Despite the peaceful way they’ve ended things a while ago, Eugene hardly slept a wink, her senses hyper-aware of the fact that another person was on her bed. She kept tossing and turning, refusing stubbornly to turn towards the man sleeping beside her.
Still, what Kasser had said was true; the bed was spacious. If one was adept at sleeping without the habit of rolling around, they wouldn’t be able to reach the other person sleeping with them at all. Still, it was endearing to her the way he only stuck to the edge of the bed, agonizingly close to falling.
It was fortunate that he slept like a corpse. So still and hardly moving to change sleeping positions.
‘It’s an incomprehensible contract. Why did Jin Anika insist to remain untouched by the king? What is her purpose?’ she couldn’t help but think.
Anika was a woman who had every means to an end. It was so unlikely of her not to sleep with the king. If she disliked pregnancy and avoids it, there were always known methods of contraception.
It was common sense that if you strived hard to get the title which would help in whatever plans you have, you’d sell yourself to the most powerful person in the kingdom, gain his trust and use it to your advantage.
The king would definitely fall for her charm, but Jin Anika did not even bother to try. Something did not add up to this.
‘She is not a naive character who’s obsessed with purity…’ the endless thoughts forced Eugene to blink her eyes open in frustration, ‘There must be a reason why then that she’d preserve her purity. But for what?’
Unfortunately, she couldn’t figure it out, even after thoroughly thinking through the novel she wrote. No plausible explanation still came to mind.
‘It doesn’t matter what Jin Anika’s purpose was. Right now, I’m the one with a huge problem.’
She’s the one who has to produce a child and to do that, she had to be intimate with the king. There was no artificial insemination in this world or any other way to get past this.
It felt like an impossible task for Eugene, who had no intention of marrying, let alone giving birth. With these reflections keeping her restless, she thought that she would stay up all night.
But as the minutes passed by, exhaustion slowly kicked in and she finally fell into a deep slumber.
***
It was pitch black….Her whole body was tied up.
She tried to scream for help, but her voice didn’t come out. With her arms tightly wrapped around her torso, she was helpless and immobile.
It was suffocating. She felt sick at the stench that permitted in the air. And most of all, her limbs cried in pain and agony.
In her ears, inscrutable whispers which sounded like echoes of incomprehensible spells rang repeatedly…
“Anika!”
Eugene opened her eyes. The first thing she noticed was that someone was panting hard, as if trying desperately hard to breathe…
It wasn’t until later that she realized that it was her. The king’s face was dimly visible above her–he held her shoulders tightly and looked down at her. Concern written on his face.
Struggling, Eugene opened her lips and tried to say something. However, her jaw trembled uncontrollably. Not only her jaw, but her whole body shook violently as well.
Tears fell through her eyes, rolling endlessly down her cheeks, dampening them. The horrible sensation that she had never experienced before has yet to leave her, further causing tremors to erupt from her body.
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(1) Living As the Villainess Queen
General Fiction'I want to travel to a place unknown to the many...' It was a passing wish to the weary and tired Eugene and she'd not think it'd ever come to pass... but it did. She opened her eyes and found she was sent to a novel-like world she wrote in passing...
