The Villainess Gets Her Way Chapter 06

The Villainess Gets Her Way Chapter 06

Sebastian was carried into my house.

Kicking, screaming, dragged in by my security like a pig headed to slaughter.

It was the most humiliating day of his life. Worse than all my tantrums put together.

They tied him up, threw him in the bath, stripped him down, doused him in expensive cologne until his eyes watered and his head spun.

Sebastian thought, Why couldn’t it have been her smell? At least that wouldn’t make me want to throw up.

By the time he came to his senses, he was already in my bedroom.

Lucian fared better. He knew how to pick his battles. He didn’t make things harder than they had to be.

Still, neither of them was wearing much. The silk shirts they’d been given were so thin you could see right through them. Their faces said it all.

Then the steward came in to teach them the rules. The etiquette. What it meant to be my personal

attendants.

I didn’t show up until the sun had gone down.

“How’s the training going?”

Sebastian’s hands and feet were tied with silk neckties.

Lucian, being smarter, wasn’t bound at all.

Sebastian snarled, “Viola, you’ve lost your mind. My brother is missing, not dead. Aren’t you afraid of what

he’ll do when he finds out how you’ve treated us?”

The steward snapped, “Silence! You will not speak the Miss’s name so casually!”

A servant handed me a riding crop.

I brought it down on Sebastian without a second thought. He yelped.

I used the crop to tilt his chin up, looking at that stubborn, tight–lipped face.

Sebastian looked a lot like Charles. They were cousins, after all.

But he was younger.

I said, “If he’s still alive and hasn’t come back yet, he might as well be dead.”

“And if he’s dead, then I’m free to make other arrangements, aren’t I?”

“Even if he does come back…”

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degenerate like you!”

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him up. No food, no water. Let me know when he learns some manner

an with a rag and dragged him out.

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i, Miss. You rest.”

Lucian turned crimson.

He’d never even been with a woman. Hearing something like that made him want to sink through the floor.

He moved a little closer, barely breathing.

He was clumsy. He’d never undressed anyone before. He tried not to look at me, tried not to touch my skin, tried to do everything at arm’s length.

I let him struggle for a bit, then handed him off to the servants.

I said, “Come to bed. Stop kneeling.”

Both of them froze.

Come to bed?

Where?

First night, and she wants all three of us in the same bed?

Sebastian’s face went pale. “What do you mean by that? You can’t be serious. Viola, have you no shame? My brother is a fool for loving a degenerate like you!”

I said, “Get your mind out of the gutter. You’re not that lucky.”

I pointed with my toe at the carpet beside the bed.

“This is where you belong.”

Like hell I was sleeping next to him. I’d have to keep one eye open all night.

Sebastian’s face twisted. This was worse than sharing a bed.

This was being treated like a dog.

He lost it. “Viola, you venomous witch! I’m your fiancé’s cousin! You have no decency! No morals! When my brother gets back-”

His vocabulary was pathetic. I’d heard better insults from toddlers.

I said, “Take him away. Lock him up. No food, no water. Let me know when he learns some manners.”

The steward gagged Sebastian with a rag and dragged him out.

Then I turned to Lucian.

“Sleep?”

Lucian was quiet for a long time. Then he walked to the edge of the bed and knelt on the carpet.

“I’ll stay here and keep watch, Miss. You rest.”

I smiled and squeezed his fingers.

“Good thing I have you. Otherwise I’d be so lonely tonight.”

The system said, “Host, I’ll keep you company! Just send the supporting character away and be nice to him, okay?”

I said, “You don’t count.”

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