Chapter 444 - Human Way

The shock was too much that Vera had a hard time believing it. Was this truly happening? Why would he be angry? No, that could not be… It was not like he… no, it must be because he was just disappointed that he thought someone else had…

"And what… what are you going to do if I tell you?" Vera asked in a soft voice, her gaze scrutinizing him. Her heart was flip flopping between wanting to hope for more and shooting herself down to not expect too much.

His jaws worked once again and for a long while, he just stared hard at her until he shut his eyes in exasperation. When he opened those blue orbs of his again, the anger in them seemed to have subsided. "If that is the case… I'll overwrite them all." His dark voice was low and rich now, husky and seductive in her ears. "All those fucking men must be terrible teachers. They freaking failed big time to teach you well enough." That tinge of anger was back as he viciously mentioned all those non-existent men. Vera could not wrap her head around the implications on what Gideon had just uttered and her heart rate spiked dangerously high.

And before a sound could leave her mouth and before she could even manage to formulate a response in her mind, his mouth had descended swiftly over hers and sealed it possessively. Vera's eyes widened at his dominating actions. He was… kissing her… voluntarily…?

Her mind seemed to have immediately suffered a great shock. This was definitely not her first kiss. She had been kissed by a few boys before the tragic death of her father. And the very last time she had been kissed before Gideon found her was another nightmarish experience. It had been by force and from one of her mother's filthy lovers. She had barely managed to escape the man's grasp before he could do anything more repulsive to her. But that experience alone was enough to be etched firmly in her mind since then like an awful scar, doomed to forever be there like an unsightly brand taunting her. It was so disgusting she had thrown up upon returning to her room, unable to keep it back in her throat any longer. That night, she was so mentally disturbed by that experience that she could not bring herself to sleep.

Vera had thought that she would not be able to kiss anyone ever again in her entire life without being reminded of that awful experience. But it seems that she was wrong. Because right now, her mind seemed to have forgotten about everything and anything else, there was no one else that existed other than him and her right now. All she could feel currently was the welcoming warmth of his mouth, his dextrous tongue exploring the insides of her mouth, sucking on her own with a kind of delicious and delicate greed.

It was inexplicable. Was this real? This was not some kind of magic or spell that he had placed on her, right? Were kisses supposed to be like this?

If this was not some kind of spell, if this was what kisses are supposed to feel like, then, this would be the very first time she is experiencing a real kiss. It was as though there was a kitten clawing away at her heart with its small and not quite sharp claws, resulting in an itchy, ticklish kind of feel on her insides.

She suddenly wanted to reach out her hands to touch him, but he still held her wrists captive. He, however, did not stop kissing her until Vera began to feel a slow, fiery warmth spreading all over her. His body over her was not even touching hers and yet she seemed to be feeling the heat he was exuding. Or was it hers? She could no longer tell. Her mind seemed to be encased in a thick later of cotton that muted everything else except what he was making her feel.

Vera desperately kissed him back. She was not as skilled as he was, but she was not a total novice. And by gods, kissing him was like tasting the forbidden foods of the gods.

But all too soon, he pulled away. His now fiery blue eyes were wide as his breaths came out in warm puffs, caressing sensually across her face. "Your… lips," he uttered hoarsely, and Vera saw blood on his lips as well. "It's bleeding." He cursed and abruptly, he pulled her up into a sitting position.

Something dark was already coming from the tip of his forefinger in an undulating wisp and was headed for her lips. But he cursed again, gritted his teeth as his magic did not seem to work on the cut on her lip. He had completely forgotten that humans do not respond to magic.

"Tell me, what's the human way to stop the bleeding?" he asked in an urgent voice. What? Human… way?

"I'm fine." she brushed his concern off as she moved to wipe the blood off with her fingers when Gideon caught her hand again, stopping her. She looked at him and blinked in confusion. What was the big deal? It was just a crack in her lips that bled.

"Stop touching it so recklessly like that. You're making it worse." He warned irritably and Vera continued blinking at him.

"No, it's… It will eventually heal. Don't worry." She brushed her tongue over her lower lip and that only caused Gideon to crease his brows.

"Don't tell me licking it is the human way… ?" Gideon murmured to himself. But due to their close proximity, Vera heard what he said.

What? Vera was still processing what he had said when he suddenly sighed and moved closer.

"Leave it and let me. I know males could heal you humans better." Then he began licking her lip. W-what? Where did he even hear of such a thing? Wait… was there such a thing in the first place that she did not know about? But his confident statements and actions did not seem to be fake. She was suddenly confused.

But Vera did not speak anymore. She just could not. The tip of his warm tongue had started licking across her lips and rendered her utterly speechless that she even shut her eyes to just enjoy the feel of it. What is going on? Why… why is he doing this? However, she was not going to deny herself the pleasure of it even though she was baffled at his actions.

When he finally pulled away, Vera opened her eyes as well and stared hard at him.

"Gideon…" she called his name in that sweet tone of hers and he stilled, his gaze on her lips slowly travelled back to her eyes. "Are you… worried about me?"

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