Duchess Rosenberg was taking a shower.
The week had been very hard for her.
There were sad moments and others that made her weep with happiness.
Chief among them was that her house finally regained the prestige it once had.
The debts were paid.
They regained their territory as well.
They just had to strive to get back to what they once were.
She lathered her body with an expensive lather that gifted the palace to Rosenberg Household.
There were many gifts from her for the trouble caused by the former third prince, defeating a threat approaching the capital and the engagement of her daughter to the future duke.
She was so happy, she couldn't resist taking a shower.
Soap covered every corner of her mature body.
For a woman in her forties, her figure was slender and shapely.
Her thighs were fleshy and her ass firm and smooth.
Her huge breasts were equally firm and her long hair covered the middle part of her breasts.
After turning off the shower faucet, she covered herself with a towel to step into the large bathtub of her mansion.
The moves from her small mansion to a larger one in her territory began immediately.
Her daughters immediately went to see the house.
She stayed because she had to keep personal things.
Also to dispose of them secretly.
They were items such as photo albums, diaries about her home life and mainly, her wedding ring.
Once she thought that her husband would come back to clear everything up and thus, live together once again.
She belonged to a low-ranking noble family that was affiliated with the duke's house.
Because she was very beautiful when she was young, she was betrothed to the future head of the house.
She had never been in love, but she was happy. Her husband was a kind and gentle man.
He respected her and always took her out for walks until she became pregnant.
One day, that ended and only misfortunes and tears occurred in their lives.
She had to sell a large part of her family's land to pay an impossible debt.
But some time later, a light appeared at her door. It was Razel, his future son-in-law.
She was happy that the duke's house was in the hands of someone who took a risk for them and granted them happiness by paying their debt and making their daughter happy.
For that reason, she wanted to have a private conversation with him.
Razel was inside the bathroom.
She knew this since he was training until recently.
Night fell and the servants were resting to get up early for the move.
Once he entered the large bathroom, she stepped into the shower to rinse her body first.
She opened the door and greeted him.
"Good evening."
"?!"
Razel turned around very astonished and frightened by his future mother-in-law who entered warningly.
Her wet body from the water gave a touch of freshness to her usual appearance.
The towel covering her body was not small, but her body was bulky so, she looked very small.
Her hair was tied back with a hairclip.
He approached and said.
"Let me wash your back."
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Razel coming out of the big bath, sat on a small chair to wash his body.
This was a Japanese custom, so it was not uncommon for them to insert it into the game.
Barbara squatted down and began to carve her back in a very motherly manner.
"It may seem very embarrassing, but something like this is normal in a noble family. Your parents didn't do it?"
"...No. Never."
Barbara met Razel's parents on the very day of the engagement.
They were nice and wonderful people. She became instant friends with her son-in-law's mother and her husband was a respectable gentleman.
She felt a little sad to see a husband who loved his family and was there to take care of them.
Eli and Lily were officially introduced as Razel's girlfriends.
Razel's mom looked at him in a dangerous way as if to say, "Two girls? I can understand Elize-chan, but two girls? Boys these days are so greedy, you're lucky they're wonderful because otherwise...."
With those harsh words, Barbara burst out laughing as she met her new family.
"Yesterday was a wonderful day. There are no words to express how grateful I am to you."
Suddenly, her hands stopped. Her head ducked slightly and her cheeks turned red.
"So... it's very terrible of me to say so, but..."
Razel without turning to look, listened to every word that came out of her mouth.
"Can you refrain from doing 'that' while they are still young?"
"That?" Razel asked.
Barbara looked very embarrassed as she recounted more details.
"I... I saw them yesterday. The three of you doing things that some kids shouldn't be doing yet. Even if you're legally adults, you're still children, that's why..."
Razel turned a little to ask her curious.
"How do you know we did it?"
Barbara turned redder.
"Th- That room where you stayed, it's usually used for the master of the house to take his mistresses. There is a large box that covers almost an entire wall, that box is actually a mirror."
"The room was built with spells that make the smells and sounds not leave that place. But it's a normal room there is in a noble's house. It's usually used to make sure..."
"Make sure what?"
She averted her face from Razel's who was now looking at her.
"There is an unwritten law among nobles. To be more precise among the males. That law says that, the future head of the house must have an experience with an expert woman. It would be shameful if on his first time with his wife he is inexperienced. That woman would teach him the secrets of pleasing his partner... my husband used her too."
Memories came to her mind.
There were several times and several nights, where she had to watch through that window as her husband had carnal acts with several women.
The reason for that was because he no longer wished to touch her.
She never knew what happened, if he disliked her body or if he thought she was ugly.
But as time went by Barbara's sexual desire died to shreds.
She looked to her husband to make sure that the woman he brought home fulfilled her duties and was not a murderer.
Stress in a head of a household is very normal. That's what these rooms are for. To let off steam several times.
Barbara watched with dead fish eyes what was going on through that window.
One day, yesterday to be exact.
She went back to that room.
It was just to say goodbye.
Even if it wasn't the same room in her old mansion. It was a room for the same use.
Before leaving, he observed Razel lying on the bed, he laughed a little as he didn't know that the servants had placed him here.
He wanted to give him a fright and touch the wall, but at that moment.
"Huh?"
She watched her two daughters walk in wearing very sensual lingerie into her boyfriend's room.
A short time passed and Barbara watched both her biological and adopted daughters turn into women.
She sat for hours in that chair watching, listening and smelling something that children should not be doing.
"So, if you want to do that, ask me for help. Oh, of course I'm not talking about me, I'm too old. I'm talking about you asking me to help you get you non-terrible women so you can have fun, don't worry. They'll never know what happened-"
"Why are you implying that I wouldn't choose you?"
Barbara's smile suddenly cut off.
"... Huh?"
Razel approached Barbara, she stepped back a little.
"Sorry, but I didn't hear you, what did you say?" She said, hoping she had misheard.
"Why are you implying that I wouldn't choose you as a woman to satiate my desires?"
Hearing how her future son-in-law clearly said unimaginable words, she stood up.
"Razel-kun, for a joke, it's not funny!"
Razel stood up, his towel covering his private parts fell down.
Barbara immediately averted her gaze.
But one of her eyes was wavering badly.
She couldn't realize in time that Razel was hugging her in a very tight way.
"...!"
Barbara was trying slightly to wriggle out of his grip, but as she felt contact with a man, with someone who said he wanted her, she didn't bother much.
Razel was shorter than her, but his head came right up to her breasts.
His face was buried in them.
She felt a tingle.
Lifting his head between those ripe fruits he said to her.
"Mistress- no, Barbara." Being called by name in a very manly and confident manner, her legs began to weaken.
"You said that not because you were worried about your daughters ending up pregnant before their time. You said it because you were jealous, didn't you?"
Her eyes widened and a liquid began to drip onto the floor.
"I had already sensed her presence in that room, but I couldn't identify her. I was about to go to that opposite room before having fun with my girlfriends, when I felt that presence touching."
She didn't know what to answer.
"Even at the ceremony when I kissed Eli and when we were sitting eating together. I could feel your gaze, not on me, on her, your daughter. You, you were envious of your daughter having a man weren't you?"
Her hair now covered her face.
He got it right.
Razel's words were right as she herself denied it.
She was happy as a mother for her daughter to be happy.
But as a woman...
"I am so jealous."
"I suffered so much with a bastard who ruined our family. A debt that did not allow us to eat well several times even to pay our servants."
"Several nights I cried alone hoping it was a dream, but when I woke up, it was still the same living nightmare."
"There were several times when I planned to run away with my daughter... but what could I do? I was never prepared for anything other than being a duke's wife. I was not highly educated, so what could I work at?"
"The fear of having to sell my body for a plate of food was horrible."
"I'm really happy that all that torment is gone, but...."
Barbara gritted her teeth and her face then turned to Razel to shout.
"That's right, I'm a very horrible woman and a lousy mother! I'm jealous of my daughter because her future husband is a man who loves her and will never leave her! She even got a best friend who will be her sister! I didn't have girlfriends or anyone by my side, servants are different! I was alone many nights suffering!"
Her eyes began to shed tears.
She broke down and Razel embraced her.
The embrace was a very loving one.
She could feel something touching her belly.
It made her face turn red and she smiled unknowingly.
"It's okay. Something like that will never happen again. You two will never feel like that again. I will protect this house and you. Since..."
Razel's mouth came close to Barbara's ear.
She heard words never spoken to her by her ex-husband.
"I will take care of my women. Every one of them."
Her eyes moistened to the point that she didn't realize she loosened her towel with her hands.
Her naked body was in the air.
As if it was some sort of genetic command.
She lay on the floor in a position where her lush body was exposed.
"Is this old woman appealing to you?"
"Very much so. And you're not old, you're still young."
Barbara watched a rod rise.
She was happy to see that charm and sexual desire had not died.
"She can't know about this. I can be a secret mistress."
"I'd like her to be a concubine, but I'm sure the two of them would beat me to a pulp."
"But, I'm also your mother-in-law. If... a miracle happens and my belly grows, what would you do?"
As if she were a virgin, her eyes still showed innocence and purity.
"I would accept all the punishment from those two. At the same time, didn't you say you wanted to see several children playing in the garden?"
A future of her daughters and grandchildren in the front garden came into his head. In that image was she, too.
She was sitting reading a children's book.
Her belly was growing and she was rubbing it as she watched her family grow.
That made Barbara spread her legs and reached out to grab Razel.
"Yes. You're willing to go that far... Rosenberg Household would be filled with many children. But, your priority would be me. I'm already old unlike them. I don't know when would be the last time I can give birth."
What she was saying was a lie. In reality, she just wanted to be the first to end up with her belly growing.
The satisfaction of being the number one woman, that's something that in harems will always happen.
Razel was getting closer.
Their bodies were close together.
She closed her eyes as they brought their lips closer.
Their hands intertwined and then...
"My darling ❤!"
Barbara became Razel's second lover. The first was Amy.
Razel's harem was growing nicely. And now, he had all the women of Rosenberg Household by his side.
The preeminent future of this family, going well.