Villainous Husband, the One You’re Obsessed With Is Over There - Chapter 24

Chapter 12.2

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Raniero embraced me from behind and placed his mouth on the nape of my neck. When I made a slight sound of pain, he let out a pleasant laugh. What’s funny about this?

The hand that continuously swept and touched my lower abdomen was large, rough, and cold.

I laid my back on him, trying not to fall asleep.

“You’re loosening your hair today.”

This was the third time I’d seen him. The first time was the wedding and the second time was in the audience room, so I had to raise my hair decorously both times. However, Raniero has invaded my personal time today.

“Do… you like it?”

I asked carefully.

However, Raniero didn’t say anything for a while, perhaps because he didn’t hear my question since he kept biting the spot he had bitten with his fangs over and over again.

‘Uug, it hurts…’

With him being out of sight, it seemed as if the tension was less than usual. I crouched slightly in his arms and asked another question.

“Are you going to sleep here today, Your Majesty?”

“Yes.”

I asked because I didn’t want you to sleep here…!

Nonetheless, I couldn’t even ask if he could go back to the main Palace and sleep, so I just blinked at the starry night sky outside the terrace. My whole body was tired. Even if we suddenly had a sexual relationship, I was again a little curious as to why the act of touching or biting my body while lying in bed was not boring.

Of course, I’m not complaining since I didn’t get on his nerves during the relationship. It was just that I couldn’t understand why he was trying to be so close to me without seeing me as an equal?

‘…Does it feel like touching a cat’s back?’

Still, I’m not fluffy, I don’t make a growling sound, nor do I have a soft tail…

“Are you sleepy?”

His tone of voice was a little looser than usual. I was startled by the stinging pain from being bit at my ear as if he was trying to wake me up.

“As you said, you don’t have good stamina.”

He hugged me a little tighter. If anyone looked from behind his back, they wouldn’t even be able to see my body—almost like a total solar eclipse.

“Besides, being small…”

…There’s nothing I can do about being small, Your Majesty.

“It’s difficult.”

I waited for a little while because Raniero suddenly said those words out of nowhere. Fortunately, he soon explained to me what he meant.

“When will you be able to make it into a great hunting ground?”

I covered my mouth at that moment.

‘…Right.’

I decided to be the Emperor’s prey in the winter… That was what I said.

‘I was busy with work, so I had forgotten.’

No. No matter how busy you were, there was nothing to forget, Angelica! It was because I was rushing to deal with the immediate task that I didn’t even think about the future after the seasons changed.

Feeling like I was running out of breath, I quickly took a deep breath. At that time, I said that I would devote myself to ‘becoming an excellent prey for the Emperor’s hunting grounds in winter.’

…Until winter.

Naturally, I had no intention of entering the hunting grounds as prey. I planned to wait until winter, and when Raniero left for the subjugation, I would run away.

Well, what if Raniero, who has lost his prey, gets angry and comes to find me?

No, that wouldn’t be the case.

He would come back and meet Seraphina before he found out about my absence. The moment he sees Seraphina, all of his senses would be completely focused on her. Looking into those blue eyes would be the cataclysm of Raniero’s life.

When such a natural disaster occurs, what about the small and weak prey?

Moreover, such intense emotional sparks didn’t happen after two people built a narrative and interacted. Everything just explodes the moment their eyes meet, either by chance or by the inevitability of the author’s intervention with a self-evident reason that seemed to explode like when an ember sparked in oxygen.

Do you know how Raniero changed after meeting Seraphina?

Conquest activities, pleasure-seeking, and all that were left behind—he only indulged in Seraphina—that was Raniero’s blindness. At first sight, the sky and the earth were turned upside down, and all the standards he had set up became worthless.

It made him forget everything he was originally pursuing.

‘Ha…’

Even though I know his future, he doesn’t know his own future yet.

“Now that I think about it, I didn’t tell you the second rule added to the hunting game.”

Opening his mouth again all of a sudden, I placed his hand on my waist and turned my body around with ease. I was now facing towards him again.

“You must attend as a hunter.”

Huh?

The moment those words left his mouth, everything I had been pondering disappeared from my mind.

A hunter? Me…?

…I’ve never held anything heavier than a pen?

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