“It’s late, so let’s go to bed.”

Cedric’s voice broke the momentary silence filled with a strange atmosphere.

“Yes, that’s right.”

Lamein quickly turned her head and closed her eyes.

And she exhaled slowly.

‘What was that just before …’

A strange emotion rushed in at Cedric’s confessionlike words.

…It makes me feel good.

Words that linger too long to end with a simple linguistic interpretation.

A mysterious atmosphere between a man and woman who faced each other close to the bed.

The moment’s mood does not easily fade, and she closes her eyes more tightly then.

“Lamein.”

With a soft voice once again, she slowly opened her eyes.

“…”

As she turned her head, he was looking at her with a gaze that seemed never to have left, standing upright.

A stronger lavender scent than before wafted from the man who had gotten closer.

“Do you often have nightmares?”

“Nightmares?”

“Yes.”

Lamein blinked slowly.

“Why is that?”

“Last time, when you were sleeping on my bed, you were struggling alone with a nightmare.”

“Oh…….”

She thought there was no need to lie.

“Yes, I have been having nightmares frequently lately.”

The man who had been watching her closely extended his arm gently over the bed.

And then.

Tap, tap.

With a languid smile, he lightly tapped her arm with his palm.

“Shall I lend it to you?”

Her eyelids with thick eyelashes gently rolled up.

“If you need it, I can lend it to you anytime.”

A more vivid smile spread across her husband’s lips.

…What did this man eat wrong today?

‘He’s not going to choke me with that arm while I’m sleeping, is he?’

Her husband’s behavior is hard to interpret today.

“I’ll just gratefully accept your thoughts.”

She feels like she shouldn’t say more unnecessarily.

“Understood.”

The worry that he might be embarrassed by the belated refusal came up a little, but.

“Goodnight.”

Cedric coolly lowered his extended arm and lay down properly.

Lamein also turned her head and buried the back of her head deeply in the soft pillow.

And she glanced at her husband.

The face of the man with closed eyes was more serene than ever.

‘Come on, let’s stop the unnecessary thoughts.’

She pulled her eyes away and closed them tightly.

Perhaps due to meeting Sion and spending a lot of energy, sleep was creeping in.

She fell asleep soundly after hearing her husband’s quiet breath a few times.

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.

.

“Hmm…….”

Cedric exhaled a groan with his eyes closed.

His chest was heavy, and his body was heavy.

‘Why is my body …….’

He tried to twist his body a little, but his body didn’t move as he wanted.

‘Is it a dream? A nightmare?’

For a moment, he thought he was having a nightmare like Lamein.

As his cloudy mind cleared up little by little, he realized that something was pressing down on his body in reality.

He slowly pushed up his heavy eyelids.

Morning had already dawned.

The sunlight from outside the window pricked his eyes, and he closed them momentarily before opening them.

And slowly lifted his head to look at his chest.

“……!”

Cedric froze as if time had stopped, and then shortly after.

“Damn…….”

He burst into a brief laugh.

His wife, who had refused his offer of his arm, was lying on top of him, asleep.

Cedric, who had suppressed a laugh for a moment, wore a serious expression.

“Anyway, this is a bit dangerous.”

The moment he realized that she had come up on top of him, something inside him began to squirm.

“Hmm…….”

At that moment, she began to rub her cheek against the center of his chest.

“……!”

And that was over the bare skin exposed between his open pajamas.

The soft and plump sensation swept across his chest.

‘Dangerous!’

A red alert went off.

“Lamein.”

He quickly called his wife.

“Hmm…….”

She squirmed and buried her face straight into his chest.

And she began to rub her face over his chest.

“……!”

As their thick lips met and rubbed together, every nerve in his body tightened.

…Damn. Should I not call her?

He took a deep breath at another crisis.

“Lamein.”

He shook the shoulder of the woman, who had lain her cheek on his chest again.

“Lamein, please wake up.”

With a little more force, he shook her shoulder.

“……Yes?! Yes?!”
She suddenly raised her head, her eyes looking as though they were opened or closed, and frantically shook her head from side to side.

“Lamein. I would appreciate it if you could get off now.”

“Ah… Uh…”

The face that had stopped moving slowly turned forward.

Slowly blinking her eyes with a sleepy expression, she looked at herself straight, and then.

“Kyaaak!”

She jumped, showing the expected reaction on top of her own body.

“If you’re going to be surprised, can’t you get off me and be surprised?”

He said with the most polite voice he could muster.

“Ce, Cedric! Why am I…… Why am I……”

She, who quickly got off him, spat out her words in a flustered voice.

Sitting on the bed, she quickly blinked her eyes, running her hand through her disheveled blonde hair, as if trying to gather her wits.