Saving The Abandoned Empress

“Can i call you by your name?”

The girl with long silver hair and blue eyes, who was standing beside the lake, asked with very expectations, which he couldn’t refuse.

“Mhm. You can.”

‘This is our first meeting but she is already roaming around by herself... Not to mention calling me by my name.’

Duke Valentino stood infront of his soon to be wife, Saintess Ariande Dalton.

“Your lake is very beautiful you know? It caught my eyes right after i came!”

“It’s artificial...”

“So what? A lake is just a lake to me.”

.....

“...”

‘Is this blabbermouth going to be my wife? How am i supposed to tolerate her for the next two years?’

To Duke Valentino, Ariande was just a helping stone on his path towards rebellion.

He had been preparing for rebel along with the help of Arendell Empire because the emperor of Rua is a unreasonable tyrant.

To suppress the duke family, he even plotted to kill the previous duke and duchess. The only survivor was their son, Cathain Valentino.

The situation in the Arendell royal family wasn’t that good either, So to protect his younger sister... The prince had no choice but to sent her to Rua.

His only condition to help Duke Valentino was, he has to keep his sister safe.

Duke Valentino, who had no problem with this agreed to the condition without even seeing her.

Now, that he saw her, he couldn’t take his eyes off from her.

He knows, she doesn’t know anything about him or their condition for marriage.

He had intended to tell her about this after she comes. He had to tell her that their marriage is only for a show and will end after two years.

She had to stay away from him because he is not a human, rather, he is a demon, who is harmful for a innocent goddess like her.

But seeing her, he suddenly doesn’t have the intention to let her know any of this.

Duke Valentino felt weird. Why does he not want her to know about him and fear like everyone else does?

Seeing him all flustered, Ariande chuckled a little and opened her mouth to speak,

“Anyway, I hope we will get along from now on and I will try my best to assist you and...love you.”

Ariande felt a little embarrassed as she spoke her last words and then glanced at Cathain, who stood like a rock.

“I-I just meant i already seem to like you a little-”

Ariande felt even more embarrassed now. What is she saying?!

As a girl, who is both a princess and a holy saintess, how can she just confess so easily?

Not to mention that they meet for the first time today.

But unbeknown to her, the lips of the man infront of her curved up as he took steps towards her.

Cathain wanted to greet her properly but she got surprised.

Ariande was caught off guard by his sudden action and took a step back, only to fall into the lake together with him.

Even if the lake was artificial, it was deep.

Cathain reach out to her into the water and crashed his mouth onto hers as he passed her air from his mouth to breathe.

He quickly pulled her up and both of them breathe heavily as they got up from the lake.

Cathain’s hands was still wrapped around her waist and Ariande was hugging him tightly.

With their drenched body, both of them kept staring at each other and even without knowing what she is actually doing, Ariande crushed her lips onto his.

Cathain widened his eyes in surprise but he liked that. He pulled her more closer as he deepened their kiss on their first meeting.

There was something that was pulling Ariande closer to Cathain.

She doesn’t know what is this feeling but she can’t reject this and want to only get more closer to him.

This is the first time they meet and she already confessed as well kissed him on her own.

Ariande felt her face burning as she recalled about her behaviour that morning.

While kissing, she was out of breathe and Cathain carried her into the mansion. All of the maids was staring at them!

They are already married but still, her taking the first initiative on their first meeting... he won’t think of her as a casual girl, right?

Ariande sat on the bed and started to become nervous.

‘I heard it’s painful for the first time...’

“But... looking at his handsome face and tall figure, his body must look good too...”

“Do you want to see it right now? My perverted saintess...Wife?”

Cathain whispered to her ear and Ariande jumped out in fright; almost cried as she didn’t noticed him approaching her at all!

“Y-You! You frightened me!”

She moved herself from him and then suddenly she felt like sliding as he pulled her closer by gripping on her legs.

“What are you doing?!”

Ariande asked as Cathain looked at her from above, he gulped his saliva at the image of his lovely wife being under him and looking away shyly.

Her silver hair was spreading on the bed and the white nightgown she was wearing had slipped up a little, revealing her white legs.

“Didn’t you wanted to see my body? I will grant your wish now.”

Saying this, Cathain took of the thin shirt he was wearing; revealing his hard and strong muscular body.

Ariande immediately put her hands on her eyes but then decided to look a little by sliding away her fingers a little from her eyes.

“Little pervert...”

“Am peeking at my own husband’s body! Why am i a pervert? Won’t you look at mine too? We are even then!”

Ariande decided to be a little bold even if she was dying out of embarrassment as she thought what was about to happen.

‘I shouldn’t have read those R-18 novels!’

But then Cathain just wrapped her up in the blanket as he laid down beside her.

“Sleep...”

“...”

‘WHAT?!’

‘This guy is telling me to sleep on my precious first night?’

‘A-Am not getting rejected, right?’

‘How can i, the empire’s...No! Continent’s beauty get rejected like this?’

‘He doesn’t have any problem down there...?’

“Just how long are you going to keep staring at me?”

Cathain spoke and Ariande jolted, she got rid of the blanket from her body and twrilled around.

‘I am a pervert to him anyway...So,’

Ariande sat on his top and Cathain just look at her lazily. So, she decided to be a little more bold now.

“Am giving you a chance. Get down this instant and go back to sleep... Otherwise you will regret this.”

‘Yeah, she will regret for staying with a demon like me... i can’t let her know about that yet...’

Seeing her dropping face, Cathain sighed too. This is the result he wanted but he is a little dejected too.

But to his surprise, Ariande took of her nightgown as she spoke, “I won’t regret it.”

She put her lips onto his once again and Cathain was surprise before he smriked into the darkness.

‘What am i supposed to do with you?! My lovely innocent wife who doesn’t know the real danger?’

From then on, Ariande always reached out to Cathain first.

.....

She always followed him, talked while he kept being silent, giving him surprises... but deep down, she was upset.

Because to her, it only felt like she was the only one who loved him, trying hard to develop their relationship.

He makes her walk towards him by herself and no matter how sad she is, she can’t help but love him.

She is giving her all out where he is just taking it without giving back.

It feels like he doesn’t want to get her hopes up for him. But why?

Ariande also want Cathain to talk with her, laugh at her, invite her to tea or a vacation.

He just seem to get along with everything she wants, not expressing what he wants.

She shares everything and he just listens, this was why she doesn’t feel close to him despite staying so close to him.

And after twenty months, when Ariande was eight months pregnant, she finally found out why.