Chapter 74

‘Looks like they’ve managed to firmly tie Riorem down.’

The distance between this townhouse and the royal capital, where Riorem is probably working, is only 20 to 30 minutes on horseback.

And yet, for someone to boldly knock on the mansion door like this—it could only mean something had happened to Riorem.

It felt certain that he wouldn’t be able to return while all this was going on.

Teumesa’s maid must have thought the same.

She kept glancing at me with worry as she helped me get dressed.

Instead of reassuring her, I reminded her again:

“Don’t let your guard down until your feet are inside the royal capital. Getting in and out of the carriage is the most dangerous time—so be extra careful.”

“…Yes, my lady.”

The maid nodded with a tense expression.

‘While I keep Alpheios occupied, the crown prince must be brought here.’

I headed alone to the first-floor drawing room.

A strange silence hung over the first floor.

The air was thick with tension, as if something could explode at any moment.

The servants looked around nervously.

The hallway to the drawing room was filled entirely with Alpheios’s knights.

The mansion’s own staff had essentially been pushed out into the hall.

‘They’re not even trying to avoid looking suspicious.’

Thinking that, I stopped in front of a familiar knight—the same one who always glared at me whenever I ignored Alpheios at Dynamis Castle.

I smiled sweetly at him.

“Could you move aside, please?”

The knight flicked his eyes toward a narrow path next to him.

But I ignored it and simply held his gaze.

I wanted to waste time—and I wanted to watch him swallow his pride.

The knight remained unmoving.

Still smiling, I slapped him across the face.

Then I calmly repeated the same words to the man whose head had just whipped to the side in shock:

“Could you move aside, please?”

“…What the hell—”

Smack.

Another slap sent his head spinning again.

“Did I ever say you could speak? I told you to move.”

The knight glared at me.

His face flushed with humiliation and rage.

But unless he moved, I had only one course of action left.

Smack!

This time, I hit him even harder.

Blood finally trickled down from the corner of his mouth.

“Oh, so now that you’re a princess thanks to the Empire, you’re feeling high and mighty? You’re still just a puppet.”

To that, I whispered sweetly:

“And you think Alpheios will appreciate your loyalty for letting this happen? Or do you think he’ll be furious at you for the delay?”

“If you understand that, then step aside. I said I’m going in to see your master.”

The knight ground his teeth.

He was already displeased with Alpheios’s obsession with me, and now, after enduring this humiliation, he was clearly seething.

But the reality was that he couldn’t deny my words.

At last, the knight stepped aside.

‘That should’ve created enough of a distraction.’

I thought of my maid.

No one would stay calm after seeing their fellow knight get slapped for no reason.

This man was likely quite high-ranking, seeing how close he was to Alpheios and how openly he showed hostility toward me.

And I’d just slapped him until he bled.

The other knights would be too enraged by the scene to notice one maid slipping quietly down to the basement.

I stood before the drawing room door.

Again, I waited without a word until Alpheios’s knights opened it for me.

Eventually, one of them, unable to endure it any longer, opened the door with a twisted expression.

As I stepped inside, I could feel sharp, dagger-like stares stabbing into my back.

‘This is almost too easy.’

I didn’t know if Alpheios still considered me a noble lady or a lowborn slave.

But even if he treated me like a slave, that was a right reserved for Prince Alpheios—

Not for some knight who dared to barge into Riorem Velic’s townhouse.

‘No way Alpheios would ever let a subordinate overstep like that.’

Thinking it was a very convenient situation, I crossed the short hallway and stepped into the drawing room—

And immediately caught a strange scent in the air.

No, it’s not weird.

I didn’t know I would smell it here.

“Ugh, uh… alas, Cherny. Ugh.”

I stared at the view before my eyes.

The beautiful furniture that adorned the drawing room was all tainted with grayish milk.

Screech.

Thang!

At the same time, the door closed behind my back.

I stared down at the man who was sitting on the table waving his paper.

“You’re crazy.”

I didn’t think of anything more.

“You’re much healthier than I thought, Alpheios.”

“Ugh… Oh, it’s cheap…!”

At the same time as the meaningless notice, the shiny ears poured out semen.

A stream of water poured over the narrow table and stool onto the carpet on the floor.

At this point, I had no choice but to express my honest appreciation.

“Was it that? Zoru.”

“If you put up with it, ah… even two hours. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.”

Alpheios shook the swollen paper again.

Come to think of it, there was something wrapped in his hand.

It was covered with semen a crumpled cloth.

“Is it that?”

I remembered the day I was reunited with Alpheios at Arete Castle.

The day he returned from the hunting ground where he had been invited by the crown prince.

Alpheios was a slave of Riorem.

I tried to commit myself.

Then I found out who I was when I took off the head covering I was wearing.

‘Come to think of it, I don’t think I picked up the hair cover that was taken away at the time.’

I crumpled my eyebrows without realizing it.

It made me sick to think that I was the source of alpeiose’s non-drying semen.

I took a step back and stood outside the carpet, because there seemed to be no place other than here where Alpheios’s milk had not been smeared.

“It doesn’t look like you came to propose like last time. If you’re here to celebrate your time
Why don’t you go back, Alphieos?”

Squeeze it. Squeeze it.

The sound of water rose from the bubbling bed of milk bubbles.

When I said it, Alpheios showed his teeth and laughed.

“Ugh, hmm… come on, talk to me, hahah, ahh… do you, Cherni.”

“Hmm. You know I only like pretty things, don’t you?”

“What about my semen?”

“Will it be pretty?”

The rascal laughed.

“Where are you?”

“Well… I’ll shut up for our long friendship.”

Alpeios’ hands stopped at the words.

“You’re a poor fellow.”

Alpheios was brainwashed.

Seeing that, I was troubled.

It was fortunate that Alpheios revealed his true nature.

But, I don’t know where he’s angry.

You need to know for sure what he’s angry about to be able to provoke him properly.

Alfeios, his face twisted violently, stopped self-defense and walked over to me.

Every time he moved, it was cheap, but the flat-rate ground shook.

Chin.

Alpheios’ two arms pushed me against the wall and locked me up.

“You’re relaxed. Is it because you think he’ll save you?”

“Well, this is my house. I’ll hear from you, so you’ll be back soon.”

“Really?”

Alpheios pulled up the corners of his mouth.

His eyes glowed with sweat under his blonde hair.

“Then I’ll have to do my job before the landlord comes.”

As soon as I finished talking, Alpheios grabbed my hair. I’ll rip off my scalp

Alpheios, who gave strength to his grip as if he had, laughed brutally.

“A long time ago, my friends told me how long it would take to take a step back to the 2nd princess of Peroa We discussed it. We’ll finally find out.”

The words made me laugh without realizing it.

“You’ve had friends before, Alpheio.”

At the same time as I was finishing my speech, I felt the pain of the skin on my head being squeezed out.

Alpheios shook my hand holding my hair.

I was rolling around on the floor without a moment to resist.

The rolling feeling was very dirty.

Ttuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk.

Alpheios’ shoes came before me.

Soon after, he sat down with his legs folded, and he came out looking at me.

“I like it a little bit now.”

I faced a pair of red eyes that glowed in an insidious light.

“Really… I want to hit you.”

I clenched my fists to repress my impulses.