I Wish You Well In Your Next Love, My Love - Chapter 37
Our eyes met again.
But Gerard only stared at me with an expressionless face, saying nothing, until the hand pushing his shoulder made him turn his head away again.
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I opened my eyes with a throbbing headache.
My pounding heartbeat seemed to echo fiercely at my temples.
“Haah.”
The sunlight pouring in through the window stung my eyes, yet I couldn’t even close them and only breathed in short gasps.
A dream, or a distant old memory.
Perhaps because I had been running into Gerard so much lately, I ended up dreaming about him again more often than expected.
As my hazy senses gradually returned, the first thing I felt was the arms and legs wrapped around me.
“…This is driving me crazy.”
I muttered, burying the side of my face deep into the pillow.
Why does he keep climbing up here.
Had he developed sleepwalking as a side effect of rampage? It was a sleeping habit I had never seen three years ago.
“Excuse me, please move back a little…”
“Mmm.”
With a low rumble in his throat, he began to shift and rub against me. Then, without stopping, he pressed his lips to the back of my neck.
“Ah!”
The breath touching my skin made my shoulders tremble. His soft lips lightly bit and released my neck again and again.
The tingling sensation made my toes curl. Gerard even made a wet sound as he began sucking gently at the thin skin.
“N-No…”
Whether I was trying to stop him, or deny the heat rising inside me, the only words that kept slipping from my mouth were no.
Shaking my head, I grabbed the back of his hand and pinched it hard.
“Lord Castion!”
The moment I shouted, his body, which had been fidgeting, stopped completely. I could feel it all through my back.
But that was all. Even if he had woken up, he didn’t pull away, he just held me quietly as if his thoughts had frozen.
“Please move back a little, I can’t breathe.”
Only then did the arms and legs wrapped around my body withdraw.
I quickly got up from the bed and flung the window open.
A cool breeze mixed with light rain lowered the heat trapped in the room.
I pressed my hot face with my palm, then turned to look at Gerard.
“If you’re going to keep stealing my bed, then just sleep here from the start!”
“From now on, I’ll really just sleep quietly. I promise.”
His voice came out hoarse with sleep.
“Put your clothes on first!”
“Okay.”
Gerard hurriedly put on the shirt he had thrown off, apologizing repeatedly.
“Haah… I don’t know why I keep doing this either, I’m really sorry. Should I just tie myself up when I sleep. Yeah? I’ll do whatever you tell me.”
Instead of answering, I picked up the bedding spread on the floor.
“I’ll clean up.”
A hand reached from behind and grabbed the spot right next to where I was holding. The tip of his thumb overlapped slightly, just slightly, with my little finger.
I shouldn’t be letting Lord Castion do chores, but this time I simply stepped back. Just having him nearby was making my body heat up for no reason.
I took a step back and watched his back.
‘He didn’t really develop sleepwalking, did he.’
Before I realized it, I bit the inside of my lip hard enough to hurt. Only after tasting a hint of blood did I stop.
As Gerard finished folding the bedding and was about to turn around, I quickly left the bedroom.
“I have an early class this morning, so I need to wash up and leave right away.”
“Want me to take you there?”
“Are you crazy? Splash some cold water on your face and wake up.”
What if people start a scandal about us!
I turned sharply in shock, but Gerard looked at me as if my reaction was the strange one.
“Is it really something you hate that much?”
“I’m not someone who gets lost. It’s fine.”
“It wouldn’t be boring if you go with me.”
“There definitely wouldn’t be any chance to get bored.”
“I was thinking I’d take the chance to see our princess’s face too.”
“……”
For a moment, I had no words.
‘What was I even thinking.’
Worry should match one’s place. Getting involved in something that didn’t concern me wasn’t concern, it was arrogance.
Embarrassment flooded in.
When everyone already considered Arvina his official lover, there was nothing strange about Gerard coming and going at the temple.
Even if he went there with me, no one would suspect anything between us.
I avoided his gaze, kneading the back of my heated neck with my palm.
“…I’m just more comfortable going alone.”
My voice sounded like it might sink into the ground.
“That’s a shame.”
Leaving behind Gerard, who spoke in a completely unbothered tone, I went into the bathroom.
Grab.
But just before the door closed, a large hand reached in and caught it.
The door, which had nearly shut, slowly opened again, and Gerard stood there.
“By the way.”
What was he suddenly trying to say. He looked like a dog that had done something wrong, and after a long pause, he finally spoke.
“Is it that you don’t want to go with me…”
“……”
“Because of my sleeping habits, you don’t even want to deal with me anymore?”
What was he talking about now.
As I looked up at him without answering, unable to find the words, tension gathered at the fingertips of the hand gripping the door.
