Rising from his bed, Triton traced his fingertips over the long scar on his cheek. Clear red blood stained his pale fingers.

“……”

When he wiped his face with his palm while twisting his lips into a smile, no wound remained visible on his face.

With his now-unblemished face, he looked down at Livia, who had fallen asleep exhausted beside him. For three days now, he had held her as she slept like she had fainted, kissing her all over and grinding against her lower body…

Even while sleeping, Livia had accepted him, and remained constantly full despite not eating.

Triton gazed at the sleeping Livia with satisfied eyes, then couldn’t help but suck on her slightly parted lips again.

As her sweet breath was drawn into him, his lower regions, which he had barely managed to calm, stirred and throbbed. He sighed regretfully while licking her cheek and earlobe, whispering quietly to Livia who couldn’t come to her senses.

“Why does my mate sleep so much…”

With such weak stamina, how would they ever make a large family?

Sighing, he pressed kisses down her shoulders and chest, which were covered in red congestion and bite marks, along with her swollen eyes and puffy lips.

Her n*pples, slightly larger than their original size from being sucked so much, were enticingly swollen.

With them protruding as if begging to be sucked, there was no reason not to take them in his mouth. He gladly took the red n*pple in his mouth, gently soothing it with the tip of his tongue.

Even with him biting and sucking all over her body like this, Livia showed no signs of waking from her exhausted collapse.

Well, considering she didn’t wake even when that beast cub crawled into her dreams and caused such chaos, it was clear just how tired she was.

Since my human is weak and has collapsed like this, as her mate, I have no choice but to work harder…

He eagerly crawled between her thighs once more.

He’d heard that humans call their mates husband and wife… So he would be Livia’s husband. Which would make this woman his wife.

‘Husband and wife…’

Though he had merely inserted himself into a few words created by mere humans, his heart strangely fluttered.

One corner of his heart itched so much that he felt the urge to extend his nails and scratch that area.

‘Though it wasn’t that I disliked or felt uncomfortable with it…’

Swallowing a laugh to himself, he licked the tightly closed entrance of Livia’s womanhood with the tip of his tongue.

Perhaps because she had been well-trained, her small hole twitched and quietly prepared to get wet at the feel of his tongue.

Though its owner couldn’t wake, her body faithfully remembered and responded to his stimulation.

What an admirably lovely body this was.

As if in praise, he buried his face deeply between her legs, carefully licking and sucking her swollen entrance and cl*toris.

Keeping his sharp teeth withdrawn, he lifted her hips as if handling the softest thing in the world. When he thrust his tongue frantically between them, at last a pained moan escaped Livia’s lips.

“No… ahh…. No more… can’t…”

Livia muttered as if sleep-talking, grabbing Triton’s hair between her thighs and pushing him away.

Though he knew it was an unconscious action, he couldn’t help feeling somewhat hurt.

He now disliked any resistance from Livia. There may have been times when her rejection and defiance were amusing, but now it was different.

He wanted Livia to fully accept him.

He wanted her to accept even this endlessly overflowing greed and darkly sticky desire without the slightest hesitation.

Just as my heart has become yours…

Because you too are mine.

Mine, whom I can never let go even if it kills me.

“Shh, Livia. Keep sleeping.”

He soothed her by gently kissing her thighs and b*ttocks.

Her thighs, spread open to the sky in his grasp, twitched and trembled, but soon quieted as if hearing his whisper.

He positioned himself between her legs, which were already soaking wet. After wrapping her limp thighs around his waist, he looked down at her with dark eyes and fitted his c*ck into her pulsing entrance.

…Squelch.

As his thick gl*ns pushed its head into the narrow opening, the sound of sticky fluid accepting him could be heard.

He gently rubbed the entrance with the tip of his gl*ns as if spreading it open, watching Livia’s sleeping face as he slowly pushed his hips forward.

“…Ah. Ahh…”

Even in her sleep, Livia’s waist twisted as if the member penetrating her inner flesh was too much to bear.

“Good girl, Livia…”

When he patted her thighs while making shushing sounds as if soothing a sleeping baby, though she frowned in discomfort, she quickly fell back into sleep.

Straining to hold back his aching lower body, he waited until she had completely fallen asleep.

After enduring several seconds that felt like an eternity, he pushed his c*ck column stubbornly into the inner walls that remained tight despite being spread and stirred multiple times.

Ah…

The shivers that ran up his spine transformed into pleasure that stirred his brain and dominated him. While caressing her body that twitched as if uncomfortable, he continued forward, and forward again.

“Ahh…. Uh…. Mm…Triton.”

Those lovely lips calling for him even in dreams excited him. Triton breathed heavily as he stared with half-lidded eyes at Livia floundering in deep sleep.

Livia’s sleeping form, disheveled with marks he had left, was blindingly lovely. Her regularly rising and falling chest was so erotic and cute that Triton couldn’t help but thrust his hips.

“Mmng…!”

…Well, being this lovely, it’s no wonder that beast cub would be drawn to her.

Muttering to himself, he ground his hips inside Livia’s groin.

Since he wasn’t so conscienceless as to split his c*ck in two while taking the sleeping Livia, he had to suppress his excitement by carefully pushing the already copious amount of s*men deep into her womb.

“Ah, mm…”

Just seeing Livia moaning with that defenseless sleeping face was enough to fill him with pleasure to the extreme, so even this was joyful and delightful.

“Livia.”

…You can never escape from me.

Overlapping his body with Livia’s, he showered her peacefully sleeping face with thorough kisses.

Even while slowly thrusting his hips into the inner flesh of the woman trapped in his arms, he never took his eyes off her. Though a somewhat chilling obsession cast shadows in his eyes that had been shining as if looking at something lovely and precious, it was darkness invisible to the sleeping Livia.

***

‘Muscle pain…’

Though she didn’t know how long she had been asleep, her whole body ached as though she were beaten up as soon as she woke.

Though she was sure she hadn’t left the bed, why did her entire body hurt like this?

No, thinking about it, saying it hurt seemed wrong. Since nothing was broken or torn, this mysterious dull pain just felt strange.

“Ha, ugh…”

When Livia, who had been lying dazed in bed for a while after waking, stretched her curled body, her entire body screamed at her not to move.

Why… She hadn’t gone anywhere, so why was it this difficult?

Livia quietly caught her breath while trying to recall the cause of this situation with her foggy mind.

Triton.

How many days had passed since returning from Demeter’s feast?

She had been in his embrace for so long she couldn’t count the days. Even after the fifth trial he had given in anger had ended, she continued endlessly being held in his embrace.

Even when she fell asleep as if fainting, even when she woke from that sleep, until she begged and screamed for him to please stop already…

Because of that, she had no mind to gauge how much time had passed.

“Nng…”

Making pained sounds as she raised her body, Livia felt a sense of déjà vu about having faced such mornings before. Come to think of it, ever since she had started properly spending nights with Triton, she seemed to have greeted mornings like this consistently.

Though the intensity varied slightly, she would always groan like this after sleeping and waking up.

It seemed humans were indeed overwhelmed when dealing with a god. Perhaps that was why he kept trying to feed her all sorts of good things…

“Why does my pelvis hurt so much.”

Livia’s face froze as she lifted the cloth covering her body while tossing and turning.

Her trembling gaze glared at her ankle.

What was tightly wrapped around her slender ankle was clearly Triton’s water chain. She couldn’t mistake it, as he had occasionally used it when restraining her or giving trials, or even during lovemaking.

“Why… is this…”

Livia anxiously pulled at her ankle. The chain made of water felt only slightly cool, with no sound or weight. Just in case, she came out of bed and tried taking steps forward. But the moment she tried to take a step toward outside the room.

The water chain wrapped around her ankle instantly froze and held her in place.

“…!”

No matter how hard she pulled her foot in surprise, it wouldn’t move. The stream of water, or rather the chain that had now become ice, wouldn’t budge as if it was caught on something in the air.

‘What’s going on? Don’t tell me I’m… trapped now?’

Just then, as she was glaring at the air where the ice chain was caught with bewildered eyes.

“Livia, where do you think you’re going in that state?”

The owner of the chain appeared with a composed face.