Chapter 62 – Are You Avoiding Me?

His gaze moved to Ashia’s lips when she called him. Her face felt hot, too. It was probably because of his red eyes. It must have been because his red eyes had so much warmth.

Kaligo slipped his hands behind Ashia’s head and wrapped them around her. Goosebumps crawled on the nape of her neck at his gentle touch.

Ashia turned her head to avoid this hot and tickling situation, but Kaligo lowered his face and placed his lips on Ashia’s.

Objectively, it wasn’t really a long kiss, but in Ashia’s standards, it was. People say that it was difficult for the first time, but Kaligo hadn’t done anything since their first kiss. He must have felt disappointed at himself somehow, seeing how his kiss now seemed to have a sweet fruit mixed with it.

Ashia’s widened eyes also slowly subsided. The man waiting for her permission bit and licked Ashia’s lips. When she reacted, the hot flesh slowly entered through the gap. It felt the same as their first kiss, but it was also different. Unlike that day when it felt like he was rushing into it, he slowly approached her with caution. Slowly scanning every nook and cranny, he dug deep.

“Mmm.” Her body had steadily warmed up at his gentle movements.

Kaligo slowly lowered down his body and touched hers. It was burning.

The air around them was thick. Only the sound of their tongues coiled with each other filled the bedroom.

“Haa…”

He pressed his lips on her cheeks several times. He kissed her lips again, then licked her cheeks and lips again. He bit her neckline where her pulse was, leaving a trace, like a child intent on leaving his footprints on the white snow.

“Ah!”

Ashia’s clothes were also loosened without much resistance by Kaligo’s natural touch. Ashia didn’t stop him. Rather, she wanted Kaligo to think that it was too late to stop.

A large hand slipped under her dress and brushed up to her thigh. She let out a gasp and twisted her waist as his rough palm touched her skin. Kaligo’s breath grew rougher in response.

His gaze, breathing, and every single movement were slowly filled with nervousness. That urgency was probably a perfectly normal reaction to excitement. Kaligo’s hand diligently caressed her whole leg, and gently wrapped around her when he reached the apex of her thighs.

Ashia writhed again, a faint exclamation escaping between her parted red lips.

Kaligo straightened after sucking and releasing her delicate skin. His bright red eyes were drawn to the place where even the moonlight wasn’t allowed. He threw off the gown she was wearing and pulled her under him, stroking her white thighs that were on either side of him. Their skin stuck to each other.

He was such a big man. So much that it was easier to find a part of him that wasn’t [that big]. Even when he was removing his clothes one by one, his defined, large muscles were unnecessarily dynamic with each other.

‘Gulp, should I call this swallowing dry saliva, or mouthwatering?’

Ashia swallowed and couldn’t take her eyes off him. She could guess what the hot thing pressing down on her was. That lust that had pushed her undergarments away, moving slowly and adding heat. She didn’t hate the feeling.

Tears welled up in Ashia’s reddened eyes.

“Ka… ligo.”

When Ashia called out to him in a faint voice, the strong desire in his eyes turned into bewilderment in an instant.

“Ah…”

Kaligo staggered away from Ashia.

“Kaligo?”

“…Ashia?”

It was the first time she had seen him so flustered. Ashia raised her body. Her body was sluggish as she suffered quite a bit.

“What’s wrong, huh? Kaligo?”

Staring at her, Kaligo cautiously reached out and cupped Ashia’s cheek. When he realized that the touch and warmth were real, he stepped back again.

“It wasn’t a dre…”

“Dream?”

“Haa…” He buried his face in his hands and couldn’t lift it for a while.

Maybe it was more accurate to say that he was unable to straighten his back.

After spending some time alone to think, he picked up the gown he had thrown on the floor. Quickly adjusting his own clothes, he wrapped the blanket over Ashia’s body.

“Ashia.”

“What do you mean… a dream?”

She still looked like she didn’t know what to say. Kaligo seemed rather perplexed. Even if he was embarrassed, Ashia should be even more so. The man who had been radiating lust and whole-heartedly working to eat her up until just now, ran away in an instant. That same person who loosened her clothes and turned her body inside out.

‘Shouldn’t I be angry in this situation?’

Ashia waited for him with a firmly upset expression on her face, then turned to him. “Are you going to explain what’s going on right now?”

“…”

Now that she thought about it, something was strange. The man who came to her shop every day and tried to hold her hand once in a while didn’t even lay a finger on her when she arrived at the Grand Duke’s mansion. It wasn’t just that. There were also no situations when he looked her in the eye.

“Answer me. Are you…”

“…”

“Are you avoiding me?”

His straight eyebrows slightly twitched.

(T/N: Pardon me if the scene was kind a… messy [sweat smile]? I’m not really good with those kinds of scenes, so yeah… haha… But I hope you enjoyed, even though, for the second time, Kaligo didn’t go alllll the wayyyyyy~ maybe in the future hahaha [more blood, sweat and tears to shed])