Today's Goal is a Safe Divorce!

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Chapter 27

‘This is the highest floor… No, no, if it’s Damon, of course, he can come up.’

If it had been someone else, she couldn’t understand it, but Damon would have easily climbed this level. It would be a different story if Damon Raphael was involved in the impossible.

Just his name alone could explain everything.

“….”

“But, why…?”

Elysia shook her body finely at Damon’s gaze, gazing down at her with a smirk without a word.

Come to think of it, a ghost could not have been more frightening than that. In fact, she didn’t even know what she was talking about now. She was so startled and frightened that even her tongue seemed to harden.

“You must have been very surprised. like this… You shed tears.”

“Huh…?”

“How is your body trembling again… I feel bad.”

As Damon’s hand, gently stroking her face and wiping her tears away, left Elysia frozen. His fingers were warm, caressing her cheek softly and wiping away her tears so much that she couldn’t even think of him killing anyone with these hands.

The blue eyes that she thought resembled the sky was darker than when they first met. She couldn’t escape Damon’s eyes as if caught in his gaze. It felt like someone was tying her up to keep her from moving.

Damon’s eyes were like a swamp that she couldn’t resist. It felt like he was dragging people down there, and she felt hazy.

“Poor thing, you’re trembling.”

“Ah…”

The words didn’t come out properly, like a fool. She seemed to have lost her way of speaking. Elysia wondered if she was breathing fine now.

“Breathe.”

“Ha, uh…”

“Yes, inhale and exhale like that.”

At his words to breathe, she took a deep breath, as if the magic had been lifted. It seemed that she was reflexively holding her breath. From the moment she saw Damon, or even heard his voice, she couldn’t breathe.

“I think it’s strange, the wife…”

“Gasp, yes…?”

Elysia was distracted as she exhaled her breath. Her chest ached from the sudden rush of oxygen. It was so she couldn’t look at his expression at all.

“If you do this, it seems like I’ve come to torment you. Isn’t it?”

At that, she was unable to answer Damon’s question. Because the way he said those words was so dazzing.

Despite the fact that he was supremely beautiful, it felt like seeing something utterly dangerous. With a slight smile, his appearance was as perfect as in an expensive masterpiece.

His jet-black hair, dark blue eyes, and handsome features all make him shine and create a dangerous atmosphere at the same time. If she calmed down for a moment, he felt like he would fall for and be bewitched by him. It was so treacherous and fascinating at the same time…

However, the man in front of her was a dangerous predator whom she could not know when she would be eaten if she lost her vigilance a little.

“I am…”

“Just a joke.”

Who makes jokes so brutally? Damon Raphael was probably the only one in the world.

Letting out a sigh, Elysia then shook her trembling body. She was so startled that she showed that she was afraid of him.

“What were you doing? I smell blood…”

“Blood? Ah—!”

She tilted her head at his remark that she smelled of blood, and then let out a short sigh as though she had realized it.

“I was practicing embroidery, and I got pricked by a needle…”

“Needle?”

“Yes, you have to practice embroidering a pattern on the veil.”

Although Damon wouldn’t know about noble weddings, it was strange how he reacted as if he was hearing about it for the first time.

“Who made the wife do that?”

“What? Of course, that’s what a bride should do, right?”

“Don’t.”

“…Yes?”

Elysia was taken aback by his words that suddenly appeared and told her not to embroider it herself. Now, she didn’t seem to know what he was talking about.

“What do you mean…? Are you talking about don’t getting married?”

If he came to want to cancel the wedding even now, it was most welcome. The hope excited Elysia more than necessary. She had never spoken about it, though she was exhausted from preparing to marry him.

“Are you saying you don’t want to get married?”

“Yes…? Your Grace just told me don’t do it?”

“I told you not to embroider yourself.”

It seemed that this man did not fully understand the meaning of the bride’s veil. So, he just sat there and talked about things like that.

“It is impossible to get married without the bride’s veil.”

“Is it really impossible?”

At Damon’s answer to whether it was really impossible, Elysia trembled in surprise. It felt kind of creepy. She ended up saying it wrong. She had forgotten that nothing was impossible with Damon Raphael…

“No, it would be possible if it was the Grand Duke… However, a bride without a veil will be ridiculed.”

“Who will laugh at my wife? My wife is so beautiful and noble.”

“Your, Your Grace… Please, stop moving your hands.”

Damon’s fingers hovered near her chin as he swept her face away. There was something strange about his hand that gently touched the corner of her mouth, Elysia couldn’t stand it.

She had to admit. She had no choice but to admit it, why Damon got the nickname sexy trash.

Even if he stood still, he had a decadent atmosphere, and every action he did was somewhat bizarre and provocative. His breathing, his voice, his gestures, everything in him seduced her. It was not only her. He seemed to seduce every living thing in the world.

“…Do you hate me?”

When Damon asked if she hated him, Elysia had no answer.

To say that, Damon Raphael was an irresistible presence. She already knew his cruelty. He was a man who was not strange no matter when and where he became possessed.

“….”

“It’s a little sad.”

“Oh, it’s not like that—”

Is there really anyone who could reject him? Even though she knew that if she was bitten by that sharp fang once, it would not be safe.

“It’s okay.”

Damon, who looked like nothing was wrong, was smiling brightly. It was so perfect that words of beauty are not enough. Even though Elysia didn’t believe in God, she thought God might punish him if there really was, God would be jealous of Damon’s appearance.

Damon was so perfect. Anyone who saw him would not be able to come to their senses.

…Just like she was right now.

Oh, indeed, Damon Raphael’s shell was too much for her taste.

What if he knew she couldn’t deny him?

“Now, let’s get back to the point. Don’t make the veil. If I had known it was going to hurt you like this, I wouldn’t have left you alone.”

Saying so, he grabbed her hand and gently touched her fingers one by one. Even the touch of his hand that touched her wound was dripping with innocence. Elysia moved her fingers back and forth as she somehow felt her fingertips tickle.

“…Let me go.”

“It’s really wounded.”

Even when she asked him to let her go, Damon didn’t seem to want to let go of her finger at all. As if touching each one wasn’t enough, he was scanning every corner now.

“Your pretty hands are full of scars.”

“It’s fine, don’t worry.”

Thinking that he might grab her finger all day, Elysia coldly shot her words and swung her finger out. However, she didn’t know why she had regrets about the fingers that came out without strength.

“I’m going to be the wife’s husband now, so shouldn’t I care?”

“That…”

“I don’t want to see my wife get sick and hurt anymore. Even more so if it’s somewhere I can’t see.”

She poked her fingers a lot because she was particularly bad at embroidery. Still, she had never been so fussy. It was a wound that was shallow enough to stop bleeding if she sucked a little bit through her mouth.

“This is a wound that stops quickly after you suck it through her mouth a few times. So, you don’t have to worry too much.”

“Sucking it with your mouth?”

Damon’s eyes darkened even more at the words she had said, and the focus was blurred. Elysia could see his eyes blurring and loosening as if he had been on drugs.

“Your Grace…?”

“Ah… I was thinking about something else for a while.”

“Is that so?”

In her opinion, he seemed excited about the story of blood. Damon was a blood-loving madman. Otherwise, the situation just before could not be explained.

“Still, I can’t.”

“…Yes?”

“I don’t want to see the wife hurt.”

“It couldn’t even be called an injury. If the bride doesn’t wear a veil, what does she want to hear?”

At Damon’s reaction, forcing like a child, Elysia furrowed her face. After all, she was a very ordinary human being, she couldn’t stand the bad gazes of people.

“If I had known in advance that it was a veil stained with the wife’s blood, I would have thrown it all away right away.”

“It is only a drop or two of blood. Do not worry too much, I will definitely go out wearing a veil.”

It was a wedding that had already attracted everyone’s attention. She did not want to receive attention once more because she was different from others. Elysia just wanted to finish it normally so as not to get caught up in it as much as possible.

“I’m sure I’ve allocated the budget so that the wife won’t run out.”

…Oh, the budget. There was a lot to be said for a budget.

“By the way, when I ran out of budget, why did you allocate the budget again?”

According to her original plan, Damon, tired of her luxury, would have to turn her down. However, instead of saying no, he doubled her budget.

“If you’re going to be my wife, it’s not a problem even if I give you a lot of money.”

“If that’s the amount… Isn’t it too lavish?”

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