"What are you doing?" The emperor asked me calmly while the horse gave me a judgmental look.
The horse must be a straight female horse. Why would it hate having a female's face brushing against its arse?
The horse neighed lowly when I didn't give an answer, "Speak, you ugly woman! It is sexual harassment. How could you kiss my arse hole?"
"I am sorry." I gave it an apologetic bow. Something wasn't right.
Did I just apologize to a horse?
I guess I did.
Did that horse talk to me?
It didn't speak the human tongue.
Then, did I understand the horse's neighing?
I gasped, taking a few steps backwards. I recalled what soldiers had said about the Mara tribe when they were taking me to the camp for the first time. It was a rumour that people of the Mara tribe could speak to the animals.
The horse glared at me. It was a female, alright. I didn't need to check her bottom. I already rubbed my face on her arse.
"You are interesting," The emperor told me flatly. It didn't sound like a compliment.
"Give me some time to absorb the shock." I raised my hand. It was a fictional world. I could understand animals. I realized why I transmigrated into a person of the Mara tribe. "I think that I am screwed."
Did that horrible author give me this cheat? This useless cheat? Talking to animals could do nothing. What was I going to do? Play animal kingdom with them?
"You must be tired." The Emperor pulled the horse reins, forcing it to turn around and come closer to me. The rope was long enough to allow the motion.
I wasn't scared. The emperor thought that I was Aloisia. A smart man like him wouldn't accept Aloisia as a slave without a good reason. Maybe he wanted me to raise an army of dead or do some black magic stuff for him. But I could only tell him what his horse's wishes. Since he hadn't touched his sword, I guessed that he wouldn't kill me.
I could talk to animals. Damn! That was my cheat. It was worse than getting killed by the emperor.
Suddenly, he bent down his waist and wrapped his arm around my back, his large hand pressing my boobs. I let out a cry, trying to resist him. In the next instant, I was pulled up and stacked on the horse with my legs on one side and my arms on the other side, head upside down like a bag of sacks lying on the horse's back.
"Hmph!" The horse huffed in rage, "I have to carry my sexual harasser."
Before I could react, the emperor hit the horse's sides with his legs. The horse galloped faster, running along with the wind under a bright full moon. I peeked at the emperor's face. He seemed normal as if he hadn't touched my boobs.
His hands were firm and rough. My boobs were aching because of the sudden touch. I couldn't utter a word because I was busy trying not to fall from a horse while it raced toward the camp.
So, I knew how that horse felt. At least, I apologized.
Karma goes around in an unfair way.
Honestly, I expected a system that would help me get through this mess. But it turned out to be a cumbersome ability like being able to talk to animals.If I could find that author or that damned deity…
I tried to launch another kick but he was quicker. Dante grabbed my left foot, holding them tightly against his chest. He took a glance at my feet that weren't anything pretty. "Do these belong to a duke's daughter?"Perhaps, someone else in my position would feel awkward and ticklish because of the way he was holding my feet. But good looks could not make up f
The evil man started poking the cuts on my feet."Aaa!" I screamed. My eyes welled up. "That hurts! Don't do that, you crazy man!"
"A book." The prince gave me a slow smile. "I want to know which book it is.""It's a book…" I wrecked my brain. What kind of book? I couldn't say that I read the entire story on a laptop screen. I was dying from the poison. "Book of… book of…"
Dante let go of my leg and sat up. There was a large hickey where he had bit me. The blackened vein had turned faint blue. But he didn't seem normal to me.His lips were black. Dante blinked his eyes slowly, looking at me like a drunken man.
"So, he was being nice to you." Harvey gives me a hard look. "But you kept provoking him?"I place my elbow on the edge of the table. "I was just surprised. He was supposed to be a cruel emperor.""Yeah, but he sucked the poison out using his mouth." Harvey chuckles when I make a face at him. "That was thoughtful of him.""It wasn't thoughtful." I pick up the fork and stab the molten chocolate dessert. Two minus one is one. But that emperor tricked me.Not only that there was an antidote to that poison, but the method of sucking out the poison was crude. The antidote was also quite common. All the soldiers carried it in their pouches.The person who told me about the antidote was none other than Aloisia."He killed you twice and treated you nicely the third time." Harvey smiles at me. "Do you truly not think of him now?""He was a fiction
I pressed my finger on the hickey on my thigh. It was red, swollen, and rather hot. I kept thinking about his lip and the way he held my thigh. I wasn't an inexperienced woman, but it had been a long time since I had done it.Leaning against the wall, I found myself thinking about the most douche man in the universe. My friend, Fanny, always said that all women had an ex whom they wanted to throw in the cage of tigers.If I threw my ex I think that the tigers would get diarrhoea if they eat that disgusting creature.As usual, I was thinking about unimportant things.I was free to move, but I didn't leave the camp. There would be guards outside. It was still dark. The mountains could get cold and dangerous. I touched the back of my head. The wound was really gone. Did I really get poisoned?My stomach growled loudly."I am hungry." I lied down on the col
"I was thinking about King Kaige and Count's daughter."Viessa Vorn is Count Vorn's only daughter.
[Interlude]I stop and glance at Harvey. Sitting in his office again, I have a tornado going inside my heart. Sensing that I have paused my narration, he raises his head and meets my eyes. I look away, recalling the moment when Dante had left the room that day.Why do I still feel bad?I am not Dante’s wife. I am not his lover. I am not his woman. I belong to myself. I am self sufficient. I do not deserve men like Dante, Alphonse, or Kaige.But there is still an ache in my chest that won’t go away.So I don’t understand why I still want to cling on to Dante. Is it similar to the time I had clung on Raymond?
[Dante]However, the tumultuous ache didn’t leave him.Noises seemed to have blurred in the background like a lost ray of light that was trailing down from the sky. Kaige was furiously yelling at Alphonse who was looking at his feet and sighing. Savina shrugged, avoiding his eyes.Dante saw guilt in her eyes. Although she had owed him nothing, she was still feeling guilty. He could read human’s emotions easily, especially when he wanted to focus. Right then, she was in his focus. The ache was annoying in his chest, an evidence that he was indeed in love with the crazy woman.It was better if he said nothing. Dante left the room. He didn’t want Savina to see any strange emotions in his eyes. A
[Dante]“I didn’t expect this from you, Alphonse,” Kaige spoked before Dante could say a word.Dante rolled his eyes, but he remained quiet. Something was stirring in his heart. Something that felt better after Savina got off Alphonse’s lap. That ‘something’ was both familiar and unfamiliar. He had experienced it once, but it had never stayed with him for long. Was it love? He didn’t bother to cling to the feeling, and he hoped that the strange feeling would leave him. But it was impossible.His curse was slowly lifting. His heart was thawing, and he was feeling. When did he start feeling for this strange woman? To be honest, he could still pretend until the end that he didn’t feel anything for Savina. At the same time, the for
[Savina]When Dante came into the room, I had an urge to push Alphonse away and beg for mercy.The position was bad.I was sitting on Alphonse’s lap with my arms coiled around his neck. My skirt was lifted, thighs showing, and Alphonse’s one hand was right on it.His lips were close to mine, almost touching. Actually, he was quite stubborn, and it took me a while to seduce him. He was just about to kiss me when Kaige and Dante entered the room.They didn’t even knock. There was no gentlemanly bone inside them. And just why Kaige was looking at me as if he wanted to kill me? I could understand if Dante was offended since I was still his ‘wife’. Kaige
[DANTE]She was there. Alive. Too alive to his liking.Dante wished that he would have preferred it if she was dead or sitting in the same room with the undeads in the next room. If it was possible, he would love to gouge his eyes out by himself. Maybe the book should reset itself, or maybe he should forget everything.But he knew that forgetting was impossible unless Savina could fail again. Since it wasn’t possible, he let out a heavy sigh.Savina didn’t move. She looked at him with annoyance. Her sharp brows shoot up as if she was challenging him while sitting on Alphonse’s lap. Oh, only if she knew who Alphonse was or what kind of crimes he had committed.Nevertheless, he hated remembering how she had loved him while she couldn’t remember
[Dante]Dante rushed into the mansion, trying his best to steel his heart. He couldn’t smell blood except for the dead rotten blood of the undeads. Savina’s blood was too familiar to him. She had died three times
[Dante]As he had expected, Aloisia’s lair was right where it was previously. He knew that she would move to the lands of undeads soon. If his guess was right, there were undeads in the co
[Savina]Alphonse pushed me down on the bed. His body pressed against mine. His hands were on my waist, squeezing them hard as he delved his tongue into my mouth and sucked on my tongue. From a hesitating adult, he had turned
[Savina]I leaned closer and cupped his face, pressing my lips against his. Before I could continue, Alphonse broke away the kiss as he laid his hands on my waist and held me still. I couldn't move. He stared into my eyes and