TNKHC 09

Chapter 09….

How much time has passed like that?

Looking at him sleeping face down on the desk, I guess he must have fallen asleep while studying with Jane again.

It was probably Jane who kindly covered me with a warm blanket.

My back and shoulders were sore from how many hours I slept.

“Hmm….”

Thump-

Elena yawned with her mouth wide open, unable to open her eyes properly, like a baby bird.

I turned my head a few times and stretched, and my tense shoulders felt a little less tense.

The thick blanket naturally slid down my body and fell under the chair.

Just as I opened my eyes and was about to read the book again.

“Why are you here….”

A familiar face was clearly revealed.

For a moment, I rubbed my eyes with my hand a couple of times, thinking, ‘Am I seeing a ghost?’

But seeing that he didn’t disappear, I could tell he was a whole person.

“I was watching to see how long you would sleep.”

He rested his arms on the desk and stared at her with languid eyes.

The eyes that captivated people like a nine-tailed fox were mind-blowing.

“Well, then I’ll get out.”

Elena, embarrassed, averted her gaze with a trembling voice.

Then he clenched his jaw and stiffened his head.

“I told you not to avoid it.”

The sticky voice seemed like it would melt my eardrums.

“it hurts.”

Elena turned her head sharply and escaped his grasp.

He chuckled and stared at her.

“…….”

The gaze that had been lingering on her blue eyes soon moved down to her cute lips.

Elena, embarrassed, touched her lips with her hand.

“Why? Why are you looking at me like that?”

The moment I brought my hand up to touch the area around my mouth, wondering if I had asked something.

I felt something sticky around my mouth.

“saliva…?”

I picked up the hand mirror on the table, wondering if it was true, and there was a transparent stream of saliva running down the corner of my mouth.

And there are even tear stains that I couldn’t erase earlier.

Embarrassment rose to the top of my head.

As I quickly raised my hand to cover my mouth, he snorted slightly and sat up.

“What, what is it?”

“What is it?”

He approached very slowly.

The sound of shoes echoing throughout the room, intertwined with the ticking of the clock, adding to the tension.

She took a deep breath and pulled her chair back, facing the imposing figure of a man two inches taller than her.

“Your husband.”

“Don’t come.”

Elena shot him a commanding look.

But the chair blocked by the wall had nowhere else to go.

“Don’t come.”

A voice as firm as steel lingered on the tip of his tongue.

But he was not the kind of man to listen to her.

“no.”

Before I knew it, a firm hand was touching my soft skin.

The slow, caressing touch of his hands was so ticklish that it gave me goosebumps.

“don’t do it.”

“You are lovely even like this.”

His words brought a sudden heat to my face.

You’ve been saying since a while ago that I’m special and that I’m lovely.

I’m not used to hearing that.

I’ve never heard of it in my life, and I don’t have the right to hear it.

She quickly picked up the brown blanket that had fallen under the chair and buried her red face in it.

“get out.”

“Elena.”

She looked like an abandoned animal.

A small animal that shivers in the cold outside, yet yearns for someone’s touch.

He seemed to have some sympathy for her, so he approached her and slightly bent his knees.

Then, little by little, as if handling a frightened kitten, he slowly brought his hand to her face.

“You need me like this.”

His cold fingertips carefully brushed her cheek.

Elena curled up and shrugged her shoulders.

“Are you really going out?”

“…get out.”

He let out a short breath as if he had no choice.

“Elle….”

“Get out! Get out!!”

Elena roughly shook off the hand that was touching her.

The eyes, filled with anxiety, shook endlessly.

“Get out, please.”

I couldn’t stand it any longer.

Just being in the same room with him was suffocating.

“Why did you cry?”

He spoke soothingly, as if he had no choice but to come closer than a certain distance.

As if capturing a ferocious wild animal.

“I didn’t cry.”

I didn’t even want him to find out about this.

I hated the feeling of being watched over my every move.

“Are you going to keep lying?”

“I didn’t cry. I said I didn’t cry.”

“Elena.”

“get out.”

The still voice was like a windless river.

She no longer looked at him or made eye contact.

Decarus sighed briefly and then opened his mouth.

“It makes me so sad whenever you treat me like that.”

“Sad…?”

For a moment, the corners of her mouth quirked.

A hollow, hollow sound escaped from his throat.

My facial muscles trembled slightly at the remark that was completely incomprehensible.

“What did you do to me….”

I swallowed the emotions that were rising.

The pungent taste of blood lingered between his clenched lips.

“You… are really the worst.”

There wasn’t even a shred of emotion in his eyes.

Like a psychopath who feels no guilt.

“The worst, the worst….”

He slowly lowered his eyelids as if lost in thought.

Then he snorted and looked straight at her.

“I always tried to be the best for you.”

His hand slowly stroked her slender chin.

The warmth that touched the tip of my chin was so unpleasant.

“Can’t you be kind to me just once?”

“Huh, kindness…? Is that the word that just came out of your mouth kindness?”

I was so dumbfounded that I burst out laughing first.

I knew you lacked empathy, but I didn’t expect it to be this bad.

“Yes. I want you to call my name and touch me.”

He slowly got up and approached me.

To her, who was small in stature, he seemed as intimidating as a giant.

“Don’t come.”

I barely managed to get the words that had been on my mind out.

But it had no effect.

He bent down and ran his fingers along the edge of her hair.

“Don’t touch.”

widely-

Elena shook off the hand that touched her with all her might.

Then she glared at him, clutching her still-warm hair.

Decarus stared at the abandoned hand and then snorted as if he found something funny.

“I don’t remember teaching you to act like that.”

He looked straight into her face and stroked her hair again.

I wanted to get away from this creepy touch right now.

When I glared at him with my eyes wide open, he smiled with his lips curled up.

“How far will you love me?”

“shut up.”

She was still as fierce as a hedgehog with its thorns raised high.

It was a sharp thorn that seemed like it would draw blood if it even brushed against it even slightly.

Decarus exhaled deeply as if he couldn’t do it and straightened up.

“You’ve been trying quite hard to get out of here, Elena. You’ve even learned the Imperial language.”

As he slowly swept through the Imperial Language textbook, dust appeared on his fingertips.

When I held it close to my mouth and blew it, the dust disappeared into the air.

“Who dared to teach my child to read… Hannah? Alyssa?”

His footsteps were heavy.

He came closer, bent down, and put his face in.

“no.”

“Or…. Jane?”

A soft voice pierced my eardrums.

A chill ran down my spine as his hot breath tickled my fur.

“Oh, no. I was going to learn it on my own…!”

At that moment, my body suddenly fell into the air.

The arms supporting her back and thighs lifted her lightly.

A panicked Elena screamed and grabbed the back of his neck.

“What are you doing? Let go!!!”

“An animal that doesn’t listen must be punished.”

He roughly pulled away the canopy and headed towards the bed.

A slender woman’s body touched the neatly arranged sheet without a single wrinkle.

Decarus, who was on top of her, looked at her with a sad look.

“I know exactly what you want.”

“…….”

“But I have no intention of listening to that.”

Her slender fingers carefully brushed back her disheveled bangs.

A strange feeling spread from my fingertips to my entire body.

Elena closed her eyes tightly and curled up.

“So be quiet and behave.”

He spoke each word with force, as if he was crushing it.

A deep, dark voice lingered in my ears.

A chill ran through my body at the sight of those cold, emotionless eyes.

“Remember that your actions can determine whether a person lives or dies.”

Her eyes, which had been fighting like a general on the battlefield, soon lowered their tails.

I couldn’t bear to look him in the eye.

Standing in front of him made me feel smaller and smaller.

“Oh, and from now on, I’ll be teaching you how to write.”

“what…?”

Is this what it would feel like to be sentenced to death?

My heart stopped beating at the sudden announcement.

It was the only moment I could escape from him.

Even that moment was taken away from me.

“I don’t like it. Who are you…!”

Elena gritted her teeth and grabbed his arms.

I struggled to get out, but it was no use.

He was as hard as a rock that could never be broken.

“You know it’s useless.”

A soft voice makes me look ugly.

I feel helpless, like I’m stranded at the bottom of an endless cliff.

“Who are you, you….”

The blue eyes that had lost their way shook endlessly.

All she could do now was clench her teeth.

A pungent taste of blood wafted from her parched lips.

“It’s bleeding.”

He came up to me silently and licked the blood that had spread across his lips.

A thick mass of flesh swept over the wounded area stickily.

“don’t do it….”

She looked at him with a soulless face.

He was so weak that he looked like he was going to die at any moment.

He slowly kissed her small lips like flower petals.

He gently caressed the wound so that it would not hurt.

“I love everything about you.”

He raised his head and looked her over.

It was a warm gaze, like stepping on a pile of snow.

“Your eyes too.”

His lips touched the corner of his eyes.

Warm breath slowly spread across my eyelids.

“Kodo.”

His face gradually lowered and he kissed her as if stamping a seal.

“And the lips too.”

Warm flesh seeped through my slightly parted lips.

As I turned my head away, he grabbed both my cheeks and kissed me.

The thick tongues danced and tangled inside my mouth.

“Don’t avoid it, embrace it.”

Elena grabbed his wrist tightly.

An indescribable feeling of misery seeped into my body.

An undeniable hot breath burst through my throat.

“From now on, you will be immersed in me. Like a fish trapped in an abyss so deep that it cannot escape.”

“…….”

“Because I will make you like that.”