“Do you not like calling him by his name? No matter how…… Well, anyway, even if you say it doesn’t matter, it’s a bit much for a knight, the shield of the empire…”

“Then let’s call it a guard.”

After all, for a favorable negotiation, don’t you have to throw something unreasonable at the other person and then give them something slightly better than what they really want?

To achieve that, you need to throw something unreasonable at the other person, right?

Using the extreme term ‘scum,’ Cryer obtained the desired term ‘guard.’
And due to Cryer’s unexpected jealousy, Olivia’s mind remained confused. It seemed like she had forgotten the fact that she could simply call Keslan by his name, regardless of what Cryer said.

“Alright, then as a guard…”

Although it felt somewhat unclear, and it was vague to ask further, Olivia hesitantly followed his words, but she couldn’t erase her doubt.

However, with the words that immediately followed, the preceding conversation evaporated in an instant.

“And I’ve decided on the first question to ask him.”

“The first question to Greta? Is there a second one too?”

“Once the first one is resolved, the second and third will follow, right?”

Unable to endure it, Olivia stood up and approached him with determined steps, stumbling as she lifted her feet.

“That’s right. So, what’s the first question?”

“There’s no need to whisper like that. I’m not pushing you or anything.”

Cryer consciously had to hold his breath for a moment due to the breath mixed with the scent of roses that flowed through his slightly parted, thick, red lips.

Already, the desire that became increasingly difficult to suppress was like a rabbit, yet this princess had as much wariness as a rabbit.

Naturally, Olivia, who couldn’t read his thoughts, murmured again without hesitation.

“Why are you whispering? I just want to know quickly what the first question is.”

Exhaling a faint sigh, Cryer, instead of pushing away her round forehead, suddenly pushed his face even closer.

Involuntarily pulling her neck back as her center of gravity shifted backward, Olivia, whose weight shifted backward, twisted, and he chuckled while holding her waist.

After their breaths came so close that they brushed against each other’s noses, Olivia, belatedly realizing the distance between them, tried to push him away, shrinking her neck.

However, his hand, which was wrapped around her waist, did not move as usual, and Cryer whispered in her ear.

“If you want to whisper emotionally, you have to be this close to be heard.”

“No, I can hear you without doing that.”

“No, you won’t hear it.”

Purposefully suppressing his voice even more, Olivia, facing him, felt the rising heat from her ears and pushed his chest away, which was pressed tightly.

“Okay, okay, I won’t whisper if you don’t want me to!”

But it wasn’t him who was pushed away just because she pushed.

Retreating his body further back and turning his head away, Olivia, who was pushed back, felt the heat emanating from her ears that suddenly rose, and Cryer gazed at her with an even deeper look.

The blue veins on his white neck twitched, and his gaze became thicker.

Olivia, who was daydreaming for a moment, instinctively sensed danger and tried to shout, opening her mouth wide, but not even a breath came out between her parted lips.

Because the dry, slightly raised lips had settled on the thin neck where the pulsating veins were visible.
As Olivia’s pulsating heartbeat echoed through her lips, Cryer smiled, narrowing his eyes.

I wonder if she has any sense of caution or none at all.

What if I just leave my mark like this? A strong desire emerged.

Feeling the hot breath freezing down her throat, Olivia, who was frozen, shouted without knowing what she was saying.

“Don’t drink!”

And then, a dead silence settled, like a tomb.

Olivia, who was surprised by her own shout, rolled her eyes while looking at Cryer, and their gazes met.

Staring at Cryer’s intensely shaking blue eyes, Olivia, who was still frozen in the same posture, finally gathered herself and raised her teeth towards him, muttering something.

“What are you…”

At the moment Cryer was about to speak, Olivia grabbed his neck and bit down.

And everything stopped.

A more awkward and indescribable silence fell than before.

Olivia, who had regained her senses at an inconvenient moment, couldn’t believe what she had just done while looking at him with her own eyes.

Why? Why did you bite suddenly? What have you done? Huh? What have I done?

She asked herself a few seconds ago, but naturally, there was no returning answer.

The moment his dry lips touched her neck, it was clear that her mind had gone.

Her already complicated thoughts seemed to explode into pieces.

Even amidst her confusion, Olivia involuntarily relaxed her raised teeth, and due to that, her moist lips turned into a muddy kiss on his neck.

For a moment, his back stiffened, and Olivia, who sensed his reaction through her lips, also involuntarily stiffened.