Adultery - 1
Who is the highest authority in Franz Castle with neither Father nor Brother present? For the time being, it’s me. Of course, I don’t exactly hold any formal authority over the territory’s affairs, but to put it bluntly, if I decided to force a project through, there was no one who could stop me. The only problem was that Father and Brother would raise hell once they returned.
“Lena. Prepare for tonight.”
“Understood.”
With Father away on the battlefield, there were duties I had to carry out in his place. Most of it amounted to nothing more than signing off on final decisions, but I still needed to understand the situation properly.
While handling paperwork in Father’s office and wrapping up the remaining tasks with Chloe and Zeke, I took a moment to inform Lena that I would be visiting Grace’s room tonight.
“Then I’ll make the arrangements. How should we handle dinner?”
“Dinner… Hmm. Right. I’m fine either way, so if Lady Grace is also agreeable, let’s eat together. If that would be difficult, prepare it so I can eat alone.”
“Understood. Then I’ll take my leave now.”
After Lena departed, just as I was about to finish the remaining work, Chloe entered the office. Having completed the task I’d assigned her, she approached with a strange expression on her face.
“I’ve returned. The report is here.”
“Good work.”
I watched her stand there quietly after delivering her report. Come to think of it, I hadn’t been able to spend much time with her lately. Smiling at the woman who was watching me, I pulled my chair back to create some space.
Slap, slap!
Shall we take a short break? I gestured toward the cleared space and lightly patted my thigh twice. Despite her trained body, she had such a petite frame that her light weight made her the perfect size to sit on my lap.
At my signal, Chloe stared at the spot for a moment before letting out a sigh.
“Haa.”
“Come on, hurry over here.”
When I urged the hesitant girl as if I were in a rush, she shot me a sideways glance before slowly walking forward. After a brief pause, Chloe turned around while still facing away from me.
Ooh.
The perfectly tailored skirt clung to her, accentuating her ass right before my eyes. I briefly considered burying my face in it but decided against that. Instead, as she began to bend down, I grabbed her waist and pulled her up onto me.
“Kyaa!”
“Calm down.”
Chloe was so light I could lift her without even using magic. I settled her on my thigh, wrapped my arms around her slender waist, and buried my face against her back.
Sniiiiff!
“…You smell like sweat.”
“No, it’s fragrant. Chloe’s scent is incredibly nice.”
The sensation of her small, toned, yet plump buttocks—honed by training—pressed warmly against my thigh. I ran my hands over her delicate body, savoring the smooth texture from her calves up to her thighs, the modest breasts I could feel through my encircling arms, and her pure, unperfumed fragrance that subtly filled the air.
“What’s your score now?”
“…Ninety-one points.”
It had already climbed that high? I stroked her thigh. The hem of her skirt and the silk of her stockings tickled the back of my hand. In truth, between work, occasional city patrols, and visits to the checkpoint at the castle gates, I hadn’t played with her much. I’d teased her a few times, but…
“Eep!”
My fingers slipped deeper beneath her skirt. The moment they brushed the bare skin just above the end of her stockings where her flesh folded, Chloe’s body gave a visible shiver.
“Then you’ll be hitting one hundred points soon.”
“Ha-eup! …Yes.”
My hand slid under her top. After teasing her firm abs, I pushed higher until I reached her chest.
“Th-this is… still work hours, isn’t it?”
“I’ve finished all the urgent stuff. What’s the problem?”
I’d removed her panties earlier, but I’d left her wearing a bra since her breasts would be too obvious otherwise. When my fingers reached the undergarment, I nudged it aside and felt the small but perky swell.
“Hmm?”
“Eep!”
I could feel her tiny nipples hardening, proudly asserting their presence. When I glanced up at Chloe, she kept her face turned forward so I couldn’t see her expression, but the bright red flush coloring her ears was unmistakable.
“What’s this? You’re already turned on?”
“Hng! S-stop it!”
The bare skin and slick moisture my fingertips encountered between her legs—where her panties should have been—along with those already erect nipples. Everywhere I looked, the signs of her arousal were obvious. I couldn’t help grinning.
“Our Chloe has become quite the lewd girl.”
“Kk! Mmm!”
Chloe, who had been bracing herself against the desk, bit her lip hard. I pressed a kiss to the tense nape of her neck.
Chu!
“Hii!”
A vivid red mark bloomed on her pure white skin. Without magic to heal it, the hickey would remain for several days. When I licked the spot with my tongue, her body trembled faintly.
“It’ll be difficult for a while, but… I suppose I’ll have to bestow grace soon.”
“Eup! Haa… Understood. I’ll prepare.”
“Good. Ah, and since I have business with Lady Grace today, I’ll leave the rest of the work to you for now.”
“…Then what about tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow?”
“Yes. Will you be staying with Lady Grace tomorrow morning as well?”
Hmm, that’s true. Last time I had left the room immediately after waking. That had been unavoidable. Since I’d given Chloe a rough explanation, she already knew about my relationship with Grace. So her question was whether I would come out right away in the morning or spend more time there.
After all, my role was simply to provide the seed in Brother’s place. Crossing the line with excessive behavior wasn’t wise. Once pregnancy was confirmed, the relationship had to end. Knowing that, I had left the room immediately after waking up last time, just like before.
In truth, I couldn’t be entirely sure what Brother Aidan really thought. Even if such things weren’t uncommon in noble society, how many men would happily hand their woman over to someone else?
…I’ve heard that in the countryside, when a mage wants to sleep with a woman, the husbands get even happier than the women themselves. Still, Brother wasn’t the type to talk about such matters, and the Aidan I knew seemed like someone who genuinely wouldn’t mind, so I thought it would be fine… but there were also other people around, which was why I hadn’t approached Grace much since that day.
The chance of impregnation in a single night was low, but because the relationship was improper, we would confirm pregnancy after each encounter and the intervals between them had grown quite long. On top of that, war preparations and my own workload had left me with even less time.
…But now Brother has left for the battlefield, and there is no one left who could interfere if I spend time with Grace. In other words, now is the perfect moment.
“…Yes. Let’s do that. For tomorrow’s work, you and Zeke can organize and handle whatever you can.”
“Understood.”
Chloe’s reply was rather half-hearted.
…Hmm. This girl.
“Are you perhaps jealous?”
“Huh?”
…Even so, “huh?” is a bit much, isn’t it? I felt a little hurt. No, even then, aren’t I a good superior and a good man? Isn’t this too harsh, damn it.
That man, really.
Chloe suppressed the sigh threatening to escape after their recent conversation and left the office, straightening her disheveled clothes. She adjusted her crooked bottoms and refastened the buttons on her top. Ignoring the subtle stares from the maids standing by the door, she finished tidying her appearance and walked down the long corridor.
Click, click!
The sound of her heels echoed with every step. The cool air brushing against the bare skin beneath her still-unfamiliar panties made her feel strangely sensitive.
Still, the fact that this area was deep within the castle and rarely frequented was at least some comfort to Chloe.
‘Jealous, you say?’
She recalled her master’s playful smile as he asked the question. His naturally neat blond hair, those mystically shining golden eyes that seemed otherworldly, and the faint smile always playing on his lips. Unlike the perpetually solemn nobles of Franz, her master always carried himself with casual ease and loved to tease.
At those mischievous words, Chloe bit the corner of her lip.
I am jealous.
Even while saying he would bestow grace, he had left her body untouched until now. He would caress her as if savoring the moment but never crossed the line. Even now, she could feel her heated body aching with desperate longing for a man. Her face burned with shame at how lewd her virgin body had become.
Yet as a knight who had sworn loyalty, she could not say such things to her lord. She understood that their current relationship was already special. That was why she maintained this careful distance—close enough but never too close.
“Hng…!”
Chloe placed her hand over the places where her lord, Leoric Franz, had touched her moments ago. The warmth of his caress still seemed to linger on her skin.
“…Tsk. I should just finish the work.”
With her face flushed red, breathing excitedly while her hand moved over her own body in longing, the sight was utterly obscene. Though she had done it in an empty corridor, anyone who saw would have been shocked beyond mere embarrassment. Chloe clicked her tongue, suppressed the female desire still writhing inside her, and moved to complete the remaining tasks for her lord today as well.