"Why are you so quiet?" Elise turned to Loriel after not hearing the man said anything for a good while. She opened her eyes and looked at him. Loriel didn't look relaxed as she thought he would.

Elise scooted closer to the man and touched his cheek. "What's wrong? Are you unwell? Is your headache back?"

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Now, her skin touched his during such a difficult moment and Loriel had to exert all his sanity so as not to pounce on her and kiss her senseless.

If he did, he wouldn't be satisfied and would want to go all out. He had been keeping his desire to himself for a long, long time.

It was easier when he was on his own. He could masturbate and think about his wife. He was never interested in doing it with another woman. He couldn't have sex without love involved.

At least, not anymore. Not after he realized he was so crazy in love with his wife. In the past, Loriel could easily sleep with any woman. In fact, he also had sex with Elise, six months after they were married, without love on his part.

He was a man with healthy sexual needs and he had a wife who was deeply in love with him and would gladly serve him in bed. So, of course, he would take advantage of the situation. Besides, he needed his heir too.

So, after the first consummation that led to pregnancy, they had been doing it regularly as husband and wife, until that fateful day when… when Elise left.

However, being celibate was easy when Elise was not around. Now, it became super hard because she was with him and he was mentally, physically, and sexually attracted to her.

All he ever thought about when he saw her luscious lips was to kiss her. And when she was sitting close by like this, naked, of course, Loriel's mind was filled with lewd thoughts, everything he wanted to do with her.

Loriel looked at Elise and forced a smile. Ahh, his wife was too kind. She still remembered when he only complained about his headache once. And she was not even in love with him like she was in the past, yet she still cared about him.

"I am fine," he lied. "I am just enjoying the relaxing atmosphere. What do you think? Do you like it?"

Elise nodded. "It is really relaxing."

"We can make the pool in the penthouse like an onsen too," Loriel suggested. "It will take some work to get the system ready, but that's doable. With current technology, you can do whatever. Or... I actually have another house, it's not in the city."

He added, "It's a very relaxing place to be, in the mountain in Switzerland. It doesn't have onsen, but I am sure something can be done to get the sulfuric steam water in there and make an onsen since Switzerland is surrounded by mountains."

Elise laughed out loud at Loriel's silly remarks. She was taught geography by her personal teacher back home and learned that none of the volcanoes in Switzerland was active even though it was surrounded by the alps.

Loriel realized the same thing after he said those words. He just blurted nonsense because he was feeling nervous. Elise was so close to him and his nose had smelled her sweet distinct scent, even among the distinct smell of the onsen.

"I am glad you found it funny," he said with a smile.

"Yeah... you are funny when you said you can do this or that and make things happen," said Elise.

"Don't you like it?" Loriel asked back. He tried to focus his gaze on her face, not on her breasts. They were hidden under the steam water, but some parts were exposed and his imagination could fill the rest.

"I do," she said.

"I am happy to hear that."

Loriel pretended to enjoy the onsen and closed his eyes. Elise stopped asking him questions, seeing the man was immersing himself in the relaxing atmosphere. She closed her eyes too.

When Loriel didn't hear her voice again, he opened his eyes and turned to look at his wife. Ahh... he could see her side profile from this side uninterrupted.

Elise was so beautiful. Her side profile was perfect. He could never have enough of watching her from this close range.

Some beads of sweat started dripping down her face and he was tempted to wipe them for her. However, he held back. She must be enjoying the soaking and he must let her be.

The man admired the view to his heart's content. His mind went to the past and he thought about their time together as husband and wife. Would he ever get the chance to make her his wife again in this lifetime?

He was already her boyfriend after three months together, but he didn't want to take things for granted and just assumed she would want to be his wife.

He had learned his lessons. He would still do his best to woo her, and make her fall in love with him again. Before finally, he would propose properly and marry her.

Elise suddenly opened her eyes and turned to him. She felt watched and, instinctively, she opened her eyes to find out who it was. She smiled when she saw it was Loriel.

"Loriel," Elise whispered.

"Hmm?" Loriel smiled at her. Wondering what Elise thought about him watching her earlier. Hopefully, she didn't consider him a pervert or lame.

"This is such a wonderful night," Elise turned her body to face Loriel and slowly her hand touched Loriel's cheek. Her fingers ran down his skin and then she wrapped her hand around his neck. Soon, her other hand followed suit.

Now, she had had both hands around his neck and then she tilted her face closer. Loriel's heart was immediately pounding. What did she want to do? Did she want to kiss him?

Please kiss me...

Please kiss me...

His gaze was filled with longing and Elise noticed this too. She smiled faintly and slowly moved closer and touched his lips with hers.

She closed her eyes and kissed him. The former king was ecstatic, he immediately hugged her waist and kissed her back.

The water in the onsen was hot, but their passion was hotter. Loriel felt so moved and relieved when he realized Elise took the initiative to kiss him and she didn't reject his advances when he hugged her waist and slowly, by instinct, his right hand snaked around her left breast.

In fact, she let out a soft moan that immediately sent the king to cloud nine.

"Oh... honey.." he whispered between their kisses. It was so hard to resist temptation in this condition.

Loriel became bolder because Elise didn't mind him groping her breast, so he used his other hand to rub her back and supported her body, while he deepened their kiss.

Elise was surprised by her own actions. When she saw the man watch her from the side with that gaze filled with longing, something in her heart awakened. She felt moved by his obvious affection and love for her.

How could someone seem to love her this much when they had only known each other for three months? Were his feelings for her real?

So, she was moved to kiss him, to show how much she appreciated him.

But then... when he kissed her back and started to fondle her, all her rationale flew out of the window. Elise enjoyed their intimacy so much that she let him do more to her. This was the first time that he touched the second base. And it felt great!

Her body responded to his touches by sending pleasure signals to her brain. Her head was flooded with dopamine, the happy hormone. She was on cloud nine, feeling the happiest she had ever been!

"Oh... Loriel..." Elise started to mutter incoherently when she felt her breast was pleasured by Loriel's expert hand. The man was so happy to see the result of his handiwork. Combined with the back rub and his french kiss, Elise felt her body was on fire.

"Honey..." Loriel whispered. "Do you want to do it?"

He looked at her deeply, trying so hard to conceal lust from his eyes. He was very aroused and his penis had been throbbing, asking for release. However, he didn't want to ruin his chance of getting his wife's love back.

He must do things carefully and meticulously. He would let Elise decide on their first consummation. Even if he was dying to enter her, he would wait if she didn't want to do it tonight.

Elise looked him in the eye, bit her lip, and finally nodded faintly.

She wanted him too.

At that moment, Loriel felt like he wanted to climb the highest rooftop in Japan and shouted his happiness to the world. This was the moment that he had been waiting for for so long.

Now, his patience paid off.