Love
Floria’s Side
“Then, Lux-sama… I will go ahead and wait for you in the bath, so until I call for you, would you please wait here?”
“U-understood!”
Seeing how tense Lux looked, Floria told him to wait in front of the bath, then smiled as she stepped into the changing room and closed the door.
As she unbuttoned the noble academy uniform she was wearing, she murmured,
“Compared to the Third Princess, I may be a little late in sharing such intimacy with Lux-sama… but the Third Princess only entered the bath with Lux-sama as Siana.”
Floria, however, was different.
Without question, she was entering the bath with Lux as Floria Florence of the Duke Florence household. To Floria, that carried far more meaning than Felisiana, who had bathed with Lux while in disguise.
“To deceive someone as pure in body and heart as Lux-sama is utterly unacceptable… Such a thing should never be allowed.”
Thinking of Felisiana as she murmured, Floria removed her academy jacket and then reached for the buttons of the shirt beneath it.
She decided to set thoughts of Felisiana aside for now and turned her focus to what lay ahead.
“Bathing together with Lux-sama…”
Until now, Floria and Lux had experienced moments where they became aware of each other as man and woman… but never anything this direct.
“To enter the bath with Lux-sama… it makes me so happy, yet I cannot help but feel a little nervous… fufu.”
Whispering that, Floria’s cheeks turned red as she let out a small laugh.
Then, pausing in the middle of undressing, she continued speaking.
“For me to be so captivated by one man, to have my mind so completely filled with thoughts of only him… If someone had told me this before I met Lux-sama, I surely would not have believed it.”
Now, having met Lux, Floria was utterly consumed by the love she felt for him, but until their meeting she had lived a life completely detached from romance.
Even so, as a member of the illustrious Duke Florence household, said to be the most gifted in its history while also possessing exceptional beauty, Floria Florence had received countless marriage proposals.
Yet every one of those suitors only sought power, wealth, or status. Not a single one had the pure heart Floria longed for.
The same held true for nobles beyond those offering her proposals, and Floria had even begun to feel resignation toward such people… until that moment.
“Because I was able to meet you…”
With Lux in her thoughts, she smiled warmly as she spoke.
For Floria, there was no longer any need to put into words just how important Lux was to her.
Fully aware once more of the depth of her feelings for Lux, she wrapped a towel around her body, told him he could use the changing room, then stepped into the bath and quietly waited for the moment he would come, her heart pounding loudly.
Lux’s Side
After Florence-san told me I could enter the changing room, I slowly opened the door and stepped inside.
Feeling a sense of freshness at entering a changing room other than that of the Rodwell family for the first time, I undressed, wrapped a towel around my waist, and stood before the bath.
“…”
Up until now, when I bathed with Siana, Violet-san, or Elina-san, I had always been the one waiting for the other person to enter. But now that I was the one going in, I felt extremely nervous… still, I could not just stand there forever, so I gathered my resolve, opened the door, and stepped into the bath.