The Duchess and the Devil - Chapter 24

Chapter 24

TRANSLATOR: Matindi
PROOFREADER: ThatSilverSky
QUALITY CHECKER: Akane

WARNING: Hot scene

Soon, his teeth, which looked sharp like fangs, embedded themselves on her soft skin. Ah, as soon as Judith made a faint moan, his very soft tongue swept over the bite mark as if to soothe it. Her white skin was gradually becoming wet with his saliva. While biting her wrist, his eyes were slowly growing darker as he met her gaze.

At the teasing of his tongue that was becoming more persistent as time went on, Judith anxiously glanced at the coachman’s box seat and bit her lips after curling it up. Suddenly, a thumb came up at some point and stroked her tightly closed lips.

“Don’t bite your lips.”

At those words, Judith naturally loosened up the strength at which she was biting her lips. It wasn’t her intent at all, but there were moments where she ended up following what he told her to do. She couldn’t tell if it was indeed the power of his magic, or if his power had nothing to do with something like this.

He gently rubbed over her soft lips, then carefully inserted his finger in the gaps of her tender flesh. She unwittingly sucked his long, thick finger. As soon as she did that, there were intense sparks in the blood-red pupils of Derrick. He looked as though he was slowly moving his tongue and licking his lips.

“Lick it with your tongue.”

At his directions that came out all of a sudden, Judith carefully moved her tongue and touched his finger.

Even though what entered into her mouth was just his finger, she was under the illusion that she was, surely, licking his genitals, as the feeling of it on her tongue was firm. At the bizarre imagination, the insides of her stomach thrillingly clenched and her toes curled up. Slurp, she unconsciously sucked so deeply that it made a sucking noise, as she thought that the saliva gathering in her mouth would trickle down while licking around it like a candy on her tongue.

At that moment, Derrick muttered in a low voice, taking his finger out and grasping her chin.

“I want to suck your lips.”

Derrick whispered closely, face to face. His breath tickled over her lips.

As Judith stayed still without any particular response, he licked her upper lip with his tongue. While doing that, he came a little bit closer to her and carefully bit and sucked her lower lip as their lips overlapped.

(Q/C: Our lovely TLer provided an image of this scene: https://images.app.goo.gl/4m9zvTfztqkQ41Zt6 )

At that pleasant sensation, her lips furtively opened, drawing a strange curve. Without missing that gap, the tip of his tongue slowly pushed into her mouth. The sensation of his very soft tongue penetrating rather slowly inside was stimulating to the point it made her hairs stand on its end.

Judith unknowingly raised her hands and hugged his neck. Derrick’s mouth gently and secretly bent. He seemed to be pleased with her behavior of accepting him.

“Uh— Derrick. More than this…”

Started at the hand that suddenly grabbed her thigh, Judith whispered, taking her mouth off of him. At a place that wasn’t even the bedroom in the mansion, she didn’t want to do any more skinship that went beyond kissing.

“Alright then, open your mouth.”

Derrick couldn’t stand the gap between their lips that opened up for a moment, and coaxed her with a devastating voice. He meshed his lips again with hers, and his large palm wrapped themselves around the back of Judith’s head. His hand prevented her head, which was gradually pushed back by Derrick’s vehement vigor, from almost hitting the glass window.

Whenever Derrick had an affectionate contact with her, he would blindly pounce on her like a person who just discovered an oasis while wandering in the desert. It felt as if it was an instinctive act of wanting to live, rather than of simply satisfying his hunger.

Engrossed in adjusting to that impatient pace, Judith was in a situation where she was always panting. Even today, her heart sharply throbbed with every breath that rose to the edge of her chin. However, it was never Derrick’s behavior to draw back. Even while he transferred his breath to her, he clung to her persistently and tenaciously. Whenever he did this, Judith became truly curious to know what the ‘smell’ was like that made him blind.

Their red tongues lustfully entwined, like snakes that coiled together, through the gaps of their wide-opened lips. When she kissed him for the first time, she used to end up stiffening like a stone, as she didn’t know what to do when their tongues met, but now she was able to adjust to his breathing to some extent. However, Judith didn’t know at all. About the fact that her subtle responses ignited a rather strong fire in Derrick’s desire for her.

Their breaths mixed, and their saliva lewdly blended together. Whenever he twisted his head and inserted his tongue much deeper, sweet nasal sounds flowed out endlessly from her mouth.

All of a sudden, the sound of knocking on the carriage’s door was heard, and Judith’s body shuddered as though she had been burned. Chu, their lips parted as if they fell apart, and made a light fricative sound.

“Um, Master. We have arrived at the mansion.”

It had already been a while since the carriage had stopped, and after the coachman waited for a long time and the couple still didn’t come out, he eventually knocked on the door.

Judith pushed his chest with a clear look of embarrassment on her face.

Regardless of how good it felt, she should have noticed that the carriage had stopped. Though they were kissing, no matter how they did it, they were behaving frivolously in a place that wasn’t even the bedroom. What in the world possessed her to open her mouth first and wrap her hands around his neck? Her face became flushed as it seemed like she had become a fool who didn’t know how to separate public and private matters.

Judith hurriedly rubbed her lips with the back of her hand. Her lips were damp as it was heavily coated with saliva, as the kiss was quite deep. Derrick, who was abesntmindingly looking at her behavior, perversely smiled, then, with great care, wiped her lips with his hand. Without removing the hand that was stroking her lips, Judith blankly watched him.

“Next, look forward to tonight.”

Derrick, who pressed his lips over hers again as if stamping a seal on it, made the gesture of wiping them earlier worthless and came down from the carriage with a light gesture. As he got out, the wind surged through the crevice of the open door, but Judith’s flushed face did not subside at all.

He, who looked back at her, stretched out his large hand towards the inside as though asking if she was not going to come down. Although she wanted to be in the carriage longer as she didn’t want her flushed face to be discovered, it was already impossible because Derrick had already got off. She would appear to be even more strange if she didn’t get off for quite some time. Reluctantly, Judith held onto his hand and came down from the carriage.

“Madame, did you have a safe trip?”

Judith barely gave a nod when asked by the butler, who had come to receive the two. Then, the butler opened his mouth once again, smiling as though it was a relief.

“What shall we do for dinner?”

“It’s alright. I don’t really have an appetite.”

She had already exhausted all of her energy due to meeting with Killiton and then Silvia, whom she wasn’t expecting. To be sincere, she just wanted to go up to the bedroom and sleep soundly, regardless of a meal or anything. Apart from herself, she also wanted a moment to ask Derrick for his opinion on what he intended to do.

“Pardon? However, I have received word that Marquis Lipis will be visiting within an hour…”

At the unexpected news, Judith suddenly stopped in her tracks, which she had been moving through diligently.

“What? Why is Older Brother visiting again?”

The butler, rather, made an even more embarrassed face at her retort. At that expression, Judith suddenly recalled the schedule she had forgotten.

“Is today that day already?”

Once a month, Vinsen Lipis periodically visited the ducal residence, and today was that exact day. Vinsen’s periodic visits didn’t occur in the early stages of the ducal couple’s marriage. On the contrary, instead of visiting, he would end up sending a letter, as if he thought he would get in the way of their newlywed life. The fact that he, who did that, ended up constantly visiting the ducal residence was because of the time when Derrick’s health began to deteriorate.

Since she was young, Judith knew the fact that she herself could not become the successor. The family succession did not hold a big significance to her, because she knew that her last name, ‘Lipis’, would ultimately be changed to her husband’s. Hence, the successor lessons for the marquis of Lipis fell entirely to Vinsen, her older brother.

While he was taking successor lessons diligently, Judith obediently took bridal classes, following in compliance to her parents’ instructions. For that reason, she was ignorant of the family management or business, and when Derrick collapsed, she couldn’t help but feel embarrassed when all the affairs that needed his helping hand came to her, the mistress of the house.

Under Derrick, there were two management experts who would fill in for his busy position, but in the end, Judith had to meticulously review the issues regarding the affairs as the final decision had to be made by the head of the house. However, it was impossible for her to be the one in charge of dealing with those things because she had no way of knowing about management as she was not able to learn properly. Therefore, she enlisted the help of Vinsen, her older brother and the head of the Marquis house.

“He’s going to arrive in an hour?”

“Yes.”

Judith’s head was throbbing. Honestly, she wanted to send back any guests. In fact, those words were even on the tip of her tongue. However, be that as it may, she couldn’t let her brother, who had come all this way to help her with her work, waste his efforts.

”Go prepare the meals.”

Though she was somewhat exhausted, Judith gave these orders regardless, thinking of enduring it just until evening.

“Who’s Marquis Lipis?”

Derrick, who was silently listening to the conversation between her and the butler, turned around and asked.

“He is my older brother.”

Judith, who entered the mansion with him, suddenly realized something and whispered in a low voice.

“Come to think of it, this is his first time meeting you.”

Derrick was also meeting Vinsen for the first time, after Killiton and Silvia, today. Although Vinsen had already visited the ducal residence previously, he didn’t run into Derrick and went back hearing only the news she conveyed to him. Even so, her older brother already knew he had memory loss, so it might be a preferable situation.

Judith let out a very deep sigh and only wished for the day to end a little more quickly.

* * *

As the gate opened, a carriage with a brown grain of wood pattern engraved on it quickly approached. In the green flags that hung at the sides of the carriage, the design of a butterfly tangled with vines, representing the marquis house of Lipis, was finely embroidered. Whenever the flags fluttered, the butterfly moved vividly as though it were breathing alive.

The carriage that dashed without a break halted in front of the entrance of the mansion. Judith scrutinized the appearance of her dress once for no reason. Vinsen was her older brother, but whenever she would meet him, she couldn’t erase the feeling of facing her stern parents.

(T/N: Man, I felt that ;–;)

At last, the carriage door opened and a man, who had silver hair that exactly resembled Judith’s, came out.

“You have come, Older Brother.”

Judith looked at him and did her best to smile. As her mind and body were too tired, she couldn’t welcome him more happily today compared to other days. Vinsen, who ran his hand through his silver hair, spotted his sister and gently smiled. He didn’t begin his usual greeting ‘It’s been awhile.’ It was because the two only met two weeks ago.

That day, Judith was very much astounded at his unexpected visit. No different than this time, she was even almost discovered at that scene by a maid because he dropped by while she was in the middle of being bewitched by Derrick and kissing him. Even now, when thinking about that time, her heart would throb fiercely as if it would leap out of her mouth.