The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Tw: Low sexual content

 Until marriage, even after marriage... superficially, deceiving, leaving each other alone, behind...

"...Whatever we do behind each other's back?”

He had never heard such absurd words in his life. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] She had told him multiple times, as if slapping him in the face, that she doesn't care about anything he does, doesn't like him, and he's not worth killing. However, none of them were as absurd as what she had just said.

‘So, what are you going to do behind my back?’

No, this could be a hasty reaction. Cárcel thought again.

’Are you giving me permission so that you can do what you want too?’

In any case, there was no difference. Cárcel narrowed his eyes and straightened his body.

Then he went in front of Ines, who was picking up a teacup from the other side, and sat at the table with his legs spread out on both sides of her simple dress as if to lock her up, as if she were suddenly going to get up and run away.

Even with her fiancé's peculiar behavior, Ines, without a hint of hesitation, took a few sips of tea, carefully placed the teacup on the table, and looked directly at him as she spoke.

"Escalante, there's a designated place for people to sit."

"I'm already seated. I still seem to be human, so it should be fine."

"Escalante, it's bothering me."

"I don't mind.”

He narrowed his spread legs so that her knees touched each other between his legs.

Fully trapped, Ines didn't struggle or resist but chuckled.

"Are you a child?"

"Then why are your legs this long? Judging by the length, you must be a child."

"It's really childish. Suddenly interrupting someone talking..."

"Look back at what you were babbling about."

"I don't get the problem."

"Do you think that makes sense?"

"Why wouldn't it make sense?”

The face that asked the question was bright and clean. She had a truly incomprehensible expression. There was no difference in the neatly buttoned buttons all the way to the neck or the dark navy dress from usual times.

However, Ines looked different than usual. She seemed excessively beautiful at the concert, and now…..

“…In the end, was it all because of your lover?”

"What?"

”Are you doing all this to continue meeting that man in the future?”

This explains everything. She just quietly watched his debauchery, tolerated him to continue to live as he pleases, and now she is even talking about things after marriage.….. It all makes sense if it's for another man.

Maybe it's not just one man, but several men…... Cárcel calmly completed the calculation. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] That stuffily modest shell is just a fake to deceive the world, and who knows how many men she must have charmed with her white and pretty body. It was not unreasonable to secretly admire and cling to her.

Cárcel, whose life was being ridiculed by Ines in his dreams every night, could never ignore that power.

Yes, her body was certainly capable of that. With her independent personality and the way she spoke to men... A few commands, and anyone would likely be swayed.

For some reason, a boiling rage surged within him. Despite his tarnished reputation, at least after marriage, it was a different matter entirely.

“…It doesn't matter who you've met so far. I know it’s none of my business and I know I don't have such right.”

“Is someone you know doing this?”

Even though she had brought up the matter seriously, Ines nonchalantly retorted. Cárcel, seizing the opportunity, grabbed Ines's wrist as she attempted to quietly escape, placing both hands on her knees in an instant, locking eyes with her once again, and spoke.

“But this doesn’t make sense. Unless it's the twisted idea that I have to live recklessly, so that you can live like that too…….”

"Roughly, that's the idea."

"This is insane."

"Well, of course, catching up with you might be challenging.”

His virtuous fiancée now looked like a ready b*tch. Cárcel anxiously rubbed his face with the hand that was not holding her wrists.

"...I know you must have been disappointed with my actions since military academy, I know but…”

"The academy that you enrolled because you didn't want to marry me?”

Originally, it meant that he began meeting women around that time, but Ines delved deeper.

They were supposed to get married six years ago.

Cárcel's beautiful eyes trembled as she smiled frighteningly.

"I know. It was good, thanks to you."

".…..”

“And then you actually ended up enlisting, so I was really happy.”

The fact that it sounds like ‘It was annoying, but it was good to be able to get rid of you’ is probably not due to his mood. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Cárcel smiled fiercely and asked back, as if he didn't want to lose.

"Because you could enjoy secret meetings with your lovers?"

"There was nothing like that. Not even once.”

It was an honest response without any signs of hiding. The smile that had been crooked on Cárcel's lips slowly became straighter.

While he was caught off guard, she spoke coldly again.

"I was just happy that marriage was indefinitely postponed.”

“…….”

“That doesn’t mean I hate you, Escalante.”

“You don’t even like me.”

“What does that mean to you?”

For a second, he felt like he was suffocating. “What does that mean to you?” Cárcel truly wanted to ask.

‘Why doesn't it mean anything to you anymore?’

“There was no such thing as meeting a man. Because I don't have a remarkable face like yours, and I don’t have any special charm.

But it wasn't true. Since it wasn't true, it felt like he might lose his mind. Do you know how desperate I became because of you? Do you know what I did thinking about you? Yet, there wasn't a single proper word to express it.

If someone knew what was going on in his head, it wouldn't be surprising for him to hastily leave Mendoza.

"Was the thought of just wanting to make things easier for you a misguided idea? The premise of 'together' was attached to make you comfortable. Of course, I'm also considering the possibility of finding the man I love someday, but.…..”

With a face without blood or tears, she talks about a man of destiny. Cárcel twitched his handsome lips sarcastically.

"Rather than that, I just hope you are free."

"..….”

"You were manipulated by me. Because of me, you entered into an engagement you never desired, became a duke at an overly young age because of me, spent nearly twenty years escorting an unappealing, stern, dull, and uninteresting fiancée who resembles a nun from the chapel. You even went to war, intending to spend your life together with a fiancée who is not particularly beautiful, rigid, and lacks charm. Just with the thought of living like that, even if a little longer.”

“…….”

"So, I'll compensate for your losses. To ensure this handsome face doesn't deteriorate even a bit."

A touch reminiscent of the past, playfully tapping his cheek.

Yet, it's still a face unmatched in kindness. A face of a docile fiancée who willingly sacrifices all dignity and pride for the sake of her fiancé's convenience.…..

Sacrifice, docile... Was she feigning innocence with that absurd personality of hers?

Words can't be everything. Cárcel became convinced that there must be more to it. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] It was also suspicious that she was talking at length with that annoying personality even though he didn't ask.

Ulterior motive. There's undoubtedly an ulterior motive behind it.

With narrowed eyes, Cárcel leaned forward, bringing his face close to hers. Ines spoke without blinking an eye.

"Your childhood was bound to our marriage, but everything will change after we get married."

The distance narrowed from about two spans to around one span and a half.

"You'll be freer than before."

The distance narrowed from one span and a half to about one span.

"I will too, as your only wife.”

The distance narrowed to about one span, half a span, until their breaths intertwined.

A distance of about a span, half a span, a distance that makes each other's breaths intertwined.

Ines looked puzzled for the first time. It was an expression he saw quite often in his dreams. Because once she made that expression, she was definitely eaten by him.

"...I will do things that are unrelated to you, based solely on my duty."

"You want to live without any connection to your husband? Is that possible?”

“I will do the bare minimum I can for you. Because I believe you will do that much for me... Since I don't love you and you don't love me, we will become a perfect couple. Right? We'll have the necessary children for the family, with no interest in each other's private lives, and there won't be any disturbances...”

Cárcel swallowed the rest of her words. Ines, with wide-open eyes and breathless, struggled to exhale when he gently pushed his tongue into her disheveled mouth. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Everything was sudden, even for Cárcel, who had impulsively kissed his fiancée for the first time.

Sucking on her plump lower lip with a lascivious sound, he pulled her body closer. Her knee, which had been against the side of his knee, now touched deep into his thigh.

More precisely, it touched his already firmly erected manhood.

If Ines were as indifferent to the world as he had observed for a long time, she wouldn't understand the meaning immediately. On the contrary, if it were the opposite according to his suspicions, she would understand it right away.

And for the first time, Cárcel witnessed her face blushing deeply. She knew the explicit meaning. He was right. For the first time, he had shattered her composure... for the first time, left her bewildered and unsure of what to do.

Yet, there was no sense of satisfaction.

"...You say you'll have a child, yet you won't engage in such activities with me?"

Who taught you such things.. He knew he had no right to reproach her. Nevertheless… With the lips he hadn't completely let go, he lightly taunted Ines's lips, pressing firmly before pulling away

"I'm sorry, but you can't live without me. Ines Balestena."

A cool feeling passed under the gently smiling face. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] The past, which he wouldn't know anyway, didn't matter. However, the story of the future would be different.

“You will kiss me dozens or hundreds of times and overlap your body with me thousands of times. I won't even brush a fingertip against any other woman besides you and until you bear a child, then the next child, and even beyond having children, I will satisfy you and make you satisfy me.”

“…….”

“I don’t need the damn freedom or privacy you want to give me so much. In the marriages I know, such things aren't there from the beginning”

“…….”

"I may be a b*stard, but I'm more faithful than you think, Ines Valeztena.”