Blair bit her lips to stifle the involuntary moan.

In reality, being embraced by him wasn’t the desired sensation at the moment. Perhaps he might be the one who had killed her.

However, resisting him was difficult with the letter on the table bothering her. If she didn’t surrender her body, he seemed likely to regain interest in the letter.

Blair entrusted her body to Herdin’s hands and stared blankly at the sunset streaming through the balcony.

At that moment, Herdin turned Blair around, making them face each other. He immediately kissed her and asked,

“What are you thinking?”

The deeply mysterious eyes approaching her closely seemed to scrutinize her thoughts.

Blair, who hesitated for a moment, opened her mouth.

“It’s about Caligo Kyeong.”

As Caligo’s name came out of her mouth, Herdin’s gaze turned chilly.

It was unpleasant for a different man’s name to come out of the lips he had just kissed, especially at this moment.

But Blair, seemingly unaware of his reaction, asked,

“Is he one of the subordinates you trust?”

“He’s a fellow who shared the boundary of life and death with me.”

Herdin replied dryly and swallowed her lips again. Perhaps realizing that she didn’t want to talk more about it, Blair quietly surrendered her body, even though she obtained what she desired. Yet, her compliance displeased him. It felt as if he was feeding a crying baby without any enthusiasm, simply out of duty.
However, as she was a damn beast’s cub, the problem was that she didn’t feel the heart to refuse it.

Herdin carried Blair’s pure white body and headed towards the bed.

In the wake of their passage, Blair’s clothes fell off one by one.

Having laid Blair on the bed, Herdin immediately embraced her. Unlike usual, there was no room for patience today.

“Ah…”

Blair, still in a somewhat tense state, was somewhat stiff.

Her thin arms wrapped around Herdin’s back. Despite his labored breathing, Blair responded awkwardly to him.

Her gestures and pupils, containing only him, were beautiful.

Herdin overlapped his lips with hers, mixing their breaths as if he would share his breath with her.

In the end, it turned into a scene where he took away her breath instead.

Gradually, the room was filled with the evening glow and the breaths of the two. The silent scenery was interrupted by the cuckoo clock.

Cuckoo, cuckoo…

The cuckoo clock chimed, announcing 5 PM.

Blair, who had been nestled against him in a drowsy state, suddenly regained her senses and pushed away from his chest.

However, Herdin didn’t stop. There was no reason to stop.

Blair stuttered desperately.

“It’s time for the… the medicine.”

“…Medicine? Ah.”

Blair took contraceptive pills at this time every day.
Having struggled with him until dawn and often waking up in a daze until morning, she tended to forget in the morning, and during the day, she had her own tasks, keeping her busy.

At night, once she initiated a relationship with him, there was never a time when she was in her right mind until dawn, making nighttime challenging as well.

Therefore, she had decided to take the medicine during this ambiguous time.

“If I don’t take it now, I might forget….”

Blair reached out to the bedside table. On the table was the pill bottle she had taken out.

Herdin’s gaze at it turned cold. He didn’t like the desperate gesture to somehow grab the pill bottle.

Was this woman’s mind only focused on safely completing this contractual marriage? Did she not consider any other possibilities?

Now, while engaging in this act with me, does she really have the luxury to think about such things?

After driving her so crazy like this.

The fact that there was any room in this woman’s mind for thoughts other than me irritated him tremendously.

“Do you have the luxury to be lost in thought?”

The moment Blair’s hand touched the pill bottle, Herdin’s body moved.

“Ah!”

With that impact, Blair’s body shook, and the pill bottle fell to the floor.

Herdin forcibly redirected Blair’s gaze from the table and whispered.

“You don’t have to take it for a day or so.”

“No, I can’t.”

Blair’s face turned pale. Looking at that face, a surge of pity and irritation washed over him.
He sealed Blair’s lips with his own, making it impossible for her to resist any longer. There wasn’t a timing to stop in the first place.

Blair swallowed the urge to resist against him. But Herdin wasn’t the type to let that go without reacting.

He growled with a rough voice, as if scraping his throat.

“Make a sound.”

As his actions became more relentless, Blair couldn’t hold back and let out a breath. It was a fight with no chance of winning from the start.

Herdin pulled Blair even closer and deeper into his embrace.

The woman was warm and soft. Holding her emitted a fragrance, and when he bit into her, there was a sweet taste. In the swamp-like embrace that felt inescapable, everything became distant.

However, along with that satisfaction, there was an anxiety that she might disappear even though he was holding her. Like grasping sand in his hands.