There is No Key to His Cage - Chapter 6
The moment she faced him, it felt as if her entire body was freezing stiff.
Should she scream or run away?
In her mind, a thousand thoughts exploded like fireworks.
“To think my lady would come out to greet me like this.”
He knelt down and gently kissed the back of her hand.
“It’s such an honor.”
Elena slowly stepped back, denying his existence.
At that, he smiled as if he found this situation amusing and approached one step at a time.
“Don’t come closer…”
“Already being so distant? How disappointing.”
Thud-, there was nowhere else to go.
Her body, now against the wall, stiffened like a statue.
His gaze, examining every part of her face as if dissecting it, was hot.
“What story shall I tell you today, hm? Just say the word.”
“Move.”
His touch on her flowing hair was as gentle as a wave.
His half-closed red eyes looked down at her.
“You smell nice.”
With his face against her shoulder, he slowly shook his head as if savoring a fragrance.
“Makes me want to eat you.”
Startled, Elena wrapped her hands around her neck and shrank her body as much as possible.
At this, he looked at her as if watching something interesting.
“Are you scared?”
His forehead, cool from the outside air, touched hers.
His sharp nose grazed the tip of hers, nearly slipping past, tickling her skin.
“Afraid I might really eat you?”
He caressed her cheeks and lips with a languid expression.
His soft touch made her feel a tingling sensation as if electricity was running through her.
“I’ve been wanting to see you all day, Elena.”
“Get out…”
At that, he lightly pinched and shook her cheek as if indulging a child’s tantrum.
“Didn’t you miss me?”
“Get out right now.”
“I want to stay with you longer.”
He nonchalantly took her hand and ran it over his face.
His skin, as white as flour, was as fine as silk.
“Take your hand off.”
“Don’t resist.”
He looked at her with languid eyes, placing her hand on his lips.
“You’ll soon come to like it too.”
His eyes, reflecting in the moonlight, were bright and piercing.
She couldn’t take her eyes off him, as if bewitched by a nine-tailed fox.
“It’s embarrassing when you stare like that.”
At his words, her breath caught.
It felt like being caught by her parents while watching an adult video.
“Stop it.”
Elena slapped his hand away hard and turned her head abruptly.
His hand, ruthlessly knocked away, swung like a pendulum from the rebound.
He snorted briefly and stared at her.
“Lift your head.”
“Ah…!”
He gently lifted her chin, grabbing the tip.
A small gasp escaped her dainty lips without her realizing.
Her blue eyes, like lakes, trembled pitifully.
“How rude.”
Thanks to the height difference of more than two spans, she had to look up at him with her head held high.
Her breathing quickened with each inch his face drew closer.
“You should look straight at me.”
In his eyes, a small trembling kitten was reflected.
“It’s the face you’ll be seeing every day from now on.”
His sticky, gloomy voice bored into her eardrums.
She couldn’t breathe properly under the growing pressure.
As she nervously licked her lips, he curled his lips and sneered.
“What? Do you finally realize who I am?”
He spoke as if he had seen right through her thoughts.
Her breathing became increasingly rapid under the pressure that felt like her throat was being squeezed.
“Decarus de Scylla.”
“……”
“How does it feel? Is it sinking in?”
She couldn’t say anything.
What would happen if she acknowledged it here?
Would she have to marry him without any choice?
Or would she be punished for despising a noble at the security bureau?
“Answer me.”
“……”
Her body trembled slightly under the overwhelming pressure that enveloped her entire being.
At this, he frowned as if displeased.
“I told you to answer.”
“…Shut up.”
He smiled contemptuously as if looking at an underling.
It was probably a silent pressure asking where she thought she was crawling up from.
“I’ve told you many times.”
His thick thumb pulled down hard on her lip.
She felt pain where the delicate flesh met her teeth.
“Ah…!”
“You have a bad habit with your mouth.”
He tilted his head crookedly and met her eyes.
“What are you doing?”
“You told me to shut up.”
She held her breath as the distance between them narrowed with each blink.
Hot breaths passed between their lips that seemed about to touch.
“So I’m making you shut up.”
“Mmph…!”
As soon as his words ended, his cold lips roughly met hers.
Instinctively, she tried to hide her lips, but her helplessly parted lips were soon swallowed by him.
“You…!”
As her body lost balance for a moment, he quickly wrapped his hand around her waist to support her.
Thanks to this, their faces pressed even closer together.
“Your breathing is rough.”
“Let go…! Mmph…!”
She tried to escape from him, but it was futile.
Their touching lips melted slowly like hot chocolate.
As his thick tongue gently explored her mouth, hot breaths entered between them.
As her breathing quickened, he seemed to notice something and smiled, curling the corners of his mouth.
“Shall we go to the bed?”
At his words, it felt like her dazed mind was waking up.
She lamented herself for momentarily falling for his devilish whisper.
“You…!”
His relentless lips didn’t even leave room for her to speak.
The scent of blackberry spread thickly every time he moved his neck.
“I’m enjoying this, how about you?”
“Let go of this!”
“Shh, you’ll wake the servants.”
He interlocked their fingers and pressed them to his lips.
“Elena, my precious bride. My angel.”
“I’m not your bride or anything like that.”
She spoke strongly as if making threats, but to him, it was just a child’s play that didn’t work.
Decarus lifted her slender body and headed straight for the bed.
She struggled to escape, but it was useless.
His eyes, soft like thick whipped cream, turned towards her. Her body, carefully placed as if handling a baby, was wrapped in the bed sheets with a thud.
The tips of his fingers digging into her delicate flesh made all the hair on her body stand on end.
Through the gap of his shirt with two or three buttons undone, his bare muscles were revealed.
Slap-
“Haa… Haa…”
It was a fleeting moment.
His head was completely tilted and motionless.
Elena’s small hand, which had been breathing heavily, trembled like an aspen tree.
“You piece of trash…”
“Ha.”
A devil’s smile bloomed in his sigh.
His face, snorting, exuded an oppressive aura like a tyrant.
He stroked his reddening, swollen cheek and turned his head.
The blue eyes reflected in his red eyes, burning like the sun, trembled pitifully.
“Being hit isn’t my preference.”
“Get out.”
He adjusted his posture to look down at her from above.
Elena, trapped helplessly, looked up at him with trembling eyes.
“How long do you think I’ll put up with this?”
“I said get out!!!”
Elena closed her eyes tightly and shouted at the top of her lungs.
It felt as if the quiet room was echoing and resounding.
“You’re too cruel to me.”
“Ha…”
The laughter that burst out at his nonsense wouldn’t stop.
She laughed as if she was crying.
“I’m not some toy you can play with as you please.”
She gritted her teeth and looked at him with eyes that seemed ready to kill.
“Oh, really?”
He sneered at her defiant attitude and cracked his neck a couple of times, making bone-cracking sounds.
“Then I should move up the wedding even more.”
“…What?”
The room was filled with silence as if time and space had stopped.
Surprised, Elena pursed her lips and blinked rapidly.
“The wedding. Yours and mine.”
He spoke without even a second of hesitation.
“Ha…!”
They say when a person is dumbfounded, no words come out.
This is exactly that moment.
She’s so dumbfounded that she can only laugh in disbelief.
To think he would threaten like this.
“Do you really think I would marry you?”
“You seem to have forgotten.”
He raised her body in one motion and met her gaze straight on.
“Shouldn’t you keep your word once you’ve said it?”
“What on earth are you talking about…!”
“The bet.”
They stared at each other for a long time without saying anything.
“……”
For a moment, unable to understand what he meant, she frowned.
Ah, could he be talking about the bet she made about whether he was a Grand Duke or not?
“What if that noble Grand Duke shows up?”
“That’s impossible.”
“You seem confident?”
“Yeah. If that happens, I’ll personally go through with that damn marriage.”
To think there’s someone who would actually believe in such a childish bet.
“You lost. You did.”
There really is.
Someone who believes in such a trivial bet.
Her head hurt so much that she needed a painkiller.
She understood why people in dramas fall ill in bed.
“You have to take responsibility.”
“Ha, that was just a joke…”
“I’m not joking.”
His firm eyes stared at her intently.
Elena sighed deeply as if she had no choice and said,
“Haa… I’ll say this only once, so listen carefully. I have not the slightest intention of marrying you. And I’m sick to death of even talking to you face-to-face like this right now. So please, stop saying such nonsense…!”
“Sleep well.”
At that, as if he didn’t want to hear anything more, he gave her a goodnight kiss and vanished.
Bang-.
“Ha, haha…”
Elena sat on the bed for a long time like a person who had lost her mind.
Then she raised her hand and rubbed her lips furiously, erasing his traces.
“Marriage? No… No.”
She couldn’t accept the word marriage at all.
It felt like trying to process a word that couldn’t be input into her brain.
Isn’t this like a young girl being sold off in the Joseon era?
“This can’t be happening.”
His crazy words made her laugh instead.
It wasn’t laughter from joy or sadness, but laughter from disbelief.
To think this is what he meant by bride.
Suddenly, tears welled up without her realizing it.
The tears that formed in her eyes fell pitifully, wetting the bed sheet.
“A bride bought with money…”
She had known he was crazy from the start, but she didn’t know it was to this extent.
How could such a person be a Grand Duke?
People must have all been fooled by his appearance.
“Ha…”
No matter how much she tried to be strong, she crumbled miserably in front of him.
Elena Helios, how did she end up this broken?
Could it be that she would have to live in his arms for the rest of her life?
“This can’t go on…”
