The sight of his wife, wet and ready, caused a violent stirring inside his trousers.

He roughly flung his jacket off.

As he ripped open his shirt buttons, a long scar could be seen running diagonally across his solidly built chest muscles.

In that moment, Ye-jin felt her resolve weaken. Her heart always ached whenever she saw the scars etched across his body. Perhaps that was why she so easily succumbed to him.

He unbuckled his pants.

The metallic clang grated against her eardrums, and yet, a strange thrill was already seizing her.

Slightly pulling down his drawers, he gripped his angry p*nis in his hand. It was as if he was threatening, ‘I’m going to devour every inch of you now.’

Ye-jin held her breath and swallowed.

Every time she saw it, she was astonished by its tremendous size. It was unbelievable that such a colossal thing would actually wedge its way into her body.

He slowly approached and pressed his body against hers.

Their chests met, and the vibrant thumping of their hearts was vividly transmitted. The realization that his heart was pounding just as wildly as hers made her feel a peculiar emotion.

He gently smoothed her disheveled hair and softly pressed his lips to her forehead.

Simultaneous with the tender kiss, he drove his hips up with forceful might.

“Hnngh!”

Ye-jin let out a shriek-like m*an, her whole body convulsing. The brutal, piercing pain made stars seem to glitter before her eyes.

Though she had shared her body with him countless times, accepting him was always overwhelming. He was too large and enormous; she simply couldn’t get used to it.

Tears streamed down her face as she panted, her mouth gaping like an idiot’s. With her strained breathing, her rounded br*asts urgently rose and fell like waves.

“It’s okay. Good girl.”

He soothed Ye-jin with a sweet whisper in his distinctive baritone, caressing her br*asts and darkly sucking on her collarbone.

As he slowly drove his hips, the exquisite stimulation gradually faded the pain, and pleasure was injected.

Instinctively, Ye-jin crossed her legs and tightly embraced him. At the sly, constricting grip, he quietly let out a low groan and gave a faint smile.

“Do you like it?”

His voice, cracked with excitement, asked the sinister question, as if he already knew the answer.

Ye-jin instantly frowned and whipped her head away.

With a sneer as if she were contemptible, he grabbed her small chin and forced her head back to face him. Their gazes complexly intertwined.

Meeting her damp eyes head-on, he languidly asked again,

“Then, is it good like this?”

He violently thr*st his hips, as if intending to shatter Ye-jin’s body. The force, pushing her like a runaway train, made her consciousness fade.

He was that kind of man. A man who destroyed and ruined his wife for the fun of it, much like children tear off the wings of dragonflies for sport. The only thing the helpless Ye-jin could do was surrender her body to him and weep uncontrollably.

“Haaa…”

Pushing her to the extreme, he bit into her flesh, his teeth bared like a beast. Dark red marks were left on her snow-white skin as if a male were marking his territory.

“Yoo Ye-jin, you can never escape me. Never.”

He exhaled a ragged breath, growling in a husky voice. The voice sounded exactly like the roar of an enraged animal, making Ye-jin shudder.

“You’re mine.”

The voice, clearly steeped in desperation, spun and whirled inside her eardrums.

“My woman. My wife.”

He was insane. Completely mad with an incomprehensible obsession and a sinister possessiveness.  SHAPE  * MERGEFORMAT

Ye-jin stared blankly at him, her eyes dull and clouded, having lost their focus. He slightly curled the corner of his lips and found her mouth, kissing her hotly.

He lightly nibbled her plump lips as if playing a game, then parted them and pushed his tongue inside. The soft tongue expertly rummaged through her mouth, stealing her heated breath.

While relentlessly ravaging her lips, he continued his brutal movements. So intensely that she could barely breathe.

“Haa, Ye-jin…”

After plunging into her for a long time, he threw his head back and roared savagely like a beast. Ye-jin, having reached her peak with him, went utterly limp, practically losing her mind.

Her face and body were a complete mess. He warmly cupped Ye-jin’s cheeks with both hands.

Licking her wet face with his tongue, he wiped away her tears and looked directly into Ye-jin’s eyes with his lustfully bloodshot gaze.

Only she filled the deep, dark eyes. Soon, a voice, damp like a swamp, dominated her hearing.

“Yoo Ye-jin, you’ll cry only beneath me for the rest of your life.”

“…”

“I won’t ever lose you again.”

“…”

“Because you are mine, forever.”

She almost nodded. ‘I want to be your wife forever,’ she almost thought.

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The primal coupling didn’t end with just one time. One was too small a number to satisfy the beast’s hungry l*st.

He possessed her freely, in any manner he desired.

Ye-jin sometimes sobbed miserably. Because her crying was pretty, he couldn’t help but torment her again.

Having been constantly taken without rest, Ye-jin finally drifted off into a faint sleep, as if she had fainted.

When she barely regained consciousness, the surroundings were dark. She guessed it was roughly night or dawn.

She lay still in the darkness like the dead, mindlessly blinking her eyes, when a low voice reached her.

“Ye-jin has fallen asleep now. I plan to let her sleep here tonight for now. Did you book the hospital appointment? Ah, I see. Then we’ll have to go straight to the hospital when we return to Seoul tomorrow.”

The hospital? To get rid of our Hope?

‘It felt as though my brain had completely stopped.’

She hadn’t expected Seo Jung-hoo to move this quickly. To book a hospital appointment for tomorrow right away. How could a person be so cruel?

In her heart, she wanted to scream, ‘How can you try to kill your own child?’

But… if he knew Hope was his child, he would only try to erase it more persistently. Because he was a man who had never once wanted a child.

“Yes, you did well.”

The call ended, and the sound of him setting down the phone was audible. Ye-jin held her breath and pretended to be asleep.

He tightly embraced Ye-jin’s body with his solid forearm, like a binding vine. It was as if he was warning her that she could absolutely never escape him.

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In the quiet dawn, regular breathing filled the small room. He was asleep, tightly holding Ye-jin.

Ye-jin cautiously pushed away the thick forearm that was encircling her body like a chain and slowly got up.

She waved her palm in front of his sleeping face. It seemed he was in a deep sleep, as he showed no reaction.

Ye-jin swallowed hard and stealthily slipped out of the room like a burglar.

Creak.

A rotten sound came from the rusty door as she opened and closed it. Startled, she bolted into the darkness like a wild cat.

“Haah, haah.”

She ran with all her might to the seaside. Ye-jin stopped for a moment, pressing her hand against her chest, and slowly regulated her breathing.

Then, she took heavy steps toward the sea.

As she walked across the beach covered in smooth, round pebbles, the gravel rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound.

The sea wind blew strongly, messily tangling her hair. Before her eyes, the deep blue sea was surging, churning with violent waves.

It was a small, unremarkable sea, but it was enough to give her life for.

“In the end… it’s come to this…”

Ye-jin muttered in a bitter tone.

She had faked her death and fled to a secluded island, yet he still found her. Now, she felt there was only one way left.

For her to truly die.

“I’m sorry, Hope…”

She hated the sea so terribly.

‘My life started at sea and is ending at sea. It was a life full of salt.’

Ye-jin slowly stroked her belly with a sorrowful touch.

“Mommy is really sorry, Hope… I wanted to protect you until the very end… I really wanted to raise you well, my Hope…”

The corners of her eyes reddened, and salty tears streamed down her cheeks.

“I’m sorry for being a mother like this…”

She kept walking without stopping. Her feet were submerged in the water, and then her knees were submerged.

Finally, a large wave broke, white like foam, and swallowed her whole body.