Chapter 4

Gulp.

Without realizing it, she swallowed.

Perhaps he had seen her small throat bob, because a faint laugh escaped from the man in the shadows.

That laugh still tickled at Ailey’s ears. Once she had become aware of his body, even his voice seemed handsome. No, it truly was a handsome voice.

‘Who in the world is he?’

She had never seen a man like that in high society.

Ailey’s body drew in on itself with an unexplained tension and a sense of anticipation she herself had not even noticed.

Only belatedly did she realize that beneath her thin dress, drenched in champagne, her pale body was faintly showing through.

And she felt that the man standing in the shade was staring fixedly at her body as well.

‘Ah.’

Ailey’s face flushed pink with the sudden wave of embarrassment.

‘How embarrassing…….’

Just as Ailey subtly raised her arms and crossed them to cover herself,

“With another man?”

he man in the shade slowly opened his mouth.

“What exactly are you planning to do?”

His gently whispering voice had something bewitching about it.

Even though she had realized her embarrassment, part of Ailey’s head was still soaked in drink, and without thinking she opened her mouth and answered.

“I…I too…with another man.”

“Go on.”

Along with that soft urging, the man slowly stepped out from the shade.

“Ah…….”

A helpless sound of admiration spilled from Ailey’s mouth.

Platinum-blond hair, glittering brilliantly in the moonlight, scattered shards of light in every direction.

Beneath eyelashes so long they looked as though even falling snow could rest upon them, eyes holding a trace of laughter were a gray-blue mixed with ash.

Even with such pale coloring, the man’s presence was distinct and absolute.

A face so dazzling that it felt sacred, one that could never be forgotten after seeing it once.

That face was smiling at Ailey.

With that white smile together with the white uniform…….he looked like a fragment of an angel that had descended to earth.

‘Is this an illusion?’

It was hard to understand in any other way.

Her fiancé Kalan was also handsome enough to stand out anywhere, as expected of someone who charmed countless young ladies, but the man before her seemed like someone from an entirely different world.

Hic.

While silence pressed down over everything around them, only Ailey’s hiccup sounded loudly, like a nail jutting out.

At that, the man curved his eyes.

It was a look that gazed at the other person lovingly.

‘At…… me?’

Was he truly some angel descended to earth, looking down on everything in sight with God’s love in his eyes?

By the time even that absurd thought occurred to her, the man spoke again.

“You with another man. And then?”

“……roll around, together…….”

Again, the answer slipped out without her being conscious of it.

Hearing that, the man smiled as though pleased.

“You want to roll around together?”

“That…….”

“Then, do you want to try it with me?”

“Ye…… huh?”

Without even realizing what she herself had answered, Ailey stared blankly.

The man tilted his head gently and asked again.

“I asked if you want to.”

“Ah……?”

“With me.”

Then he stretched out his long legs and strode toward Ailey.

Ailey, who had been leaning against the wall drinking and had nowhere to retreat, instinctively jolted and hiccuped again.

“Hic!”

Her small body shook, and the champagne pooled past her collarbone and in the hollow of her chest trickled down.

“…….”

The man’s eyes, on seeing it, were instantly stained with desire.

‘An angel, with desire.’

It seemed like a ridiculous thought.

But the moment his eyes, which had been close to gray, darkened into blue, she could not look away.

They were eyes like a sculpture gaining life and becoming a person.

“Hngh……!”

At the moment she sat there entranced, the man who had quickly closed the distance wrapped an arm around Ailey’s waist, lifted her up, and pressed their bodies together.

Ailey’s br*asts, thickly pushed up by the corset cinched tightly around her, instantly pressed against the man’s chest.

“Ah!”

Only after feeling the vivid presence of that thick chest did it truly sink in that he was not an angel, but a human being.

A living human.

One with heat this intense.

Though her body flared hot by reflex, her mind snapped awake as if cold water had been poured over her.

“W-wait a moment…….”

Ailey realized it belatedly.

……This was the first time in her life she had ever been held like this by a man.

Because Kalan had always rejected contact with her.

Her fiancé was a man who hesitated even to hold her hand, let alone embrace her.

‘Unless it was for an escort, he never reached out first.’

But this person had not the slightest hesitation in touching and holding Ailey.

He had only seized her with a thirst that made it seem as though he had waited a long time for this.

‘He’s so big and hot…….’

The man’s heartbeat pounded hard from his chest.

It felt as though that vibration was shaking her own body as well.

The warmth spreading through her whole body from where they touched made Ailey’s shoulders tremble.

“Ha ha.”

The man gave a low laugh, as though even that trembling was adorable to him.

“You’re still as cute as ever.”

“Ah…… what?”

“Even after all that time has passed.”

Flustered by the warmth she was feeling for the first time, Ailey failed to understand the man’s words, though he spoke as if they had met before.

All she could do was keep letting out incoherent little murmurs like Hm? Ah?

And while Ailey was unable to collect herself, something even more startling happened.

“Ah!”

The man lowered his hands and cupped Ailey’s small buttocks in both of them.

Over the dress, she could feel her hips being spread apart to either side by the movement of his hands.

If she had not been wearing anything underneath, it would have been enough to plainly reveal her most private place.

“Ah……!”

As she inhaled sharply in surprise, the man’s firm, long leg slid between the trembling legs of Ailey, who shook like a newborn fawn, and lightly brushed her between the thighs.

The moment she felt it, her legs suddenly lost strength.

Even though the shock was unfamiliar, she could not bring herself to resist or fight back.

“Hngh!”

“Do you like it here?”

When Ailey did not push him away, the man softly asked and rubbed his knee against her more heavily.

As more of his weight settled in, the contact became denser.

Below, dampness began to gather on its own.

The sticky feeling between her legs was unfamiliar.

‘This is…….’

What is this.

Unable even to speak, Ailey lost herself in the sensation of his knee finely rubbing against the soft fullness gathered there.

Soon, the hard tip of his knee pressed a little deeper and abruptly struck the peak hidden between the soft mounds.

“Ah!”

A sharp sensation shot up through her lower body and instantly struck the top of her head.

Startled by a feeling she had never experienced in her life, Ailey swallowed hard and looked up at the man with wide eyes.

The moment she met those ash-gray eyes tinged with blue and stained with longing.

Gulp.

Her saliva slid down her throat on its own.

“…….”

The man, too, looked at Ailey like someone gazing at a cherished darling, smiling softly.

Then, as though he meant to steal away even the last of Ailey’s reason, he pressed his forehead against hers and whispered.

“Come to think of it.”

“Nh…….”

“If just the other person is a man, then any man will do?”

“Th-that…….”

“Surely you weren’t really planning to catch just any stray man and roll around with him, even if it wasn’t me?”

“…….”

“With a body this sensitive, this lewd and adorable.”

“Wh, what……?”

The man, who pronounced even vulgar and obscene words as though they were something holy, lightly kissed Ailey’s round forehead.

Smack.

At the soft touch that landed and lifted away so quickly, Ailey forgot how to speak and simply parted her lips.

Srrk.

“That won’t do.”

His index finger slid around Ailey’s back and traced slowly down the line of her straight spine from top to bottom.

Every place his finger brushed felt as though fire were flaring there.

“You’re someone precious. I can’t leave you to men like that.”

His voice sounded as though he truly treasured her.

“Hngh…….”

At that, her toes curled, and a weak little sound escaped her on its own.

Startled by her own voice, Ailey hurriedly tried to cover her mouth, but a firm, careful hand stopped her.

“So…… I’ll ask just one more time.”

That voice, thick like rich honey, heated the shell of her ear.

“Do you want to?”

At the man’s question, Ailey blinked slowly.