The Baroness Misbehaves
Chapter 51: A Seductive Cacodemon (2)

Chapter 51: A Seductive Cacodemon (2)

Back inside the Duke’s mansion, the atmosphere in Richard’s household remained peacefully quiet as it had in the early morning. Oliver and Isabella were sitting together in one of the couches as she attentively attended to something the youngest Lord of the house had asked based on the political book he was holding.

Frederick was supervising the servants who dutifully cleared the rest of the dishes in the dining room. Such peaceful times in the house was one of the things Frederick had come to cherish, and he was going to enjoy it while it lasted before another storm brewed in.

One of the female servants who was taking a tray back to the kitchen, accidentally felt the tray slip from her grip to the ground. The sound of the tray hitting the tiled ground with a loud unstable rhythm had caught the attention of those in the living room, dining and in the Kitchen.

Out of fear that the duchess might show up from the stairs and fire her for being such a clumsy servant, she quickly went on her knees to pick up the pieces she had dropped before the volcano of a duchess decided to erupt.

As displeased as Frederick was with the servant’s clumsy actions, he got to understand why the servant had gone unnecessarily clumsy when he glanced at the main door to see the young Lord Cassian standing there. He carried his innocent wife on his shoulder like someone who had brought home a trophy, startling everyone who was present to witness the sight.

"Lord Cassian." Frederick said his name when he had no idea how to address the young lad, and his mouth which had dropped open in surprise was closed by Adeline.

The fourteen-year-old Oliver mischievously snickered at the sight of Cassian carrying his wife on the shoulder. The young woman in his arms had covered her eyes with her palm when she could no longer deal with the embarrassment Cassian was trying to place on her.

He literally carried her from the bridge all the way to the mansion, and Madeline was carefully taking a mental note on how not to offend the young Lord since he had made it a rule to start punishing her, and this one was one of those punishments.

"P....please drop me down, I promise I’ll.... I’ll listen to you from now on. Cas..."

"Shhhh." He silenced her pleading whispers. "Just enjoy the free ride, my dear little wife." He used his other free hand to pat her back, coloring Madeline’s face even more as the sound of her heartbeat heightened.

"Is everything alright with the New lady?" Frederick finally asked out of concern, and Cassian nodded his head with a corny smile. "Hmn, I was only taming a stubborn Kitty before it jumped off a bridge, but all is well."

Responding subtly and leaving Frederick and the rest to guess the meaning of his words, he took the flushed Madeline up the stairs. Isabella who watched them go till they disappeared from sight, silently felt like she was being mocked, and a displeased expression graced her face as she internally scowled.

Making it to their room and closing the door behind him, Cassian finally dropped Madeline to her feet. An instant glare was sent his way the minute Madeline used that opportunity to escape from his clutches, but it failed to hide the bloom of shame that had graced her cheek.

"You...."

"I did bring you back to commence full punishment." He interjected. "But since you were an obedient little wife and didn’t stress your husband while he had to carry you all the way back home, I shall save what I had in mind for another day."

"You threatened to throw me into the river." Madeline finally got a chance to complain, making him aware of the reason why she chose to keep quiet all through.

"When a kitty misbehaves, I’ll be forced to tame it." He cocked his head innocently. "Did you really think I was going to throw you off?"

Madeline opened her mouth to protest, but there were no words that came out of it. She knew in the back of her mind that he wouldn’t throw her off, he was messing with her and maybe she had taken it seriously since she wasn’t used to being played with in such a way.

After being mistreated by Roland and his wife, such acts tend to make her blood pressure run high. She remembered when Auriela had once made her dangle against the window of her room, threatening to make her drop from the window to the ground if she didn’t apologize for stealing one of her jewels, which clearly she didn’t.

Taking a deep breath and brushing that awful memory of her childhood aside, Madeline finally looked Cassian in those pretty Amber-brown eyes of his. To be honest, she felt more diffident than frightened when he carried her in his arms.

It was also the first time someone had carried her in such a playful manner, but she enjoyed it even though she was very much embarrassed he did it in front of everyone. Cassian wasn’t her uncle or Aunt, so she needs to get rid of the negative feelings Roland and his wife had placed into her system.

"Cassian..." She took a deep breath, mustering up enough courage and taking a step towards the handsome Lord. "What sort of punishment did you intend on giving me?" Came her unexpected question that made him quirk his brow at her.

"Curious?"

"I need to know in order to consider how well I should behave from now on." Madeline put forth her reasons for growing curious, and a foxy grin graced his devastatingly handsome face.

"I’ve always wanted to spank my lovely wife." He shamelessly uttered it, and Madeline’s eyes instantly snapped in surprise.

"What?" Her hands impulsively reached for her behind, stunned that he even thought she would let him do something like that to her.

"I’m not a child." She defended, but he closed in on the woman who had to stagger back to keep a good distance between them, but unfortunately, that wasn’t enough since her movements had been stopped after coming in contact with the bathroom door behind her.

"Who said only kids deserved to be spanked? Hmn? It’s a whole new different kind of punishment when I do it." Tantalizingly, his hands trailed up her thighs that made her body jerk at the sudden contact, but he made sure he trapped her blurry gaze against his, leaning further and making her fall deeper into the spell of his seducing gaze.

"Shall we test it?" And he grabbed her ass from behind, sending jolts of electricity skittering through Madeline’s nerves and back to her heart. She turned crimson from head to toe at his teasing and without knowing how, she had opened the bathroom door and hurriedly went in, closing the door quickly before Cassian would have the intention of coming in to wreck more havoc in her system.

Cassian hissed out when she successfully escaped from his clutches once again. She always does this and that proves she hasn’t changed one bit from the very first time he saw her, but this time around, she certainly has nowhere to run except into his arms.

"I’m going to watch Inna win the dance test." He finally said from outside the bathroom. Meanwhile, Madeline was still trying to recover from how he had grabbed her ass earlier, and she was feeling hot in the wrong places.

Her heart was currently at the point of jumping out of her chest, and she kept tapping her chest in an attempt to calm it down.

When he didn’t get any response from the woman, a pleasing smile reached his lips and flashed in his eyes. Without saying anything else, he left the room so he could recover from the little intimacy they just shared.

He was starting to feel hot and that wasn’t a good sign since he already agreed to take things slowly. He really had no idea what made him grab her, but he was so blinded by his wife’s vulnerability that he acted without thinking.

And he certainly liked it.

When Madeline no longer sensed his presence in the room, she quietly slid the bathroom door open and peered out. There was no sight of him in the room as she had predicted, but his intoxicating spicy scent still lingered in the room.

Stepping out, she closed the door and rested her back against it, closing her eyes and exhaling in relief that she finally had time to breathe. He was starting to become too dangerous for her poor heart, too brazen, and it made her heart jump knowing she’d have to spend her entire life being teased heartlessly by him.

What surprised her even more is the fact that his action didn’t disgust her in the slightest of ways, she actually liked it when he grabbed her and it was completely unlike her.

She has to avoid this seductive cacodemon before he turns her brain upside down.