Leaning against the closed door, the two figures finally began to intertwine.

Their body heat escalated rapidly, and their heartbeats thundered fiercely.

Sedric felt as if he was already addicted to this unfamiliar sensation.

After being utterly absorbed for a while, he finally parted his lips from hers and gazed at Rebecca in his embrace.

Her cheeks were now flushed a deep red.

Confronted with her appearance, a fresh wave of heat surged in Sedric’s chest.

He grew more impatient, almost letting slip some crude expletives without realizing it.

But he didn’t want to delay any longer.

Before this moment, they had come such a long way.

Sedric swiftly lifted Rebecca in his arms and headed towards the bed.

From the door to the bed, every movement between them was perfectly aligned.

It was as if this wasn’t their first time; everything felt natural.

Perhaps that’s why there was not even a slight gap for Sedric’s rationality to intervene between them.

And the moment they reached the bed…

Sedric, looking down at Rebecca, realized for the first time how fast his heart could beat.

Just as he was about to embrace her again…

“Haah, Sedric… aren’t you going to put me down?”

Rebecca slowly sat up and asked.

Her captivating eyes still carried a hint of moisture.

Sedric, catching his breath, looked at her.

“……Huh?”

Just now, or rather, for the first time in his life, he had climbed into her bed, and now this?

Confused, Sedric looked at her with a clearly bewildered expression.

But she just blinked her red eyes and asked again.

“Aren’t you going to put me down?”

The sweet dream gave way to reality seeping in.

Sedric unknowingly opened his eyes.

Immediately, he saw Rebecca’s beautiful forehead.

Soon, it furrowed, and Rebecca, holding onto his shoulder, began shaking him earnestly.

“Sedric, wake up, please!”

A completely different situation and atmosphere from moments ago.

Sedric looked at her, bewildered.

Only after surveying his surroundings did he realize he was still inside the carriage.

‘I was just in Rebecca’s bedroom, why am I suddenly…?’

Sedric blinked his sleep-heavy eyes.

‘Could it be…’

A sigh of resignation escaped his lips.

Despite being past his teenage years, he dreamt such a dream at this age.

A sense of self-loathing seeped deep into his soul.

As he buried his face in his hands and bowed his head…

“Sedric, were you very tired? You wouldn’t wake up no matter how much I tried. How could you sleep so deeply in the carriage?”

Rebecca’s tone was teasing, but she seemed genuinely concerned as she gently took his hand.

“Do you have a headache? Did you drink too much champagne? Let me see.”

Sedric strained to maintain his composure.

“……It’s not that.”

An innocent woman, unaware of his situation.

She didn’t know how dangerously tempting her soft, worried voice sounded to him.

Sedric managed to regain a poker face and looked up again.

He quickly covered his lower body with a coat lying beside him.

“What…… just now?”

Rebecca asked, looking puzzled.

But Sedric, leaning against the window frame with a forced casualness, just coughed a few times.

“Go ahead. I’m too tired to escort you today.”

“It’s okay if you can’t escort me, but…”

Rebecca leaned in closer to him, stopping mid-sentence.

“Are you sure you’re not feeling unwell?”

Sedric involuntarily held his breath at the unexpectedly close proximity to Rebecca.
In his view, Rebecca’s lips kept puckering and then flattening out teasingly.

“That’s not what I meant…”

Sedric stiffened his face and turned his head away.

Rebecca then glanced at him sulkily and straightened her bent back.

“Are you really going to stay here?”

Sedric barely held back a sigh and replied.

“……It seems better that way.”

Rebecca, who had been puzzled all this time, eventually got out of the carriage.

She turned her head towards Sedric, who was still inside.

“Then I’m really leaving. I had fun today, Sedric.”

After bidding farewell, Rebecca walked towards the dark mansion.

Sedric watched her back, which never looked back, helplessly.

Only after she entered the mansion’s main gate did he finally let out the breath he had been holding.

“Ha…….”

That sound brought back a scene from his dream.

Following that, scenes passed by like a panorama.

Sedric closed his eyes tightly and shook his head.

‘I must be going mad, Sedric Twins.’

It was true that his feelings for Rebecca had changed recently.

The negative thoughts that used to arise whenever he saw her were long gone, and sometimes he felt glad to encounter her.

He thought this change was just because they had redefined their relationship as friends after the divorce.

He had believed that they were finally maintaining a decent relationship, but…

‘To dream such a dream about Rebecca…’

Even during his celibate married life, this had never happened.

With that thought, a profound confusion descended on him like dark clouds.

Rubbing his temples, he muttered quietly.

“Could it be because of that?”

The kiss he shared with Rebecca at the banquet.