However, he thought it was an unintended pheromone since she was a woman who didn’t even know she could intentionally produce such pheromones.

But just now… was that really unintentional? What she emitted towards him while smiling was clearly a pheromone of seduction. With abundant sexual intent.

Was this also unconscious? Or had she now acquired the ability to control pheromones?

She had been continuously acquiring and developing beast-human abilities. Today, she had even fully mastered shape-shifting, which she had struggled with the most.

So perhaps the release of pheromones was also intentional.

And even if it wasn’t intentional, and came out unconsciously, it was certain that she was trying to seduce him. Otherwise, such a thing wouldn’t come out unconsciously.

Chloe trying to seduce him. Of course, it’s stimulating and exciting enough to make his chest feel tight.

But does it make sense? Earlier and now, can Chloe seduce him in this situation?

Outside the bedroom, Chloe was someone who would be startled and embarrassed by even the smallest display of affection. Clearly, until he dressed her in the grass field, her attitude of not being able to meet his eyes was no different from her usual self. For her to seduce him using pheromones… it still felt strangely unnatural somewhere. No, actually, it was a bit worrying.

“Chloe.”

He whispered in a voice as soft as talking to himself. Chloe didn’t answer, just slightly raised her eyebrows while looking at him.

Ah! Again! She released pheromones again.

It was certain. She was intentionally stimulating him now. Why did she have to master even that ability? Even without doing that, there were too many moments when he felt like he would go crazy just looking at Chloe. But if she deliberately stimulates him like that, what is he supposed to do?

Especially when she’s holding that wolf cub in her arms!

“Chloe, why are you doing this?”

“Doing what?”

Chloe tilted her head to one side and smiled as if asking what on earth he was talking about. That fox-like tiger.

“You know.”

“Hmm… know what?”

“Come on.”

Tell me why you’re tormenting me when I can’t even hold you right now.

“You know, earlier, when Kai transformed into a wolf, you saw that he didn’t recognize me? While you were just watching like it was someone else’s business.”

Chloe, who had been playing dumb for a while, finally started to reveal her true thoughts.

“He recognized you in the end, didn’t he?”

“Yes, after I, his ‘mother’, pounced and subdued Kai, my ‘son’. Unlike you, whom he recognized as his father at first glance.”

“So?”

“Seeing that made me think differently.”

He still couldn’t grasp what Chloe was trying to say. The uneasiness kept growing.

“What kind of thought changed?”

“‘Kai didn’t recognize me, his mother, but immediately recognized his father, a fellow wolf beast-human. If my baby had been a tiger beast-human, he would have recognized me, his mother, right away?’ That thought came to me, and suddenly I felt a bit unfair. That the child I love most in the world doesn’t recognize me.”

The child you love most in the world? Then what about me? He felt terribly displeased.

Moreover, Chloe’s story seemed to be flowing in a somewhat strange direction. ‘If my baby had been a tiger beast-human’… why would such an assumption come up? Kai is a wolf beast-human, and a tiger beast-human child… Ah, could it be!

“So I think it would be good to have a tiger beast-human child too. Until now, I thought it would be nice to have only wolf beast-human children who take after you. So the conclusion is, now I want to have a child who takes after me too.”

So that’s what it was!

“You also wished for a tiger beast-human child that takes after me, didn’t you? I’ll do as you want.”

What did I wish for!

Hugrey’s composure began to shake uncontrollably.

This isn’t right! Having another child, who decided that? The stress he was receiving from that little one, who wakes up like a ghost whenever they try to be alone for even a moment and steals Chloe’s attention with its absolute cuteness from its fist-sized body, was already beyond the limit. And now she wants to have another one like that! Who are you trying to drive to death?

Moreover, why on earth doesn’t that kid sleep at night! Why does he wake up every three hours looking for his mother? And! And so what if he looks for her. He could be handed over to the wet nurse, but Chloe has stubbornly slept with the child by her side every night from right after giving birth until now when she’s fully recovered.

What, what on earth is he supposed to do, when will he be able to quench his thirst for Chloe! He waited with superhuman patience for that wolf cub with overwhelming competitiveness to grow up quickly, to sleep for longer stretches, to finally sleep alone in his own room. And finally yesterday, he succeeded in sending that fluffy fellow to his own room…

And what? She wants to have another one of those tiny things? Ah, damn it.

“No!”

Without the leisure to pretend to be calm and speak gently, not too blatantly, his true feelings burst out.

“Why not?”

Are you really asking because you don’t know? No, you know!

That woman, who couldn’t possibly have misunderstood and must know what he’s thinking, asked calmly.

He couldn’t honestly say, ‘I don’t like losing you to someone like Kai, if you have another one my heart will burn with jealousy.’ So he had to come up with another reason.

Another reason, that is…

“Morning sickness! The morning sickness was really hard.”

Morning sickness, that kind of thing. No, to say ‘that kind of thing’ is… it was tough in its own way. But considering the pain of the abstinence he had to endure throughout the pregnancy and for months after the birth, morning sickness seemed like it would be nothing even if he had to go through it ten more times.

“Ah…”

A shadow fell over Chloe’s face.

Wait a minute, just… something like morning sickness works? Then…

“Chloe, you don’t know. How painful morning sickness is. Yes, that’s too hard to go through twice.”

I’d go through it a hundred times. Please, just not another child.

“Hmm… I see. I hadn’t thought of that. That is really troublesome. What should we do.”

Chloe really seemed to be pondering, putting her hand on her lips and tapping them, then pressing her index finger firmly on her lower lip. It was Chloe’s habit when she was thinking about something.

White teeth showed between her lips. Cute. Even Chloe’s teeth are cute.

“Yes, having to go through morning sickness again, that seems impossible. I’ll give up my wish for a tiger beast-human child. Chloe, I wanted to see a cute tiger that looks like you, but I’ll give it up. Completely.”

What cute tiger. If we had to have a child, I hoped it would look like you, regardless of whether it’s a wolf or a tiger. If there’s more than one, it’s not a child but an unbeatable, fatal rival.

Small, soft, and impossibly weak, yet knocking him down in one blow with its fatal cuteness – a competitor.

Originally, if he was still the alpha, he thought it would be better to have one child to firmly secure Chloe’s position among the wolf beast-humans. After giving up the alpha position, a child became unnecessary, but he cooperated because Chloe wanted a child, and he wanted to give her whatever she wanted.

He thought it wasn’t bad since Chloe was happy. In fact, he was satisfied that the existence of something between them seemed to bind them closer together. But that much benefit was enough with one. Apart from the satisfaction of having a life form biologically shared with her, a child was just an existence that took Chloe away from him.

Time to receive Chloe’s gaze, time to hold her, time to monopolize her affection and attention. He lost it all. And now to make another child? He must be crazy.

“I guess it can’t be helped. Then I’ll have to hold Kai again while sleeping. After sending him to the wet nurse’s room last night, I felt really bad. I thought I’d have to keep putting him in the wet nurse’s room from now on to have a second child… This is better, actually.”

“…What?”

A hazy confusion like a sandstorm in the desert swept through Hugrey’s mind.

What did Chloe just say? Did I understand correctly? So if she can’t have a tiger beast-human child, she’ll sleep with Kai again?

“I can’t let my husband, whom I love most in the world, go through morning sickness again. Instead of having a second child, I’ll stay with Kai all day to make up for that regret.”

What, all day? Hugrey almost jumped up in the carriage.

“Until when? Until when are you going to sleep with Kai again?”

“Until I lose the desire for a second child?”

“Ugh…”

A groan rose from the pit of his stomach.

“Ah! On your day, Hugrey… I’ll still be able to spare about two hours like before. Don’t worry about that.”

Those two hours that barely resolved his desperate state on his heat day.

Except for last night when he could have her all to himself after sending Kai away, for the past year or so, he had barely managed to hold on with Chloe’s mercy, like being given a sip of water in the middle of the desert. And what? Don’t worry? She’ll do that again? And without any promise, until she loses the desire for a second child?