Chapter 24

“Haa. Wait…!”

Because he bit at her lips as if punishing her, they stung painfully. Without caring, he swept his tongue through her mouth, and she could taste blood from him. Kissing without hiding his anger, he was like a beast.

His presence was so overpowering that it made her think that if she moved even a little the wrong way, she might be torn to shreds by a beast’s teeth.

Unable to breathe, Soyoon’s face turned pale blue as she pushed at his shoulder, but he did not pull away. Rather, because he kissed her even more deeply, Soyoon began to pant.

Tilting his head, he pressed their lips together without the slightest gap, then licked and sucked at her lips as if they were some sort of candy. His hot tongue traced over her even teeth. The tip of it touched the roof of her mouth as though tickling it.

Opening her mouth wide, she swallowed down the saliva he gave her as though it were life-giving water.

He bound up her tongue and sucked at it as though trying to draw it out. The fierce kiss, so intense that her jaw ached, left Soyoon dazed. Was she dizzy because she could not breathe, or was it because the kiss had taken leave of her senses?

She could not think of anything at all.

The deeper the kiss became, the tighter she wrapped her arms around his neck. Their bodies, like their lips, were pressed together without any gap. Maybe he was doing it on purpose, because her n*pples rubbed against his firm chest. The more closely he pressed against her, the more sensitively those stiffened tips reacted. As her lower belly tingled and she did not know what to do, he slowly caressed the bare skin of her back as if he knew exactly what was happening.

Her shoulders shrank in on their own.

His touch felt intensely suggestive.

The hand that had stopped right above her backside rose again and seized her br*ast firmly.

“Uht!”

Her stiffened n*pple rubbed against his palm. Every hair on her body stood on end. Unable to endure it any longer, Soyoon opened the eyes she had squeezed shut.

“……”

Her gaze met his as he stared fixedly at her.

It felt unfamiliar, seeing herself filling his eyes completely, but she liked it. She was blankly looking at him when the area around his lips caught her eye. It was a mess, smudged all over with bright red lipstick.

The back of Soyoon’s neck flushed even redder than the lipstick itself.

The instant she loosened the arms wrapped around his neck, his arm pulled at her waist. As though he could not bear to be apart from her even for a moment.

Apparently unsatisfied with touching her br*ast over the dress, he dragged down the shoulder strap with a hand full of frustration.

When one br*ast was completely exposed, Soyoon, embarrassed, lifted an arm to cover it.

But he was faster.

“Don’t cover it.”

Only then did his lips finally part from hers. His low voice sounded like the growl of a beast.

His eyes stared directly at her br*ast. Her n*pple, already taut, trembled lightly from his gaze alone.

Had the medicine’s effect worn off? Her body felt hot.

No, this heat was different from the heat of a cold. She did not know where it began, but it felt as though it was not her body that was hot, but the inside of her body.

Something hard rubbed against her lower belly, and Soyoon’s eyes rounded as she looked up at him.

He looked as though he might be angry.

And yet he also wore the face of someone in pain.

I’m the one who’s hurting.

She wanted to ask why he was making that expression, but her lips were blocked.

At the softer kiss, different from before, Soyoon closed her eyes again. The hand that had been gripping her br*ast moved carefully, but persistently. He trapped her n*pple between his fingers, then twisted it until it almost hurt. Each time his nail scraped across the tip, a tingling sensation ran between her legs.

She knew what it was pressing insistently at her stomach.

When she had lowered her gaze slightly earlier, she had seen how much the front of his trousers had swelled, so Soyoon could not pretend not to know. She tried edging her hips back a little, but as though it had made up its mind, it followed after her.

Soyoon’s ears turned as red as they possibly could.

Something so hard it felt like a stone kept pressing at her and rubbing against her insistently, and in the end she had no choice but to open her eyes. Soyoon’s eyes shook wildly like thin branches trembling in the wind.

She could feel heat in his gaze.

The tip of his tongue lightly licked her lower lip. It looked more suggestive than anything else he had done, and Soyoon thought, At this rate, my heart might really leap right out of me.

When his lips parted from hers, a sense of emptiness rushed in.

This is crazy.

Lee Soyoon, emptiness? What are you even thinking?

She tried hard to calm her roughened breathing.

“Hold on tight.”

“Kyaa! Wait a moment!”

But because he suddenly lifted her body, she let out a startled cry.

Afraid that she might somehow fall, Soyoon clung tightly around his neck. There was no time to stop him as he strode forward on his long legs. She buried her face in the back of his neck. The cool scent of his she liked most pricked at the tip of her nose.

Before she knew it, he was laying her down carefully on the bed, and his face was so disheveled it was enough to make her want to laugh. His hair, which was always perfectly arranged, was mussed, and the state of the area around his lips was beyond words.

And yet he looked so unbearably alluring that her heart thudded fast.

It pleased her that such an incredibly handsome face, flawless in every way, had become such a mess because of her. She wanted him to be even more undone because of her. She wished that she alone could know this side of him.

But that was only her wish.

She reminded herself once more that this was a contractual relationship.

She lightly caught at his hair as he gently bit the back of her neck with his teeth and then let go. He paid no mind at all to her insignificant strength and moved lower and lower. When he scraped her n*pple with his teeth, Soyoon jerked her waist upward.

He gripped her br*ast hard enough to hurt, then sucked at her n*pple as though trying to draw something out of it.

“Hahht! It hurts…. It hurts!”

When she said it hurt, he coated her n*pple thickly with saliva and licked it. She had no idea what rhythm she was supposed to follow with him.

Soyoon gripped his shoulder tightly with her small hand. Her hand trembled violently. He raised his upper body, caught her wrist, and then pressed a series of little kisses to her palm.

Just a moment ago he had been growling like a beast, and now he was kissing her as if she were precious, and Soyoon’s wet eyes stared at him.

“You really are.”

“……”

“Hoo-.”

His voice sounded as though he were suppressing something intensely. At that long sigh, Soyoon had the illusion that her heart was sinking into water. Her chest kept stinging.

What had been the rest of the words he had not said?

It was just as that curiosity was about to take hold. His large hand stroked her thigh. Soyoon went rigid and looked at him with startled eyes.

She had seen that expressionless face of his many times before. But now it suddenly felt unfamiliar, and she quickly lowered her gaze.

As he stroked down the inside of her thigh, Soyoon stopped breathing. Every time his hand touched her, her lower belly softened into a strange, swelling warmth. She did not know why it felt that way, but it was an intensely strange sensation.

At the ticklish feeling, Soyoon twisted her hips. As though telling her there was no chance, his hand blocked her. Then he lifted the dress upward.

Soyoon’s face went stiff.

“Stop!”

She pushed him away with all her strength. Grabbing her dress so it would not be raised any farther, she shook her head.

From the moment at the door to the bed, because he had driven things along so forcefully, she had forgotten about the scar on her leg.

She had nearly let him discover the scar she absolutely never wanted him to see.