The Crown's Seduction
Chapter 221: Sneaky

Chapter 221: Sneaky

It was early in the morning when Dani’s presence was requested by the Queen Mother Rania. As such, she quickly went to the Queen Mother’s Residence because she already had an idea of why she was called there. Her union with Abel was nearing, after all, and she could only assume that she’d get a briefing of some sort.

Despite knowing what it was about, however, Dani couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous. As if to add to her luck, she was walking down the hallway towards the Queen Mother’s Residence when she saw Abel coming in from another direction.

"Dani," he greeted her with a smile.

She offered him a curt nod. She could say that their relationship had progressed quite a bit to the point that both of them were at least comfortable with each other now.

"Are you heading to Queen Mother as well?" she asked.

"Yes," Abel replied with a shrug. "I guess she invited both of us. How’s everything though? Is Dahlia alright?"

Dani was ready to answer him with a smile, but hearing Dahlia’s name from his mouth somehow made her feel annoyed. Was she jealous? Dahlia had Rosela’s face, after all. Maybe that was why?

Somehow, she unconsciously bit her inner lip at the thought of Abel and Dahlia together. Well, Dahlia seemed to be very different from Rosela, so she guessed the woman would be a good match for Abel. It wasn’t too late for that to happen yet anyway.

With that thought in mind, she stopped walking. She felt Abel do the same, and she turned to him and said, "It’s not too late..."

Abel knitted his brows at her. "Too late for what? To call this off? Are you referring to our union?" he asked. "Didn’t we already come to a final conclusion about this, Dani?"

"I mean, Dahlia’s back and I can tell that she’s quite different from Rosela," Dani pointed out, her eyes fixated on him as she tried to read his emotions. "Why don’t you take responsibility for her? She looks exactly like Rosela too..."

She noticed immediately that his expression dimmed. She could only guess that he didn’t like what she said.

Frowning, he stepped closer to her. She didn’t step back, letting him say his piece straight to her face. "What do you take me for, Dani?" he scoffed. "Do you think that just because Dahlia has the same face as Rosela I will take her as my woman?!"

Dani gulped. She knew right then and there that she had overstepped her boundaries. "That’s ah-m... What I m-mean..." she stuttered as she struggled to explain herself. What was there to explain anyway when there was nothing to explain?

"You..." he growled. "Why are you always looking down on me?"

Dani blinked at Abel’s low tone. For a second, she felt like her soul had just left her body, especially when she felt Abel suddenly snaking his arms around her waist possessively.

"No, it’s not like that," she weakly defended. I’m not looking down on you, Abel. It’s just that I thought-"

Dani’s eyes widened at what happened next. Her body stiffened, and all the remaining air inside her lungs immediately left her body as Abel’s lips unexpectedly pressed themselves against hers.

’It’s moving!’ she thought, alarmed.

His lips were moving against hers. He was kissing her roughly, and she had half a mind to scold him for it. Her eyes narrowed, and she opened her mouth to protest. This would officially be her first kiss, after all, and how dare he do it roughly?!

Sure, technically, this was their second since she kissed him back when she did the Chain Thralling Spell on him, but she didn’t consider that a kiss since her aim was to bite his lips for blood and for him to taste her blood on her lips.

So yes. Technically, this should be her first kiss! But instead of her words coming up, she ended up speechless yet again as Abel took that opportunity to slather the insides of her mouth with his sneaky tongue.

’What’s going on?’ Dani weakly thought to herself as she felt her knees start to wobble. She was losing strength from the foreign feelings invading her body, and she didn’t know what to think of it.

But just as she was about to find her courage, Abel’s rough kissing suddenly changed its tone. All of a sudden, he became gentle before he suddenly released her.

Her face was red as she stared at him with parted lips. ’What the hell happened?!’ she inwardly complained. ’Why did he stop?!’

"You... That will be your punishment whenever you look down on me, Dani," Able declared with a frown as he turned to walk ahead of her. "Looking down on me only means that you want me to kiss you like this."

Watching him leave, it took her a while for her before she managed to regain her bearings.

"What was that?" she murmured with a frown.

She unknowingly touched her swollen lips. A few seconds later, a beautiful smile made her lips curl as she turned around.

"I should look down on him more often then!" she giggled to herself as she made her way to follow Abel.

To her surprise, however, he was nowhere to be found. It looked like he ran off after kissing her like that, and yet that didn’t change her feelings in the slightest. She touched her cheeks and gently patted them. She knew it was so red from embarrassment, and it felt so good to feel like this.

She shook her head at her own actions. If Zaila, Krisha, and the others ever saw her acting like this, their jaws would definitely drop. She wasn’t the type to squeal, but right now, she was doing exactly that. She felt like butterflies were still fluttering inside her stomach, and it felt really nice to feel this way.

Still, Dani knew that she still had a long way to go.

"I just hope that I’m making the right call," she cheered herself up as she continued her walk to the Queen Mother’s residence.

With her mind still reeling, she blinked when she saw Abel waiting for her at the entrance. She couldn’t help but feel her blush returning to her ever so slightly.

"What’s taking you so long?"

"Huh? You left me," she quickly retorted. "And why are you still outside? Why not go in first?"

"Let’s go together. The Queen Mother is already in her garden waiting for us," he stated as he offered out his hand to her. "Come."

"Oh, right. We should be a couple in front of her," Dani muttered as she accepted his hand.

She let out a quiet sigh as she let him take the lead. Well, that was one way for her to hide her blush at the moment. She was already used to Abel’s hand holding hers since they did it a lot in front of her parents and during some of the more public displays where they had to assure people that she was marrying out of her own choice and feelings.

Actually, now that she noticed it, Abel’s hand was rather cold. He was a Curb though, so his body temperature was naturally like this.

"By the way, you can always visit Dahlia, so why not ask her how she is yourself? Just check on her if you want to know," Dani scoffed out of nowhere as they walked together. "She’s back after so many years, so I believe having her visited by familiar faces will be good for her."

A brief silence followed, and Dani couldn’t help but break the silence she created.

"I’m not really looking down at you, Abel," she defended herself. "It’s just that I thought... Who knows? I mean, Dahlia seems to be a nice woman unlike Rosela, an-"

Dani was once more taken out of her sentence as Abel suddenly pulled her closer to him. She gulped as she felt his arm wrap around her shoulders. "Smile," he instructed her. "The Queen Mother is looking at us, Dani."

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