Seducing the Tyrant Instead of My Favorite (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 174

“Nikolai. No matter what happens, please promise me you’ll return to my side.”

The fear I’d been tightly suppressing clung to my voice.

As if to comfort me, he slowly stroked my back with his fingertips.

Sarang sarang. A soft, secret rustle tickled my ears.

“Where do you think I’m going?”

“Still, please promise me.”

“I don’t understand—after making me unable to live without you, why ask for such a promise?”

“Just stay by my side, strong and healthy as you are now. Please do that for me.”

I wanted to act as if nothing were wrong.

But the hand clutching him trembled faintly.

“What frightens you so?”

Nikolai’s teal eyes brimmed with tenderness and concern.

I wavered between not wanting to worry him and wanting to cling to him and whine as much as I pleased.

‘Even if he doesn’t show it, Nikolai must be deeply worried too. He has no choice—so many lives depend on this…’

He barely slept at all unless he was with me.

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