Red Tape

Liam was completely unaware of such things because no one had told him about them.

If a servant living alone in a remote cabin had a strange dream and wet his underwear, there was no proper adult around him who would pay attention to it.

It was Luca who first taught Liam about sex.

Unlike traditional adult sex education, which relied heavily on metaphors and symbols, Luca’s words are raw and detailed, but they are more vivid and easy to understand than anything else.

When explaining about sex, Luca had clearly stated that there are three main reasons why the penis gets bigger: when waking up from sleep, when touching, and when seeing or imagining a pretty woman.

In my case, it didn’t fall into any of those categories. Was Luca wrong?

“I don’t know why it got bigger. It wasn’t morning, I didn’t touch it, and there were no pretty women.”

“Hmm… .”

Luca looks absorbed like a doctor listening to a patient’s symptoms. Liam carefully ask Luca.

“Luca, have you ever experienced something like that?”

“What kind of experience?”

“Does your cane get bigger… by seeing someone you absolutely should not have?”

I just simply brought up this story because I wanted to gain comfort by forming a consensus with someone close to me.

But then Luca blushed from the tip of his ear and started shouting at Liam.

“Who told you?! That bastard, Oscar Buchanan!

You son of a bitch! I’ll kill you!”

“Huh?”

On the contrary, Liam is confused.Luca, whose face had turned black and blue from anger, can not control himself and stamped his feet on the floor.

“Is that son of a bitch told you? “He is spreading rumors about things I said while drunk and passed out!”

“Luka, calm down first.”

“That bastard was telling me that I was horny for Mrs. Rosemond! Just once! I’ll kill you! You little Buchanan bastard! I’ll challenge you to a duel!”

Coincidentally, there is a name in Luca’s babbling that is familiar to Liam.

“Mrs. Rosemond?”

Mrs. Rosemond is a woman in her mid-40s who ran a café on Bartholomew Boulevard.

“You mean Mrs. Rosemond of the Melrose Cafe?”

“…!”

Luca is taken aback by Liam’s reaction, who seems to be very surprised as if he is hearing this story for the first time in his life.

“huh, isn’t that Buchanan?”

Liam shook his head, his mouth half-open, his expression somewhat blank.

Mrs. Rosemond has been running a shop alone since her husband died several years ago. The Melrose Cafe, located between Brodie’s General Store and the Inn, served as the carriage stop.

She made beautiful cookies or biscuits and often gave the leftovers in a parchment envelope to the servants who came to the mansion on errands.

She had given Liam cookies several times before. The cookies she had given him to eat on the way back were warm and sweet.

Of course, he was not the type to just receive, so he often helped out when she needed help. Then she would drop a 1-rib coin into Liam’s pocket.

“Luca, you…do you like Mrs. Rosemond?”

“No! Are you crazy? “Why would I like such an old *sow?”

(t/n: A slang word used for fat woman)

“Don’t talk about Mrs. Rosemond like that. She’s so kind and gentle.”

Luka can not help but shut his mouth when Liam scolded him.

If he had told this joke to his other friends, they would have laughed and liked it, but Liam is angry like lightning. Luca’s face turned red with shame that is clawing at his insides.

“Oh, You’re right! So what happened? What happened to the cane?”

“Suddenly… it got bigger.”

Luka nodded as if he has a clue.

“Hmm, I get it. Does your dick make a squeaking sound?”

It is too direct, but it isn’t wrong. Liam nodded his head, though it was difficult.

“Was your dick sore?”

“…hmm.”

“Were your balls stiff?”

“Yes, you’re right, so stop it, Luca.”

Liam couldnot hold it in any longer and took a step closer and grabbed Luka’s sleeve. Luka chuckled at the sight of his friend’s embarrassed face.

Liam, desperate for an answer, urged Luka.

“Tell me. Is it possible…. getting hard on someone you absolutely shouldn’t have.”

Luka studied Liam’s face carefully. Liam was not shaken by the mention of being horny for Mrs. Rosemond, who was twenty years older than him. He didn’t even look at him strangely.

Then who on earth is the other person?

Or… is it?

“Maybe… .”

Liam made an expression like he is about to get stabbed as he watched Luca guess while extending the end of his sentence.

“A goat?

“…Huh?”

“A mare?”

“Luka, what are you on about again? Can you please listen to me seriously?”

“Hmm… .”

Luka had heard that there were often people who developed such abnormal sexual desires among those who had been isolated from society for a long time, such as those who had been in war.

Judging from Liam’s reaction, it didn’t seem to be that kind of person, so it is fortunate.

“I just want to know why, Luca.”

“That’s simple.”

Luca answered coolly.

“Because you want to fuck them.”

“…What?”

“You want to put your cane in and stab that person.”

Liam’s silver eyes lost focus for a moment.

“Didn’t I tell you about the cave between your legs? You want to put it in there, shake it, and cum inside that person.”

The more Luca talked, the paler Liam’s raised face became.

“How could you…do something like that…”

But soon his head tilted. A young master with a man’s body like his should not have such a cave.

Luca became curious as he watched Liam’s face turn red, then white.

“Who is it?”

I knew from the beginning that my younger sister, Hailey, has no chance of getting along with Liam.

To Liam, Hailey is nothing more or less than his friend’s younger sister. It is unusual for someone like that to suddenly feel sexually attractive.

Luka knew the heart of a man better than the innocent Hailey, who is busy dreaming of a future where she and Liam would build a family.

“Who is it?”

Liam didn’t answer Luca’s question. He just rolled his eyes anxiously with a confused expression.

“Who is the wizard of your wand, who is wielding your wand?”

“…no.”

Liam shook his head as if he couldn’t admit it himself. And he took a step back from Luca.

“No… that can’t be true.”

He continues to back away, as if he is running away from reality.

“Luka, you’re wrong. You’re wrong!”

He turned around and rode his bike, which he had roughly leaned against the wall, down the alley.

The cold wind scratched Liam’s cheek as he pedaled.

Liam rolled his feet with all his might so that no other thoughts could enter his head. When he arrives at the mansion, his whole body is drenched in sweat.

It is past midnight, and the only lights in the mansion are small gas lights on either side of the front door. There are no windows lit, as if everyone is sleeping, and the only sound he could hear is the wind swaying the trees in the garden.

Liam got off his bike and walked, pulling it along. As he passed the dark garden and turned the corner of the mansion, something whitish came into view. It is like the silhouette of a person wearing a fluttering white dress.

Liam’s steps stopped abruptly.

He parked his bike roughly and went back out to the garden. The garden was dark and he could barely make out the shapes of trees, statues, and fountains.

As expected, there is no one in the garden.I must have been seeing things because I am exhausted physically and mentally.

Liam returned to his sanctuary, the cabin, and collapsed on the bed.

“You want to stab that guy with your cane.”

“The cave between the legs. You want to put it in there, shake it, and cum inside that person.”

He thought about what Luca had said for a moment and shook his head.

Luca is one of the brightest people Liam had ever met, but he probably did not know everything about the world.

Maybe it was a symptom of an illness. Something strange was happening because he was sick. That made the most sense.

Liam closed his eyes and fell asleep, thinking he should ask Mr. Gregory, the Duke’s doctor, if something similar happened again.

***

Droplets like dew rolled down his spotless white skin. Erwin is sitting in the bathtub.

His arms, stretched out long and straight as if dancing, were smooth and elegant.

Erwin gently rubbed his body with the sponge in his hand. White foam formed on his shoulders. It is like frosting on a cake.

The bathroom, where hot steam floated like fog, is filled with the scent of lily of the valley. It is dizzying.

‘Will you do it?’

A soft voice stuck to Liam’s ear like sticky caramel.

Liam approaches and receives the sponge. He rubbed the sponge with the fresh soap with dried petals on it, lathered it up, and placed his hand on Erwin’s neck.

He slowly rubbed it from the long,

thin neck to the shoulders.

‘Haa… .’

Erwin made a strange sound.And then…..

“Ahhhh!”

Liam woke up from his dream and sat up in his shabby bed as he was startled and threw the covers off.

His pants are soaking wet.