Chapter 69

“Yes, I told you before. I’m certainly taking medicine to get pregnant.”

Evelina said with a smile, trying to relax. He removed his hands as he watched her shivering stiff body as if she didn’t reject me. His clothes were crumpled over his chest.

“Is it all right to take it for pregnancy?”

“…Yes.”

When she didn’t look into Kaiden’s eyes, she seemed to lie easier and easier.

“I should have pretended not to know.”

He sighed and leaned like that, putting his lips on her neck. Evelina pushed him away, thinking that it would be dangerous for her to stay in the room with her for a long time.

“Let’s hurry and go horseback riding.”

“All right.”

He made eye contact with her and soon smiled.

“Your face is very red, Lina.”

She finally realized that her face turned red. In an instant, her face heated up, which she assumed was due to anger. As expected, his behavior of monitoring everyone around her was disgusting.

“Clothes.”

He smiled at her words and stroked Evelina’s cheek. Then he looked at her, who was avoiding his gaze, and soon began to dress her.

So they changed clothes together and headed to the riding ground.

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“This is my favorite word.”

Kaiden delivered a black and colorful horse to Evelina.

“His name is Louis. It’s a mare.”

Louis was a thoroughbred even at first glance. Its pitch-black mane was waving in the winding wind, and it was so well-combed that it looked like human hair. Even the shiny black hair on the body.

It was well managed. Its eyes were so black that when she looked at me, it was as if she were looking at the night sky. The part of my eyes reflected by the light is shining like a star.

“He likes it when you touch the back of his nose like this.”

Kaiden took Evelina’s hand and stroked Louis’ nose.

– Purreung.

Evelina smiled, letting go of her nervousness a little.

“He seems to like Lina.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes. He’s very shy.”

Kaiden patted Louis on the back and then gave her the reins.

“You can hang your feet here and get on. Or should I ride it first?”

“Okay, let’s ride together, and then let me try alone.”

“All right.”

Then he climbed roughly but sat stably in the saddle. Then he reached out his hand.

“Oh, this… Ugh….”

Evelina tried to climb with her feet on the saddle, but it was not easy to climb.

“Ah!”

At that moment he picked her up and put her on the horse.

– Purrureung.

Louis spun around his area, breathing out his nose as if it was nothing.

“Well, my, my legs…”

“Take your time.”

Evelina had to put her feet back on the saddle and lower the other leg because her legs were all on one side.

“Ugh…”

She whined and put her legs on both sides of the horse. Then, as she sat in the saddle, she felt Kaiden’s large body behind her back.

“Hold the reins in. I’ll grab the outside.”

“I shouldn’t pull it hard, right?”

“Yes, it is.”

Like that, Evelina was nervous, gripping the reins of the horse.

“If you put too much pressure on your back, you’ll get hurt. When the horse moves, you can move slowly.”

“I’m not good at sports.”

“I’m good at it. You can learn slowly.”

Her body tickled because of Kaiden’s voice, which spoke as if it was touching her ear. It was as if the voice was heard through her ears and touched her heart.

“Would you like to pull the rope?”

“Yes.”

Evelina pulled the rope slowly at his horse. Then Louis began to walk slowly as if he had understood the order.

Together, she passed along the horseback riding trail behind the tourney hall. Perhaps it was a sport that noble ladies often enjoyed, so there seemed to be a place like this.

She tried to relax thinking so. Louis was moving at a very slow pace, but the speed felt so fast for Evelina that her body was constantly tense.

Moreover, her elbows kept rubbing against his hard arms.

“Relax your back. It will hurt when you sleep.”

“Ah…”

She was surprised when he spoke in her ear and stroked her waist with one hand. At the same time, as he said, she loosened her strength little by little.

“Let’s pull the reins a little. And raise your waist.”

She obeyed the commands that sounded in her ears and tried not to be conscious of his close body. But she was afraid to feel his hard arm muscles touching his elbow, his solid chest behind her back, and his lips close to her as if he would bite her neck at any time.

His body touched it to the point where she wondered if the breath he exhaled touched her temple.

It was not only the hardness of the saddle that felt like a hip every time she raised and lowered her waist. Her back began to tense again at the feeling of something, and he sat a little away from her and held the reins again with both hands.

“Lina, look forward.”

She moved without seeing what was going on around her, and then looked ahead at his words.

“Oh, my gosh.”

Peonies were in full bloom around. It’s as if they made it for a time like this. She finally relaxed when she saw a flower garden full of peonies.

And the moment she saw them, she remembered the auditory hallucination she had been seeing lately.

‘The flower language of peony is a shame.’

She thought she could hear Kaiden’s voices overlapping.

“Kaiden.”

“Yes.”

“Have we met each other when we were young?”

When she asked, he pulled the reins tightly, and Louis stopped.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

She turned around and looked at Kaiden. Then Kaiden was looking down at her with a smile.

“Did I do anything wrong to Kaiden?”

“No.”

Then is the medicine you give me a hallucinogen?

She couldn’t bear to ask and shut her mouth. At that moment, he grabbed her chin and turned her body around.

“Uh…”

In a mouth-wrenching move, she realized that he was doing this to avoid conversation. Maybe there’s a grudge against her other than her parents.

It was a fantasy that she suddenly saw recently. It doesn’t make sense not to be able to recall memories. It’s not a real memory when you think of it like it’s someone else’s.

That means there’s something added to the medicine she’s taking under the pretext of her heart medicine.

Why didn’t Hans notice? Maybe the reason is that they used drugs imported from other countries, not domestic drugs. And maybe the drug is a hallucinogen?

She was so sure and tried to reciprocate what he vehemently coveted. But as she was forced to turn, she began to faint. Sensing her tremors, he immediately let go of her arms, allowing her to look in front of her.

“Because your eyes… are so pretty.”

He said so as an excuse and hugged her waist. She felt his warm sigh through the bones of her arms, and her body stiffened again.

“I will restrain myself.”

“You don’t have to.”

She gave him the answer he wanted and laid his hand over her waist.

“Shall we finish now?”

“…Yes.”

He laughed with his breath and then grabbed the reins again. So Evelina was heading with him to the end of the riding trail.

The two said no more. She was afraid of the tension she felt every time his huge body brushed towards her, and at the same time, she was trying not to show off. Her cheeks were so hot, and she felt cool with fear, perhaps because of the warm warmth that touched her back.

The body just touched it, and it felt threatening as if he was warning her that she couldn’t run away.

She was afraid of the hard touch of the hip again, but this time she tried to ignore it. She thought, provoking wouldn’t be a good idea if it was felt beyond the clothes.

When he reached the endpoint, Kaiden quickly got off the horse. Then he reached out to her, and Evelina didn’t try to grab his hand.

“I want to ride it alone.”

“Sure.”

He stood beside her with a smile. Perhaps because it was the last stop, it was full of servants, but Evelina was relieved that there were many people. Recently, when Kaiden had a lot of servants, she pretended to be careful about her actions.

So she started to move on horseback alone. Very slowly, Louis started to move with a clatter, clatter, clatter. Kaiden, who was standing next to her, moved away as Evelina seemed to slowly adapt to her horse.

“Oh…”

She smiled as she felt Louis walk slowly to her and then speed up little by little. Riding was more fun than she thought, so she held the reins very hard, and sat down again, straining her back and holding Louis upright as he moved.

“Her Majesty seems to have liked horse riding.”

At the words of the servant who came to Kaiden’s side, he smiled and looked at Evelina. She looked at Kaiden whenever she was a little afraid, and then looked forward when she was all right again.

Her behavior made him smile with his eyes down. Other servants who couldn’t adapt to him were deliberately far away.

“I, I, I want to get off!”

Evelina said so because she couldn’t ride anymore. Then Kaiden approached the horse to get her off. Evelina was in such a hurry that she tried to get up, but she stopped.

“Oh my god!”

– Hieng!

She kicked the horse hard in the stomach.

She was standing up just as the horse was about to leave in a hurry, so she fell off the horse.

Evelina closed her eyes tightly as she felt her body tilt over.

“Lina!”

No one knew at this time. Even with Evelina kicking, that smart horse couldn’t have gone wild.