Captured by the Desert Tyrant (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 42

“Cough! Hack!”

Latifa choked so badly out of sheer embarrassment at hearing her nickname ‘Lati’ suddenly slip from Hades’s lips that she ended up coughing violently.

“Lati.”

“Wait, cough, cough!”

Though it was common among Imperials to use nicknames, that practice was strictly reserved for close friends or family.

She never in her wildest dreams imagined hearing such a nickname from Hades himself.

‘True, our lips did touch, but that was just me getting swept up in the moment…!’

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t even a proper kiss.

The memory of that “strange contact” right after the appointment ceremony, when they’d been alone together, suddenly flashed through Latifa’s mind, making her blush and cough again.

‘Could he have heard it from Luhan?’

She recalled introducing herself as “Lati” to Luhan at the market, almost like an alias.

“Lati. Lati. Lati.”

Seeing that Latifa didn’t respond, Hades kept calling her nickname while staring at her blankly.

“Wait a moment! Stop calling me that!”

“I kept saying ‘Lati’ because your reaction every time I say it is amusing. Watching you hack and wheeze like a puppy that swallowed a huge bone wrong is quite entertaining.”

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