淑女的欲望

She opens her mouth, but no sound comes out...

"Silence means YES! So, I assume what you say is true." His blue eyes flickered slightly as his lips smiled gently at her. He continued, "Scarlett, I don't mind being your real husband if you want to!"

"WHAT!?" She cries in shock at his words. She didn't mean to ask him to be her real husband. But that was just her wishful thinking. "Y-You, I mean…." Once again, she lost her ability to form a word.

She just muttered inwardly, 'My god! Did he really want this marriage to be real!?'

"If I heard right, you said you wanted to touch me earlier. You also want me to be yours... Right?" Xander said in a calm tone.

Scarlett, "..."

She wanted to vanish from his sight if she had a chance. How could she answer that? This man is so cruel. How dare he corners her like this!?

She was speechless.

"I don't mind! I am also willing to become your man. And, of course, I'm willing if you want to touch me. Hold my hand, and you can kiss me and do more than that... Like, become one with me, ahem, I mean, making love..."

'Heaven! Why is this man speaking in such a vulgar way!?'

Scarlett tried to hide the redness on her face by looking away, but Xander didn't give her a chance to do that. He grabbed her hand and held it tightly. He said, "Dear Scarlett... Please look at me!"

Xander's commanding yet charming voice made Scarlett turn her head to look at him.

He gave her his best smile before saying casually, "Do you understand what I just said?"

"Of course I understand. You mean... you want to take our relationship to another level, right!? From fake to real!?" Scarlett wanted to say that, but the words made a U-turn in her throat. She swallowed it out of embarrassment to say it.

"Fine! I'll take your silence as a 'YES'..." He squeezed Scarlett's hand gently and smiled.

After calming herself down, Scarlett finally summoned the courage to say something, "I didn't mean it like that. I was, you know, wondering..."

Xander narrowed his eyes, looking straight at her before saying, "So you don't like me?"

"No. No... I like you." Instantly she stopped her sentence.

'My lord!! Stop exposing yourself!' She scolded herself inwardly.

"Oh! So you like me. Good to hear that! Well, I wouldn't mind being your real husband, Scarlett..." His sapphire blue eyes flickered with blissful emotion.

Scarlett, "..."

She wished she could disappear — this shame was unbearable. There's no turning back. This man had heard and knew her true feelings, so there was no way she could hide them now.

After a short while, she said, "...W-what about our deal? Do you remember what you said during our contractual marriage; there was no romance or feelings involved?"

"Yeah, I remember! So?"

Scarlett knew she was the one who had broken their agreement. She was the first who fell for this man. Even though she remembers, she is the one who agreed that they would never love each other.

She still did not believe she had fallen in love with this man too fast. She was embarrassed to remember herself back then. She was too confident to say that falling in love with him would be impossible. Now she knows how wrong she was.  After just a few days of living together under the same roof, she couldn't help but fall in love with him!

"I know. I was the one who broke our deal by having feelings for you. So, what are you going to do with the deal?" She said while lowering her head to avoid his burning gaze.

"So you're worried about that!?"

"Hmm!"

"Wait a moment!" Xander said, then stood up from his chair and left the room. After a while, he returned with his office bag in hand.

After Xander sat down again. He took a brown envelope from the bag and handed it to Scarlett, saying, "This is our agreement before marriage. You can check first if this is the right document..." He said it seriously.

Scarlett immediately accepted the document and read it. "Yes! This is the correct document!" She looks up at Xander. She said, "Why did you give it to me? Do you want to revise it?"

She didn't expect this man to keep this document in his office bag and carry it wherever he went. Seems peculiar!

Xander took the agreement letter from Scarlett and gently tore it up.

ραпdα nᴏνa| сom She was shocked! Why did he tear it up?

No words came out of her mouth as she was shocked and speechless by the situation.

"Scarlett, we no longer have our premarital agreement. All the deals we've made are forfeited. You don't have to worry or be embarrassed anymore!" He said firmly.

Scarlett, "..."

At a time like this, Scarlett didn't know how to react. Should she be happy that their relationship was making significant progress or be scared if it was a one-sided feeling? Xander might have agreed only because of his situation!

Confused, Scarlett stares at her hand in Xander's grip. Feeling his warmth flow through her pores calmed her mind a bit.

Whatever the reason, she will try to enjoy this moment. And she'll get over her little doubts — maybe her feelings for Xander are only temporary — later!

'So this means we really are husband and wife?' She felt the beat of her heart resembling war drums. 'Husband and Wife, for real!?'

"Scarlett, please say something..." Xander said.

Her unstable heartbeat had not subsided until now, but Scarlett forced herself to look up to meet his loving gaze.

There were a lot of words she wanted to say to him. But for some reason, they all slipped out of her mind. But, in the end, she said, "X-Xander, so we..."

She stopped again to take a deep breath, but before she could continue her sentence, Xander spoke first.

"...we can do whatever you want. You can touch me, you can kiss me... And do what a married couple does!" He lifted his lips teasingly.

She gulped.