Julia looked down at her husband lying flat on the bed next to her with troubled eyes.
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Endymion, dizzy from the excitement of alcohol and the pounding of his heart, seemed to have no intention of sleeping in another bed even if he died.
Eventually, Julia's face changed strangely.
'What's so hard about just quietly going to another room? What kind of pillow am I? Or at least take off those glasses! Why are you suddenly wearing something like that to upset people... No, no, what am I thinking right now?!'
As Julia was talking nonsense in her jumbled head, Endymion finally took off his glasses and placed them on the nightstand. Only then did she let out a sigh of relief at the return of his familiar face?
Julia sat down on the bed, feeling relieved, and soon began to mutter in a sulk.
"Do you really have to sleep in the same bed as me?"
She never meant it. She was just upset, no, anxious.
Julia thought she knew everything from head to toe, but she guessed that wasn't the case, she was worried that the lukewarmness that had been constant for 12 years might change. And so she was worried that this comfortable relationship that she thought would never change would become unfamiliar.
'I don't like that.'
Julia needed reassurance that it wouldn't be like that, and she wanted reassurance that things would be the same as before. So, on impulse, she said something she didn't mean at all.
"You too, need to fix this habit. Otherwise, the concubine who will bear your child will be disappointed..."
"A concubine who will bear my child?"
A cold voice she had never heard before came back.
Julia stopped in her tracks because it was so cold that it gave her goosebumps. She turned her head, doubting her ears, and her body fell back onto the bed.
"I forgot. What I was going to say during the day, at the hunting grounds."
Their eye levels had changed. Now, even though the glasses were gone, the blue eyes she knew were shining unfamiliarly.
"Want to hear?"
"...What?"
Julia looked up blankly at Endymion, who was climbing onto her body.
"My child, I will make it with you."
The low voice was dangerous yet gentle.
Julia, lying defenseless on the bed, blinked slowly, then belatedly realized something and froze like ice.
"You right now, what..."
"Literally. I have no intention of having children with any other woman but you."
Julia cheeks lit up.
No, not just her cheeks, but her entire face, ears, nape of her neck, and shoulders, all turned red. Her heart started pounding like it was being hit by a bat.
"Wait, wait a minute. Let me put this down...!"
Every part of the body that Endymion touched became hot. Julia, whose whole body turned bright red, tried to escape in a panic. However, Endymion twisted the corners of his lips into a smile, and instead, he trapped Julia even more perfectly.
Julia, who had tried to run away but was pinned down, met Endymion's gaze as he looked down at her.
"Why would you think I would leave you for another woman?"
The edges of his indifferently asked blue eyes were gently folded. Julia tried to push away the strong arm but stopped moving.
She knew what that meant. Endymion was in a very bad mood, and he always had that expression on his face when he was in a tight spot.
Julia spat out a series of incoherent words.
"Why, you ask? I don't come from a family that would be of any help to you. No, but more than that, you know that too. We're family, friends, and like real siblings...!"
"I thought you were smart."
Endymion gave a short laugh as he shouted urgently, Julia's mouth closed at the unpleasant voice mixed with laughter.
For some reason, she had a gut feeling that she had given the wrong answer many times.
"Why are you jumping to conclusions and making conclusions on your own? Why are you creating a child on your own?"
"I... no. Sorry, that's not what I meant!"
Julia cried out urgently at the question that sounded like he was hurt. But at that moment, Endymion's fingers ran up the back of Julia's neck.
Julla's eyes widened as a hot, gentle, and unbearable hand brushed her skin.
"You are what I want."
Endymion's voice, leaning down and whispering, tickled her ear. At that moment, Julia shivered from the goosebumps that ran down her spine from the tips of her toes to the top of her head.
Something was strange.
"I like you."
"...!"
Julia held her breath after hearing the sudden confession. Endymion lifted Julia's hand and kissed each finger as if rubbing his lips against it, then spoke again.
"I've liked you for a long time. As a woman."
"Mion..."
Julia's heart started pounding even harder. Her whole body, even her eyes, felt like they were on fire, and she felt very strange.
Julia was taken aback by the tension and tense air between them that she had never felt before.
"...You saw me as a woman?"
Only then did she understand what had happened at the hunting lodge. She understood the cold reaction that had been so embarrassing when she first brought up the subject of the concubine.
When she was sixteen. She was so embarrassed and ticked off during sex education class!
"That... Then, what you said you felt about women before..."
Julia remembers wondering why there were no other women around her, even though he spoke as if he were another woman. When she asked cautiously, thinking, "No way..." his blue eyes sparkled lazily.
"Of course it was you."
A wave of belated shame washed over Julia, along with the unfamiliar feeling.
"Mi, Mion. Let go of this..."
As the soft contact continued, her delicate fingers began to feel hot and ticklish. Julia called out to Endymion in a crawling voice and tried to pull her fingers out.
Endymion looked down at Julia, whose face was red and whose eyes were not even open, and then obediently let go of her hand.
Julia quickly pulled her hands away and hid them behind her waist. It may have been a defensive move, but in the end, she ended up tying her own hands like prey that walks into his mouth and asks to be eaten...
The actions of the innocent, red-faced man were the complete opposite. Endymion's eyes seemed to sparkle.
Endymion, barely able to hold back his breathing, spoke slowly, his lower jaw twitching.
"You hate me?"
"It's not that I don't like it..."
"Do you want me to meet another woman? Do you want me to have a child with another woman and make that child my successor?"
"..."
Her eyes went dark. When she heard it from Endymion's mouth, her breath caught in her throat. When Julia imagined Mion having a child with another woman, starting a family, and becoming that child's father, she felt like crying.
She wanted to take in a concubine from a good family to create a strong bloodline for Mion. She thought that was her duty as a great Queen. She really did...
"No."
Julia finally closed her eyes tightly and shook her head.
A deep smile spread across Endymion's lips. Having heard the answer he wanted, he opened his eyes in satisfaction and placed his lips on Julia's nape.
His moist lips touched her soft, white skin. He bit it gently with his teeth, then stuck out her tongue to lick it and kissed it deeply.
"Ugh!"
Julia gasped in surprise and opened her eyes wide. She flinched so hard that even Endymion felt the reaction, as he pulled away and looked at her with reddened eyes.
"...I know that you didn't think of me as a man."
Endymion obediently bit back. Only then did Julia's face brighten a little. Endymion smiled crookedly at her appearance and climbed on top of her again.
"That's why I put off confessing until now. I was sure you'd get scared and run away."
"Wait, wait. This is too sudden..."
"But now I don't understand."
In an instant, the atmosphere became suffocating again. Julia, who even swallowed her saliva, became tense as she tilted her head and watched Endymion mutter.
Then Endymion, with his characteristically twisted smile, gently pulled her hand...
Julia, who had reached out her hand in a panic, almost screamed in surprise when her palm dug through the gap between the needles and touched Endymion's bare chest.
"What, what, what are you doing?!"
"If I still don't feel like a man to you, why are you so nervous?"
Julia felt like she was going to faint.
The delicate, firm muscles felt under her palms, and the smooth, supple skin was so obvious. Mher oes were so delicate and ticklish that she writhed involuntarily.
"This, this is ridiculous!"
"Tell me again. Would you like me to have a child with another woman?"
"..."
"Another woman touching my body like this, and me being alone in the bedroom with another woman."
"...No."
"Why doesn't it work?"
Julia couldn't answer that. She doesn't know. She didn't know, but she just hated thinking about it.
Julia glared at Endymion with resentful eyes. However, Endymion paid no attention and bowed with a satisfied expression.
"Then check it out."
"...What?"
"Am I a friend or a man?"
Endymion smiled wickedly, saying it was nothing special.
Eye smile? Did you know that he can even smile with his eyes?
Julia was confused as to whether the man in front of her was really the husband she had shared a bed with for 12 years. Was Endymion really the 'Mion' she thought of?
Julia, who was quite shocked, just watched blankly as Endymion took off his robe. When she came to her senses, she was already facing Endymion, who was half-naked like last time.
"I will soon be having my coming-of-age ceremony, and as a King, I have to produce a successor. I have no intention of taking a concubine, and you also don't like me sleeping with other women."
"..."
"If you really don't like it, I won't force you. But if you still don't understand..."
Endymion lowered himself with a yo-yo look in his eyes and whispered in her ear.
Just try it.
It was a dizzying suggestion, like a devil's temptation. Julia's eyes wavered and wavered. It felt as if she was possessed by something.
If it had been her a few days ago, she would have run away, saying it was ridiculous. But the Endymion of now was not the childhood friend Julia knew, like real siblings.
He was a person who had an unfamiliar appearance that she didn't know at all, and so he felt awkward. He was a completely different person from the lukewarm person he had been before, who made her flustered with his unexpected appearance, made her tremble with his unexpected actions and words, and made her suffocate and difficult to look at properly...
Somehow she felt like she could do it.
'Wait a minute, what are you doing with your childhood friend Mion? With Mion who's like a father, an older brother, and a younger brother to you?'
Julia thought she was crazy for thinking like this.
"If you tell me to stop, I will stop."
A gentle voice whispered into her ear.
As if Endymion had left all the choices to her, he had even personally provided her with a way out. Julia then fell into the illusion that she was in control.
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