Chapter 054. I’d rather have it.
As if telling someone else’s story, Raymond looked at the woman’s face, who continued speaking calmly, with a strange gaze.
It was truly strange.
Seeing her up close in this bright daylight made it even less understandable.
What exactly was he attracted to? When examining each part closely, she wasn’t such an extraordinary beauty.
Even her clean skin, which was somewhat worth looking at, was scratched and burst here and there, in a mess, and her soft chocolate-colored hair was all disheveled and frizzy.
On top of that, her face, swollen from being beaten, honestly couldn’t be seen as okay even with kind words.
But why….
Why did even that appearance still look the same in his eyes?
Why did the impulse to kiss those red lips still not fade at all? Everything was incomprehensible.
Perhaps because he had been lost in such various thoughts for a while, he didn’t notice that an awkward time was continuing to pass.
No, accurately, the one feeling the awkwardness was not him, but the other party.
When did she look straight at him with an unconcerned face just a moment ago? Now, she had quickly returned to her usual face.
That face, not knowing what to do, rolling her eyes here and there.
That appearance was so ridiculous that with a burst of laughter, red blush spread over the woman’s white cheeks.
Should he say it or not? The lips that had been smacking for a while finally opened not long after.
“About today’s incident… I’m really sorry.”
Anyone could see it was a situation where she was unilaterally beaten by several people.
Yet, the sight of her apologizing as if she had done wrong was so absurd and dumbfounding that just bursts of laughter kept leaking out.
“Sorry, and then what.”
As if she hadn’t expected him to ask that, a deep embarrassment momentarily appeared on Deborah’s face.
What to answer? The pupils that had been moving frantically for a while stopped in place as if she had finished thinking at some point.
“I will… make sure not to cause such a commotion again.”
She always answers well to things she can’t keep-
Looking at that face that was clearly visible, Raymond pulled up the corner of his mouth into a smile.
“So, please cover it up this time too-.”
“……”
“Well, that’s what you mean, right?”
“……”
At the words thrown mockingly, the lips that had been moving busily clamped shut like a clam.
He knew it was a nasty taste, but seeing her flustered and not knowing what to do, a burning thirst arose momentarily.
While desperately ignoring the tightly pulling situation below, Raymond slowly tilted his upper body forward toward her.
“Why should I.”
The distance closed in an instant.
At the distance where breaths touched, the body scent becoming even stronger made his head dizzy for a moment.
‘What if I bury my nose right into that slender nape and inhale.’
His insane mind had already started reaching such thoughts.
She, right in front of him, couldn’t possibly not know what he himself knew.
Predicting the action that a woman cornered in a dead end with no escape would take wasn’t that difficult.
First, she would want to avoid this situation, so she would need to turn her head.
“I… then, I’ll be going now.”
Yes, just like now-
At the fearless action of turning her head, that slender and white nape instantly entered the predator’s view largely.
The exhilaration felt when slowly cornering prey within range began to heat Raymond’s entire body hotly.
Slowly, very slowly so as not to startle the frightened opponent.
Like a flower petal gently falling on a calm lake, Raymond’s lips softly landed on that white skin.
“Hup-!”
“Why should I do that-.”
As he rubbed his lips against the nape, a much stronger scent than expected passed through the tip of his nose and dug deep into his lungs.
A dizzying scent that made his mind hazy.
At that moment when a savage excitement to bite that nape boiled up-
Thud-!
“……”
“……”
Raymond’s gaze slowly alternated between the woman’s face that had distanced itself and the two hands that had pushed his chest.
Quite, perceptive….
The trembling vibration was transmitted vividly through the skin.
Should he forcibly grab that cute wrist and pull it off, or kiss on top of that pitifully trembling thing.
Around the time he was lost in such dilemmas, perhaps sensing the danger approaching her, the woman’s closed lips finally opened.
“……Don’t do this.”
A voice full of tension, the words that came out in this situation were just such trivial things.
Don’t do this-
From between Raymond’s teeth, a chuckle, a throat-scratching laugh flowed out.
“What did I do.”
“……”
When he asked back nonchalantly, that face immediately frowned deeply.
As if saying, do I really have to say that with my own mouth? At the sharp glaring gaze, one of Raymond’s eyebrows slightly lifted up.
“Why.”
“……”
“Does it seem like I’m trying to take you to bed right now?”
What about that? As if she had heard something tremendous, the woman’s face instantly turned bright red.
She clearly didn’t know how much such appearances drove a man crazy.
Raymond eventually gently grabbed and removed that hand that was pushing his chest—no, it was embarrassing to even say it was pushing.
Then, he lowered his head and lightly kissed on top of that hand.
Smack, smack.
He could feel the woman’s fingertips trembling finely at the softly touching sensation.
Continuing the kisses like that, Raymond lifted only his gaze upward to look at the woman’s face.
“Tell me.”
“Eut……”
“……What I want to do right now.”
Haa, looking at the eyes deeply furrowed as if about to pour out, Raymond exhaled a murky groan over it.
Actually, he didn’t intend this from the beginning.
He was just angry at the sight of her being like an idiot, unable to say anything after being taken advantage of, and his heart ached at her messed-up wounds here and there.
Just that, he thought he would treat the wounds and send her back nicely.
He thought he could just lock away his blindly infatuated heart.
If she was out of sight, this terrible thirst would gradually subside.
But-
-Does it seem like I’m trying to take you to bed right now?
Once he said it out loud, he thought, maybe really?
Is there a reason to endure it?
Unless he has this woman, it’s obvious he’ll continue to fiercely conflict like this every time-
From some point, whenever he saw the woman, the feelings rampaging inside him were exactly three.
One, the desire to take the woman in front of him to bed,
Two, the desire to quickly quench this damned thirst.
But, three, the contradictory feeling of not wanting to subdue her by force nonetheless.
Every time such conflicting emotions clashed fiercely in his heart, Raymond always had to taste a shitty mood.
Raymond slowly moved his hand to tuck Deborah’s disheveled hair behind her ear.
“Yes, rather, after having it….”
At the intimately whispering words, he felt her body flinch momentarily.
“This maddening thirst might subside a bit….”
A whisper as if murmuring to himself.
At that sigh-like resonance, strength suddenly gripped tightly into the woman’s hand placed on his arm.
If she disliked it, she could push away once more.
At that clumsy action of just tightly holding his arm, it felt like the locks he had layered in his mind were being torn off one by one.
Ah, the moment he inserted his hand into the curly, winding hair, a short moan burst from the woman’s mouth.
Raymond’s lips overlapped into that opened gap.
Surprised for a moment by the penetrating sensation, the brown eyelashes that had been trembling finely soon closed softly.
At that permitting action, a short exclamation flowed from Raymond’s throat.
Of course, even that was all swallowed into the overlapping mouths-
* * *
At the breath softly covering over her lips, her whole body heated up as if heat flowers had bloomed.
She had firmly resolved not to be swayed by the man’s whims anymore, not to be swept away by that light heart that would pass like a short seasonal wind.
All those firm resolutions shattered in an instant and evaporated into the air.
The man’s kiss was terribly similar to that night Deborah remembered.
Gently exploring around the lips as if courting, then the dizzying sensation sliding in slowly.
Her heart trembled achingly at each of the man’s actions, indulging slowly inside without haste.
The man stroking her hair softly, pouring sweet kisses as if treating a precious lover.
Only after being embraced in his arms and facing this moment again did Deborah realize.
That she had already reached a point where she couldn’t reject the man with her own will.
That she herself had been waiting for this moment all along since that night.
Deborah: Housemaid
