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Joo Minhyuk especially loved smelling the scent of my skin.
When we had sex, he always took off his clothes to rub his skin against mine and hugged me with all his strength.
He loved the feeling of skin touching skin and felt much more when he was naked than when he had clothes on.
“It’s warm. Your skin smells better than pheromones. I love the touch of your skin, too. How about you?”
Joo Minhyuk hugged me tightly from behind.
He buried his face in my neck and back. He bit my back once in a while and licked it with his tongue.
I flinched every time, but Joo Minhyuk didn’t let go of the arms that trapped me and pulled me closer.
“Can we talk after you take it out first, Your Majesty? You’re going to fall asleep while it’s still inside again.”
“Don’t be so cold. I’ll just leave it in. You don’t know how soft and warm it is in here… Ugh!”
“I told you not to say things like that!”
He kept saying embarrassing things without hesitation, so I hit his solar plexus with my elbow as hard as I could.
Where does he even hear such cringeworthy words?
And whenever I say something like this, he always starts moving again as if he is getting revenge.
“Ah, mmm… Not again.”
In the end, I tried to struggle once, even though I knew I couldn’t win.
Joo Minhyuk massaged my chest with his hands while holding me tightly.
He sucked on my ear and moved his hips slowly.
He wasn’t moving fast like before; the slow movement made my stomach feel ticklish and twisted.
“Heu… Ha, Haejoo.”
Joo Minhyuk groaned quietly every time I moved.
He buried his face in my neck, pushed up strongly, and then stopped his slow rubbing.
After a low groan, he moved his hips quickly and turned my face to find my lips.
Joo Minhyuk entered my mouth as if he were going to eat me.
He pushed his tongue deep into my throat. My mind went blank at the pleasure mixed with pain.
The movement became faster.
I was exhausted from the continuous sex while being held tight without changing positions.
Joo Minhyuk held me and wouldn’t let go today for some strange reason.
I knew how he was feeling, so I stayed in his arms quietly, but now it felt a bit suffocating.
Finally, the heavy and fast movement stopped.
“Ah… Ah, haa.”
“Mmph, haa…”
Rough groans came out of Joo Minhyuk and my mouth at the same time.
I held Joo Minhyuk’s arm tightly and trembled. He tried to calm me down.
He wasn’t really in a position to calm anyone else down, but anyway, I breathed heavily in his arms.
My body was wet and messy with fluids. Finally, Joo Minhyuk’s member pulled out of my body.
When it left, I felt an empty sensation in my stomach, as if there was a hole.
What time is it now?
Will Joo Minhyuk have time to sleep?
“I’ll wash you. Just sleep.”
“You’re tired too, Your Majesty…”
“This isn’t tiring at all. What do you take me for? When I was training at the military academy…”
Here he goes again.
I should sleep.
I was about to turn over because I thought he was going to talk about his boring military training again.
“Ah, ow.”
“Haejoo?”
I felt a stabbing pain in my lower stomach again.
I quickly put my hand on my stomach and curled my body.
Why is this happening?
Should I call the doctor?
It’s all because of Joo Minhyuk.
He is the only person I’ve been worrying about lately.
“What’s wrong? Cha Haejoo? Haejoo!”
When I groaned in pain and curled up, Joo Minhyuk, who was trying to grab my shoulder to look at me, came in front of me to check.
His voice sounded panicked.
It was natural for him to be surprised since someone who was fine just a moment ago was now rolling around holding their stomach.
“Doctor, I’ll call a doctor. Wait a second. I…”
“No. It’s better now. This has never happened before, but it’s been like this since last night. I think it’s just stress because I’ve been thinking about many things.”
“That’s just a guess, not a fact. No. I have to call a doctor. There are many doctors staying in the palace.”
“I don’t want to see them like this. Do I have to show them that I haven’t washed and was just rolling around with Your Majesty?”
I grabbed Joo Minhyuk’s arm as he was trying to go out.
He realized what he hadn’t thought about, looked around, and stopped.
My body was a mess, and even the bed was soaked.
The pheromones floating in the air were still full of excitement, and the air was hot.
There was no need to show such private and intimate parts to others.
Also, I had been sick before.
Whenever I was a little stressed, I got a bad headache and took medicine.
This time, it seems like I’m getting a stomachache instead of a headache, but it will get better once my mind is calm.
“It’s because I was worried since Your Majesty was avoiding me, so you wash me. I’ll be fine if I get into warm water.”
“Fine. I’ll let it go this time. But if you have these symptoms again, you must call a doctor right away. I won’t let it slide then.”
Joo Minhyuk picked me up and looked at my face. I nodded and went to the bathroom in his arms.
I fell asleep at dawn when it was almost morning, so I woke up after lunch.
While he was washing me, Joo Minhyuk told me not to wake up until I wasn’t tired anymore.
I followed his words quite well and was lazy until late.
My muscles were so sore that I had a simple meal in bed and took muscle relaxants.
I was worried if my stomach would hurt again, but luckily, it didn’t.
See?
I told you Joo Minhyuk was the cause.
I lay back down on the bed and thought about my relationship with him.
What will happen to our relationship now?
What are we?
Since we are already a married couple, is there no need to define it with other words?
At some point, Joo Minhyuk started calling me by my name naturally and speaking comfortably.
He no longer calls me “Great Consort” or treats me with only formal politeness.
It’s a pretty shocking improvement in our relationship.
And most of all, Joo Minhyuk is obsessed with me.
Very much so. His unusual behavior yesterday was simply because I wasn’t in the room.
He didn’t even think about asking the palace servants where I was; he just went out, searched rooms, and broke things to find me.
That behavior is completely beyond common sense.
However, Joo Minhyuk, who usually handles things calmly and rationally, caused that mess just because of me.
This is a side of him that wasn’t in the original novel’s Emperor. It was actually the pattern of behavior that the Great Consort usually showed the Emperor.
Now Joo Minhyuk is doing the opposite to me.
It’s too early to call Joo Minhyuk’s behavior “love.”
I don’t know if his heart is love, or just liking me, or if it’s both but he just hasn’t realized it yet.
It’s better to just watch for now.
From being jealous of Hyunwook to his obsession.
It feels like I can see my future with no exit.
Will I get used to it as I live?
One thing is for sure: Joo Minhyuk cannot be without me.
I realized that one fact clearly.
“What kind of mess did you make in the middle of the night? Everyone in the palace knows about this. Why are you doing things you never used to do?”
The Queen Mother’s voice was high, showing her discomfort.
However, Minhyuk drank his tea peacefully without much reaction.
“I was just looking for my spouse who should have been sleeping in bed. Like you said, Mother, if other Alphas couldn’t see their Omega in the middle of the night, they wouldn’t have acted differently from me.”
“What? Is it normal to go around breaking all the rooms just to find an Omega who was sleeping somewhere else for a moment? What kind of Alpha would do that?”
“I suppose there wouldn’t be such an Alpha. Because their Omega isn’t Cha Haejoo.”
“…What…?”
The Queen Mother lost her words at Minhyuk’s unexpected reaction.
She knew well about their relationship lately.
It was just absurd to see him so different from before, when he showed no interest in what the Great Consort did or how she lived.
She wanted to call Haejoo and scold her for how he could change so much in an instant.
The Queen Mother was worried that things would go wrong because he had given his heart to Haejoo so completely.
The Queen Mother couldn’t hide her anxiety as she looked at her son in front of her.
Minhyuk showed a slight smile as he saw his mother like that.
“I know what you are worried about. Don’t worry. The plan will not change, Mother.”
Minhyuk’s eyes were full of confidence and his heart hadn’t changed.
Those eyes were the same as before.
Seeing that, the Queen Mother felt relieved, but she was also frustrated because she couldn’t fully understand the Emperor’s heart.
“I will definitely strike the Prime Minister. He has gone too far to just leave him alone. I cannot just watch a criminal who tries to change the Emperor. The plan is going smoothly, so you should get ready too, Mother.”
“What about the Great Consort? Surely the first plan was…”
“Mother.”
Minhyuk put down his teacup and stared at the Queen Mother more seriously than ever.
The Queen Mother flinched at her son’s cold voice calling her.
Minhyuk knew he needed to tell the Queen Mother clearly about the Great Consort.
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