Reasons for Contract Marriage - Chapter 160

He grabbed her by the nape and yanked her roughly toward him. Before she knew it, his face was so close their noses nearly touched.

“Are you doing this on purpose? Trying to see just how far you can go before I snap? Like you’re showing off?”

Brianna looked at him with trembling eyes.

If it wasn’t about how she addressed him, then she couldn’t understand why he was so angry. If it was about her running away, he could have simply confronted her calmly or talked about how to resolve things going forward.

This wasn’t the rational man she knew. Lucius now felt like a ticking time bomb. Dealing with him was like walking a razor-thin sheet of ice.

“So, not only did you erase all trace of me from your life while living in that village, you even claimed Florian, who’s dead, as your husband?”

Florian?

Brianna gasped quietly. She realized now he was severely misunderstanding. She had said her husband had gone off to war and died because that was simply the easiest explanation. That way, people would stop asking questions out of respect for a grieving widow.

It wasn’t because she missed Florian that she had called him her late husband instead of Lucius. To be honest, in the past six months, Brianna had only thought of Florian once—the day marking the one-year anniversary of his funeral. All the rest of her time was spent missing Lucius.

“Luce, Florian to me is…”

Just as Brianna opened her mouth to explain, his lips crashed down on hers.

His thick tongue pried into her mouth and filled it in an instant. Shocked by the sudden intrusion, Brianna turned her head to escape, but his fingers clamped tightly around her jaw, holding her still.

“Mmph!”

Then came a rough kiss unlike any she had ever experienced before. His tongue delved in deep, not allowing even a moment to breathe, ravaging and rubbing against every corner inside her mouth. Brianna tried to pull her tongue back and retreat, but the moment she did, he bit her lip hard—metallic bitterness flooded her mouth.

“Ah…”

In the end, Brianna could no longer think of resisting and simply accepted the relentless kiss.

She never knew a kiss could be this rough and overwhelming. Lucius had been passionate before, but he had never hurt her or forced himself on her like this.

As it became harder and harder to breathe, Brianna clutched his collar with both hands. At the same moment, his arms wrapped around her, and her body was lifted.

When she came to her senses, she was lying on the carriage bench. And Lucius was on top of her.

“Luce…”

Brianna looked up at him in a daze. The sudden turn of events left her completely disoriented. She didn’t even know how she had ended up lying here. Or why he was straddling her.

But one thing was clear—the atmosphere had shifted. From all the nights she had spent with him, Brianna could tell: even without a bed, this kind of space was more than enough for a man and woman to join.

Not to mention, he had even said earlier that doing it only in bed had gotten boring.

“W-wait…”

Brianna tried to escape the indecent position, pushing against his chest with her arms, but his thighs pinned her lower body down firmly—she couldn’t move at all.

“L-Luce…”

Lucius gathered her trembling hands and pinned them above her head. Then, with his free hand, he stroked her lips. From their fierce kiss just moments ago, her lips were soaked with saliva and swollen red. His thumb gently brushed the part he had wounded, and then he whispered softly.

“You know what? Even back then, I wanted to do this to you.”

Back then?

“I pretended to be calm and proper, but in my head, I was imagining all sorts of filthy things.”

“What are you—”

Just as Brianna frowned in confusion at his words, Lucius’s lips met hers again.

This time, his tongue gently licked her lips, occasionally nibbling lightly to tease her. Unlike earlier, this was far from causing pain. It was a soft, tender kiss.

At some point, Brianna closed her eyes and accepted the kiss. Just like that, it felt as though they had returned to the past, to when she had been his wife.

As Brianna’s once-stiff body slowly relaxed, Lucius’s hand moved lower. Because of the cramped space, her left leg had slipped down the side of the bench, her toes resting on the floor of the carriage. He subtly grasped her slender left ankle.

“When I touched your ankle like this, you used to let out sweet little moans.”

And indeed, Brianna let out a soft gasp. His touch, which tickled her skin, was so teasingly gentle it almost drove her mad.

Lucius’s hand then traced up her leg from her knee to her thigh. Meanwhile, his kisses moved from her lips to her neck, then to her chest, and Brianna’s posture grew more disordered with each moment.

Now she wore only a single thin dress and her undergarments. Once the secured strap was undone, the undergarment fell away easily. Lucius cupped the mound with his whole palm. Already moist and wet, she was perfectly ready to receive him.

Lucius released her hands and lifted her loosely sprawled legs. Hooking her knee over his arm, he kissed the softest inner part of her thigh, and Brianna let out another faint, breaking whimper.

“This is always where my imagination stopped before. I wonder how far it’ll go now.”

And with those words, Brianna finally snapped back to her senses. What did he just say—

“Ah!”

At that moment, a thick mass of flesh suddenly pushed inside.

Brianna let out an involuntary high-pitched moan and hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands.

Only then did she realize what was happening. This wasn’t a bedroom—it was a moving carriage. And here she was, having sex with Lucius.

She still wore her clothes, only her skirt was hiked above her knees. Lucius, too, had merely undone his belt. Without properly undressing, like animals in heat, they were entangled in the carriage.

“Luce! Stop—”

Just as Brianna tried to stop him, he pulled out and then thrust back in hard. The shock made her quickly clamp her hands over her mouth again. She couldn’t suppress the moans anymore.

“Ah…”

Even though it had been so long, her walls and flesh received him as if they remembered him perfectly. And more than anything, the maddening pleasure that shook her brain made it impossible to think straight. Shame about the inappropriate setting was overtaken by the urgency of lust.

“Hngh… ugh!”

Brianna stopped resisting and threw her arms around Lucius. Each time the carriage jolted, the thick shaft pounded deeper inside her without mercy. The growing pleasure made it harder to stifle her voice with her palms, so she bit down on her fingers instead. Seeing that, Lucius pulled her fingers away and slid his own into her mouth. Soon enough, blood trickled from the pressure on his hand.

“Luce, you’re bleeding…”

Seeing the blood, Brianna was startled. She pulled away from his fingers and shook her head, but Lucius lifted her and held her in his arms. Just as she thought he was done, he seated her facing him on his lap.

Their lips met again, and the motion resumed. Now, every sound Brianna let out was swallowed into his mouth.

A moment later, Brianna buried her face in his neck with a cry-like moan. At the same time, he released a hot flood deep inside her.