Seduce A Cold Blooded Duke

Chapter 41

“Eup!“

Lionel’s gentle kiss abruptly changed. His eyes seemed to gleam fiercely.

He turned into a savage. He grabbed her by the waist and poured out an intense and passionate energy.

Lionel devoured her, and then he suddenly let go.

Riv couldn’t stand alone after their lips parted. Lionel grabbed Riv, who was about to collapse.

“Come to your senses.”

Riv seemed to have been engulfed by a low fever.

The temperature fueled by her desire did not go away.

Unlike Riv, who was mesmerized, Lionel looked calm. He smiled playfully at her.

“Do you want me to do it again?”

The priests coughed and turned their heads, and some guests whistled. Riv’s face heated up like a red tomato.

“I, I…”

Riv was embarrassed.

That hot kiss seemed to only affect her and only her lips were swollen.

The only thing left on Lionel’s lips were the marks of her red lip rouge.

“Hold on, Lionel.”

Riv reached out and brushed Lionel’s lips.

The tip of her lace gloves were stained red.

“Why?”

Then their eyes met again.

Riv lowered her awkwardly raised arm.

“It’s because you had something on your face.”

“Is it gone now?”

“Yes.”

Riv glanced up at him and nodded her head.

Lionel smiled softly and whispered in her ear.

“Honey, I’ll express my thanks once we get home. I’ve become your husband. Don’t forget.”

Riv’s heart raced wildly.

Turning her head, she saw several of his friends and acquaintances, astonished by Lionel’s change. They couldn’t believe Lionel’s transformation.

“Lionel?”

“Ahahaha.”

Some were dumbfounded and the others applauded or whistled.

But they could no longer concentrate due to the noise from outside. Lionel frowned.

Just as he was about to summon the escorts guarding outside, the priests ran in from the back door.

“I think you should avoid the front door.”

Confusion appeared on people’s faces.

The voices and shouts of excited people could be heard from outside.

“W-What’s going on?”

Even the old Cardinal and his high-ranking priests were perplexed. The priest who had seen the commotion outside answered.

“It seems that news of the Duke of Sentoren’s wedding has spread.”

“Haa.”

The people who had heard the news couldn’t contain their curiosity and flocked to the church. Lionel’s forehead was wrinkled heavily.

“Your Eminence, is there any secret passage out of this place?”

“There’s none. I will have my priests try to calm them down.”

Unlike his words, the old Cardinal looked frightened, and Lionel sighed.

While Lionel and his entourage looked outside, the priests led Riv to the confessional room inside the church.

Meanwhile, the Cardinal, leaning on his entourage, escaped through the Cathedral’s side door.

Riv looked around the small confession room. She caught her breath in the brutal space and sat on a hard wooden chair, different from the ornate Cathedral.

The cries of the people outside the church could be heard all the way in this inner space.

“Miss, you look tired. May I bring you some water?”

Claudel adjusted her veil and looked at Riv’s complexion. Riv shook her head.

“I’m fine, Claudel. But it seems noisy outside.”

“I think you should get out of here quickly, given the time.”

“……We should.”

Riv sighed softly.

Was this wedding such a hot topic that crowds gathered in front of the Bishops’ Church?

Riv questioned all of those things.

“It’s because of the way the Cardinal took care of us.”

“You don’t have to worry about that. The Duke of Sentoren pays a huge donation to the Bishops’ Church every year.”

“I see.”

Riv remembered the Cardinal, who was not as bad as she had expected.

The Cardinal was probably moved because of money. Reality wasn’t quite as romantic as Riv’s imagination. If she really thought about it, her intentions in marrying Lionel were not pure either.

‘I’m trying to use Lionel because I want to survive too.’

Riv stared at the paintings of God adorned on the walls of the confession room.

She didn’t believe in God. The Bishops’ God considered her a witch and a heretic.

She would be sentenced to death if she was found to be a witch.

But at this moment, Riv sincerely prayed to God.

She wanted her time with Lionel to last as long as possible. Before Lionel came to her world, everything was grey. When she joined Lionel, her world became full of color.

She was happy for the first time.

Her petty anxieties didn’t even matter.

***

The Bishops’ Church and the Royal Family were in a symbiotic relationship of cooperation and competition. In fact, the Bishops’ Church even came to hold the royal wedding and also prepared for the grand wedding of Princess Marianne.

However, Princess Marianne’s fiancé, the Duke of Sentoren, married the princess’ maid, Madame Katana.

Rumors about Madame Katana were the worst.

She was a huge, ugly woman and a villain with a vicious personality.

Curious about Madame Katana, apprentice priests snooped around the Celton Cathedral.

The secret marriage of the Duke of Sentoren spread within the Bishops’ Church and was leaked to the outside.

“You mean Madame Katana, the new Duchess is in there?”

In the eyes of the apprentice priests, the maid, who betrayed the lovely Princess Marianne, and the Duke of Sentoren, who wanted to marry the ugly girl, were both insane.

“Even if Madame Katana became the Duchess, everyone in society will reject her.”

“Of course.”

The Cardinal and the priests sneaked out through the church’s side door.

After some time, the high priests, Enaldo and Philip, appeared. The apprentice priests’ eyes twinkled.

Enaldo and Philip were responsible for the management and training of the apprentice priests. The young priests flocked to them and hurled questions.

“What kind of person is the Duchess? Did you see Madame Katana?”

“Did she have a terrible appearance as the rumors say?”

The two middle-aged priests sighed as the young priests snooped around, eager to see the inside of the Cathedral.

Priest Enaldo opened his mouth.

“I don’t know what you’ve heard, but the new Duchess is a beauty.”

“What?”

“I don’t know how the rumors spread, because she was a slim and elegant beauty.”

The apprentice priests shed cold sweat.

“That can’t be true. Did he marry someone else?”

At the words of the lower priests, Priest Enaldo turned to Priest Philip next to him and warned the young and immature priests.

“Priest Philip is in front of you. Stop gossiping about Madame Katana.”

“Why? Are Priest Philip and Madame Katana relatives?”

“Priest Philip is the lady’s only family.”

The apprentice priests stared at Philip’s lean face.

Philip soon put his outer robe on with a firm face that did not show any emotion.

As soon as the apprenticeship priests looked at Philip, they ran away. Enaldo sighed.

“Are you the one who spread the rumors about Madame Katana and the Duke’s wedding, Philip?”

“……”

“If anything happens to the Duke and Duchess of Sentoren, we will be in trouble.”

“I will take full responsibility.”

Philip’s eyes twinkled darkly. Enaldo closed his mouth after trying to say something.

Philip stared at the Duke and Duchess of Sentoren.

“My goodness.”

Lionel looked outside and sighed.

Crowds climbed the walls of the Bishop’s Church and tried to surround the area in front of the Celton Cathedral. It was insane.

“I don’t know how this happened.”

The Cardinal had already left. It was already too late for them to get out through the side door. There was no secret passage in the Celton Cathedral. It would be difficult for Lionel to break through the crowd at the Cathedral head-on because he was with his new bride, friends, and other companions.

The Bishops’ Church did not seem to have any intention of rectifying this riot.

‘Everyone ran away.’

Lionel, who was worried, headed to the confession room to find Riv.

Riv saw Lionel and immediately raised her head.

Lionel’s face looked tired. He said.

“I’m thinking of a way to get you out safely.”

“Don’t overdo it, Lionel.”

“Let’s watch the situation a little more.”

Riv answered.

“Let’s just go straight ahead, Lionel.”

“What?”

Both Lionel and Claudel were astonished.