Chapter 149: Chapter 76.1

“what are you saying all of a sudden? we were together all night.”

“even if you don’t tell me that, i know.”

yernia was so embarrassed that she wanted to hide in a rat hole.

why did she even stutter?

why the hell——

“hmmm, i’m thirsty. i’ll have to drink water.”

yena raised herself up as soon as she spilled the words

it was only natural to be thirsty because she woke up a while ago.

the pain she felt from the moment she woke up worsened at the sudden movement.

“ah.”

“are you sick?”

when she groaned, cassian looked at yernia.

she had no idea why it was so annoying to be patted on her back.

yernia clutched cassian’s shoulder for no reason.

“you should be sick, too.”

“you bite so hard that you left teeth marks all over me. do you want to bite my throat, too?”

cassian seemed to be out of his mind as he titled his head, grinning.

“i’m thirsty.”

the evasive remark she uttered to avoid the situation stung her throat.

after cassian rose and poured her some water, yernia took and drank it.

she wanted to wash her face, but it was hard to get to the bathroom, so she had to ask cassian for help.

he carried yernia to the bathroom, washed her face, and put her back to bed.

somehow, she couldn’t do anything without cassian.

“it’s all because of you.”

yernia started to blame him and paused.

she might as well have said that she got sick because he couldn’t leave her alone yesterday.

no, that’s right.

she must be insane.

she was angry with herself for saying something that she couldn’t even fix.

yernia buried her face in the pillow.

“i know, i was wrong. right?”

“i don’t know.”

“i couldn’t control myself.”

was he doing this on purpose?

last night cassian was gentle.

of course, she meant his face but anyway, it appeared like he had a gentle side as well.

he constantly caressed yernia’s cheek while trying to keep eye contact with her.

if her gaze wandered a bit, he would kiss her as if he hated it when she was distracted.

“why don’t you look at me?”

she couldn’t understand why he was so impatient when he was literally touching her.

he couldn’t even wait for her patiently if she couldn’t keep up with him.

“you must have thought me clumsy because it was my first time.”

“stop.”

“next time, i’ll be gentler.”

“i said, stop!”

yernia covered cassian’s mouth because he kept reminding her of last night.

in the meantime, yernia, who was staring at him, quickly averted her gaze as if he was hard to look at.

“i’m really sorry.”

what was the point of apologizing now when it wasn’t something that he should be sorry about?

yernia agreed to last night’s activities and if he kept saying sorry like this, her face would be as red as a tomato.

she hung her head low and covered her face with her hands out of embarrassment.

it appeared like cassian loved to tease her even more.

“please.. pretend you don’t know.” she pleaded, trembling.

“let me see you, yernia.”

cassian gently grabbed yernia’s wrist so that she’d remove her hand away from her face.

yernia shook her head as he tried to pull it down.

cassian’s hand, which held on to her wrist with all his might, slithered like a snake and grabbed her fingers.

“i’m really embarrassed right now, too.”

“……”

“and yet i want to see your face.”

what’s wrong with him?

really.

how could he make her heart tremble by saying that?

yernia couldn’t hold out and relaxed her arm and cassian almost dropped her hand.

as the screen disappeared, she felt even more chagrined.

“look at me.”

“what’s wrong with you?” she snapped.

as soon as she lifted her eyes slightly, their eyes met.

cassian’s expression was also unusually excited.

yernia took a slight breath, hoping to get rid of the awkwardness.

“don’t look at me like that. my face is going to look weird because of you.”

she already washed her face, but that didn’t mean she wanted to be scrutinized like this.

it’s probably weird.

however, it was difficult to cover her face again because her hands were held by cassian.

cassian finally looked away when yernia was about to cry.

“it’s okay. you’re pretty in my eyes.”

his lips swooped down on hers and the short contact felt like an illusion.

smirking, he smoothed yernia’s lips.

“good morning.”

how could a simple greeting be this exciting?

yernia took a short deep breath.

***

he had to return to the barracks right away, but the plan had changed due to yernia’s poor physical condition.

she never had a fever and she didn’t get hurt either.

she was just uncomfortable with the dull pain every time she walked and she found it difficult to move for a long time so they ended up staying in the cabin for another day, somehow.

“do i have to wash up with you?”

however, cassian was also determined to get her in trouble.

“it’s not our first time washing up together.”

when yernia said that she wanted to wash up, cassian prepared a bath and shamelessly asked to do it together.

“i was out of my mind at the time!”

indeed, she had washed up with cassian at dawn.

he had picked up yernia while she was half-asleep and delivered her into the bathtub.

unlike that dawn, yernia was sane today.