I Accidentally Kidnapped The Ultimate Villain – Chapter 22

Ch 22

Aria could see Killian as soon as she opened the door. It was as if he had heard her footsteps and was standing in front of the door, very close.

She had tried to come as early as possible, but she arrived late because Lionell had bothered her. So she had gone out in the morning, but the sun had already set.

“I’m sorry, were you not able to turn on the lights because of me?”

“…….”

Killian had every right to be angry. He wouldn’t be able to turn on the lights without her.

Just the thought of being alone in this large, dark room was…

“Who were you with?”

“I went to a tea time with the young ladies.”

“……And?”

His voice sounded strangely low. It felt like he was a little angry.

It seemed like it sounded that way because it was dark.

“As it turned out, I went to the market with His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“…….”

When Aria quickly turned on the lights, his face was visible.

“Did you have fun?”

For some reason, Aria felt that the words were sharp, and she couldn’t push away Killian, who was coming closer as if he would touch her.

“I asked if you had fun.”

She had to answer, but she couldn’t because he was too close.

Left alone in the room all day, unable to turn on the lights if the owner wasn’t there.

He must have skipped meals, of course. There wouldn’t have been much water in the room, and he wouldn’t have been able to make a sound if the servants passed by.

If she were in the opposite situation, she might have cried.

“I’m sorry…….”

“What are you sorry for?”

Killian had a blank face, but his voice seemed to have softened a little. Aria stared at him, unable to read his expression, and was relieved when she saw his eyes soften and his eyebrows less furrowed, as if he had really softened.

It seemed like he was in a state where he could still be appeased even if he was angry.

“Actually, I was worried about Killian-nim, so I tried to come early.”

“…….”

“It’s true! His Highness said he would buy me a bird……!”

“A bird?”

Aria’s voice trembled thinly like a goat, and it felt like her throat was shrinking as if she had inhaled helium gas. How could she say something to appease his anger?

How could she make him believe that she really tried to come early? She had to think, but she was too scared to think at all.

Just a moment ago, he had softened, but when she brought up Lionell’s story again, he was turning for the worse. That’s why her mind turned blank.

“What kind of bird?”

“That, that… it’s very big and not a pigeon, but what is it! That one! Brown!”

I can’t remember the name! Why do I remember these details, but not the name! It’s not an eagle!

“Are you talking about a hawk?”

“Ah, yes! A hawk!”

Aria smiled brightly, happy that he had guessed it, but he was still staring blankly. His face was close enough to touch, but his expression was as cold as ice.

Her ears and face were getting hotter and hotter, but the man in front of her was as cold as a statue carved out of ice.

“I see. Because of the hawk, you forgot about me and came back after the sun had set, when you said you would only go to tea time.”

“So, I’m sorry…….”

“I got hurt in the head, and I’m bleeding from my neck, but Young Lady, you forgot about me.”

“Ah! That is……!”

“Ah, when I think about how Young Lady bumped her head into my nose, I suddenly feel dizzy.”

Killian frowned as if he was really dizzy, and she grabbed his shoulder because it looked like he was going to fall. But his weight was considerable.

When she grabbed his shoulder, he leaned on her more and more, and Aria had no choice but to step back. Aria stumbled back and leaned naturally, and only after she hit the wall did she realize what was going on.

“Huh?”

The bandage on Killian’s neck was half undone, drawing her attention. She was worried that he would bleed again if she left it like this, so she wanted to fix it right away, but she couldn’t because of his thick arms that were like iron bars caging her in.

Besides, his face was so close that it was even difficult to think.

“Do you know what?”

“Yes?”

“I heard that in the neighboring country of Bestia, there is a custom of kidnapping the person you are going to marry.”

“Yes?”

What is he talking about?

“Just, I was just saying.”

Aria’s ears felt like they were going to burn when he lifted her hair and kissed it.

She had been staring at Killian’s clear violet eyes as if she were bewitched, and it didn’t feel real when he pulled away.

It was hard to make eye contact with him, so when she purposely turned her gaze to the ceiling, he grabbed her arm and slowly pulled her away, making her fall away from the wall.

“Do you want me to let go of my anger?”

“Yes…….”

Aria was still in a daze, and she avoided his gaze as he looked at her. Then she felt him fixing her hair. Aria’s hair had become messy, but it was getting neatly arranged as his hands touched it.

Because his hands were cold, her body flinched every time his fingers brushed her cheeks.

He might have felt good about her reacting this way. Because his expression and eyes were gradually returning to the familiar, softened face.

It was as if he knew that Aria was unconsciously reacting to his touch.

“I want to punish Young Lady.”

Aria looked up with a look that said, “What are you talking about?” but his face had turned cold.

It seemed like she had avoided Lionell, but she was destined to be bitten to death by a black panther.

“Yes? What kind of punishment? Is it big? You’re not going to, kill me……!”

“It seems like you’ve forgotten that I already saved you once.”

It seemed like he was talking about what happened because of her sleepwalking.

“Ah…….”

But even Killian’s small actions seemed like they would lead to a death ending, so it was hard to think. When she looked at the heroines of mystery stories, they had quick minds and were able to think sharply in tense situations, providing thrilling suspense.

Her mind was like a Paleolithic hand axe, and her processing speed was like a Neolithic polished stone tool.

It was strange. She had never thought that her mind was bad, but it was really hard to think whenever she met Killian and Lionell. Was it because they were so handsome?

Especially with Killian, just touching him made her feel excited and her cheeks hot, and it was strange as if her own desires that she didn’t even know were being encouraged. It was as if the power to her mind had been turned off.

“What did His Highness do with Young Lady?”

“We rode in the carriage together.”

“And?”

“He caught me when I was about to fall.”

Then, as if he had gotten a little better, he smiled with his cold face. Aria didn’t know if she should see that smile as a real smile or if he was just pretending to smile.

She wanted to think that it was okay since he smiled, but his eyes were cold as he stared at her.

“And?”

“He held my hand so I wouldn’t get lost in the square.”

“…….”

Take back what I said about him being cold.

He was as cold as Antarctica in the Ice Age, and it felt like he would drop to -100 degrees. Aria felt like she was going to break out in a cold sweat again as he slowly blinked and pressured her. Her head dropped on its own, and it was hard to breathe.

“Your hand?”

“Ah…… Yes.”

He grabbed her hand and lifted it. Then he took off her glove, and as soon as the glove came off, Aria felt the temperature of the room. Aria stared blankly, not knowing what he was going to do, until he lifted the back of her hand.

“Ah!”

She was surprised when he kissed the back of her hand, but if she thought about what the knights of this world often did, it wasn’t that special of an event.

The problem was what came next.

“Y-Your Grace!”

Aria was bitten between her thumb and index finger. But he wasn’t biting hard, he was biting as if he was trying to leave teeth marks, making her feel like a puppy teething.

Ah. Why does it feel like this…….

Killian’s actions reminded her of how she had compared Killian to a big dog, and by the time she had reached the point of thinking that she had to pull her hand away, it was already too late. The way he had bitten her hand was both oppressive and soft.

Aria’s face felt like it was burning. Not to mention her ears.

“Where else did you touch?”

“Ah, nowhere! Nowhere!”

She came to her senses and tried to pull her hand away. Then he bit down even harder, but when it seemed like it would hurt, she felt like she was being pressed down with something soft. She felt warmth, and realized it was his tongue.

When Killian pulled his lips away, she could see the bright red flesh between his luscious red lips.

“Really?”

“Yes!”

He was smiling with a smile that didn’t remind her of his cold face from before. When Aria pulled her hand away and stepped back, he was following her retreating steps.

She thought it would be a disaster if she told him that she had bitten her tongue and showed him the inside of her mouth. So she avoided his gaze because it seemed like he would pursue her further. He was a carnivorous animal-like person with very quick senses.

“From now on, whenever you forget about me, I want to give you this kind of punishment.”

“That’s not good!”

“Then you shouldn’t forget about me, right?”

She had no words because it was true. It was her fault that she had forgotten about Killian and wandered around.

In the first place, if she, no, if Young Lady Aria hadn’t kidnapped him, she wouldn’t have to worry about this!

“Really, didn’t that person touch you anywhere else?”

“Yeeees…….”

She shouldn’t have avoided his suspicious gaze.

It was said that everything comes out in a person’s actions.

Especially for someone like her who shows everything through her actions, it was wiser not to lie, but she didn’t know that at this time.

“You’re lying.”

The corners of his lips curved softly, and the hand that had been bitten was still throbbing.