ELLA.
I woke up and for a brief mont, I simply stared at the ceiling in surprise. I had no nightmare.
The realization alone felt strange.
I hadn’t slept that peacefully since leaving the Bloodfang territory. No sudden fear gripping my chest. No mories dragging awake in panic. No suffocating darkness lingering over the mont I opened my eyes.
Just peace—quiet and unfamiliar peace.
But the surprise slowly faded the mont I turned slightly and saw who was lying beside .
Lurgard.
He was holding onto tightly even in his sleep, one arm wrapped securely around my waist as though letting go of was impossible. A wide smile rested shalessly on his sleeping face, making him look far too satisfied for soone who clearly wasn’t supposed to be here.
I panicked instantly.
What the hell?
How did Lurgard enter my room?
Hadn’t I collected the spare key already?
My brows furrowed deeply as I quickly raised a hand to my head, my head already threatening to ache from the confusion.
"How many spare keys do they even have?" I muttered under my breath in disbelief.
Honestly, these people were beginning to terrify .
I was still trying to figure it out when Lurgard suddenly opened his eyes.
And instead of acting guilty for sneaking into my room...he started spouting nonsense imdiately.
Complete nonsense.
The kind that made my face flush red almost instantly.
I glared at him and raised my hand to hit him before he could continue talking.
But before I could even react properly, he suddenly kissed .
My entire body tensed imdiately.
For a brief second, I completely froze beneath him, caught off guard by the sudden warmth of his lips against mine.
But then slowly...my resistance weakened, and before I realized it, I was kissing him back too.
The mont stretched quietly around us, and then suddenly...mories flooded my mind without warning.
Alex.
Back then, I used to wake up early every morning just to prepare his outfit for the day before he even opened his eyes.
I rembered standing there once, simply staring at him while he slept, completely srized by him like he was so kind of fairy.
The mont he woke up and caught staring, I had leaned forward to kiss him instinctively.
But instead of kissing back, he pushed away and told to brush my teeth first.
The mory hit harder than I expected.
And ever since that day, brushing my teeth beca the very first thing I did every morning before even speaking to him.
But sohow...even then, Alex still never allowed close enough in the mornings.
The more the mories resurfaced, the tighter sothing twisted painfully inside my chest.
Tears slowly slipped down my cheeks before I could stop them.
And strangely....the more I rembered...the more desperately I kissed Lurgard back, almost like I was trying to prove sothing to myself.
"Theresa, let’s get married quickly..." Lurgard murmured between the kisses, his voice low and rough as his chest rose and fell heavily against mine. "...and have babies."
At first, his words didn’t properly register in my mind.
Everything still felt hazy from the kiss, from the warmth surrounding , from the way he kept looking at like I was the only thing in the world that mattered.
But then...the aning of his words finally settled and instantly, my heart started pounding so loudly I was certain he could hear it.
My eyes widened slightly in shock.
What?
I pushed him away quickly, my breathing uneven as reality ca crashing back into my head all at once.
How on earth did we even end up kissing?
One second I had been annoyed with him for sneaking into my room, and the next...
This.
"Theresa, you can’t start a fire and refuse to quench it," Lurgard said.
His voice was lower now, rougher than before, as if every word was being pulled out of him with restraint. The erald in his eyes had deepened into sothing darker, sharper, intense enough to make my breath hitch slightly without warning.
The playful expression he had worn earlier was gone completely. In its place stood sothing far more unsettling.
He looked like a predator now—one that had already locked onto its prey and had no intention of letting go.
I swallowed hard imdiately, my throat suddenly dry.
Sothing about the way he was looking at made it difficult to think clearly.
"Lurgard... co back to your senses," I said quickly, my voice tighter than I intended as I tried to put space between us.
Instinctively, I raised my leg to push him away, hoping to create even the smallest distance.
But he didn’t move back, instead, his hand caught my leg gently mid-air, carefully and controlled.
And before I could react, he guided it slowly until it rested against his chest.
The sudden contact made my entire body stiffen.
Then he lowered his head and pressed a kiss against my leg.
My face burned instantly, heat rushing straight to my cheeks as my heart began racing uncontrollably.
"I am sane, Theresa..." he murmured softly, his voice softening again, but there was still that strange tension underneath it.
He paused briefly, eyes dropping downward for a second as if acknowledging sothing I couldn’t see.
"But down here, it’s not."
My breath caught sharply.
Every nerve in my body seed to go still.
"What do we do about it?" he asked again, this ti almost innocently, as though the situation he had created was sothing completely simple to solve.
My face reddened even more, a mixture of embarrassnt and irritation crashing into all at once.
"Lurgard!" I snapped, imdiately pulling my leg away from his chest before scrambling out of the bed entirely.
I moved quickly toward the door, desperate to put distance between us before he said anything more ridiculous.
"Lurgard—"
I barely even finished speaking before he suddenly appeared right in front of .
My eyes widened imdiately.
That was fast.
"Shhhhh," he whispered softly, placing his hand gently over my mouth before I could continue talking.
My heartbeat imdiately sped up again.
And just before he could say anything else...
A loud knock suddenly echoed through the room.
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