RAPHAEL WAS SHOCKED BY WHAT LUCIAN SAID. Still in his arms, he looked up to try and see his face. As Lucian was already looking down at him, his eyes curved as their gazes met.
His heart was pounding. When they were younger, what he told him came to mind one after another.
Come to think of it, Lucian kept it as a promise, even though it was reckless. And even though it’s been a very long time, he never forgot it.
Raphael went up on his tiptoes and folded his arms around his neck.
He was so lovely. And Raphael was so grateful for him not forgetting his promise with him.
“So it’s like that. Finally… I’m in Brother’s schedule. Hehe, we can drink tea together anytime now.” Back then, he had to pay attention whenever they were eating together.
As if to compensate for that time, Lucian had now ascended to the position of Duke, laughing and eating well unlike before.
At this moment, Raphael wasn’t thinking about the Duke or the Duchess at all.
He only wanted to congratulate Lucian, who overcame his unfortunate past while rising to where he was now proudly.
Lucian held tightly then, simply holding his slender waist that was enough to fit in his large hands, then he lifted him up.
“Ahh!” Carrying him in one arm as he hugged him, Lucian had a smile on his lips, Raphael’s favorite smile.
Lucian hated that Raphael was satisfied with only drinking tea with him, but he was so lovely that he only gently sat back on the sofa with him.
He placed Raphael on his thigh.
“No, but what is this?”
Raphael pouted because he seemed to think that he was being treated like a child.
Knock, knock.
Then, Amber came in while pushing a trolley. Amber brought ripe grapes, sweet refreshments and cold tea just as Raphael ordered.
Being the competent maid that she was, he set it up right away, and Raphael tried to get off Lucian’s thigh.
But Lucian slinked his arm around his waist and didn’t let his go.
Raphael could only sigh deeply as Lucian didn’t budge, as though he was a root of a tree that would need to be dug up.
“Brother, are you really going to be like this?”
“Ray, grapes.”
As much as Raphael knew Lucian well, it was the same the other way around as well.
“Alright. I’ll get you the ripest ones.”
Look at Raphael now. How he acts, looking only at grapes because of his request.
As though Raphael had forgotten that he was trying to get out of his lap, he comfortably hugged Raphael as he picked which grapes to feed him.
“Now, your grapes are here. Knock knock, knock, knock knock knock.”
Hearing those words that were like a secret code to the two of them alone, Lucian smiled naturally.
Lucian took the fresh grape into his mouth, a green one that was like his beautiful hair. He savored the taste of the grape by licking his lips that had been touched by his fingertips briefly.
And that same fingertip came back to his lips again after Raphael had picked another grape to give him.
Lucian didn’t miss the opportunity. As he bit the grape, he also licked his finger with his tongue.
“Ack!” Surprised by the touch of hot flesh, Raphael’s eyes met Lucian’s. But slyly, Lucian feigned ignorance and had an innocent expression.
“That’s weird. Did I feel it was wrong?”
Raphael was preoccupied with choosing grapes and feeding them to him. Each time, Lucian fulfilled his dark desires in various ways.
He touched his waist for no reason, or caressed his from the crown of his head, down to his nape, stroking his soft hair.
—You’re a more insidious bastard than I am.
Enzo muttered as he reacted to Lucian’s deep, dark emotions, but Lucian didn’t even retort.
Truthfully, Enzo wasn’t wrong.
As Lucian swept Raphael’s hair back, he found something under his right ear.
There should be nothing that he didn’t know about Raphael, but as he pushed his hair back, he found an unfamiliar discovery.
“Brother? Why? Is something there?” Raphael turned his head because he gathered quite long emerald hair together and had it on one side.
Lucian gently took his chin and returned him to his original position.
After seeing that small dot under one of his ears, he felt a dark curiosity about what could be below his neck
Were there any other small dots on his pale body below this point? That’s…
His molten gold eyes moved from his ear down to his exposed nape.
“Why aren’t you answering? Is there really something on me?”
Lucian, whose adam’s apple had bobbed several times, replied with a low sinking voice.
“No… It’s just, there’s a mole here.”
“Ah, right. There’s a mole there. I think I have a lot of other ones.”
At Raphael’s answer, Lucian’s heartbeat sped up. Even though it felt like he was doing something he shouldn’t, he couldn’t help but ask.
“…Where else?”
“Umm, I think my thighs and my rear end? But, I’m not sure. I don’t really know where because they’re in a weird spot.”
“…Okay.”
The sound of his pounding heart could be heard in his ears. Lucian felt an unfamiliar heat blooming on his cheeks.
He had never felt this way before.
He had always been impulsive when it came to Raphael, but this seemed to be the first time that he felt so shaken.
Reaching out slowly, he pressed down on the mole in front of him with his fingertip, the one on his nape.
“It tickles.” Without answering his words, Lucian filled his greed by alternately touching his mole underneath her ear and the mole on his nape.
He touched them instead, pushing down the desire to press the dots underneath.
“Ah, I’m really ticklish!”
A white hand grabbed his finger. At the same time, the moment he made eye contact with his, Lucian couldn’t endure it any longer.
Raphael’s flushed face was so lovely.
So, he embraced him tightly. After taking him into his arms so tightly that he might break, he placed his lips over his exposed nape.
“Ah, really! Brother!” Even as he scolded him in a higher voice, he couldn’t take off his lips from what he had already touched.
If he couldn’t do at least this, he was afraid of what else he would do.
His lips burned. Even as he buried his lips on the nape of his refreshingly sweet-scented neck, his thirst only got worse and worse. It wouldn’t disappear.
Tightening his hold on his waist in his arms, he remained that way, burying his head in his neck for a moment.
I want you.
I want you.
I want to indulge in you.
As those dark emotions soared, black flames lit up behind his golden eyes.
In his head, Enzo snickered maniacally.
—If you want him, just take him. It’s as simple as that!
─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ.───
THE NEWS OF LUCIAN’S ASCENSION to the position spread quickly. The Emperor as well had received word of it.
After the ceremony, he would greet the Emperor separately, just in time for the spring banquet to be held.
“Young Master, please look at this.”
And that spring banquet was being held today. Since it’s a banquet hosted by the Imperial family, Lucian first planned to greet the Emperor there, then he would have a separate ascension banquet now that he was going to be the Duke.
Well, it felt like it involved a lot of preparing here and there, so everyone’s busy.
I looked at the box that Amber was showing me as I scooped some soup into my mouth.
Inside were accessories sent as a gift by Lucian. Necklace and Bracelets.
It was a full set with everything except a ring. And apart from that, the gems embellishing those accessories were dazzling golden amber gems that seemed to shine just like his eyes.
The suit prepared for me at this spring banquet was a light green suit that was reminiscent of the color of young sprouts.
It was a light green color that was slightly different from my emerald hair color, but if my hair were to be seen under the sun, this color was similar.
“I think these will go well with your outfit today, Young Master.”
“Let’s change your clothes.”
“Okay.”
I quickly got dolled up under Amber’s touch.
“As expected, the suit and the accessories go really well with each other.”
Knock knock, knock, knock knock knock.
Hearing the familiar staccato, I approached the door with light steps. And when I opened it, I saw him.
As usual, I appreciated his wonderful visage, and in an ecstatic mood, a familiar accessory caught my eye.
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