When the Black Moon Rises - Side Story 25
Side Story 25
“We’ve been in the wind for too long. Let’s go in now.”
“But you didn’t want to when I suggested it earlier.”
Letting out a soft laugh, Sehwa shook her head.
“Since we’re already here, I’d like to stay a little longer. The sunlight is warm, so it’s fine. The scent of the flowers is so pleasant.”
“Then how about eating a snack, taking a short nap, and then coming out again? You shouldn’t miss nap time and snack time.”
At his urgent tone, Sehwa, who had been leaning against a tree, finally laughed out loud.
“Snacks, I can understand, but why are you so insistent on nap time? I need to work quickly to make up for the time I rested, and you want me to take a nap?”
“Father-in-law is helping with the Mystic Ruler’s duties. You can afford to take a nap every day.”
“If anyone heard you, they’d think you were raising a child. I’m telling you, it’s not necessary anymore.”
“But.”
Seeing Baek Giha hesitate with a rather troubled face, Sehwa finally got up.
A long time had passed, and her spiritual power had almost fully recovered.
‘After boasting that nothing would happen, I was asleep as if dead for half a year. How much that time must have hurt him.’
Thus, she couldn't dismiss his concern, born from long days of anxiety, as mere fussing.
As she stood up, Baek Giha swiftly scooped her up in his arms.
Her saying she would walk on her own would surely be rejected as usual.
‘Well, it’s not like I have any dignity left to be embarrassed about.’
“Ahem, hem!”
It was the same now. The attendants they encountered quickly lowered their eyes, as if trying to suppress their laughter.
In the Baek Clan, women's rights had long been lower than in other clans.
So, how surprised they had been when they first witnessed the Clan Head and his wife's public displays of affection.
But far from speaking ill of it, they found the sight of the Clan Head protecting the temporarily weakened Mystic Ruler very pleasing.
Thus, it was now a growing trend for couples to follow their example and show affection in public.
“Your feet are cold. It would be best to take a bath first.”
He had brought her to the room to eat a snack, but as soon as he saw the bathtub, which he had ordered prepared, placed in the room, he changed his mind.
After only removing Sehwa's outer robe, he pushed her into the hot water, which was emitting white steam.
“Lean on me like this.”
He poured warm, flower-scented water over Sehwa's shoulders.
His large hands carefully pressed and loosened the muscles that must have stiffened from sitting in one position.
Feeling the gentle touch moving from her shoulders to her wrists, Sehwa laughed softly.
“What will you do if I decide not to do anything with my own hands, since you do everything for me?”
“What’s the problem? I can just continue to be your hands and feet.”
“Hmm, that’s a bit of a problem.”
“Why?”
“Hands and feet are supposed to follow the head, but you don’t.”
“……What do you mean by that?”
“I keep telling you I’m fine, but you keep pulling away.”
“What do you mean, pulling away?”
After she had woken up from her half-year slumber, he had been like someone lost in the wilderness, not knowing what to do, and had refused to leave her side.
He had already lost her once.
Fortunately, he had been able to revive her with the Divine Beast's wish, but they had already used up both their wishes, and they were no longer immortal.
“Her spiritual power is all tangled up; it seems there’s nothing more that can be done for now. This is beyond my power…, I’m sorry.”
The words of the Cheon Clan Head, who had been pouring spiritual power into the unconscious her, remained a terrible memory he didn't even want to recall.
Nevertheless, she had returned as promised.
Although it took a long time, she was steadily recovering her spiritual power and getting healthier.
Throughout that process, Baek Giha had refused to be separated from her for even a moment, attending to her every need.
“Did my master find my efforts lacking?”
“Hmm.”
Baek Giha, feigning composure, requested.
“If there is anything more you need, please tell me.”
“Master.”
“Why. You know. The thing I keep talking about.”
“Keep talking about?”
When he didn't seem to understand, her ears turned red and she lowered her eyes.
Soon, she pulled Baek Giha.
“You get in too.”
His arm, which had been resting on the edge of the tub, slipped, and one arm plunged up to the shoulder into the water.
“……!”
Only then did Baek Giha understand what she meant and blushed just as she had.
In truth, it had been a long time since they had been intimate.
Right after the wedding, she had found out she was pregnant.
In the early stages of pregnancy, the physician had advised that being intimate could be dangerous.
After that, the presence of the children was so vivid that he had to restrain himself again.
No matter what, with children who wielded spiritual power from the womb, knowing their presence and being intimate was a bit………
But after that, she had been unconscious due to a severe and difficult birth, and even after waking up, her body was weak.
Not wanting to affect her recovery in the slightest, Baek Giha had suppressed his desires as if he had none.
On days when he couldn't bear it, he would repeatedly soak his body in a cold bath for hours at a time.
‘No. Even so. I said I’m fine, so why does he have to go to a cold bath and endure for ten years?’
It was the same now.
“Not yet. The Cheon Clan Head said you still need to be more careful with your body.”
“Are you really going to keep this up? If you don’t get in here right now, I won’t do anything from now on.”
“Anything?”
“Yes. I won’t go for a walk after lunch. I won’t eat snacks, and I won’t take a nap.”
“You can’t do that!”
“Then stop resisting and get in.”
They hadn't been intimate, but during her pregnancy, they had bathed together and caressed each other's bodies.
But how many years had it been since she woke up?
“But.”
Baek Giha’s expression was still resolute.
Rolling her eyes, Sehwa rested her arms on the edge of the tub and leaned her cheek on them.
“Then at least give me more of that massage you were giving me. Though I think I’d be more comfortable if you were in here with me. No pressure.”
“……”
“You won’t even give me a massage?”
“That’s not it.”
His gaze sank a little lower.
At his expression, which seemed to be deeply worried about something, she too felt a momentary doubt.
‘What is it? Could there be another reason I don’t know about, besides my health?’
Rubbing his narrowed brow with a slightly irritated gesture, he answered.
“You’re still too thin.”
“Thin? Me?”
“Yes.”
She looked down at her own body, still clad in a wet undergarment.
Even without considering the thickness of the wet clothes, objectively, she wasn't thin.
Was that all?
This man had been so devoted, making sure she had three meals a day, as well as snacks and naps.
So much so that she had briefly thought, ‘I don’t think even a pig would be raised like this.’
‘And he says I’m thin?’
She thought it might be a joke, but his face even showed a hint of distress.
‘Does this man really, truly think I’m thin?’
“Then in your opinion, how much weight do I need to gain to be considered healthy?”
“……I haven’t set such a standard, but compared to the past, you’re still too.”
“The past?”
Sehwa blinked her eyes in confusion.
Her breasts had become much fuller after giving birth, and after ten years of being raised under the guise of protection, her body had become much rounder.
In the past, she had been thinner than now, so what time was this man talking about………
Could it be.
“……Are you, by any chance, talking about when I was swollen during my pregnancy?”
“Swollen! You looked just right.”
“………”
“It’s true. You always look like you’ll break if I use even a little strength.”
“………”
“Even though I bring you all the delicacies of the Mystic Realm without rest. And I provide plenty of snacks, but still………”
He was speaking with a heart full of genuine worry for her, not knowing what to do.
‘This is strange. Why do I, the listener, feel so dumbfounded?’
What should I call this?
I know it’s concern, but why is this anger welling up………
“Baek Giha.”
Her voice was low enough to startle anyone who heard it. He stopped talking in surprise.
With the smile gone from her face, she said.
“Get in.”
She didn't need to add that she wouldn't say it a second time; he seemed to understand.
After a slight hesitation, he meekly entered the tub as if he had never refused.
The hot water that had been at his chest now rose to his shoulders.
Crossing that water, she sat on his lap.
‘So he used that time as a standard, constantly pushing snacks into my mouth and making sure I took naps, is that it?’
That was during her pregnancy, so unless she became pregnant again, she would never meet his standard.
Thus, she decided to do as he wished.
Scowling, Sehwa deliberately kissed Baek Giha’s cheek.
With a soft sound, Baek Giha’s eyes widened.
“Uh……, you, uh, wait.”
“Be quiet.”
“Wait. You…… this is-.”
Another soft kiss.
She wrapped her wet arms around the man’s neck.
A low scuffle ensued for a moment, but soon another sound followed.
“Hah, heup……!”
It was a kiss mixed with long-held thirst and heat.
Once their lips met without a gap, neither could break away.
Thinking he wouldn't be able to bear it if he started, Baek Giha had been enduring his desires with very short kisses.
His prediction was not wrong. This.
Clenching his teeth and shutting his eyes tightly, Baek Giha soon gripped the nape of Sehwa’s neck fiercely, as if he could no longer hold back.
“Hoo, hoo.”
How could he endure this? How.
He sucked on what was between their lips so hard it tingled. Only then did it feel like he could breathe.
How long had it been since he had inhaled her breath so fully? In an instant, flames erupted before his eyes.
He couldn't even express how much he wanted to touch her.
He wanted to embrace her so tightly his head would spin, to delve deep inside her until he couldn't breathe.
His patience, which had been maintained on a knife's edge, seemed to have reached its limit.
He knew he couldn't stop, but truly, he couldn't stop.
Even while worrying about her, the sweet taste of her warmth, savored after so long, seemed to make him lose his mind.
“Hah. Hahk.”
Panting gasps were trapped in the steam and rose upwards.
As they pulled each other as if to crush one another, water splashed endlessly.
The waterproof mat placed under the tub had already lost its function.
A powerful arm, flushed from the hot water, finally lifted her slender body and stood up.
Water stains dotted the path to the bed, and wet clothes thrown on the floor revealed the couple's hasty affection.
Laying her body, not yet dry, on the bed, he kissed every part of her face without missing a spot.
Chup. Jjok. Jjok.
Just by placing her white body beneath him and audibly sucking on her transparent skin, his head grew hot with desire.
Still, there was something he couldn't forget, so with one hand, he fumbled through the drawer next to the bed.
As the sound of porcelain bottles clinking was heard, he opened the lid of a bottle he had taken out without looking, using only one hand.
“Just a moment.”
Then he swallowed the contents of the bottle in one go.
“What was that just now? What did you drink?”
“It’s nothing.”
As he twisted his head to bite her neck again, she pushed him away slightly.
“What did you drink?”
Covering her body with the blanket, she got up and looked inside the drawer he had just rummaged through.
‘What is this?’
In the largest bottom drawer, which she had never opened, about a hundred bottles were lined up in neat rows.
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