Learning the Ways of the Night from the Wolf - Chapter 27 - A Sense of Transgression (1)

Tina pressed her lips to his with the desperation of someone who couldn’t breathe without the air he fed her. Her mind had gone completely hazy, blocking every attempt at coherent thought.

“Hah.”

A sigh escaped the man’s lips. He gripped the waist of Tina, who had climbed on top of him, steadying her pace. In her lost state, Tina had been instinctively grinding herself against him.

The sight of her rubbing herself, already soaked against his arousal, and the breathy little whimpers leaking between each movement, were intensely provocative.

“Mmnh.”

Naturally, Tina, flushed and burning, was not pleased by the hands that restrained her. His tongue had plunged deep into her mouth, licking, probing, and sucking at the places that made her dizzy with sensation. Yet below, he was blocking her from getting what she wanted.

She poured pleading moans into his mouth, begging, but the thick, broad hands that held her waist without a gap refused to give her what she wanted right away.

“Nn… hh… why—”

At last, she tore her slick lips from his and whimpered. What pressed against her below was already swollen thick, making no effort to hide how badly it wanted to surge inside her, filling every gap. He was clearly starving for her. Clearly wanting her as much as she wanted him, and yet…

“You… you made me like this… mmnh… you made me feel this way.”

Tina leaned deeper into the man’s chest, voicing her frustration between overwhelmed breaths. She resented him for not giving her what she wanted immediately. Why wouldn’t he do anything for her, when this unbearable need had risen so high?

“You’re the one who made me this way.”

Tina whimpered, thinking of the night before, or nights even further in the past. Tears welled up. She didn’t want to beg and cry like a child, but the unfairness kept mounting. She knew perfectly well that he was the only one who could make her feel this way, and the only one who could relieve it.

“Then… hh… you should give me what I want.”

Between panting moans, a scolding spilled from Tina’s lips.

“Hah.”

When Tina finally spilled tears against the man’s neck, he had no choice but to surrender. It hadn’t been long since he’d released, so he’d wanted to give her time to adjust, but in the end, he was nothing more than a beast by birth, incapable of ignoring a creature begging and clinging to him so desperately.

“Mmh!”

Without warning, the man ran his tongue in a long, slow stroke up the length of Tina’s neck. Her eyes fell shut on reflex. The sensation of something hot and wet against her skin, coupled with those red eyes that never broke contact with hers for even an instant. All of it was more than she could handle.

Her body twisted of its own accord. The heat that had already risen to the top of her head flared even hotter at every point where his tongue touched, becoming a fire that set her entire body ablaze.

“It will take time, but you’ll adapt eventually.”

Tina trembled from the e****c sensations engulfing her and lifted her heavy eyelids.

“Your… your eyes—”

Red irises, dense with nothing but desire, stared at her as though piercing straight through. That blazing intensity like a roaring flame, it was so overwhelming it blocked every path of escape.

“I’ll stay by your side until you’ve fully adapted.”

The man whispered near Tina’s ear. Each word, laced with a husky, wet timbre, sent a faithful shiver down her spine.

“That is simply what heat^[1] is.”

Tina’s mind was too fogged to properly grasp the meaning of his words.

“How? How are you going to help me adapt?”

Not even understanding what she was supposed to adapt to, Tina pressed him. Whatever it was, it didn’t matter.

All Tina truly wanted to know was what he was going to do to her, and the yearning was unbearable.

“Mmh!”

Then the man, who had been restricting her movement all this time, seized her slender waist and thrust her upward with force. Tina’s burning peak scraped violently against the intimidating shape straining against his trousers, and the desire that had built tight inside her threatened to overflow at any moment.

“My lady, if you want something, you need to say so properly.”

Yet compared to Tina’s urgency, the man still appeared unhurried. Faced with her raw, unfiltered reactions, he stopped moving entirely and instead breathed a teasing murmur laced with playful laughter into her ear.

“This. Give me this.”

Perhaps that was why Tina, for the first time in her life, found herself saying something so bold. She ran her clumsy hand along his length and met his gaze.

She didn’t even know the proper name for what her inexperienced fingers were fumbling over, but she was simply dissatisfied that she was the only one burning while he seemed so composed. Judging by how swollen he had become beneath her, she clearly wasn’t the only one aflame, which made it all the more unfair.

“Hah…”

“Mmh!”

Tina braced her hips and ground herself against him through her soaked undergarments, clumsily aligning herself with him. Slick, wet sounds clung between them, lewdly stimulating both their ears.

“Aah! Mmnh!”

The faster she ground, the more Tina, even as she moved of her own volition, couldn’t endure the sensation flooding her to the crown of her head, panting and occasionally losing her balance.

“How brazen—”

A breathless laugh escaped the man. The groans leaking through his teeth made it plain that he was losing his composure.

Translation Notes

1. The chapter title 배덕감 (背德感) literally means “a sense of immorality” or “the feeling of transgression.” It captures the complex emotional state Tina experiences throughout this arc, engaging in intimacy she knows to be transgressive while simultaneously surrendering to it. The term carries a specifically moral weight in Korean, implying the awareness of violating ethical norms rather than mere guilt.

^[2] ↩

Cain uses 발정 (heat), the term for an animal’s estrus cycle. In this context, it refers to a supernatural state induced through the imprint between Tina and Cain. It is a biological compulsion that overwhelms rational thought. The word carries bestial connotations that Tina, at this point, does not fully understand.