HTMSAE - Chapter 105 < Shaking, dare? >




Ines looked at him as Carson gently called her name. At that moment, a hot hand gently grabbed Ines’ chin. It was a quick hand movement that she didn’t know when it had come.

“If there is?”

“Yes?”

As if he didn’t expect an answer, his hot hand pressed Ines’ lips hard and swept them down forcefully. Her pupils lost their place and shook at his actions. She closed her eyes tightly and exhaled deeply. Had he ever touched Ines like this? 

He was smiling, but his golden eyes sparkled coldly like gold.

“If there was such a tree in the world, what would you do then...?”

Ines’ face turned red with embarrassment, not expecting the story to go in this direction. Looking at her foolish face, Carson took a deep breath as if he was frustrated. The sight of his collarbone moving up and down, filled with breath, sharply stole Ines’s gaze.

“When I find it, then let me do whatever I want.”

“Anything you want?”

“Yes, anything.”

Ines nodded as if she was possessed by something, her promise from earlier being meaningless.

Then he smiled brightly. Ines’ eyes suddenly felt dazzled as if she had been suddenly struck by the morning sunlight. The moment her eyes closed by themselves, his lips that had come near her swallowed her lips.

Her whole body stiffened as if she had been stabbed in the crown of her head with a sharp knife, and her mind became dizzy. She didn’t realize what had happened even as his hot lips moved and squished here and there.

She couldn’t even breathe.

Carson’s soft laughter came through her lips that were pressed together. His slow but impatient, shallow but deep breathing soon turned into a hot kiss.

Her head tilted back and her breath came and went. Her head became tangled and shapeless. It wouldn’t have been strange if she had lost her breath like that.

The hot kiss, which seemed to be the first of its kind in her life, seemed to burn her soul.

Her heart, which had been firmly built up, saying that she should not put him in trouble anymore, collapsed so easily with a thud.

As a large hand wrapped around Ines’s back, a hot and solid feeling was clearly transmitted through the thin cloth. She unconsciously put her arms around his neck and hung on. Ines, who was now facing him, could not even think of avoiding the man who was bumping into her without any gap.

“Shaking? How dare you?”

He whispered to Ines without taking his lips off hers.

Was it her imagination if it sounded painful even though it was a very soothing word? Without even thinking, he immediately tilted his face and bit her lips more deeply.

His breath, which had been lightly touching and then gently digging into her, became rough in an instant.

“Am I really your God?”

Her body pushed back on its own. Carson hugged Ines tighter as if he would not allow her to escape.

As if her arms, which had been tied all day, had been released from the deepening kiss, Ines flung her arms in the air and struggled. The man who was rushing toward her didn’t hesitate a bit.

“If I’m really your God, you have to listen to me.”

“...”

“No other man.”

Carson shook his head, trying to step back for a moment to see her expression, but her hand immediately stopped him. His words, which sounded like an order, flowed sternly through his parted lips.

“I told you not to test my patience.”

Ines gasped at the sight of their eyes finally meeting.

There were so many emotions entangled in his face that she couldn’t read a single thing properly. As she moved her body to escape the sensation that resembled fear, he hugged her closer. The heat radiating from his body painfully pressed against Ines’ skin.

He watched her exhale in short, deep breaths without saying anything, and once again, he took Ines’ breath away.

“Hmph.”

The sounds of her breathing disappeared into his mouth without a trace. As the kiss deepened, Ines’s upper body leaned back.

It was a series of incomprehensible moments where everything seemed to have been taken away, yet filled without a single gap.

After a while, a tense silence like a truce flowed between the two. Ines looked at the beautiful man’s face and felt endlessly wronged.

Didn’t he know that it was he who was testing her patience right now? If he knew that it was she who desperately wanted to touch him every day, he wouldn’t be able to look at Ines with such an indifferent expression.

Ines reached out and brushed away Carson’s flowing hair.

He flinched, furrowing his brow as if in pain. Her trembling hands hesitated for a moment, but his forehead was so soft that she couldn’t stop touching it.

It was so sweet that she almost cried.

As Ines moved her lips, Carson buried his lips in Ines’ nape. He slowly traced her lips and cupped her earlobe.

“Don’t say anything now.”

“...”

“No matter how many times you ask me, my answer will be the same.”

Her white shoulders, exposed by his biting her neck, rose sharply. Carson put his lips on her sunken collarbone and took a deep breath.

Suddenly, he pushed Ines away and turned around, swearing softly.

“Isn’t there a tree that doesn’t fall after ten strikes? Do you think I waited for you all this time just to hear that?” 

Ines bit her lips as she repeated her words, feeling increasingly dumbfounded the more she thought about them. She slowly gathered her courage and approached Carson. Then she gently placed her hand on his bare back.

Carson turned around and grabbed Ines’ hand that was resting on his back.

“I’m going to let you go today. But that doesn’t mean I’ll do whatever you want.”

“...”

“I won’t drag you by force. You come to me yourself. I’ll pave the way.”

“Your Majesty.”

“Do you understand?”

He led her hand and walked her to the door. He put his hand on the doorknob.

Then he looked at Ines, walked to the chair next to the bed, took the robe he had taken off, and covered Ines’ body. He bit his lips tightly and pulled her chin tightly, but the hand that closed her collar was gentle and soft.

“I won’t take you today. I’m in a bad mood.”

Ines snickered at the childish words.

“You want to be my subject with such an impudent smile?”

“I’m sorry.”

He pulled the collar he was holding and held Ines’ lips once more. The time that had been melting softly continued to fade away, and her heart wavered without being able to find a way out.

Carson laughed softly as he watched her lips part but was unable to open her eyes. When she suddenly opened her eyes, she showed her his usual refreshing smile. The thumping heartbeat made Ines unable to form anything.

“If you make that face, I won’t be able to make a decision about what to do.”

Carson pulled out his thumb from the hand holding her chin and slowly stroked her lower lip several times. The wrinkles on her lips, suddenly dry in the cold air, indicated their positions one by one at his fingertips. It was so hot and soft that his high temperature quickly permeated her entire body.

“You know... I’m not so foolish as to miss the opportunity right in front of me.”

As soon as his lips, which he had lightly pressed down, parted, his hot breath flowed down her throat. Ines’s eyebrows furrowed involuntarily at the soft and polite kiss that was different from before.

Ines said without even lifting her lips.

“I regret... I can.”

It was the first proper sentence she had uttered since the hot kiss began.

“It doesn’t matter. I will never become a lonely Emperor like my father.”

As he inhaled, Ines’s rapid exhalations naturally followed him.

Even as the door opened and her body was pushed out, Ines did not realize what was happening to her. As her cheeks cooled in the different temperature from inside, his hot lips also fell away. When she opened her eyes in surprise, she saw his smile. At the same time, the door slowly closed. Ines was speechless and could only stand there, nailed to the spot, in front of the man’s face, who was smiling perfectly, radiating light until the last moment.

The knights stood facing straight ahead as if they could not see anything. As all her senses returned to reality, Ines buried her face in her hands and ran away from the place.

Something she had never imagined could happen so easily.

***

Ines returned to her room and could not sleep for a single moment that night. Even if she ignored her pounding heart, Carson’s words and eyes did not lead Ines to a peaceful night.

She looked for the Bible to calm her mind.

Every time she fought against the memories that were shackling her, she desperately rubbed the surface of the Bible, and it became shiny and glossy.

Ines, relying on the familiar senses, opened the page with the phrase she had held onto like her life.

If someone holds out their hand and asks you to walk ten steps with them, you should give them everything you have.

However, the words that had always guided her to the path of light could not penetrate her mind. Words she did not want to accept kept lingering around her.

Ines, who had been reading the phrase with her hand, closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. Then she closed the book with a thud.

The sun was already rising beyond the window.

Ines took a longer bath than usual and dressed up carefully. It was because she had a feeling that it would be a long day.

***

Ines, who was worried about how to look at Carson’s face, first headed to the room where the chamberlain worked. He used the reception room attached to his bedroom as her office.

There was also a makeshift table where Ines could sit and work. Since the chamberlain had said that he had a lot of work to do, she planned to use that as an excuse to avoid Carson for just one day.

“Are you here?”

When the chamberlain appeared in neat attire, Ines got up and bowed.

“It seems that you have a lot of important things to do today.”

“That’s right. We have an important guest in the palace today, so we’re going to be very busy. Please take good care of him.”

The chamberlain was in charge of the Emperor’s work and all the palace servants, and he had the authority to appoint people to take charge of the Emperor’s security. It was natural for him to be in charge of the palace’s receipts and disbursements, and he was also responsible for welcoming the Emperor’s guests.


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