The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 207

Our eyes met again.

Creak…

Without waiting for Cassis’s reaction, I rose from my chair.

However, with each step forward, everything in my sight began to blur and tangle.

I didn’t think I had drunk that much, but it seemed the alcohol was much stronger than I had anticipated.

Suddenly, my vision spun, and I staggered for a moment.

Cassis caught me.

“Roxana…”

I leaned closer to Cassis, who had just parted his lips as if to say something.

Unconsciously grabbing Cassis’s collar, I pressed my forehead against his chest and remained still for a moment.

“This used to be Lant’s room.”

After a moment, when I quietly raised my head, my eyes met Cassis’s, who seemed to have been watching me all along.

“That person…”

I must really be drunk.

“He’s still watching me from here.”

Because I can see the figure of the dead Lant Agriche behind Cassis from earlier.

The black demon, standing blankly in the darkness, glared at me with resentment-filled eyes.

I didn’t avoid the eerily shining red eyes and faced them head-on.

“So, Cassis.”

The energy emanating from Cassis changed slightly.

My words seemed to have stirred something within him as well.

I took my eyes off Lant and focused on Cassis again.

And without knowing exactly what I wanted to say, I whispered to him.

“Kiss me now.”

It was a strange thing to say without any context.

But Cassis didn’t express any bewilderment or doubt.

It was as if he understood what I meant by these words. Of course, it might just be my imagination.

The light from outside the window tinted his coolly hardened face.

I smiled faintly, watching the golden eyes facing me shine like a light source.

Then, without waiting for Cassis, I raised my head and kissed him first.

Warmth permeated from the shallowly overlapping lips.

For a moment, I felt no movement from Cassis.

Then, after a suppressed, low breath tickled my lips, he tilted his head and kissed me more deeply.

The arm around my waist tightened.

I opened my lips and welcomed Cassis.

As my body leaned back, the glass in my hand fell to the side.

It rolled all the way to the floor, but it didn’t break because of the carpet underneath.

The red liquid spilled on a corner of the desk and slightly stained my clothes.

But none of that mattered.

Cassis kissed me deeply, devouring my lips without any gap, just as I wanted.

The movement was somewhat rough, but I preferred it that way.

I couldn’t tell if the reason my vision was getting increasingly blurry was because I was breathless from the continuous kissing, or if the alcohol was getting stronger due to the heat rising in my body.

I wrapped my arms around Cassis’s neck and pulled him closer.

A cool chill ran down my back as it touched the desk.

But right in front of me was a flame-like, hot body temperature, and I clung to the touching body, craving it even more.

The moment I lifted my legs and wrapped them around Cassis’s waist, he paused for a moment.

But I had no intention of stopping here.

I bit his entangled tongue without hurting him and moved my hand to stroke down Cassis’s nape [back of the neck].

Cassis, who had been still for a moment, began to move again.

A hot hand flowed down my body.

The unrestrained touch reached bare skin as if he had been hesitant until just now.

Similarly, hot lips branded my chin and went down, leaving dense marks on my neck, making a path downwards.

Even as the piece of cloth covering my body was removed, heat rushed in instead of cold.

It was as if a rough and enormous storm was sweeping over me, about to swallow my whole body.

But it was I who swallowed it.

I devoured everything about Cassis greedily.

Darkness spread in my blurred vision.

Only the red eyes embedded in it were shining clearly even from afar.

I gasped for breath and laughed, burying my face in Cassis’s shoulder.

Ah, if I had known such a base pleasure would surge, I should have shown it to him when Lant was alive.

I was taking the spoils I had taken from Lant as my own in front of his ghost.

Of course, Cassis was not someone I could refer to with such a low-level word.

But from Agriche’s point of view, Cassis was the first person I had succeeded in taking away from Lant.

Moreover, he was the son of Richel Pedelian, whom Lant had hated so much and wanted to kill.

And I was Lant’s daughter, who had betrayed him and driven him to his death.

What a wonderful combination!

How could I not laugh at this?

A dizzying head was filled with a blissfully intense pleasure. My body was trembling with the thrill running down my spine.

Anyway, in front of the ghost of my father, who had given me half of my flesh and blood, in his space, I was mixing bodies with a man who was no different from his enemy and feeling this emotion.

Maybe I was crazy.

But…

At this moment, I was here, and at this moment, I was alive.

Yes.

In the end, I won.

In this desperate fight that seemed like it would never end.

Only at this moment did I finally realize it.

Then, a sense of victory that I couldn’t control washed over me belatedly.

I floundered, swallowed from head to toe in it.

“…Don’t.”

Then, suddenly, a slightly cracked voice lingered in my ear.

Cassis, who had lifted his upper body slightly and moved away from me, looked down at me and said something strange again.

“Don’t cry.”

I felt even more confused when I saw the emotion lingering on Cassis’s face as he looked at me.

I was clearly laughing, intoxicated with a sense of victory, so what did he mean?

Cassis’s jaw hardened as if he had clenched his teeth.

Soon, he raised his hand and slowly brushed my eyes.

I felt a dampness where his fingers touched, and only then did I realize that I was crying.

…It was strange.

Why am I crying at this moment?

Ah, maybe I caught Nix’s tears from when we were together until recently.

He cried quite well for a doll.

While staying at Griselda’s hideout, he cried so much day and night that I couldn’t sleep properly for a single day while staying there.

Then, I clenched my teeth as Cassis had done a little while ago.

Stupid doll.

Nix left while I was away.

It was certain that Cassis had met him, but seeing how it turned out like this, it was clear that there was no hope for Nix’s body to recover.

So, perhaps this stupid doll didn’t want to show me his dying 모습 [Korean word for ‘appearance’ or ‘figure’], so he disappeared silently.

Now he seemed to be thinking and acting like Asil.

I didn’t know if Nix was the real resurrected Asil or just a doll feeling confused about his ego.

But I didn’t want to bother figuring it out.

I preferred to think of him as a doll as Nix had claimed.

In a way, it was easier for me that Nix had disappeared.

Anyway, he would have died soon even if I didn’t bother to find him, and I didn’t think I would feel comfortable seeing Nix’s breath stop in front of my eyes.

But…

“…It’s strange.”

For some reason, I kept feeling like this wasn’t what I wanted.

Was that really the reason I didn’t chase after Nix?

“I clearly won…”

I muttered words that I didn’t know who I was saying them to.

“Why is it still so empty like this?”

I still felt empty inside.

It was as if there was a hole in me, and no matter how hard I tried, it would never be filled forever.

Cassis moved the hand that had been wiping away my tears and stroked my face.

In his eyes, reflecting me crying, an emotion resembling pain flashed by.

Soon, Cassis lowered his head and kissed my eyes.

Warm and soft warmth like feathers permeated my skin.

“You’re not empty.”

Then, a low voice tickled my ear.

“But if you still feel empty…”

Cassis continued to whisper to me.

“We can fill it together from now on.”

Let’s fill it together one by one from now on.

And before long, it would surely be so full that it would overflow.

For some reason, when Cassis repeatedly said that, it felt like it really could be.

I hugged him tighter, listening to his affectionate whispers.

While being held in his arms, which existed only for me, the red eyes that had been submerged in darkness also disappeared.

Cassis and I continued to hug each other in silence for a long time after that.

Still, countless words were conveyed through our touching bodies.

It was as if languages as brilliant as the stars shining outside the window were pouring down on my heart.

A deep night.

However, the darker the darkness, the brighter the light that illuminates it.

So surely the dawn that will drive away this night will illuminate the world more dazzlingly than ever before.