Why the Northern Duke Wanders the Snowfields - Chapter 68

Cedric was rather angry.

‘Damn Aileen.’

Even when he followed her all the way to her room carrying her luggage and tried to talk to her, she didn’t spare him a single glance.

He felt offended and furious. Cold treatment and contempt. They were familiar feelings, but still difficult to control.

In the end, he clenched his fists and trembled before storming out of Aileen’s room, only to run into Aubrianna like this.

He could see the woman’s round, pale forehead as she demurely bowed her head.

‘She certainly is beautiful.’

Full breasts and a slender waist. On top of that, her small lips made him want to shove something thick between them.

‘Kaeloc must’ve rammed his cock between those lips.’

He’d probably done all sorts of things to her, not just that. The bastard pretended otherwise, but he was filthy-minded.

‘How good could she possibly taste for him to even knock her up?’

Cedric’s lewd imagination went on without end.

“I’d like a taste.”

“Excuse me?”

Cedric didn’t miss the disgust that flashed through the woman’s eyes as she questioned him. But he deliberately pretended not to notice and smiled.

‘As if some hopelessly innocent woman could be that bastard’s mistress. Give me a fucking break.’

The thought that she must have quite a formidable personality sent heat rushing to his lower body. Resisting the urge to grope her with his hands as he usually did, he spoke, “So, how is the room, Aubrianna?”

“It’s very nice. Thank you for your consideration.”

“Well, I suppose it’s far better than a cramped maid’s room.”

After remaining silent for a moment, Aubrianna grew tired of facing Cedric.

“Then, if you’ll excuse me….”

“What’s the hurry?”

“I heard Lady Agnes is ill. I’m on my way to see Sir Tarion.”

“Is that so?”

Cedric began walking first, saying that he would show her the way.

“I can find the way myself….”

“Are you rejecting the goodwill of the current head of the family?”

Head of the family, my foot. Aubrianna barely managed to keep her face from twisting.

If he caused a scene here, Aubrianna would be the one left with the trouble.

Only when Aubrianna began walking did Cedric take the lead with a satisfied expression and continue, “But before that, it would be rude to go empty-handed, so we should stop by my room and pick something up.”

“Sir Cedric, then I’ll go on ahead….”

Cedric turned to look at her, his face hardening. “Are you looking down on me?”

Aubrianna suppressed the sigh that threatened to escape as she looked at the man making such an absurd accusation.

“The baby will wake up soon. I’m saying that I need to go on ahead because I don’t have much time and must hurry back.”

Even after she explained, Cedric continued spouting sophistry as expected.

“You’re ignoring what I say because you’re worried that some insignificant baby might wake up?”

“I’m not ignoring what you’re saying… ah!”

Cedric suddenly grabbed her arm, flung open the door to a room beside them, and shoved her inside.

Judging by the white cloths covering all the furniture, the room she’d stumbled into appeared to be empty.

Aubrianna stood there in shock, then shouted when Cedric entered the room and locked the door.

“What are you doing!”

Enough was enough.

Furious, Aubrianna looked around.

‘Does he think I’ll let him do that to me again?’

Even thinking about it now made her blood boil. She regretted it constantly even while in prison. He came to her room drunk and barely able to control his body, yet she did nothing but tremble in fear.

If she got another chance, she should’ve smashed his head open with a club or something. She quickly looked around, then shouted when Cedric lowered his trousers.

“If you don’t put those back on right now, I’ll call for someone!”

“What are you talking about, Aubrianna? You told me to take them off.”

Cedric slowly walked toward her like that, grinning.

“You said you’d suck me off, so why are you changing your story now?”

“Go pester that maid instead of me. I heard you went in and out of that bitch’s room so often last winter that it caused an uproar….”

Aileen’s sneering remark had enraged him.

How did she know? Then again, she hadn’t said which maid, so it didn’t necessarily have to be Aubrianna. But Aileen’s words felt as though she were mocking him, saying that maids were all he was good enough for.

With nothing more to say, he stormed out of the room, fuming, and happened to run into Aubrianna.

“You seduced me, the head of the family. Didn’t you decide that since Kaeloc lost his memory, you’d be better off switching to me?”

It was insane. It was convincing enough bullshit that anyone unaware of the circumstances might completely fall for it.

Aubrianna’s face hardened. Fortunately, his shirt was long enough to conceal his hideous penis, but the sight of his pale, scrawny thighs, as white as his hair, made her nauseous.

As Aubrianna slowly backed away, she spotted a knee-high ornament on the floor that hadn’t been covered with cloth. She quickly picked it up and thrust it out in front of her. Her hands trembled violently, but she refused to show it and glared resolutely at Cedric.

“Take one step closer, and I’ll make you regret it with this.”

“Ha! So Kaeloc’s back, is that it?”

Cedric began growing aroused by Aubrianna’s fierce reaction. Nothing mattered to him anymore.

‘Aileen rejected me anyway, and Aunt rejected me too. Since things have come to this, I’ll fuck this bitch once and be done with it.’

If he wanted someone to torment, Aubrianna was perfect. A former maid who became the Duke’s mistress? So what?

“You really think Kaeloc cares about you? That bastard is going to marry Lady Lott anyway. Lady Lott will probably raise the child too.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! He asked me to marry him.”

She trembled as she argued back, but in truth, she wasn’t confident.

That day, Aileen insulted her to her face, and Kaeloc appeared later and told Aileen to apologize.

But if Theo didn’t exist….

If she weren’t the birth mother of the future heir and was merely his mistress?

Would Kaeloc truly have been able to tell a count’s daughter to apologize to her, a former maid?

And more than anything,

Tears began flowing from Aubrianna’s eyes. She didn’t want to compare herself, but it felt so unfair.

‘If I were Lady Lott, this wouldn’t have happened to me.’

Being trapped in an empty room and forced into sex by that pervert Cedric was beyond belief. But she couldn’t expect anyone to help her.

Aubrianna slowly lowered her hand. Then she glanced at the door behind Cedric.

“Fine. If I do it once, you won’t bother me anymore, right?”

“Now you’re making sense.”

Seeing that Aubrianna appeared to have lost the will to fight, Cedric grinned broadly. The sight of fluid dripping from the reddened tip of his cock, though she had no idea what had aroused him, was absurd.

‘Fucking pervert.’

Biting down hard on her lip, Aubrianna dropped the ornament onto the floor with a thud.

“Come closer. If we do it near the door, someone passing through the corridor might notice.”

“I’d prefer that.”

Aubrianna scowled fiercely and shook her head.

“But I wouldn’t…. So what are you going to do?”

She couldn’t bring herself to speak pleasantly to him. But Cedric, who seemed even more aroused than before, smacked his lips and shuffled awkwardly toward her.

With his trousers tangled around his ankles, it took him forever just to reach her.

Aubrianna raised her tearful eyes and looked at the man.

‘Doesn’t he understand how hideous this is?’

If he didn’t, then this man was a monster. He wasn’t normal. Even Sion, who hated her to death, seemed humane by comparison.

The man took another step. Her chest pounded wildly with tension, but Aubrianna swiftly bent down, picked up the ornament she’d dropped, and struck the man’s lower body with a heavy thud.

“Aaagh!”

Cedric toppled forward with a bizarre scream. Seizing the opportunity, Aubrianna opened the door and dashed out.

Then she ran straight back to her room.

“Huff, huff.”

Had she ever hit someone before? She didn’t know. Aubrianna poured herself a glass of water with trembling hands and drank it. Renee came out of the nursery and looked at her in confusion.

“Miss Aubrianna. Are you all right?”

“…Yes.”

“Your hands are trembling terribly.”

At Renee’s worried voice, Aubrianna hurriedly hid her hands behind her back. Lukewarm, clammy sweat ran down her spine, and goose bumps covered her entire body.

“I-I’m fine. I’d like to rest for a while….”

It was time for Theo’s feeding, but since the young master also ate solid food well, Renee silently nodded and withdrew.

***

“You fucking bitch!”

Cursing, Cedric clutched his penis and rolled across the floor.

It hurt. It hurt far too much.

He wanted to chase after her immediately, seize her by the hair, and whip her mercilessly, but the way his penis was swelling while bent at a strange angle didn’t look right.

“Ugh! Is anyone there? Hey!”

He couldn’t even stand up like this, so Cedric lay on the floor and shouted. Perhaps because it was an empty room, there wasn’t even a bellpull in sight, leaving Cedric with no choice but to lie there clutching his penis and groaning helplessly.

Then it happened.

A rustling sound came from deeper inside the room, and someone slowly sat up.