“How about you hold Kai, and I’ll dress you?”

Hugrey made a strange sound without taking Kai.

“What are you saying? Just take Kai already.”

A flustered Chloe held Kai out to him again, but Hugrey smiled with an oddly pleased expression and even crossed his arms. Her face felt like it was getting hotter. They were outdoors, and while Hugrey was perfectly dressed, she wasn’t wearing anything. If she put Kai down in this state, he would crawl on the dirt ground again with his already injured limbs. Moreover, if she put Kai down, her body that was somewhat covered by Kai would be fully exposed, making it even more embarrassing.

“Come on, hurry up, you hold Kai and turn around.”

“Why so suddenly? Is it because we’re outside? I said I’ll dress you.”

“No!”

“Then put Kai down and dress yourself.”

“Are you really going to do this?”

“Are you really going to do this?”

Hugrey’s gaze, parroting her words like a parrot, slowly moved down from her face. Her face felt hotter and hotter. Chloe pulled Kai closer to her chest, as if he were a shield protecting her body from Hugrey’s gaze.

Kai, wanting to escape from his mother’s hands and roam freely, eventually started crying while kicking his feet.

“You, I really want to hit you. I want to bite you!”

An angry Chloe glared at Hugrey as she spoke.

“Go ahead then.”

This wolf, really! At Hugrey’s clearly teasing words, as Chloe’s anger surged to her head, her body suddenly changed back into a tiger.

‘Kai!’

Startled by the thought of dropping Kai, she was relieved to see Kai safely cradled in Hugrey’s arms in an instant, and looked at Hugrey. Seeing how quickly he had caught Kai, it seemed as if he had anticipated her transformation into a tiger.

“Yes, that’s how you do it. You thought about wanting to bite me as a tiger, right? That strong thought made you become a tiger. Returning to human form is the same. Just focus on the thought of changing form. Now I’m going to put Kai back on the ground. Then Kai will crawl on the floor again, right? He’ll get all dirty. If you want to pick Kai up, focus on the thought of becoming human. Can you do that?”

Chloe was about to tell him not to put Kai down but stopped herself. After all, the sound coming from her mouth would be a tiger’s roar.

Hugrey really put Kai back down on the grass. That person, really!

She glared at Hugrey with an anxious heart, but Hugrey just calmly looked back at her.

“Focus on just one thought. Anger or worry, that’s not needed right now. What you want is to hold Kai, right? Then you need to become human. Try to concentrate.”

Saying such things leisurely to Chloe who couldn’t even answer.

There was no choice. As Hugrey said, there was no time to be angry. She had to become human no matter what now. She turned her gaze to Kai and focused all her mind on what she wanted right now. To become human and pick up Kai.

“…It worked.”

At that moment, Chloe, who had magically returned to human form, muttered as she looked down at her body, not even realizing she was standing naked in front of Hugrey again. Then suddenly coming to her senses, she picked up Kai who had already started crawling on the ground.

“Congratulations, Chloe.”

Hugrey said, kissing her forehead. Chloe blankly raised her head to look at him.

“That’s how you do it, just like you just did. Now you can change your form at will too.”

Chloe just blinked at him.

‘I succeeded…’

The realization finally hit her.

“You seem to change form when your instincts to attack or protect get strong. But you can’t always rely on emotions, right? Now, if you focus all your mind on the goal of changing form, you’ll be able to change anytime.”

Hugrey said gently, stroking her face. The mischievous man who had annoyed her earlier was gone, replaced by her usual kind and gentle husband.

“Did you do that on purpose? To teach me how to change form?”

“Well… I also just wanted to keep looking at you standing there naked because you’re pretty…”

His gaze was once again moving down from her face to her body.

“Look at my face.”

Chloe shouted urgently. If she hadn’t been holding Kai, she would have grabbed Hugrey’s face with both hands and fixed it on her own face.

“I also really want to dress you.”

Hugrey laughed out loud and then started dressing her with clothes he brought from the mat. He kept kissing and tickling various parts of Chloe’s body, who couldn’t move her hands because she was holding Kai, very slowly until her reddened body was completely covered with clothes.

In the end, Chloe, red up to her ears, avoided Hugrey’s gaze and started dressing Kai. Even though she was fully dressed now, she couldn’t understand why she still felt naked. As she finished dressing Kai and was about to get up from the mat, Hugrey whispered behind her back.

“I want to go home quickly.”

She couldn’t mistake the intention behind those words.

‘Really, this man has no shame at all… Ah!’

Chloe, feeling like even her scalp was turning red along with her nape, suddenly had her eyes sparkle. Because she thought of a way to get revenge on this man who had teased her several times today. And she would get what she wanted too.

“I want to go home quickly too.”

Chloe grabbed Hugrey’s arm and stood on her tiptoes, whispering close enough for her lips to touch his ear. Hugrey glanced down at Chloe and his expression started to harden slightly.

“Let’s go right now, Hugrey.”

This time Chloe reached out and stroked his lower lip with her thumb as she spoke. Seeing his face suddenly lose its composure, Chloe gave a slight smile and then held Kai out to him.

“Now hold Kai for me.”

He, who until just now had refused to take Kai and remained composed, took Kai as if entranced. Chloe started walking towards the edge of the forest, leaving him standing there holding Kai. She could feel Hugrey’s questioning gaze following her from behind, but she had no intention of looking back.

Hugrey was looking askance at Kai, who had quickly fallen asleep in the carriage returning to the mansion. Kai had fallen fast asleep in his mother’s arms as soon as they got in the carriage, probably due to the effects of transforming into a wolf and running around freely.

A wolf shifter.

If he had been a tiger shifter or a daughter, it would have at least felt like seeing a young Chloe.

Seeing him shift after just 5 months, it seemed he might have inherited the alpha qualities as well. After all, Hugrey himself had shifted around that age, revealing early on that he was born with alpha qualities.

Why did he have to take after me even in that?

Having already given up the alpha position, he had no intention of letting the wolf shifters know that Kai had inherited his abilities. Whether Kai becomes an alpha in the future or not is for him to decide, but the mother of an alpha… He had no intention whatsoever of placing such a burden on Chloe first. Even if he didn’t tell them, the wolf shifters who are just waiting for the next generation’s alpha will soon recognize Kai’s abilities and make a fuss.

If there was one good thing to find, it was that since Chloe wanted the child to be a wolf shifter, she probably wouldn’t say she wanted to have more children.

He was barely able to recover from the disappointment and shock of seeing a baby wolf facing off against a pack of coyotes by recalling that one advantage.

“Grrrr.”

Kai, sleeping in Chloe’s arms, made an indecipherable sound. When Chloe gently patted his belly, Kai soon fell back into a deep sleep, his stomach rising and falling rhythmically. A satisfied smile spread across Chloe’s face.

Ah, it’s still unfair. That guy is just sleeping. In Chloe’s arms, no less. Without any effort, just by being born, he so easily receives Chloe’s love, that lucky bastard.

“Sleep, sleep, and more sleep. What a sleepyhead.”

Hugrey voiced his complaints about Kai, careful not to upset Chloe’s feelings. That damn sleep. That was always the problem.

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“Shh, speak softly.”

See, there she goes again. How much quieter does she want him to be?

“Chloe, just what…”

“When we get home soon, I’ll hand Kai over to the nanny right away. You know why… right?”

Hugrey tilted his head to one side.

“Hand Kai over? Why?”

Until now, no matter how much he asked her to leave Kai with the nanny and look at him, hold him, she wouldn’t listen. To him, who was just blinking his eyes unable to understand her intention, Chloe smiled with her eyebrows curved like crescent moons.

“…”

What did that woman just do?

Earlier when Chloe whispered in his ear, ‘I want to go home quickly too’, he almost stumbled for a moment. It was because an unfamiliar pheromone came from Chloe at that moment. A pheromone that seduces the opposite sex…