The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 102

After a moment, our lips parted with a soft, wet sound.

A slender strand of saliva stretched between us.

The moment my eyes met Cassis’s, who was looking down at me, a shiver ran down my spine.

His golden eyes, blazing with desire, seemed ready to consume me.

This time, Cassis lowered his head further, burying his lips in the curve of my neck.

His silver hair tumbled wildly around my face.

He cupped my exposed breast in his hand, pushing aside my clothes. A small moan escaped my lips as he suckled at my neck.

After three days of near-constant intimacy, I thought I’d be desensitized for a while, but I was clearly mistaken.

In a way, I realized this might be how Cassis and I communicated.

Perhaps Cassis and I were sharing our body heat and feeling each other’s presence in this way, compensating for the words and questions we hadn’t yet voiced.

That’s why Cassis’s and my touches always felt desperate, as if we were craving something essential from each other.

Cassis’s hands and lips trailed further down.

Then, as he had the previous night, Cassis nipped at my inner thigh, where he had been lingering.

“Ah… that hurts.”

The voice that rumbled in my ear was low and husky.

As if to soothe me, Cassis slowly licked the spot he had just bitten.

But soon, as if unable to restrain himself, he nibbled and bit the soft flesh next to it again.

As expected, Cassis’s behavior was very different at night compared to during the day.

I let out a soft sigh, then reached out and grabbed Cassis’s collar, almost yanking it, and pulled him closer.

Then, I opened my mouth and bit his neck, exposed by the open collar.

I sucked hard enough to leave a mark, a clear sign that he was mine.

I mirrored Cassis’s actions, hoping he would feel what I felt, but as it had been for the past three days, it didn’t seem to have much effect.

Rather, Cassis seemed to convert even the pain I inflicted into arousal.

…Actually, to some extent, so did I.

Like the night before, Cassis and I tumbled around on the bed again today, becoming one until almost dawn.

* * *

Then, after the burning passion subsided, Cassis invariably channeled his energy into my exhausted body.

I was always the first to tire, a fact that secretly annoyed me.

But… yes.

If I looked at it positively, it was better than him getting tired and passing out before I was fully satisfied.

“Isn’t it harmful to you every time you use your power on me like this?”

I stared at Cassis’s face for a moment and asked.

Cassis gazed back at me silently for a moment.

Soon, he whispered as he pressed his lips to my cheek, “No. So you don’t have to worry about that.”

I focused my attention on him, trying to gauge whether Cassis’s words were genuine.

He didn’t seem to be lying.

A sense of relief washed over me, and I languidly opened and closed my eyes.

“You must be tired. Go to sleep.”

A gentle gaze and a soft kiss landed on my face.

The soft whisper in my ear was like a lullaby.

As he said, my whole body was weary.

I fell asleep in Cassis’s arms.

* * *

A few days later, I received a letter from Griselda.

The letter contained the information I had requested.

I still don’t think I will….

But in the unlikely event that the hair Noel Vertium sent me really is my mother’s, and if it’s true that he’s threatening me with my mother as leverage….

No matter what, I would make him regret it.

With a coldly hardened heart, I opened the letter Griselda had sent.

Inside, only one name was written.

“……!”

I couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing.

Doubtful, I checked the name written on the paper again, but it remained the same.

For a moment, I forgot to breathe.

Suddenly, a heat that was seething from within rose up like poison.

The surrounding noise faded away.

The black letters in front of me danced wildly on the white paper, mocking me.

All sorts of thoughts surged in my head like a storm.

They frantically rummaged through me, scratching me, and finally collided with each other and shattered.

The sharp debris mercilessly stabbed into me.

After some time, I took a deep breath.

And soon, I slowly exhaled, gradually calming my turbulent heart.

Rustle.

The letter Griselda sent had long been crumpled in my hand.

The paper rustled coldly, as if covered in frost.

Noel Vertium.

I had to meet him in person, even if it was just to confirm.

* * *

“Are you leaving?”

The day Cassis was leaving Fedelian had arrived.

“I’ll be back.”

We exchanged a brief farewell before he left the annex.

“Cassis.”

I quietly looked at Cassis and called his name in a low voice.

Cassis quietly gazed back at me, as if waiting for me to continue.

I looked at his face and opened my mouth.

“Like you said, even if the person who found me that day had been someone else, I might have followed him.”

It was an answer to something Cassis had said to me one night.

“But if it hadn’t been you….”

Cassis didn’t ask me for an answer, but I wanted to tell him before he left.

“I wouldn’t have thought that I was lucky to be alive now instead of dying back then.”

The look in Cassis’s eyes changed at that moment.

The golden eyes, filled with shallow ripples, contained only me within them.

“So, in the end, I guess I wouldn’t have wanted anyone but you.”

I looked at Cassis’s face and slowly lowered my eyelids.

“I just wanted to say it.”

And I murmured in an indifferent tone.

As if there was no particular meaning in what I had just said.

Then I looked at him again and smiled brightly.

“Then have a good trip.”

Cassis stood by the door, staring at me without moving.

“Roxana.”

Soon, a low voice flowed from his lips.

Just like I had done a moment ago, this time Cassis called my name.

Then he opened his lips again and continued.

“Even if I hadn’t met you that day, I would have found you.”

A voice with a firm tone, like a conviction, echoed in my ear.

His eyes, directed at me, were just as unwavering.

“And if you ever disappear from my sight again, I will search the entire world to find you.”

Finally, Cassis moved his feet, which had been standing still.

He came close to me and looked down at me as he moved.

“So you, do whatever you want.”

Our bodies were pressed together without any space between them.

Cassis hugged me tightly and whispered softly in my ear.

“Because I will too.”

It felt like a hot brand was being pressed against me.

A warm sensation enveloped my whole body.

I didn’t know if Cassis knew something and was saying this, or if he was just giving another answer to what I had said a moment ago.

I couldn’t know, but….

‘Ah, yeah. I think I really need to be with someone now.’

As if a thin breeze was blowing in through a small gap in the window that had been opened without my knowledge, that thought suddenly permeated my heart and soaked it.

Soon, I raised my arms and hugged Cassis tightly, just like him.

It wasn’t like I was planning to leave him in the first place, but….

After all, the place I had to return to was by this person’s side.

More strongly than ever, I felt that conviction.