The awkward atmosphere quickly dissolved during dinner. My heart dropped when I encountered Ralph in the hallway, glaring at me with murderous eyes, but Emily quickly whisked me away to another location, so everything turned out fine.
After finishing our preparations for bed and chatting with Emily, night had already fallen.
“Eliat, tomorrow when we’re working, stay right next to me no matter what. Got it? If that bastard Ralph tries to make you run errands alone or organize the storage room, I’ll stick with you.”
“Thanks for worrying about me. But I hope you don’t push yourself too hard. We don’t know how long we’ll have to deal with that man while working for the Herlin family, and I don’t want to see you suffer because of me.”
“Hmm, Eliat, do you remember that time?”
“When?”
“When you hadn’t been at this mansion long, I got badly burned on my left cheek while working in the kitchen.”
“Right…?”
That was probably more than half a year ago. I looked at Emily, puzzled about why she was bringing up that incident.
“Back then, everyone at the mansion was busy mocking me, saying my face had turned into a monster’s, but you were the only one who approached me first. You were still new to the mansion yourself and struggling to adjust. So I’m not pushing myself—I’m just repaying the kindness you showed me. You don’t need to feel sorry about it.”
Emily’s words made something stir warmly in my chest. These were the moments when I felt glad I had come to work for the Herlin family.
Of course, the easy work compared to the generous pay played a part, but the most valuable thing was probably meeting a good friend like Emily here.
While I was contemplating how to express this gratitude, strange sensations suddenly bloomed throughout my body. A heated, restless energy began buzzing in my lower region, then gradually spread throughout my entire body.
I tried to convince myself it couldn’t be what I thought, but the stimulation grew stronger, making me feel like any small movement would produce strange sounds from my mouth.
‘Why is my body… suddenly acting up again? I thought I was fine.’
An uneasy feeling crept over me. These were definitely symptoms I had experienced before. It was exactly the same feeling from when that man appeared in my dreams and I burned up like I was in heat. My instincts told me something was wrong.
Emily noticed my expression darkening instantly and looked at me with concern.
“Are you feeling unwell somewhere? Why did your face suddenly get so dark?”
“Huh, what…?”
“Did dinner not agree with you?”
“Ah… yes. My stomach suddenly feels bad. Sorry, but I’m going to rest first.”
Emily’s face was still full of worry, but I lay down on the bed and pulled the blanket up over my head. If I wasn’t careful, she might catch me reaching cl*max alone and gushing fl*ids. No matter how open Emily was about s*xuality, I didn’t want to show her something like that.
Just as I had worried, my body quickly heated up. Even though I wasn’t doing anything, it felt like someone was persistently stimulating my n*pples and lower regions. If there had actually been someone harassing me, I could at least resist, but this was truly helpless.
When my n*pples, which had hardened on their own, touched my underwear, my toes trembled involuntarily. I tried to endure it, but it was absolutely unbearable.
The fact that I was aroused alone and feeling pleasure from trivial things was quite shameful. Guilt pressed down on my entire body like a child who had done something wrong. Even though it was completely beyond my control.
‘Ugh, mmm… ahh…!’
How much time passed like that? Even before going to meet that man, I was already on the verge of exhaustion. My body, burning endlessly with heat, kept gushing fl*ids. The bed sheets had long since become soaked like I had wet myself. The nightgown I was wearing had also become so damp it could hardly be called clothing.
Dong, dong, dong—
The sound of a clock announcing midnight came from far away. I slowly pulled down the blanket I had covered myself with completely. Every small movement made excitement surge, so I had to be careful even with tiny motions. I turned my head to check on Emily, who used the bed right next to mine. Emily was sleeping soundly.
‘Still… thank goodness. Emily fell asleep.’
Originally, I had planned to leave the room before midnight, but every time I tried to leave, I encountered Emily with her eyes wide open.
Emily usually slept a lot, so it wouldn’t have been strange for her to fall asleep earlier. Her appearance of staying up all night by pinching her cheeks whenever she felt sleepy seemed like she was determined to see where I was going.
I gently waved my hand over Emily’s tightly closed eyes to confirm she was definitely asleep, then quietly sat up. The peaks that brushed against the fabric let out sharp cries of pleasure.
“Ahh…!”
I held my breath and suppressed my m*ans as much as possible. Then I barely managed to take precarious steps with my trembling legs.
By the time I arrived at the eastern annex, my entire body was drenched in sweat. Not just my body, but my underwear was beyond description. The underwear, soaked and clinging to my lower regions, had already lost its function.
“Hah, hah, hah…”
After taking labored steps to reach that place, I saw a door ornately crafted with gold. Its splendid appearance seemed to resemble that man. I took a deep breath and firmly grasped the handle.
He was sitting inside with a bored expression. I still couldn’t tell whether he was human or specter. He seemed somehow alien to be human, yet his presence was too vivid to be a specter.
The man silently watched me enter the room. His wordless staring felt even more menacing. For that brief moment, I felt like prey facing a predator. When I finally reached him, a faint displeasure rose in his previously expressionless face.
“You’re late. I clearly said by midnight.”
“I’m sorry. The thing is, I couldn’t leave earlier due to the situation…”
“Did I give you permission to make excuses?”
My body instinctively shrank at his cold rebuke. His golden eyes swept over me coolly. His voice flowed out without inflection.
“I suppose I need to give a bigger punishment to properly train a stupid beast that doesn’t know its place.”
“A bigger punishment…?”
I was already dying from the maddening excitement, and if I received an even stronger punishment on top of this, I might truly go insane. I looked at the man with horrified eyes, but he remained calm and unmoved.
Instead, he commanded me in a voice that seemed to growl lowly.
“Get up on the desk and get on all fours like a dog. Spread your legs too.”
For a moment, I doubted my ears about what I had just heard. Get up on the desk and spread my legs?
Wasn’t typical punishment usually involving physical pain like being beaten? Moreover, in all the places I had worked, I had never heard anyone told to get on a desk when they did something wrong.
When I hesitated, the corners of the man’s eyes turned sharp. I had already arrived later than the scheduled time and was going to receive a big punishment, so there was nothing good about provoking his mood further.
I moved my legs, which felt heavy like they had iron weights attached. Just in case, I looked back, and he was watching me with a gaze cold enough to be merciless.
Feeling my mouth go dry, I climbed onto the desk. I bent my knees and spread my legs slightly, then asked him.
“Is this okay?”
“Really, I don’t know where to start teaching you…”
He let out a deep, murky sigh. When I looked back in surprise, he was irritably running his hands through his shimmering silver hair. He approached with his brow deeply furrowed, seemingly displeased about something.
“Spread your legs more.”
His large hand swept my barely spread legs to the sides. My body stiffened at the unfamiliar touch. Cool air seemed to rush between my widely spread legs.
Afraid he might discover my underwear soaked through and through, I instinctively screamed.
“Wait a moment…! This is too much…!”
“What’s too much? Ah, is your p*ssy that’s shamelessly dripping water too much?”
Along with his mocking voice, his finger deeply poked between my soaked intimate parts. A m*an burst out at the unexpected stimulation.
“Ngh…!”
“You’re gushing this much water and still have more to spill? What a person who truly knows no shame.”
This was different from the typical punishment I knew. I had expected at most to receive harsh beatings that would tear my skin. But perhaps this was natural in a way.
His perverted tendencies had been made painfully clear last night, hadn’t they?
Since I was lying face down, I couldn’t see what he was doing unless I forcibly turned my head. Perhaps because of this, each gesture felt more stimulating.
His fingers wandered over my wet panties, then when his mood twisted, he would gently scratch the hidden pearl deep inside with his fingernails. The unpredictable movements made heat boil up even more in my lower body.
Yet thinking about the reality of spreading my legs in such a shameful position in front of a strange man made me want to bite my tongue and die right then.
‘Why do I have to endure something like this?’
Nothing could be more agonizing than having your body and mind work separately. Heated anticipation and disgust simultaneously disturbed my heart. I just wished this moment could be a dream instead.