“Mmh. Ah. That’s good.”

“Mmm…”

Slurp. Sluuurp. Suck.

“Ah, I’m about to come. Can I finish in your mouth? Mmh.”

The pig-like man’s voice was irritating. Creating an interesting situation was fine, but this was going too far.

Florian gazed at Bella’s soft-looking nape as if he wanted to lick it, took a quiet breath, and then suddenly began coughing violently.

“Cough, cough! Kugh, cough!”

“Oh!”

Bella looked up in surprise. Florian’s shoulders shook severely as he covered his mouth with one hand.

‘That’s right, he had a terminal illness!’

Florian, who had been coughing as if about to expel his internal organs, staggered and collapsed on the spot.

He continued to cough violently while clutching his chest in agony.

“Oh no, what should I do?”

Bella stamped her feet anxiously. She knew that Florian always carried medicine for his coughing fits somewhere on his person. But she couldn’t just take it out and give it to him on her own. If he asked how she knew about the medicine, she would have no explanation.

‘I’ll worry about that later and search his body for the medicine? No, I should quickly get a doctor… Wait. We’re lost right now! How can I possibly bring a doctor here? I don’t even know which way to go, and they might not be able to find us either.’

As she panicked, Bella suddenly realized something and turned her head. There were two other people here besides her and Florian.

Bella rushed out without thinking.

“Excuse me! We need a doctor…”

Her desperate cry remained unfinished. Startled by the coughing, the couple engaged in their lewd act had already fled.

There was no choice now. She would have to worry about explanations later and search his body for medicine.

Just as Bella was about to reach for him—

“Po-pocket, cough, kugh! Cough!”

Florian managed to mix the word “pocket” between his coughs while gesturing toward his right thigh.

Thank goodness. Bella quickly slipped her hand into his pants pocket. She had to feel around his thigh to find the small medicine bottle deep in the pocket.

She had thought him to be a frail, delicate man, but the thigh beneath her palm felt remarkably firm and warm.

‘Thinking such thoughts in this situation. Are you in your right mind?’

Bella scolded herself as she quickly pulled out the medicine bottle and opened the lid. Inside were small pills. All the while, Florian continued coughing. With each cough, a sound like his lungs were tearing apart echoed, and his entire body shook. It was concerning enough that he might start coughing up blood.

“Here, quickly.”

Bella placed one pill in his mouth. Florian tried to swallow it, but another violent coughing fit caused him to spill the medicine.

‘This isn’t working.’

Bella took out another pill. This time, after placing it in his mouth, she used her index finger to push it deep into his throat. His soft tongue wrapped around her finger.

Florian desperately swallowed the medicine while hotly sucking on her finger.

“Ah…”

A shiver ran through her. Her body instantly heated up.

All sorts of thoughts raced through her mind. She was only giving medicine to a sick person, and he was just swallowing it—that’s all it was. Yet just having her finger sucked once made her body feel this hot.

Bella quickly withdrew her finger from his mouth and stepped back.

The innocent action felt unnecessarily erotic, probably because they had just witnessed someone performing f*llatio right in front of them. Plus, she’d been experiencing sexually tense situations lately.

That must be why she was so sensitive to even small things like this.

‘Surely not. I’m just being overly sensitive.’

But when she thought Blake was looking at her chest, she had dismissed it too, and look what happened. She shouldn’t ignore these instincts. Her heart pounded with tension.

“Hah, hoo…”

Florian clutched his chest as he caught his breath. At least the coughing had subsided. His beautiful purple eyes were moist with tears, showing how much he had suffered.

‘…Right. He’s in so much pain, there’s no way he would do something like that. He was too busy coughing to have any room for lewd thoughts.’

After waiting a moment, his rough breathing gradually calmed down.

When the coughing had completely stopped, Florian looked up at Bella and spoke.

“Thank you. You saved me.”

“It’s nothing. I just gave you the medicine you already had.”

“Even when I have medicine, sometimes when the coughing is this severe, I can’t take it by myself. But thanks to you, I’ve taken it, so I’m fine now.”

He slowly got to his feet. Though terminally ill, he was still a man, and once standing, he towered over Bella. Despite appearing delicate at first glance, he had broad shoulders and large hands.

Bella flinched and stepped back. Florian lowered his eyebrows and smiled pitifully.

“Don’t worry. It’s not a contagious disease.”

Bella was startled at his words.

“Oh, no. That’s not why I…”

“It’s not contagious, but if you’re uncomfortable, you can keep your distance, my lady-in-waiting.”

His tone was detached, as if this wasn’t the first time. His response made Bella feel terribly sorry.

How many disapproving looks must he have endured whenever he had these sudden severe coughing fits? She felt guilty for suspecting him.

“I’m not Lady-in-waiting, I’m Bella Carta.”

Florian blinked a couple of times, then smiled thinly.

“I am Florian, Miss Carta. You must know my status, so please speak comfortably. Shall we continue getting lost together?”

Miss Carta? Even when using her name, it felt like he was creating more distance. Florian added with a smile.

“We can go slowly. I’m not in any hurry.”

In the end, Bella shook off her suspicions a little and began walking with him.