Ch 77
Killian was looking at Aria, who couldn’t take her eyes off his thighs. Her bright red hair was wet, and all of it was plastered to her body below her ears. He thought it looked like shimmering scales sprouting on her, and he almost reached out to brush it away, but stopped himself.
He wanted to see more of the body beneath her hair, but she was making a face that looked like she would really run away if he did.
He watched Aria slowly pull away from him with a pitiful look.
“Ugh…”
She looked at the edge of the bathtub, then looked at him at his groan. Seeing his violet eyes revealing blatant desire as they looked at her, Aria felt embarrassed for some reason, even though she hadn’t done anything.
“Aria.”
“……”
“Aria……”
His voice grew increasingly husky. She couldn’t ignore him calling her name repeatedly, so she kept looking into his eyes.
“Don’t pull away, just stay like that a little longer.”
He smiled faintly and reached out his hand again towards Aria’s waist.
Aria felt her body getting hotter and hotter as her bare skin touched his. Her body was becoming increasingly sensitive, and it felt like her desire would spill over to the parts where she touched him.
“Ugh…”
“Don’t avoid my eyes.”
At his warning, she had to look at him again. Then, when she saw him moisten his lips, she swallowed dryly without realizing it.
His red lips went well with his pale skin. Those lips also went very well with his violet eyes.
“Aria.”
As he called her name again in a husky voice, Aria knew that her body temperature was already hotter than his.
Was it embarrassment, or was it anticipation?
She bit her lip without realizing it, feeling an unknown emotion. And she didn’t refuse when Killian reached behind her neck and pulled her closer.
Their chests touched again, but he felt a little disappointed, perhaps because there was hair in between. Even so, he traced her shoulder blades as he explored her lips.
“Hmph…”
“Aria, seeing you react like that makes me want to do bad things again.”
“Ah…”
Aria felt resentful for some reason at him saying that now. It felt like she was being dragged along by him again.
She thought it was unfair that she seemed to be the only one feeling this sensitivity. She didn’t know that Killian was holding her and trying to suppress his own desire.
She felt wronged that she seemed to be the only one refraining from touching him.
“Killian, are you trying to tease me again?”
“Yes.”
As their lips parted, her gaze went to his groin. She could see his toned abs twitching. Aria was curious for some reason, so she scratched near his navel with her finger.
“Haha.”
“Does it hurt?”
“It feels good. Do it more.”
She thought it was strange that he liked being scratched. Even so, perhaps because she felt resentful that he had put her in this predicament, she scratched his abs harder. Then, she scratched his chest with her nails, and he was smiling happily.
“Ugh… Aria…”
“Killian, you’re really hopeless.”
“Who made me like this?”
He replied shamelessly and stroked Aria’s back with his hand. She thought she didn’t want him to pull away, perhaps because his hand was so hot.
“Aria… Ugh… Aria.”
As he called her name more and more impatiently, Aria couldn’t take her eyes off him. Then, he smiled as he put his hand into her mouth.
“Haha.”
He smiled and stirred her flesh with his fingers. She was momentarily surprised as the cold water melted into lukewarm water and entered her mouth. But she knew what he meant by putting his hand in, so she bit down on it gently and tasted it.
“Do you know what kind of expression you have right now, Aria?”
“Hmph…”
She wanted to return those words to him instead. He was smiling ecstatically as if he would devour her, but his eyes were sharp like those of a wild animal.
She thought it was very dangerous.
Even so, it was nice to see. It was clear that he was out of his mind because of her.
“Aria, it’s not just your hair that’s red. Your mouth is even prettier.”
“Ugh…”
He played with the flesh in her mouth persistently with his thumb and index finger before pressing on her front teeth with his thumb. And he slowly stroked the roof of her mouth with his index finger.
Aria couldn’t move at his actions, as if he was trying to memorize every groove with his finger.
“Haa…”
However, she wasn’t completely intimidated like before, even though she was scared of his eyes and mischievous actions that reacted to her.
“Hahahaha.”
She caressed Killian’s lips with her hand and did the same thing he had done. She put her finger in his mouth, touched his flesh, ran it along his mucous membrane, pressed on his teeth, and stroked the roof of his mouth.
“Haa…”
While Aria was barely enduring Killian’s finger, Killian skillfully caressed her finger with care.
“Hmph…”
When Aria was startled and tried to pull her hand away, he gently bit her hand. Aria stopped her hand, feeling pressured by his fangs biting her thumb.
If she pulled it out like this, it felt like he would bite harder, but for some reason, her heated body was slowly pulling her hand out as if it wanted that.
“Haa.”
He smiled and put his finger into his mouth as if swallowing it. He had her middle finger in his mouth, and it felt like he was an anaconda swallowing her whole.
Then, at some point, he let go of it.
Aria slowly pulled out her finger. Then, a long thread stretched out before snapping.
“It’s delicious.”
He said that and pulled out his hand as well. Aria could speak now, but no words came out.
“I wish you would look at me a little more.”
His voice was flushed.
The splashing waves were more intense than before.
Aria stared directly at Killian, who was smiling at her with dreamy eyes. Then, he smiled brightly before holding his breath.
“Ugh…”
With his held breath, he leaned his head on her shoulder.
As the water temperature warmed up in an instant, she was filled with embarrassment and hugged him tightly.
“Aria…”
“Yes…”
“Please stroke me.”
She couldn’t even think of refusing as he leaned on her, weakened, and asked her, so she patted his back.
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“Please let me go home now!”
“It will be a problem if they find out that Aria is here.”
“Then just let me out! I’ll go on my own!”
Aria, who had received her clothes, told Killian that she had to return to the Dolorein Estate now. But for some reason, he didn’t want to let Aria go.
“Why don’t you sleep here and go?”
“I have a lot of things to do when I get back.”
“There might be things you can do here too.”
“Like what?”
Killian was uncharacteristically at a loss for words. There was no way Aria would have anything to do at the Loenbert Estate.
“My…”
“Yes.”
“Um…”
Aria was happy that she felt like she had won against Killian for the first time as he couldn’t speak. So, even though she should have stopped, she didn’t.
“Your what?”
“Do you want to hear it?”
“Yes. Tell me. What important thing is it that I can’t go back?”
“You can stay as my future wife.”
“What did you say?”
“I was embarrassed and tried to hold it in, but I thought you wanted to hear it quickly, so I said it.”
“Ah…”
She was hesitating and backing away, but Killian wouldn’t let her. He was getting closer and closer, pushing her towards the door.
Aria knew that she couldn’t go out the door anyway, so she looked towards the terrace door.
“Only I can open my room’s terrace.”
“……”
Then, this time, Aria looked towards the window.
“My room is also on the third floor.”
“……”
“And by the way, I really hate having garden trees around the mansion. I cut them all down.”
“……”
“And the floor height of the Loenbert Estate is much higher than that of the Dolorein Estate.”
“……”
“Our mansion was rebuilt after I destroyed it once.”
What he meant was that she wouldn’t be able to jump out the window, and there were no garden trees to climb down. Moreover, since the height of the building was much higher than she knew, she wouldn’t be able to jump down even from the third floor.
“Will you, will you just let me go tomorrow?”
“Of course.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Aria desperately remembered that even though he had lied to her a lot, he had never done anything reckless. However, perhaps because of what happened in the bathroom earlier, it wasn’t easy to look him in the eye, so she couldn’t immediately say that she believed him.
“I will kiss you.”
“Suddenly?”
“Yes.”
Killian wanted to kiss her because Aria’s lips, lost in thought, looked tempting. He also wanted to comfort her.
It was the moment he grabbed her hands and lowered them, trying to bring his face closer.
“Achoo!”
“……”
“I think I caught a cold!”
After she spoke, she felt dizzy for some reason. It was understandable since she and Killian had been in the cold water for a long time.
“It’s all because of Killian!”
Killian found her so lovely that he wanted to kiss her even more, so he rolled his eyes and looked at her.
“I’ll take responsibility.”
“How?”
“You get better if you pass on a cold.”