Chapter 112
My body tilted backward until I was completely buried in the sofa.
“Ahaha, i-it tickles! Stop it!”
The hot warmth of his fingertips crawled lightly over my skin. Even when I hurriedly grabbed his hands, Gerard didn’t stop.
“Do I have to torment you to make you smile?”
“Ha, please, mmhahaha, it tickles, ah…!”
My tense head fell backward. My face had grown bright red.
Gerard didn’t stop there and pushed his hands all the way beneath my arms. My muscles contracted tightly at once.
Gerard kissed my exposed neck while subtly pressing my struggling body down with his larger frame.
“Ah, please, sto, stooop, mmh, ahaha! Ah!”
The sensation, which I could neither stop nor resist, gradually became painful. Tears gathered in my eyes, and as heat rose through my body, even a faint layer of sweat formed on my skin.
I begged him repeatedly as I tried to escape his hands. Whenever I did, Gerard stopped for a moment and gave me time to catch my breath.
But it only lasted briefly. Just as I began to calm down, he started tickling me again, moving between my armpits and sides.
“Ah, ah! I said this is torture, stop it!”
“Gain some weight. It only tickles because my fingers are scraping against your ribs.”
“Ah…! Darling, please!”
It happened at that moment.
Gerard’s body froze completely at the word I had shouted without realizing it.
“……”
Wh-What did I just say? I stared at the reddish-brown ceiling and panted heavily. I desperately hoped that the term of endearment that I had just shouted at the top of my lungs hadn’t actually escaped my mouth, and that I had merely imagined hearing it.
I couldn’t move, like an animal whose neck had been caught between a predator’s jaws.
The hands buried beneath my clothes slowly slipped out. I shuddered faintly and swallowed dryly.
Gerard raised his upper body slightly and stared down at me.
“I just heard something adorable.”
I opened and closed my mouth like someone who had forgotten how to speak, then finally managed to make a sound.
“…I don’t know what you mean.”
“Shall we listen to it again together?”
His hands, like the root of all evil, mercilessly tried to invade my clothes again. I immediately grabbed the hem and pulled it down.
“Y-You misheard.”
“Explain.”
“I mean, ho… listen. This is.”
“Why is your face red?”
His deeply colored lips bit my cheek. I felt his hard teeth gently nibble at it.
“My pronunciation came out strangely because I was laughing.”
“Mm.”
Gerard hummed low in his throat, then supported the back of my head and raised me upright. I immediately put some distance between us and removed one layer of my coat.
Gerard had turned his entire body toward me. When I glanced over, he was leaning one arm against the backrest and rubbing his lips.
“……”
The ticking of the clock hanging on the wall was the only sound.
…Isn’t he going home? It seems about time for him to leave. Just as I cast my gaze toward the darkened window.
“Darling.”
“……”
My head turned stiffly at the voice brushing past my ear. Gerard was still staring at me in the same position.
“Darling?”
When I looked at him, he addressed me with the same word again.
I should have told him to stop saying strange things and go home, but for some reason, my body froze.
Gerard’s eyes, which had been smiling slyly, gradually widened. His arm fell from the backrest, and he straightened his body before taking hold of my cheek.
“What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
“What?”
Crying? Who was?
When I blinked, I felt the large tears gathered in my eyes spill beneath my chin.
nvmix1
if his powers went on a rampage just bc of jealousy then the rampage he had when they were about to escape must gave been caused by her bc of her breaking up letter