Chapter 156: A battle in bed
An awkward silence followed her words. Vlad pushed her back by pressing his finger against her forehead.
"Who’s the one being a perv now?" he asked, giving her a side-eye. "I got a slap and a foot stomp for the accidental peek. I cannot raise my hand, obviously. So... a bodyslam should do."
"W-wait, commoner. It’s a misunder—" Seraphina tried to explain herself, but Vlad had already grabbed her arm with both hands over his shoulder. He pivoted three-sixty on his foot, rolling Seraphina’s body over him like a ragdoll before slamming her onto the bed on her back with a heavy thud.
The groan of the mattress from the impact could be heard even in the room below, Sophia’s room.
"Dear God," Sophia exclaimed, covering her ears with a pillow, her face crimson. "How intense are those two getting? They have no shame."
She had been sent to her room by Seraphina since Vlad was coming over.
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The air was knocked out of Seraphina’s lungs, her crimson hair spilling across the bed, her mouth hanging open from both the impact and the absurdity of what Vlad had just done. For a few seconds, she remained completely still, her limbs spread across the bed.
"This shall teach you a lesson," Vlad nodded in satisfaction, dusting off his hand despite there being no dirt on it.
"H-he just slammed me," Seraphina murmured, as if trying to make it more believable by saying it out loud.
Vlad turned around, rubbing his nose in pride. "Now I finally feel... better?"
His words died in his throat as he saw the reflection of a terrifying ghost behind him through the mirror hanging on the front wall.
"How dare you?" Seraphina demanded, her hair spread outward, glowing a deep crimson, her eyes hidden behind the strands. "You slammed me, Seraphina Cendral, like some rice bag. You will not see the light of day again, commoner!"
Vlad slowly turned his head over his shoulder. "H-hey, you’re not thinking straight. Calm down first—"
Before Vlad could finish his words, Seraphina jumped at him like a cat, her legs wrapping around his neck and her hands pulling on his ears.
"My name is not Seraphina if I don’t teach you a lesson, commoner!" she declared, locking her legs around his neck and choking Vlad.
His legs buckled from the sudden chokehold as Seraphina literally used mana to make sure his barbaric body felt the pain.
He fell backward onto the bed, producing another springy thud. Yet Seraphina never let go of the lock, his neck pressing against her soft thighs, the pull on his ears only increasing.
"H-hey, stop. A-are you really trying t-to kill me?" The words barely left his mouth, his eyes slowly rolling back. "M-my p-patience has l-limits!"
He moved his hand up, grabbed a handful of her hair, and began pulling.
"A-anh~" Seraphina gasped beneath him. "You dare pull on my hair, commoner!"
She increased the strength of her lock.
"Y-you are forcing my hand," Vlad muttered as he pulled himself upward. He slammed back with a sudden thud, Seraphina’s body taking the full impact.
The lock slightly loosened. Vlad rose and slammed back again, and again, the groans of the bed and the springs of the mattress echoing throughout the room.
Seraphina didn’t take the slams without resistance either. When Vlad was about to rise for another slam, she rolled him with her legs, reaching above him.
"I have never been treated like this by anyone else," she said with heavy gasps as she sat on his back. "You brutish jerk. Is this how you treat a lady?"
She pulled his chin up with both hands, his back bending into an arc.
"Wh-where is the lady?" Vlad muttered, his hands rising as he reached for the back of Seraphina’s head. "All I could see is a wild cat."
He threw her in front of him, the tops of their heads touching as Seraphina lay on her back.
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"These two have no shame!" Sophia exclaimed, having been hearing the groans of the bed from the roof of her room for the past ten minutes. "Vlad is a commoner, but how could a noble like Lady Seraphina behave like this? At this point, they might as well announce to the whole world that they are doing it."
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"Hah-hah... let go of my hair," Seraphina said, breathing heavily, her hair held tightly in Vlad’s fist.
"First, you let go of my ears?" Vlad replied as both of his ears were being pulled by her.
"Let’s do it together," Seraphina suggested.
"On the count of three," Vlad added.
"One..."
"Two..."
"Three..."
Both removed their hands from each other. However, the moment there was distance between Vlad’s hands and her hair, she spun her body, her legs moving through the air before she landed on Vlad’s lower back. Both her hands were placed on his upper back, a magical circle glowing there.
Numerous vines emerged from it, binding his hands and legs.
"Hey, you cheated!" Vlad complained as his hands were clasped together over his head by the vines.
"Hmph, you have offended me greatly today, commoner," Seraphina said with a smug smile of victory as she ran a hand through her completely messed-up hair, several strands sticking out from all the pulling she had endured. "I must have my revenge."
Vlad’s body began glowing with crimson mana as he tried to remove the bindings.
"No use exerting yourself," Seraphina said as she rolled him onto his back and sat on his stomach. "It’s a Four-Ring spell. You cannot break it."
"Four Ring?" Vlad exclaimed, his eyes widening in exasperation. "You really didn’t hold back."
"Now, how should I play with you?" Seraphina continued, ignoring his words. "Should I also spank you like you did back then?"
"Don’t go too far, Sera," Vlad muttered, his brows furrowing.
"Is that how a prisoner should be behaving?" Seraphina asked, pulling Vlad’s hair as she leaned closer. "You aren’t making it easy for yourself if you don’t change your attitude."
Vlad released a sigh. He knew that a tiger must take a step back before attacking its prey.
"Fine, I accept my defeat. What must I do to calm your resentment?"
"Now you are finally behaving," Seraphina’s rosy lips rose into a smirk. "What I need is the same as I said earlier, before you slammed me like the brute you are."
A faint blush bloomed on her face as she continued, "It’s been over a month. I need to suck your blood to calm my vampire instincts."