.
It was the smile of a person who has a good interest in anyone he directed it to. She was captivated by him for a moment
“This is not the place where the Empress’s candidate selection is held.”
“Ah, I…”
His voice was also smooth and soft. Besides that, he was talking to her formally. He wore clothes that looked evidently opulent, so it was strange that he used formal speech with her.
“Follow me.”
The young man grabbed Amelia’s wrist and led her away. Amelia looked at the Count in bewilderment, but the Count turned back with a pale face and ran away. So she couldn’t say anything and had no choice but to let the Count leave.
Amelia looked at the young man. It seemed that he thought she was being harassed so he helped her. She spoke to the man who hurried his steps.
“I… I’m okay.”
Then the man stopped. She hesitated.
“Why, what’s wrong?”
The man’s tone became more comfortable. She looked towards the fleeing Count and then stared at him. Then his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
“No, I…”
“Come to think of it, why did you do that to me before?”
“What?”
“You spoke formally to me.”
Was it not obvious? Amelia had a puzzled expression on her face. The man was also looking at her with a puzzled expression.
What? Did they know each other? She wondered when she had seen him. Anyone had such striking features like him, she would have remembered it. Seeing her face, the young man said, “Ha,” and let out a smirk mixed with laughter as if he realized something about her.
“Well, I understand now.”
“Yes?”
Instead of answering, he smiled kindly. But whoever this man was and whatever the circumstances, she wouldn’t be able to reenter the banquet hall where the Empress selection was being held.
“I appreciate your consideration, but I won’t go back there.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t plan on participating in the selection.”
“Are you not participating? But you must have been invited.”
“Anyway, I won’t become the Empress. So I just want to go back.”
The Count might still be there. She looked behind her, but the man looked at her sullenly.
“Why don’t you think so?”
“I just…”
This person didn’t know her. She bit her lip at the thought that the face of such a handsome man would be contorted with contempt.
The grip holding her hand loosened. She let out a sigh of relief. But right after, she almost screamed. Because the man grabbed her wrist even tighter. The man whispered in her ear.
“Why. Do you want to go back and go to bed with that man?”
Gasp!
Startled by the eeriness of his voice, she looked at his face. The man was still smiling sweetly. However, the grip on her arm was too strong, unlike his gentle smile.
“It’s amazing that you’ve come to a position where you are being favored by the Emperor, but you’re still trying to seduce a man who has grown old.”
Her face turned white. When she heard that, she felt like she had committed a great felony.
“Follow me.”
“No, I was trying to…”
Was he going to take her to jail? The man she believed to be a knight grabbed her hand and led her away. She couldn’t resist his strength.
“How can a knight treat people so rudely! I’ll tell the Magistrate. If you do not want to be disciplined by the Knight Commander, stop immediately! This is…!”
“Knight?”
He smiled and looked back at her.
“Knight. What an interesting thing to say, Miss Laszlo. Do you also like knights?”
That mocking voice was unbelievably strange. As she opened her eyes, he smiled at her. The smile that spread across his languid face clearly had enough mesmerizing power to make her gulp.
“Don’t worry, I won’t drag you back to the banquet hall.”
Amelia was terrified. Still, somewhere in the corner of her heart, she felt a strange relief that this person was unlikely to harm her. After she was dragged by his hand for a long time, she reached in front of a certain room. Is this a prison? Two women were standing in front of the door.
“Wait!”
“Is it all ready?”
Unlike when he was talking to Amelia, a hard voice resounded from the man’s mouth.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Y-Your Majesty? With such a terrifying remark, she looked around, thinking that the Emperor was here. But this man was the only one standing there. This man was the Emperor, not a knight? It was then that she understood why the Count had run away.
Amelia was practically isolated from the world, so she didn’t know much about the Emperor. All she knew was that he was a young man. And she heard that, at first glance, he was a rather scary person.
If he was the Emperor, she had already crossed a river of no return. It was not just that she tried to get into an affair before the Empress selection was over, but she also called him a knight, so this was an insult to the Imperial family.
“Let’s go inside.”
The man whispered softly. Even during this time, the way he spoke was really friendly, although she didn’t know what would happen after that.
“Get out.”
At the man’s words, the maids bowed their heads and left the room. She immediately grabbed the hem of her skirt and curtsied towards the Emperor.
“Greetings, Your Majesty. Please forgive me for committing the great sin of ignorance towards Your Imperial Majesty the Emperor.”
Then suddenly, the man grabbed her hand and lifted her chin from her bowing body, then stared into Amelia’s face. She blinked her eyes at the awkward posture.
“Of course I forgive you.”
Said the man softly. Thank God. Contrary to the scary rumors, the Emperor was quite kind. It was when she thought, ‘Maybe he was tolerant of unintentional mistakes’.
“However, seducing another person while you’re an Empress candidate is unforgivable.”
“Umph!”
Amelia lost her balance to the kiss as he covered her lips with his. The man supported her by the waist, bent his head, and pried her lips open. Startled, her body stiffened and looked at him. The Emperor was kissing her. In her surprise, his soft tongue went into her lips, and shocked by the storm of kisses, she embraced him without even thinking of rejecting him. The tyrannical kiss began to become more and more intense.
“Mmmh!”
She couldn’t avoid it because the other person was the Emperor. She did not have the courage to refuse the Emperor’s kiss.
“Ah, Your, Your Majesty!”
She found herself being pushed down onto the bed. The man took off the coat he was wearing and threw it away. He got on top of her half-undressed. Then, unwittingly, spread her legs apart as he held her waist. Suddenly, his hand slipped under her skirt, and he pulled down her underwear. Then, literally, her bare skin was exposed.
He lifted her body for a moment and smirked at her exposed tuft of hair, then touched it gently, as if saving the tastiest for later. Knowing what was going to happen to her, she turned her head and closed her eyes tightly. The Emperor saw this and said,
“You must open your eyes and look at me, Amelia.”
“…”
A gentle tone. She opened her closed eyes and looked at him. His center, standing proudly, could be seen between his firm thighs, after he had even taken off his trousers. She looked at it in surprise. She could see his length between his legs as climbed over her on his knees, the tip of the manhood already dripping.
He held her lower body apart and drew closer to her. She felt his pillar on her navel. With a look of resignation, she looked at the man, or the Emperor, then he smiled and kissed her.
He grabbed her hand and placed it over his cheek. It felt good, so she left it alone. He said as he looked at her with his golden eyes.
“You are trembling pitifully.”
“…”
“But I have no intention of forgiving you. This is your doing.”
His hand violently tore the seam of her dress. He was very skillful in dismantling the clothes she was wearing. The laces of the corset she was wearing were ripped apart by his bare hands, revealing her white flesh. Her voluptuous breasts and beautiful curves, her shoulders, slim waist, and belly button.
Amelia was sadly aware that her body would attract men. The Emperor scoured her naked body with a heated gaze. Maybe was considering her carefully, what kind of woman he’s attacking. She gave a resigned look.
“Thin.”
“Yes?”
“You’re too thin.”
The Emperor grimaced and made a dissatisfied expression. Could it be that such a skinny body was unpleasant for him? He reached out and touched her chest very carefully. It was closer to an act of confirming something rather than something of a sexual nature. Still, his hands were somehow hot, and her nipples stood upright. The Emperor, looking at her intently, fiddled with the ribs exposed under her chest, as if stroking a poor thing. Amelia could not understand the Emperor’s thoughts.
“A meal.”
“Yes?”
“Let’s start with your meal.”
He lifted himself up and smiled. His manhood, which had lightly touched her folds and threatened her, also fell. She looked at it with a surprised expression. Then the Emperor smiled and looked at his crotch. Then he wiped it with his hand, the bulge that made its presence known.
“Sorry.”
“Yes?”
“I must have been too hasty.”
“…”
“I was so angry I couldn’t stand it.”
The Emperor looked really sorry.
“Seeing you made me excited without knowing it, like this.”
The Emperor pulled Amelia’s hand and placed it over his crotch. She felt his pillar growing harder under her palms. The touch of the weapon that would violate her body. If it was any other man, she would have wanted to escape in disgust. But there was something different about this frightening Emperor. His beautiful golden eyes were both eerie and friendly. There was a deep emotion and kindness in those eyes that gave her chills down her spine. Amelia gave a slight force to her hand, which had unwittingly grasped his length, and she gently stroked it.
“Mmmhh!”
The Emperor closed his eyes as if in pain. That face was very beautiful. But seeing his breathing grow heavier, she was perplexed. Why me…? What are you doing now? Of course, it shouldn’t have ended abruptly here. It would just incur the Emperor’s wrath. Let’s satisfy him.
Action first, rationalization second.
As if trying to tame a beast, she continued to stroke his length with her hand.
“Uugh!”
His thing was standing so stiffly that she could feel the spiky veins vividly. She stroked it slowly and then quickly speeded up her pace.
“Amelia, keuh, ugh!”
The Emperor willingly put his own thing in her hands. It wasn’t long before his manhood erupted with pure white liquid that wet her hands and shoulders.
He gasped. The place where his desire had been released had lost its power, but it still stood upright, as if it were not satisfied yet.
She looked at the man’s fluids over her body. It had a thick manly scent. The Emperor gasped for breath afterwards and looked at her with hazy eyes. Even his appearance was so beautiful that she had goosebumps.
“I told you that I felt excited, but I didn’t tell you to stimulate me.”
“…”
“You…”
Why? He must have found this unpleasant. He smirked as he looked at the white fluids on her, and said,
“Maybe next time it won’t be this quick.”
The Emperor spoke as if there was something like that, and looked at his own length, which, as if a little embarrassed, had finished it’s act.
Then he carefully grabbed her hand and pulled it up, sticking out his red tongue. Startled, she tried to pull it back, but he slowly tightened it and licked his own semen from her hand. A lewd sound echoed through the room. And as he licked her arm and her shoulder, his body naturally drew closer to her. He said as he looked at her with his face close to hers.
“And I advise you, don’t do anything useless.”
As she gave him a puzzled look, he grinned and pointed his eyes down. She saw his manhood poking her own thigh.
“It’s standing again.”
Contrary to the languid expression on his face, his manhood stood taut once again as if he wanted her immediately.
* * *
Amelia wore the clothes the maids brought. Her body had already been wiped clean with a wet towel, so she quietly put on the dress.
[ Stay still while I’m still being patient. ]
The Emperor reassured Amelia, who was surprised to see his manhood erect again, then put on his clothes and went outside. She felt like she was dreaming. But it wasn’t a dream. She couldn’t even think of it as an illusion because of his scent that still remained in the room she was in and even after she had washed her body.
She was escorted straight to the dining room, but this only confused her.
He didn’t like her skinny body, so he was asking her to gain weight? Was this a kind of punishment? Suddenly, she remembered the madman of Kshamil—the country close to the northern borders—who said there was a unique torture method to kill someone by feeding them until their stomach exploded. Could it be that the Emperor was trying to torture her like that? Anyway, Amelia couldn’t eat comfortably.
Then, the door opened. All the servants standing by bowed their heads and greeted. She, too, was surprised to see the person coming in and got up. It was the Emperor. Unknowingly, she looked between his legs. Did he notice it? As he looked at Amelia and gave her a strange smile, she was startled.
“Isn’t the meal pretty late?”
“No. The lady doesn’t seem to have any appetite at all…”
One of the maids spoke hastily, and he looked at Amelia.
“Why? Do you have no appetite?”
It was a word of tender concern. What the hell was going on, Amelia didn’t feel that anything was real at all. She had been evicted from her own home and she took part in the Empress candidate selection. She wanted to meet the Count and try to live her life, but the Emperor suddenly appeared. Now he was furious with her for trying to initiate an affair, then took her to his bedroom. But then he said that she was ‘too thin’, and she suddenly found meals were being served to her.
Was there any way for anyone to have an appetite after experiencing such an unreasonable situation?
Besides, she didn’t even know if this was food for her to eat, or for punishment.
“Ah!”
While contemplating, she was startled to see the Emperor seated right next to her. When did he come next to her?
He picked up the spoon himself and put it in front of her mouth.
“Come on, eat.”
“…”
“Open up. Ahh.”
She reflexively opened her mouth and the steaming soup came in. It smelled savory. It was her favorite potato soup. She looked at the Emperor’s face and swallowed it.
“That’s right, good job.”
Amelia gave a confused look, as if he was feeding a child.
“Is it delicious?”
“Yes.”
As she nodded, he looked very satisfied.
“Your Majesty, I will eat. You don’t need to do this.”
“But if I didn’t do this, I thought you’re not going to eat.”
“I will eat now.”
“Come on, eat this.”
The Emperor raised his hand and simply sliced the ham and put it in her mouth. Amelia thought, ‘Why the hell is this man like this,’ and she took it and ate it. As she chewed it, he had a happy expression on his face.
“Is it delicious? The Imperial chef is a good cook.”
“…”
“You don’t have an answer. Wouldn’t it be better to cut off the Imperial chef too?”
At that, her eyes widened as she pointed to her own mouth, which was chewing the ham. Then the Emperor laughed.
“I was joking, Amelia.”
“…”
“Then eat. Make sure you eat it all.”
When he got up, she asked.
“Your Majesty, aren’t you eating?”
“I have work to do. Why? Do you want me to dine with you?”
At the question he threw at her with his eyes shining, she put on a puzzled expression. Seeing this, he smiled at her.
“Look, you wouldn’t be able to eat comfortably if I was there. Go ahead and eat.”
The Emperor patted her on the shoulder and left. After the Emperor disappeared, Amelia’s eyes grew wide. Did he come just to make sure she was eating her food properly? Why? She was frozen on her seat, holding the fork with a puzzled expression. Then she suddenly realized that if she didn’t eat properly, he might harm the maids and cooks here.
She started eating the soup. It tasted savory. Come to think of it, it’s been awhile since she’s eaten such a luxurious dish. Delicious potato soup, brown-baked bread, and ham that didn’t smell rotten. The fresh and sweet taste of meat. She hadn’t eaten properly in a long time.