She tried to resist Leon trying to part her lips again but with her small chin trembling she had no choice but to give in as he wanted. Immediately a deep moan burst from him. It was a strange sound that stimulated her ears and made her chest tremble.

His heat filling her inside and exploring like a fish in water was too hot. She couldn’t think straight from his lips tasting every corner as if searching for something. This…… she didn’t know about this. Leon licking deeper and deeper into intimate places made her pant. What she had known until now wasn’t kissing. It was just pressing lips together. How stimulatingly he scraped and licked, she felt like she would lose her mind. It was a kiss that awakened instincts to the point she forgot whether this man was Leon or who he was.

Stop. Stop.

His greed showed no signs of diminishing and only burned hotter. And…… he was doing it for too long. Again and again. It felt like her lips would wear away. That’s how brutally passionate kisses he was pouring on her. She didn’t want to do such intimate and intense things with Leon anymore. She was scared.

“You’re not focusing.”

Somehow knowing, Leon suddenly removed his lips and growled. He was getting impatient. Desperate. His chest heaved greatly. Along with his rough breathing, he started again. As if the kisses until now hadn’t happened, he moved fiercely again. It felt like she would be devoured by his lips at this rate.

She felt like she would collapse under him from just a kiss. Her mind was invaded by whiteness and she couldn’t think of anything. She could only feel his presence ransacking her inside.

Perhaps knowing she wasn’t thinking of other things, perhaps taking that as her focusing, satisfied moans leaked from Leon’s mouth. Making sounds repeatedly, Leon was falling deeper into her. As if not wanting to separate at all, no, as if he would absolutely not separate, he was endlessly, thoroughly invading her lips violently.

Yvonne, who had been giving her lips as he demanded, was becoming increasingly dazed. She couldn’t handle such intense acts coming as a shock. Moreover, she hadn’t known Leon would be like this. She had never even imagined that Leon and she would press their bodies together so intimately and exchange saliva like this.

To think he would want such deep kisses with her.

No one could know when Leon’s mind-numbing deep kisses would end. Not even Leon himself who was passionately kissing.

In Leon’s tightly locked bedroom, the two continued their long, long kiss. Leon’s greed only grew more intense.

It was after more time passed that he released Yvonne. But she sat back down after starting to stand up from his lap. She felt dizzy. Moreover, her legs had no strength. As if Leon had sucked out all her remaining strength, her arms and legs had no power at all.

When she collapsed back into his chest, his thick low laughter licked past her ears. Because Leon had licked her lips so excessively, now even his voice felt like it was licking her. That’s how long and much he had explored her lips.

Yvonne barely managed to stand on wobbly legs and moved her body to the sofa opposite. She needed to catch her breath for a moment. Her breathing was too rough and like being submerged in water, her whole body’s senses were dulled making proper thinking impossible.

Hoo…… hoo……

While breathing heavily, there was one fortunate thing. Leon sitting opposite also had his broad chest rising and falling severely. He was the one who got excited. She was just shocked and surprised.

“Is that…… enough now?”

Had she made up for it? She had to be certain. Yvonne had to try hard to come to her senses. She had to hear Leon’s very important answer.

“Tonight.”

Leon’s voice was more hoarse than usual. His eyes still spoke of wanting to embrace her again. Terrified, Yvonne slowly tried to distance herself from him, inching towards the end of the sofa to get somewhere his hands couldn’t reach. 

 “Come to my room.” 

 Gasp. 

Cough. Cough.

 Yvonne started coughing from shock. What did she just hear? Please…… stop this. 

 She definitely hadn’t misheard. That was…… an invitation to be intimate tonight. Please act like before. Why are you suddenly being like this to me? 

 “No……” 

 She started to say no but closed her mouth. He still hadn’t given a definite answer about marriage. She needed to stay calm. 

 His words came back to her. He had said to tell him what she wanted, that he would grant most requests. This was the time for that. 

 “I mean…… I want to do that after we’re married.” 

 The atmosphere suddenly changed. Right after she said that, the excited air became heavy again. What if Leon, with his nasty personality, just insisted? What if he unreasonably pushed that she had to do it to get married? 

 It seemed like he was acting this way because he hadn’t been able to be with a woman for so long. His twisted behavior seemed even worse because his body wasn’t cooperating. That’s why he was abnormally focused on her. 

 This wasn’t real affection for her. It was temporary. She wasn’t stupid enough to cling to something like that. It was just fleeting attention. Once he was fully recovered and went back out into the wider world, he wouldn’t even think of someone like her. 

 So please don’t insist. 

 She desperately prayed over and over in her heart. 

 “Then I’ll wait until then.” 

 Huh? He backed down. He really listened to what she said. She couldn’t believe it. Leon…… kept his word. In her daze, she felt immense relief. 

 She had bought time now. As his body gradually improved, she would soon become a forgotten woman. That would be fine. He would never seek her out. 

 Phew….. 

 She could finally breathe properly. 

 “You’ll still be Emil’s guardian, right?” 

 She needed to reconfirm with Leon, who easily forgot things and distorted memories. 

 “First the wedding. We’ll do it as soon as possible.” 

 Another frightening statement came. 

 “How…… soon……” 

 “In a week.” 

 “What?” 

 What’s the rush? And how could wedding preparations be finished in a week? He seemed determined to insist on this. 

 “Then two weeks. No later than that.” 

 Anyone watching would misunderstand that he was desperate to marry her. 

 “Then…… about being a guardian……” 

 He keeps avoiding giving an answer to that important question. 

 “If you want, I can sign it right now.” 

 Perfect. Whatever had just happened, Yvonne forgave everything just for that one answer. Though it ended up looking like she was the one being clingy now, she didn’t care. Finally, she could fight off her uncle. Emil would live. 

 It was bitter knowing she couldn’t do it with her strength alone, but it was a comfort that she had avoided the worst. That was enough. Since his words could change at any time, she needed to hurry and get his signature on the application. 

 It was good that she got what she wanted, but she had to go to the study to get the application. If she left right now, her uncle might catch her again. What should she do? 

 “Your uncle just went out.” 

 It was amazing how Leon seemed to know what she was worried about. 

 “How did you know that?” 

 “I heard the sound of a carriage earlier.” 

 When did he hear that? Was she too tense to notice? That meant Leon was relaxed enough to hear such sounds. Somehow it felt like she had lost to him. Her pride was oddly wounded. 

 Right. The sound of the carriage. Since it wasn’t a visitor, her uncle was the only one who would leave by carriage. 

 Just knowing her uncle wasn’t in the mansion seemed to release all the tension from her body. 

 She quickly ran to the study, grabbed just the application, and ran back. Watching Leon sign it made her feel even more relieved. 

  They discussed how to deal with Leon and her uncle. Yvonne was organizing what she needed to say. It would take great courage. It was something she had to do herself and wanted to accomplish. 

 “Can you handle it later?” 

 He was asking about the final battle with her uncle. 

 “Yes. I don’t want to spend another moment with uncle.” 

 “Then do it. Drive him out right away.” 

 What? Right now? 

 “But……” 

 Seeing Yvonne like this, Leon became slightly uneasy. With Yvonne’s kind nature, could she really do it….. 

 “Yvonne. Sometimes you need to be harsh. Especially when someone has disrespected you.” 

 Right. How much had her uncle disrespected her? This was the time to be harsh. Yvonne’s eyes began to grow more determined. 

 “Do what you want. As your future husband, I’ll be by your side.” 

 Suddenly he felt like a reliable ally. It felt like she had received amazing support. Against her uncle, the two of them were on the same side. 

 Yes. I can do this. I can accomplish this. 

 “However.” 

 However? He was about to add something more. 

 “I don’t want a marriage based on such conditions. Once we’re married, fulfill your duties as a wife. I’ll fulfill my duties as a husband too.” 

 When she was engaged before, she had tried to fulfill her duties as a fiancée. If Leon had treated her even normally. The younger Yvonne might have lived accommodating his moods and enduring everything if he had just refrained from hitting her. But Leon was the worst beast — not just as a husband, not even as a fiancé, but simply as one human to another. Now that same person was not only demanding her duties as a wife but also mentioning his duties as a husband.