Episode 5
The dim moonlight cast its glow upon the man. Eda’s body stiffened.
The person in front of her was completely naked. A solid, stone-like body was revealed. It was a muscular build, distinctly different from Ivar’s.
“Thought you’d run away again.”
Not knowing if he was joking or not, Eda bit her lip without realizing it.
Astaldo’s sharp gaze locked onto her lips, stained red from dried rouge, and didn’t budge.
His eyes glinted intensely. He was clearly waiting for an answer. Eda lowered her head and spoke.
“That… I’m sorry…”
Astaldo stared at Eda silently.
He gave off an overwhelming sense of pressure, as if a massive boulder stood before her.
As he slowly approached her, she could see his body moving with each step.
It was unmistakably a man’s body. As her eyes drifted down and realized his state, she was stunned.
This man wants to do it with her. Why? Even after seeing her body?
She couldn’t understand. The only thing she knew was that, even if it was overwhelming, she had no choice but to accept him.
No, before that, what kind of man was he really? Custom or not, was it really possible for him to share a bed with his brother’s wife?
“Was my brother a good man?”
A good man? That wasn’t something she could say, not even as a joke.
But she couldn’t call him trash either.
Astaldo was said to have been respectful to his brother. If he heard his brother’s wife insult the dead, he’d surely be angry too.
“Well…”
Before Eda could say anything, his lips covered hers.
He parted her soft lips and pushed his large, thick tongue inside.
“Mmph… mmph!”
She instinctively tried to pull her head back to breathe.
But the man shifted his head and continued to ravish her lips.
Something thick pushed into her mouth and filled it. When Eda couldn’t breathe and began to gasp for air, he pulled back, and looked at her, speaking in a low voice.
“It’s fine if you don’t like it. You’re going to sleep with me anyway.”
Eda found this display of desire bizarre. It was as if sleeping with her was his only purpose.
His large hand grabbed Eda’s wrist and held it down, even though she had no intention of escaping.
It tickled. As he pressed his lips to her body and kissed her again, it became hard to breathe.
He didn’t have the foul stench that Ivar used to carry. Instead, there was a cool scent to him, and because of that, Eda was able to endure the kiss, even if only a little.
At that moment, his hand caressed her thigh. She flinched from the heat of his touch.
He quickly took off Eda’s clothes and stared at her body with a frightening expression. Startled, Eda tried to cover herself.
He would surely be disgusted by her body. Just like Ivar had, he’d probably spit out insults in front of others.
Eda was used to that kind of ridicule. They had called her ugly, mocked her shy and reserved nature as something strange.
Astaldo scanned Eda’s body and soon let out a hollow laugh.
For some reason, the sound of it felt sharp, cutting. It felt as though he might choke her at any moment, asking how she could shamelessly think of becoming the Grand Duchess with such a wretched body.
He lifted her chin and began to lick along her jawline, as if savoring a piece of candy.
“My brother must have liked your neck.”
Eda couldn’t bring herself to say anything. His face was twisted with tangled, unreadable emotions, and she had no idea what those feelings were.
He grabbed her breast firmly. She flinched in surprise, but soon after, his soft tongue began sucking at the tip.
“Did my brother ever do this for you?”
“Ah… ngh!”
A wet, sucking sound echoed through the room.
Eda tried to stifle her moans with her hand, but his rough grip pushed it away. In the end, she couldn’t help but let a ragged breath escape her lips.
“Make a sound.”
Her face flushed red. Just from his lips and tongue alone, her body was beginning to heat up.
When his hand moved lower, Eda’s eyes widened and her body flinched.
Why… why is he doing this? However, Eda couldn’t speak. That was because, as his subtle touch stirred a wet sound from her, she felt the firm, hardened length of a man pressing against her.
Her body stiffened at the touch of his firm shaft of flesh pressed against her, right above her navel.
This… this is…!
Eda couldn’t bring herself to look down. She wanted to tell him to stop. That’s how scared she was.
She remembered Astaldo’s naked body in the moonlight, his aroused form.
Eda unconsciously raised her body, but Astaldo’s strength pushed her back down.
“I told you. You have to do this with me.”
“……”
“Even if you hate it, even if you hate me… you still have to.”
This is unbearable. It was clearly too much for her. But perhaps sensing her hesitation, he thrust into her in an instant.
“Ahhh!”
Tears burst from Eda’s eyes. The sharp pain caused by his heated flesh forcing its way in, and the strange, inexplicable pleasure she felt at the end of it.
Eda let out a low moan before she realized it from the way he stretched her.
Under his burning gaze, Eda instinctively tried to cover her eyes but her wrists were pinned down.
As if punishing her, he thrust his hips roughly. Eda let out a sharp cry.
“Did my brother ever do this to you? Tell me, Eda.”
Eda couldn’t answer. When she stayed silent, he moved even faster.
The sound of flesh hitting flesh didn’t hurt, but the way he drove into her was relentless and his movements were nothing short of rough.
“Ah… hnng!”
“Tell me, hmm?”
“Ah!”
She couldn’t answer. She really couldn’t.
“My brother… must have loved you. Cherished you. Adored you.”
Something hot kept pulling out and driving back in.
Tears welled up in Eda’s eyes. There was a trace of bitterness in his tone, but Eda couldn’t say anything at all.
Of course, it wasn’t out of love that their bodies were joined. She knew she had to do it. It was her duty as a wife.
And yet, this man who meant nothing to her kept speaking, kept saying things to her.
Eda didn’t ask him to stop.
And he didn’t stop either.
Eda’s body shook from his cruel and rough movements.
Slick friction caused by sweat, scattered breaths, and non-stop movements.
Eda lay helplessly, having sex with her husband’s younger brother, Astaldo.
Eventually, he let out a low moan.
Eda looked at Astaldo, the younger brother of the husband who once held her. He, too, was quietly staring at her face.
Eda turned her gaze away and tried to lift herself. However, Astaldo grabbed Eda’s hips tightly and pressed his body against hers again.
That was when she felt the searing heat of his flesh between her legs.
It was clearly at odds with what she knew.
Her dead husband, who would pant like a dog while holding a woman, would always go limp for a while after a single release.
He lifted her body and positioned her on top of him.
When Eda realized what he was going to do, her eyes widened. Soon after, something hot pushed into her sensitive flesh again.
“Nnh… ahhh…!”
Even after finishing once, the man was still hard, and overwhelmingly thick inside her.
When she looked at Astaldo with tear-filled eyes, he brushed her hair back behind her ear, then suddenly grabbed the back of her head and devoured her lips roughly.
His tongue and manhood ravaged her so intensely it took her breath away. The act was so stimulating and overwhelming that she forgot she had even injured her knee while trying to escape.
Her soaked body made a wet, obscene sound. She felt as if she had become an animal. Something heavy and overwhelming dug into her, and soon after, she reached her climax again.
Eda collapsed against Astaldo’s chest, gasping for breath.
It was the final night of her husband’s funeral.
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