Ella’s fingertips trembled.

‘Get a hold of yourself, Ella!’

She was fighting with everything she had not to be swept away by the flood of sensation.

But her efforts were useless. Ella was sinking into a dizzying pleasure she had never experienced before.

‘So this is…… what it is.’

What she had seen in memories and what she felt in reality were worlds apart.

The hands gripping him went white at the knuckles.

“Hngh!”

At the m*an Ella let out, Haven’s breathing grew heavier.

His lips, heavy with desire, came back up and moved slowly to her earlobe. He chewed the soft flesh gently, then trailed down the pale length of her neck.

“Hah! Haven.”

Every time his lips moved along her collarbone, a burning warmth lingered in their wake.

Even the smallest movement sent ripples across the surface of the water. The thin mist scattered and gathered again and again.

Splash.

The water churned loudly as Haven gripped her waist and lifted her.

Ella’s smooth legs wrapped around his firm waist on instinct. The fierce press of his c*ck against her backside made her legs tighten further.

Pressed together so nakedly, he held his breath for a moment.

Time seemed to stop. The sounds of the world fell away all at once. The insects, the water, gone.

Ella’s fingertips traced the line of his face.

‘Beautiful……’

She thought it looking at him, at the way he wanted her.

Violet eyes filled with raw, unfiltered instinct held her captive.

The flush along his eyes was unbearably sensual.

“You’re…… beautiful.”

Especially those eyes……

Ella impulsively kissed his eye.

Haven bit down on his lower lip and pressed his forehead to her shoulder.

The sound of a heart consumed by desire drummed through his entire body. N*ked and undisguised.

“Hah, Ella……”

Haven’s voice was low and dark.

He lifted his head again, wearing an expression of something barely enduring.

“Are you really…… sure about this?”

That I can hold you…… you, a saintess, you who will become crown princess?

The whisper carried on a clean scent, and Ella nodded without hesitation.

“Hold me.”

Willingly, if it’s you.

How they made it from the spring to the cave not far away, she couldn’t remember.

The mana stone lamp hung on the stone wall had nearly run its course, putting out only a faint glow.

The cave was dim because of it.

‘This is where it truly begins.’

Haven’s reason seemed to have long since fled, but Ella’s had not.

A night like a shackle, one that would bind their connection tightly.

This night was a transaction of sorts.

One Haven would never know about, admittedly an unfair one.

Her body burned with pleasure, flushed and aroused, but in an irony, the part of her mind frozen by revenge was gradually finding its footing again.

Ella held his face in both hands and spoke, as though engraving the words into his eyes.

“Remember this night, Haven.”

Haven had been moving to press himself over her without waiting for an answer, and Ella stopped him.

It was only a single finger against his lips, and yet he stilled as though he had run into a wall.

“Answer me first.”

Haven’s chest heaved against her.

“I’ll burn this night into every part of me. So go on.”

The moment the words left him, Ella’s arms opened toward him.

Already at his limit, Haven drove himself into her embrace.

Her identity, their circumstances, where they were. All of it was erased from his mind. Ella, the woman, seemed to be the only thing occupying his consciousness.

Her back met the blanket beneath them.

“Ella……”

His voice was low and sensual, and her eyes drifted open.

The firm muscles honed through countless battles caught her gaze. A body as beautiful as carved stone.

The soft shadows cast by the dim light made for quite a sight, but there was no time to appreciate it now.

Haven brought his lips down over hers immediately.

By now, everything between them had been stripped away.

Only the moisture still clinging to their skin remained.

Ella was caged between Haven’s strong arms. His gaze, warm and heavy with heat, turned down to her, disheveled beneath him.

“Tonight I won’t look away from your eyes. So look at me like this.”

“I will.”

His hand moved slowly up along her skin.

Lips and fingers warmed with heat played across Ella’s body with unabashed thoroughness, like strings being drawn from a harp.

Haven took her br*asts fully in his hands and brought his lips down. He gathered his tongue to a point and flicked rapidly at her n*pple.

One hand slid away from her chest and drifted down, parting the sparse hair gently and pressing firmly against the hidden inner lips. Ella’s hips arched off the blanket and a whimper escaped her.

“Mmng.”

At the same moment, her entrance fluttered open as if welcoming an intruder.

One of Haven’s thick fingers circled the slick folds of her p*ssy in a slow, teasing spiral before pushing inside.

Haven’s brow drew sharply together.

Even just a finger, the tightness was considerable. He added a second, but it was no less of a struggle.

At this rate, her delicate flesh would surely tear before it could take him.

Even with his reason gone to heat, that worried him.

It was exactly then that Haven brought his lips to her.

“Ah!”

His tongue pressed into the wet warmth and rubbed soothingly at her entrance. The tension that had pulled her tight began to melt into something looser.

The high bridge of his nose naturally grazed against her cl*t.

Hit by a wave of ecstasy she had never felt before, Ella couldn’t hold back any longer and grabbed his silver hair.

Her head fell back, and cries broke from her lips without stopping.

“Nngh! Hah! S, stop!”

Haven’s shoulders stilled at the sound.

He raised his upper body, and his lips were slick with her arousal. The sight of his red tongue coming out to take it was unbearably lewd.

“I’m at my limit now.”

Haven didn’t seem to be waiting for her answer. He pressed himself closer.

At the same moment, his c*ck settled between her thighs with a fierce, formidable presence.

Ella glanced down and her eyes went wider.

‘That, that’s going to fit?’

His c*ck, rising to his navel, was close to the width of her slender forearm.

Dark red veins stood out all the way to the head, making it look like a weapon in its own right.

The head dripped with pre-c*m, twitching in a way that mirrored the flutter of her entrance below.

But she felt no revulsion, no refusal.

Only the fear that it would hurt.

“I don’t really know how this goes either, since it’s my first time.”

He wet his lips, looking over his considerable c*ck.

“If it hurts, I’ll stop right away.”

The blunt head parted the soft flesh and pressed inside.

Her entrance, slick with her arousal and his pre-c*m, swallowed the head as though it had been waiting.

A strange, startling sensation made Ella’s body shudder.

“Ah……! Ha…… ven.”

With every inch of him pushing deeper, Ella’s head fell further back.

Her body felt like it was splitting apart around him.

Even so, Ella didn’t say stop. If she said it, Haven would halt everything right now.

But what was hard to bear was still hard to bear.

The hand gripping the blanket shook. Her white-knuckled hand moved to Haven’s shoulder.

His long, thick c*ck pushed in without end.

“Hah!”

Her mouth wouldn’t close. Lewd, breathless sounds spilled out without stopping.

Pain and pleasure tangled together, and Ella’s nails dug into Haven. Several red scratches carved themselves into his forearm.

“Ella…… hah…… I’m losing my mind.”

“Haven……”

Finally, they were fully joined.

Breath held too long broke from both of them at once.

Neither moved first. Their lips met, and their tongues wound together again.

Swallowing each other’s sweet, hot taste, Haven drove his hips forward.

“……!”

And again, hard.

The cry that tried to escape was swallowed entirely by Haven’s mouth over hers.

A burning ache radiated from where they were joined.

She should have used oil, the belated regret came, but it was too late now.

This is all part of the revenge.

The thought loosened the tension that had seized her body.

The grip of her entrance around his c*ck eased, and her arousal flowed.

Sensing it, Haven’s movements grew a little faster.

“Hah! Mmng!”

After some time, the pain faded into a faint, distant sensation.

That sensation found the instinctive pleasure buried deep within Ella’s body.

Ah, the corners of her eyes grew flushed and wet with ecstasy.

“Ella, Ella……”

Haven licked the corners of her eyes and moved his hips faster.

Surrendering everything to instinct and sensation, the two of them chased after pleasure.

***

Inside the cave still bearing every trace of the night before, Haven was still drunk on the heat of it.

Through the sound of a heart that refused to quiet, Ella’s voice dissolved into him.

‘Thank you, Haven.’

The smile she had given him before leaving, just visible through the gap of her robe, refused to leave his mind for a long time.

It stayed as a vivid afterimage, as though carved in with a chisel.