<Episode 40>

“Ugh…”

Eveline was becoming disoriented by the raindrops falling straight on her. On the other hand, Elkais dove into the water without hesitation.

“I’m hungry.”

Eveline started feeling a strange hunger.

“Come into the water, Eveline!”

Elkais couldn’t get out of the water. He wanted to hold her, but he knew he wouldn’t be able to restrain himself if he got caught in the rain.

“I’m hungry.”

Eveline looked at him with a wide smile. Elkais’s figure emerging from the water was vividly visible.

His muscular body, far more provocative than what she had seen earlier, was so enticing.

“No.”

She tried to keep her sanity and began running in the opposite direction of the lake.

“Eveline!”

Elkais almost stepped out of the water without realizing it.

But if he went out, everything would be ruined. Even though he was neutralizing it with the lake water, he couldn’t just let her run off soaked.

He wanted to catch Eveline, pin her beneath him, and inhale the scent of her pale skin. And if her red lips, twisted with pleasure, desperately called his name…

“Damn.”

He submerged himself again as his desires threatened to control him.

He had brought a sedative, but it was too far away now.

Meanwhile, Eveline, who had run away, was overwhelmed with countless thoughts.

She was hungry.

She knew very well that this hunger was not from lack of food.

She needed something. It was the touch of an Alpha, and she didn’t care who it was as long as she could feel it.

She just wanted to feel the enchanting touch of an Alpha and their pheromones. And if she could bear the seed of a dominant Alpha…

“No! This is crazy!”

She tried to drive away her thoughts and run again. But her legs refused to obey her command and made her stand still.

“Why not?”

She found her own words amusing.

There was no reason why she shouldn’t. As long as she didn’t get bitten on the neck, it would be fine, right?

Thinking this, she grasped the handkerchief Elkais had given her. But then she changed her mind.

How exhilarating would it be to be intoxicated by the pheromones of a royal alpha? Was there really a need to be so cautious about avoiding a bite on the neck?

With that thought, she discarded the handkerchief and returned to where she had run from.

* * *

“Chirp, chirp.”

“Tweet, tweet.”

The sunshower stopped quickly, and the chirping of birds could be heard again. However, Eveline’s heat cycle was just beginning.

“Eveline!”

When the rain stopped, she met Elkais, who had hastily thrown on some clothes and come running.

He had only put on his pants and came running, his disheveled hair and labored breathing clearly showing how flustered he was.

“Eveline! Are you… huh…?”

Eveline groped his chest with her hand. His muscular chest was rock solid.

“Elkais.”

His body stiffened as she smiled brightly at him.

Never before had she smiled at him in such a way. When he looked into her eyes, he knew what she wanted.

“I want to touch more.”

He should stop her hand. But he couldn’t.

He just stood there blankly, allowing her to caress his neck and tickle his collarbone with her fingers.

Soon, her pale hand was stroking his pectoral muscle, with her pinky brushing against a sensitive spot, further stimulating him.

“Eveline.”

“Yes, Elkais.”

She smiled brightly again as she caressed his skin. Her hand was moving lower and lower.

Her pinky, which had been brushing his pectoralis minor, reached his serratus anterior, then his abs.

He watched as her hand delicately traced the grooves of his abdominal muscles.

“They’re beautiful.”

Even as Eveline spoke, he thought he really should control himself, but he didn’t act.

Finally, when her hand moved to undo his belt buckle, he grabbed her hand.

“Not like this…”

“Can I kiss you?”

He saw her lips. Her pink, luscious lips looked as beautiful as a well-polished peach.

“Elkais.”

As she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close, Elkais instinctively wrapped his arms around her waist.

“Elkais.”

“No.”

Even as he said it, he sighed as she pressed her body against him, moving sensually.

“Why not?”

Eveline was hypersensitive all over her body.

She could easily see the desire in Elkais’s eyes. He was looking at her intensely, as if he would devour her whole.

Moreover, his body was incredibly warm despite having just come out of the cold water. Every time she touched his heated body, her own body grew hotter.

What would it feel like if he touched her with those large hands of his?

“Why not?”

He sighed and pulled her into his arms.

Eveline sighed, feeling the touch of his hand on her waist and the firm muscles against her thighs.

“Is it really not okay?”

As he buried his face in her shoulder and then pulled back, her hunger intensified.

“I would like Elkais to touch me.”

At her words, he trembled as if in fear.

“What?”

She took his hand from around her waist and brought it to her cheek. As his rough, calloused hand touched her face, she bit his fingers.

“Eveline.”

His gaze grew more intense. Eveline felt it as she placed his fingers in her mouth. She nibbled and sucked on them like candy.

Biting his lips, he spoke.

“You’ll regret it.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s not that kind of feeling.”

“What kind of feeling is it then?”

Elkais himself didn’t know anymore.

He already desired her, and she desired him too.

If he shared his desires with her now… she would end up hating him.

If he had a physical relationship with her while she wasn’t in her right mind, the Eveline Wilden he knew would never give him another chance.

“And what about you, Eveline…?”

“I like you, Elkais.”

“That’s… a lie.”

Despite his words, he frowned with sadness. It was like he was being forced to acknowledge something he didn’t want to.

“Alright. So, let’s stay here a little longer together. I want Elkais to… ugh… like this…”

Eveline moved her hand from his cheek to his neck, trying to lower it further. But when her hand reached his shoulder, it wouldn’t go down any more because he held it tightly.

“Do to me what I did to you.”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“Because I can’t.”

Even as he said that, he didn’t stop her from guiding his hand.

Eveline felt joy as his hand touched her flesh. His large hand was trembling despite him trying to relax it, especially as it brushed against her chest.

“Elkais, you’re in your right mind right now.”

“……”

“So, doing it with Elkais, who is in his right mind, isn’t wrong, is it?”

He couldn’t comprehend her logic, biting his lips until they turned pale and began to bleed slightly.

“What?”

Eveline entwined her fingers with his and brought his hand down, then kissed the side of his lips where the blood was. Tasting his fragrant pheromone-laced blood, she bit into his skin.

“Eveline.”

As he tried to pull away, she moved his hand to her buttocks.

Feeling him tense up again, she laughed and wrapped her arms around his neck.

“As long as you don’t bite my neck, it’s fine, right?”

“Don’t say such things lightly.”

He was barely holding onto the last thread of his reason. He wanted to mark her neck, to make her his Omega forever.

If he did, Abelard and all the Alphas who might be drawn to her when they returned to the Empire would disappear.

This intoxicatingly sweet scent would be his alone…

She would bear his children and forever be the duchess of the de Robein family.

“I’ll bite you.”

She said and bit Elkais’s neck.

His strong arms tightened around her waist as her weak jaw bit down and applied pressure to his neck.

Laughing faintly, she bit harder.

“Ugh…”

Even though his neck had muscles, it was softer than other parts, but not soft enough to leave immediate marks.

She sucked and bit his neck, as if quenching her thirst.

Elkais, trembling as if frightened, held her waist tighter. In reality, it was because he found it increasingly difficult to control himself.

He could barely think because of her sharp canines and the soft flesh he felt when she paused to breathe.

“Eveline.”

“Mm… yes…”

When she finally pulled away, a thin string of saliva connected them before breaking.

“Are you really sure you won’t regret it?”

In response to Elkais’s anguished question, Eveline answered,

“Yes.”

With that, he lifted her and laid her on the ground.

Tl/N: AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Tl/N: Sorry for not posting for so long these are 6 chaps fr my readers who were waiting patiently. Thank you. IM GONNAA UPLOAD LOCKED CHAPTERS. Dont go anywhere say here okay