Chapter 14

It’s not ‘like’; I’m really a pervert.

I’m not a normal husband, desiring his wife through a portrait when she clearly exists in person.

‘Anyways, I think she’s getting prettier and prettier.’

The pink dress that she wore to our last social party was so pretty that my head was in a daze.

Everyone around us seemed to think the same thing, seeing that I had such a hard time shielding Julia from the gaze of wolves who held similar thoughts.

Not knowing this, Endimion stayed up all night because she smiled out of joy when he complimented her, saying that the dress looked good on her.

I kept thinking of that bright face, I had to pinch my thighs to hold back my urge to reach out towards my sleeping wife.

‘A concubine?’

Endimion suddenly frowned as he thought of his wife, who was so lovely that he couldn’t even touch her.

The feeling of floating on the clouds cooled down in an instant.

‘….why am I holding back?’

It’s been a long time since the girl I had thought of as a friend started to feel like a woman.

It’s hard to hide it, that I’ve been tempted to reveal it several times.

A husband’s love for his wife is nothing to hide.

But soon after taking the throne, I overheard what Julia said and changed my mind.

– Do you really feel that way towards someone you really love?

It was when she had a tea party in the garden with her close friends.

Endimion, who was about to stop by to see her face, overheard Julia’s curious voice.

– Of course! You get embarrassed by just making eye contact, it gets hot and you feel butterflies in your stomach when you hold hands… oh my, doesn’t the queen experience this with his majesty?

– What? Oh, yes! Of course. It was amazing because it was so similar to my experience.

The ladies exclaimed with joy without noticing anything.

However, Endimion, who knew Julia better than anyone else, noticed.

Julia, his wife and first love, did not see him as a man.

‘I’m sure she thinks of me as family.’

I was burning inside, but it was okay. Julia and I can never break up anyway.

I’ve never considered letting her go in the first place.

If I confessed now she’d feel uncomfortable, so I was going to wait for Julia to become more mature.

That will probably be when we have the coming-of-age ceremony.

Endimion decided to end his one-sided love by naturally revealing his feelings and then, they’d become a stronger couple.

But to take in a concubine, I never thought she’d come to such a wild conclusion!

“The conservatives, who are always talking about bloodline, were talking about preparing an heir. Did she hear about it?”

I told them to make sure that it didn’t reach the Queen’s ears.

Endimion gritted his teeth.

It was driving me crazy.

I’m just swallowing my saliva with the woman I like next to me; I can’t believe she’s telling me to do it with another woman!

I think I’m going crazy just seeing another guy look at Julia. Does she really not have a sliver of love for me?

I really might end up meeting another strange woman if I keep tiptoeing around her.

Julia, who is surprisingly stubborn for all her innocence, might end up picking a concubine behind my back.

‘I can’t let this be’

In the end, Endimion decided to throw away Julia’s grace period immediately and left the secret room.

He tried to hasten his steps to get to the queen’s palace. That was when Endimion hit a document on the desk and it fell to the ground.

It was a proposal to hold a hunting contest to commemorate the coming-of-age ceremony of the King and his wife.

Endimion, who was about to skim it without much thought, stopped when an idea crossed his mind at that moment.

“A hunting contest…”

The royal hunting contest was a kind of meeting to develop networks. In fact, the most famous of them is the love business of young aristocrats.

There were couples who enjoyed secret meetings in the dense, wide forest, and there were quite a few people who got married after their first encounter there.