Larkin thought she had the perfect life. After a tragic accident as a young girl leaves her family broken, she finds happiness later in her husband Eric and their children. During her last pregnancy however she discovers that the two people closest to her have committed the ultimate betrayal. Faced with the impossible Larkin finds an ally and love where she least expects it, and he wastes no time in claiming her heart and body.
“You know, your underwear is totally showing from behind.”
They say kindness can be a disease. A weird guy who always walked around with his eyes completely hidden by shaggy, wool-like hair. A rotten jerk who humiliated Hye-yeon by knocking her down to second place on a report card that had only ever known first. She thought that once the college entrance exam was over, she would finally be free from this exhausting sense of inferiority. But she was wrong.
“Top student of the Computer Engineering Department, Tae Eun-seong. Please come forward.”
No way. Am I really going to spend all four years of college losing to him? She had lived her entire life as a model student for her mother, who had raised her alone with so much effort. She had never once gotten her hands dirty. But this time, she couldn’t stand it anymore. On the day of the Hye-yeon welcome party, with a pleasant buzz of alcohol in her system, Hye-yeon decided she would never let this opportunity slip away.
“Eun-seong, want to go off the rails with me?”
A textbook nerd who only knew how to study, Tae Eun-seong,and Jung Hye-yeon, who had burned with jealousy while desperately trying to catch up to him. A legendary, role-reversal romance.
Outwardly, the Daltons—the Marquis and Marchioness, Robert and Celiana—seemed like the perfect couple.
But no one knew what lay beneath that polished surface.
It had already been two years since their marriage.
Who could ever imagine that the two of them had not even properly consummated their union?
Each night, they found excuses to avoid sharing a bed.
Each had their own reasons.
What kind of desires were they hiding from one another?
—
What entered Celiana’s field of vision was a stiff, tanned leather paddle, about the length of an arm.
Gulp.
She swallowed unconsciously.
In her imagination, she pictured someone using it to discipline her.
The person holding the paddle was Robert—wearing his usual impeccable, perfectly buttoned formal suit.
Thump. Thump.
Bent over the desk, her bare hips exposed, Celiana could only surrender herself to him, unable to resist.
A tingling sensation spread below her navel as her heart pounded.
The Robert of her imagination brought the paddle down firmly, scolding her as he did so.
—
‘Celiana, you’d never know what kind of man I really am.
’Robert often found himself aroused by dark, forbidden thoughts about his wife.
He imagined binding her so she could go nowhere, keeping her eyes fixed only on him, leaving her pale skin flushed and marked by his own hands.
Would she ever even be able to imagine such things?
If Celiana ever found out…She might recoil in fear and demand a divorce.
‘That can’t happen.’
So Robert Dalton had no choice but to conceal his true nature and continue the act—that of a courteous, refined gentleman.
The very image of a noble who knows how to restrain himself.