Prologue

Hair the color of a sunset just beginning to fade spilled across the bed in wild, tangled waves.

“Hnn, Du, Dusik. I, I can’t breathe.”

Barely managing to part her lips, Riel exhaled a shaky breath and tried to steady herself, her face flushed red like a ripe apple.

But only for a moment.

“I’m not done yet.”

With a low growl, as though unwilling to waste even a single second, the man slipped his tongue back between her parted lips and moved it deep. The violet of his eyes had already darkened to a burning red.

“Mmh, mmhnn……”

Wet and soft, rough yet laced with a strange, overwhelming pleasure, his dizzying kiss turned Riel’s mind to mush.

The Dusik who had always been cold and businesslike was gone. He was her husband now. Every trace of the courtesy he had shown moments ago had vanished entirely. He was no different from a beast clinging to a small, fragile body.

His burning hands roamed across Riel’s stomach, and at some point, they found the soft, rounded swell of her chest.

Not enough to overflow his large palm, but the mere thought that he was touching her most intimate places made the heat rise even further. The more it did, the harder his c*ck grew, grinding between Riel’s parted thighs.

“Nnhh……”

Something firm pressed against a place that had never been touched before. Riel couldn’t hold back the m*an that slipped out, burning with embarrassment.

The sight of her was unbearable. Dusik furrowed his brow.

‘I’m losing my mind.’

Swallowing a curse, Dusik tightened his hold on her tongue.

The soft, hot feel of her lips and tongue was far too sweet. Even knowing how overwhelmed she was, he couldn’t bring himself to pull away.

He wanted to taste every inch of her, from head to toe.

He wanted to make every part of her his.

And if he couldn’t do that, he would devour her whole.

Like an angry tide, Dusik was consumed by the urge to claim all of her.

“Ha!”

Riel finally brought her cotton-soft fist down against his broad shoulder. Only then did Dusik lift his lips and meet the pair of emerald eyes beneath him, glistening with moisture.

“Du, Dusik. You……”

Riel stared up at him with reproachful eyes, worrying her swollen lower lip between her teeth. The sight made Dusik want to make her cry even more.

Barely reining himself in, Dusik warned her in a low voice.

“Don’t bite your lip. The more you do that, the less I’ll be able to hold back.”

Riel blinked her wide, round eyes once in what seemed like a silent what?, then slowly looked away from his scorching gaze.

“O, okay. I won’t.”

She backed down like a puppy tucking its tail. Dusik let out a quiet laugh.

“You were the one teasing me just a moment ago, and now you’re making that face. Isn’t that cheating?”

She shouldn’t have teased him in the first place. If she hadn’t, he could have held on a little longer.

At his words, Riel’s face turned so red it looked ready to burst.

“B, but tonight!”

“I’m going to do far worse.”

“Far worse…… what do you mean?”

Dusik pressed his lips lightly against hers again and spoke.

“I’m going to kiss your mouth.”

His hand began to travel upward.

“I’m going to touch your pretty little place.”

“Kyaah!”

Under Dusik’s touch, the negligee that had been draped over Riel’s small chest slipped suddenly down. Her pale, milky skin was laid bare all at once.

Riel wanted to disappear from sheer embarrassment. When she had received her lessons about the wedding night, no one had explained it would go like this!

“Du, Dusik!”

“And then. I’m going to…… taste you. Like this.”

He tilted his head down and this time drew her small, rosy pink n*pple gently into his mouth, licking it with his tongue.

“Ah, ah…… hhnn.”

A strange, ticklish pleasure she had never felt before bloomed low in her belly.

“Th, that place is for babies…… to put their mouths on, hnn.”

She had been taught that br*asts existed to give milk to babies. And yet here was Dusik, pressing his mouth there just like a baby……

It made no rational sense, yet Riel found herself cradling Dusik’s dark head in both hands without even realizing it. Almost like she was asking for more.

“Ah…… Dusik.”

His tongue moved like it was swimming, alternating between softly sucking and lightly grazing her n*pple with his teeth. The warm, sweet scent of her skin rising from her chest was so intoxicating he felt he could stay like this all day.

His large hand traveled from her chest to her stomach, and from her stomach, slowly, toward the hot, secret place between Riel’s thighs. She had no idea, not yet.

That a wave far greater than anything she had felt so far was about to crash over her.