“Ch, chew me up, that’s quite a joke. Haha.”

“……”

“Du, Dusik? Husband?”

But no matter how wide I opened my eyes to look at him, his face was utterly serious, without a trace of a smile. And the corners of his eyes were slowly flushing red with heat.

‘Oh no, what do I do. Is he actually serious?’

Startled, I parted my lips slightly, and Aiden slowly closed his eyes and leaned toward me.

“W, wait……! Mmph.”

Whatever I had been about to say, my lips were taken by his. I couldn’t resist at all, and squeezed my eyes shut.

My instincts were truly honest. My stomach went tingly in an instant, and a feeling came over me that I couldn’t put into words, as my mind sank into a soft, comfortable abyss.

Mmm. I shouldn’t, I shouldn’t…… I should, I should…… I should!

‘Right! What’s there to stop me? Even if this marriage only has a month left, we’re still husband and wife…… and it’s already happened once……’

I made my decision quickly. How could anyone refuse a husband this captivating! Anyone who could would have to be a member of the clergy!

Wrapping my arms tightly around his thick neck, Aiden exhaled a shallow breath.

“Why, why do you keep, making me lose my mind.”

“Dusik?”

Eyes flushed red to the whites. A voice like something scraping at the throat.

A thundering heartbeat audible even to me, and he hadn’t even done anything yet.

Hot breath.

A rawness to Aiden that was different from the wedding night, and I didn’t know what to do with myself, my eyes darting around.

“How long I’ve been holding back…… and you don’t even know…… just, one…… word……”

He whispered it low, as though speaking to himself, and I couldn’t make out what he meant. Aiden, who had been growling with his head bowed, seemed to come to some decision and snapped his head up.

The moment I met his burning gaze, I caught my breath.

“This is all your fault, Riel.”

“Mmh!”

His soft, slick tongue moved in and out with easy familiarity, as though coming home. His breath and tongue burned like a brand, unbearably hot.

The way he drew my tongue into his mouth, chewing gently just short of pain, then slowly traced the soft inner lining and my lips, sent jolts of electricity below my navel.

Without realizing it, I clutched tightly at his sleeve.

How much time passed like that?

My mind had gone hazy, past the point of tracking time, when the hot breath tangled between us finally broke apart.

“Haa.”

“Riel, my wife.”

There was something raw about him, different from his usual gentle self, and it felt slightly unfamiliar. But even so, Aiden was Aiden.

The Aiden of the wedding night had also been different from usual, overwhelming to the point of being too much. But when I had managed to take all of him, a strange, heady rush of triumph had welled up inside me.

‘But this time too, can I really…… take you?’

Just as before, I flinched at the feel of his hard, swelling c*ck growing against me, but I steeled myself and wrapped both arms around his neck, pulling him close.

At the slightest pull, Aiden followed naturally, as though he had been waiting.

“Hold me, like that night…… okay?”

Gazing straight into his violet eyes and clinging to him as I spoke, Aiden let out a ragged breath, then wrapped his hands around both my wrists and lifted them above my head.

Glistening eyes swept over me in a slow, deliberate gaze.

“I’m…… embarrassed……”

Then he quietly parted his lips.

“……Beautiful, Riel.”

***

‘D*mn it.’

Aiden swallowed a curse inside.

It was all because the woman pinned beneath him was so unbearably sweet and intoxicating, like a single bloom of a flower.

His stomach churned and his vision swam, like he had swallowed some kind of aphrodisiac or love potion he was never meant to take.

“Haa…… Dusik…… I, I’m fine. So……”

She had been in so much pain during the wedding night, and yet here she was with tears already gathering at the corners of her eyes, claiming she was fine.

But he had no intention of stopping either. Or rather, it felt as though someone had seized his reins and he simply could not stop.

What was more.

Bite her. Devour her. Make her yours……

A massive shadow that had appeared from behind kept whispering unsettling things against the back of his neck.

Bite Riel. Devour her.

His mind was loud with it. But the words were seductive in a way that seemed to drag his deepest urges to the surface, and Aiden was helplessly drawn in.

The moment his gaze landed on her nape, without thinking, Aiden lowered his head and pressed his hot lips to it.

Yes. Just like that.

He was just about to open his mouth to take a bite when,

“……Mmh.”

Riel flinched at the hot breath against her nape, and the sight of her trembling snapped his fraying reason back into place.

“Ha,”

D*mn it. Aiden cursed inwardly.

You worthless thing. What on earth am I doing.

Would any ordinary person consider biting the nape of their own wife normal? No. No, it wasn’t.

From what he knew, ordinary people never left marks on their wives’ bodies. That was the standard. That was reality.

So was he simply deranged. What am I, exactly?

The shadow appearing out of nowhere, and the demon’s whisper telling him to devour Riel.

Were such things ordinary? Did everyone experience this during such moments?

No. That was absurd.

‘Then I must be a monster.’

Eyes flushed red, Aiden studied Riel. Small and fragile, a body that looked like it might vanish at a single touch.

How could he bite and hurt a woman like this. That was something only a monster whose reason had dissolved, or a demon, was capable of.

And yet. Why.

“Wh, why aren’t you doing anything……”

Just then, perhaps worried by his stillness as he simply stared at her, Riel asked with glistening eyes, catching her breath.

“Why are you just staying still? If it’s because you’re worried I’ll be in pain, I’m fine-“

D*mn it!

Swallowing the curse, Aiden gave in and lowered his head, pressing his lips to hers.

“Mmm.”

So why do you keep,

why do you keep drawing me in.

Making me lose my mind.

Don’t hurt her. Please. Don’t break her.

Aiden shut out the demon’s voice whispering at his side and stroked Riel’s body with gentle care.

Over the small lace, he felt the soft, rounded swell of her chest.

Aiden curled his fingers and scratched lightly at the peak, as though pressing into it. Riel shuddered, feeling something.

“Hngh.”

Inside his head, the thread of reason snapped with a clean, quiet sound.

“Can I…… can I hurt you?”

At Aiden’s question, Riel shed tears and nodded again and again.

“Yes. Mm-hm. I’m ready to take you. And also……”

Why are you so endlessly, recklessly kind. What do you think I’m going to do.

Do you know how much I might torment you. How much pain I might cause.

Should I just break you?

Should I pour out every urge inside me and ruin you completely.

But in that moment—

“Because I know that you, Dusik, would never cause me pain……”

Riel’s small, murmured voice made Aiden let out a hollow laugh.

“I would never,”

cause you pain.

Aiden took hold of Riel’s dress laces and undid them, cupping her small chest in his hand and pressing his lips there. Unbearably sweet and soft.

Like a freshly baked morning roll, tantalizing and addictive. Aiden slowly traced the peak with his tongue while his other hand rubbed the peak of her left br*ast.

Riel trembled and trembled, but took in the pleasure flowing through her entire body.

Every time Aiden faithfully suckled at her chest and occasionally scratched at the peak, she could not hold back the m*ans that came naturally. In the end, Riel pressed her small fist to her mouth without thinking, trying to muffle the embarrassing sounds.

“Hnn, hngh.”

At that, Aiden lifted his lips from her damp chest and closed his hand firmly around Riel’s wrist. Slender enough to hold in one hand with room to spare.

“Let me hear your voice.”

Saying that, Aiden slid his other hand downward and slipped it inside Riel’s undergarments.

“Ah!”

Startled, Riel arched her back. Aiden gently rolled the small, rounded bud in slow circles, stroking it softly, then alternated with light, teasing pinches.

The delicate little nub swelled ever so slightly. A rush of unbearable pleasure followed.

This time, he slowly slipped two fingers into the narrow, tight entrance. The slick opening clenched around his fingers as though unwilling to let go.

“Ahh……!”

Riel shook her head back and forth as the ache began to build.

Aiden worked his fingers in a scissoring motion, gradually stretching her, then clicked his tongue.

‘Far too tight.’

At this rate, he would have no choice but to hurt her.

While Riel was lost in a daze, tears rolling down her cheeks, Aiden took hold of her legs and spread them apart.

Spread in a wide V to their limit, Riel lifted her head slightly in surprise, and by then his dark hair had already descended between her thighs.