The Cat Who Weeps in the Dark - Chapter 16

“Wait, Your Highness! Not a doctor!”

“Why?”

“Th-that is…”

Katie’s head spun. So this was why quick wit was an essential quality for a spy. All the excuses that had come so easily during her training in the kingdom now deserted her.

As the silence stretched, Helion’s eyes narrowed. Katie bit her lip in anxiety. Helion’s gaze dropped from her eyes to her lips.

Katie swallowed a groan. His stare was so intense it felt like physical contact. Her lips, where his gaze had landed, tingled, then suddenly pulsed with a jolt. It was the same sensation as when he had stroked her ear earlier.

It’s just because I bit my lip. Katie desperately tried to convince herself. No matter how much she was in heat, she refused to admit she was getting aroused by the look in her country’s enemy’s eyes.

Right. An enemy.

Thinking this, her feverish mind calmed slightly. Katie managed to spit out the excuse she’d finally come up with.

“Actually, those knights earlier… they drugged me.”

“Indeed. They deserve to die.”

“My body has been strange ever since. But I don’t want to show such a shameful state to anyone else.”

In any case, now that they’d been dragged away by the Imperial Guard, Arnin’s group’s knightly careers were effectively over.

S****l offenses were among the most severely punished crimes in the Empire. Moreover, this was the sacred Imperial Palace. For a knight who valued chivalry above all else to commit such an act in a place where conduct should be most exemplary, he would, in all likelihood, lose his life.

So, piling a bit more blame on them would be fine. It felt a little unsettling, like repaying the torment she’d endured in this way, but if she thought about it, they were going to die anyway, weren’t they?

“So, please just send me back.”

“If you go back, do you intend to handle it alone? If we don’t know what kind of d**g it is, you won’t be able to get an antidote without seeing a doctor.”

“Alone. The word ‘alone’ came up again.” Katie recalled what Wayne had told her before.

“Try to handle it on your own if you can.”

No matter how sexually naive Katie was, she wasn’t so foolish as to know nothing about heat or intercourse. At twenty years old, she was a full-grown adult.

When in heat, two people should join their bodies and e*******e. But for this basic theory, there absolutely had to be two individuals.

“You… you mean I should endure it alone?” Katie glanced at Helion with an uncertain expression. Helion let out a short, hollow laugh at her innocent reaction.

“It’s an aphrodisiac precisely because it makes you unable to endure it.”

“…Right. I understand perfectly. Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it myself.” Katie’s voice was firm. Yet, her expression remained utterly bewildered; anyone could see she had no idea what to do.

Helion gazed at Katie’s sweat-soaked body. Through her torn and disheveled uniform, her undershirt clung tightly to her skin.

Tap, tap. Helion’s fingers drummed rhythmically on the bedsheet where he sat. Even with that small vibration, Katie’s body, lying on the bed, twitched.

She was so sensitive like this how much would she love it if he touched her?

Just imagining her face, convulsing with pleasure at every touch from her highly aroused body, made his already throbbing, stiff c**k twitch violently.

It was thrashing about, trapped uncomfortably in his pants, to the point where even Helion himself felt sorry for it.

She’s the one who took the d**g, but it feels like I did.

Helion grabbed the woman’s face, the one who had made him aroused for the second time now.

A face resembling his savior. Yes, with this face, he felt he could serve her with pleasure.

“You don’t want a doctor, and you don’t know how to handle it alone. What shall we do?”

“Just send me back to the dorm… Ugh. I’m sorry, but touching my cheek like that right now is a bit difficult.”

“If just touching your face does this to you, what’s going to happen in a little while?”

“A little while, Your Highness?” Katie’s voice trembled with apprehension. Her eyes, which had been cast down to look at the hand gripping her cheek, now shot upwards, revealing those problematic gray irises.

Perhaps due to the intense arousal, her already moist eyes were now slick and wet. They were eyes that made him wonder if her secret, intimate flesh below was just as drenched.

“Don’t rush me, Kitty. I’m trying to hold back right now.”

“So, what exactly are you…?”

Helion exhaled a languid breath between his teeth. But unlike the seemingly relaxed demeanor above his waist, the situation below was far from calm.

He could feel pre-c*m oozing from his angrily twitching c**k. It was a good thing his pants were black, or he might have scared the poor cat even more.