Chapter 153
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Ivan had helped her through her own heat, so it seemed he too had come to ask her for help. But Ruby couldn’t readily say she’d help him through his heat.
The way he looked down at her so greedily felt unfamiliar. From this man who wasn’t smiling, she felt a fear whose cause she couldn’t name.
Ivan, who ran a strange touch down her upper back, watching Ruby, whispered in a low, cracked voice steeped in lust:
“Mate with me, Ruby.”
Then he gave a sly, smiling look with his eyes. As if he were someone who had waited only for this moment, satisfied.
A terrifying stillness settled between them. The two of them, taking the snow that fell thick and soundless, gazed at each other as though only the two of them were left in the world.
With trembling eyes, Ruby tried to show her refusal. There was still so much she hadn’t been able to ask.
She had a feeling that if she grew any more confused than this, she wouldn’t be able to stop her own heart.
The moment she went to part her lips, Ivan lowered his head and pressed the tip of his nose to the nape of her neck. With a sniff, at his blatant act of breathing in her pheromones, her heart pounded madly.
Embarrassment aside, her instinct seemed to be screaming at her to run. That this man, tender toward her, was a carnivorous beastfolk, different from her.
That if she stayed in his arms like this, she’d be chewed up and swallowed whole, from head to toe.
Even hearing such a warning in her heart, Ruby couldn’t bring herself to voice a refusal in the end. Because a moment ago, he’d bitten the nape of her neck, the very spot tied to her life.
The instant his sharp fangs touched her skin, all her strength gave way.
To let everyone know Ruby was his, Ivan bit at the nape of her neck. Snowflakes fell onto the pure-white nape and melted away in an instant.
Only after licking long over it with his tongue and leaving red marks several more times did he raise himself up and murmur:
“A wolf never lets go of what it has once bitten.”
It meant that whatever thoughts had filled that little head of hers, she should give them up quickly. He could no longer hold on to his senses. The reason that had been slipping away bit by bit was now nowhere to be found.
“Ahh!”
Affected by the male pheromones he was deliberately letting loose, Ruby twisted in his arms and let out a moan.
By force, her turn had come. Because, as if answering the male’s pheromones, her body began to boil.
Louis, who had been quietly watching the two of them, suddenly found fragments of memory hidden deep in his mind surfacing one by one. Blinking slowly, Louis stared fixedly at Ivan.
‘It’s already too late, Ruby.’
Those eyes were eyes he knew well. The look of a male who had lost his mind over his mate. Once he’d decided to take everything of his female’s, no obstacle would be able to stop him.
‘As my descendant, that’s just as it should be.’
The moment Louis, who had murmured in a rather mischievous voice unlike his usual self, vanished, Ivan set off.
Soothing Ruby as if coaxing a child and shifting his hold on her, the place he headed for was not the main house but the annex.
The annex, closer to the back mountain, was where he stayed whenever his heat came.
He walked quickly toward the annex, set far enough away that even if he released all his pheromones, it wouldn’t affect those in the ducal house.
Creeeak. No matter how steadily it was oiled, the annex always gave off a gloomy sound.
The moment they entered the annex, Ruby let out a suppressed moan. She was already soaked below. Beyond merely damp, it tingled so intensely she thought she’d go mad.
Ah, please, if only he would touch it.
Ruby instinctively wrapped her arms around the neck of Ivan, the one who would satisfy her need, and clung to him. Her panting breaths landed right against his ear.
“Ha.”
At her tingling moans, deep satisfaction welled up in him.
One step forward.
To take that last remaining step, he went into the bedroom. He locked the door and drew all the curtains over the windows. For his female, who loved a dark burrow.
With a thump, Ivan set her down on the bed and began stripping off his clothes without hesitation.
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