Seraphina was still hanging onto the window frame like an exasperated ape, her mouth parted in complete disbelief. Her brain was completely bricked for the sixth time tonight.
"What the fuck, Volsver?!" Seraphina spat, completely forgetting her unbreakable royal etiquette. "Have you lost whatever brain you had left? My mother barely looks at me! She hates the sight of my face because I remind her of that man, and you want me to announce my plans to her?!"
Aria folded her arms, nodding in agreement. "Honestly, darling... even for you, that sounds completely stupid."
Eren just stared at both beautiful confused faces. "Has a single one of my strategic predictions missed the mark so far?"
Seraphina opened her mouth to unleash a barrage of curses, but the words died in her throat. The assassination attempt, the substance, the raid— this idiot had been accurate about literally everything.
She clenched her jaw, glaring with her burning red eyes at him.
"You’re an absolute idiot, Volsver!"
With that, the Crown Princess leaped backward, jumping down below, leaving the young couples alone in peaceful silence.
Eren walked to the window, shutting and latching the lock. "Well... that was a wild dinner."
"Everything is wild whenever you’re involved, Eren," Aria groaned.
The blue-haired villainess dragged her exhausted body across the room and collapsed dramatically onto his bed. She rolled over with a heavy sigh, staring up at the ambient mana lamps on the ceiling.
"Now Princess is going to despise me forever," Aria muttered, pouting at the plaster. "She despises all men on principle, and she was the mastermind who planned our fake engagement in the first place. And what do I do? I go and fall head-over-heels for a shameless guy who already has many girls. My luck is truly cruel."
Eren chuckled, walking over to the mattress and taking a seat right beside her. He looked down at his gorgeous fiancée, utterly charmed by how completely she let her guard down whenever they were alone.
He hovered directly over her, blocking her view of the ceiling.
"You don’t need to stress that pretty head of yours. She will come back to you in two days."
Aria narrowed her eyes with playful doubt, delivering a gentle, harmless fist tap against his cheek.
"And just how are you so arrogantly confident about that, my brilliant idiot?" she asked, a fond smile on her lips.
Eren caught her small hand mid-air, pressing a warm, teasing kiss against the back of her knuckles.
"Simple, my lady," Eren purred smoothly. "Just trust your future husband."
Aria giggled at his declaration. "You really are an unbearable idiot with a talent for sweet-talking women, darling."
Reaching up, she gently brushed the dark bangs away from his forehead, holding his hair back as her golden eyes scanned his face.
At this moment, she didn’t find his face handsome or charming; he looked honest. He might lie about some secrets he’s been hiding, but deep down, she knew he never lied about his true feelings. He never made excuses about his relationships with other women, and if their lives had just been ordinary and boring, she knew he probably would have been exclusively hers.
’But normal is boring anyway,’ Aria thought with a helpless sigh.
Unable to resist the magnetic pull between them, Aria wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down to give a deep, breathless kiss.
She poured every ounce of her devotion into this intimacy, sharing her breath with the only man who had never once considered abandoning her. When she finally broke the kiss with a wet gasp, Eren’s lips and jaw were left red-stained with her lipstick.
Panting softly, Aria sat upright on the edge of the mattress beside him. She leaned her head sideways against his shoulder, her breath coming in warm puffs as the villainess persona completely died into vulnerability.
"Why do you have to be so damn attractive, Eren?" Aria whispered, her fingers tracing the hem of his trousers. "Sometimes... it terrifies me. I keep worrying that you’ll keep charming more and more women until you’ll end up leaving me alone while you enjoy life with the rest of them."
Eren hummed, resting his palm gently atop her dark blue hair, his fingers threading through the silky strands in a rhythmic stroke.
"Have I ever once neglected you, Aria?" Eren asked in a calm, velvet baritone. "I love you, and I care deeply for the other girls in my life. But that doesn’t divide my devotion into smaller fractions. Loving them doesn’t mean I’ll ever lose interest in you, my lovely lady."
Aria looked up, her golden eyes shimmering with amusement. "I was just teasing you, my sweet idiot," she murmured, leaning in to press a gentle, apologetic kiss against the cheek she had playfully slapped earlier.
Then, the soft vulnerability in her eyes faded, replaced by a dangerously seductive spark.
"Now then... let us make this evening truly unforgettable, darling," Aria whispered, her voice sultry.
With effortless composure, the blue-haired villainess leaned back, lifting her long, porcelain legs into the air.
Eren’s brain short-circuited as his blue eyes locked onto the breathtaking, heart-thumping spectacle before him.
Right beneath the lifted hem of her lavish gown, Aria gracefully hooked her slender index fingers into the delicate lace bands at her hips. Slowly, she slid the silky black panties down the smooth, milky thighs, kicking them free with a flick of her ankle.
The discarded, fragrant piece landed squarely against Eren’s stunned face.
Peeking out from behind the warm and lewd fabric, Eren found Aria propped up on her elbows, biting her lower lip with a predatory smirk that had absolutely zero business belonging to the most revered noble lady in the entire empire.
Eren slowly peeled the silky fabric off his face, tossing it onto the nightstand.
"And here I thought the noble daughter of House Reedings only became this daring after a few gulps of whiskey," Eren murmured, his blue eyes lighting up with anticipation.
Aria leaned in close, the fragrance of her perfume washing over him as she tilted her chin up with a confident grin. "Perhaps the alcohol simply revealed what I wanted all along, darling."
In the next moment, Aria found herself pressed against the wall of the room, his lips crashing down on hers in a deep, dominant kiss. Aria gasped into his mouth, her arms instantly curling around his neck, pulling him down to close every remaining inch of space.
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