CH 57

Elena eventually stood up from her hiding spot. She wanted to stop Gareth before he smashed all the silverware in the kitchen to pieces. Moreover, she felt as if she was going to burst into tears if she listened to his desperate voice any longer.

Gareth soon noticed her and strode towards her while staring at her with a frighteningly bizarre glow in his eyes. Once she was within reach, he immediately grabbed her face with one hand and lowered his head, then violently pushed his lips against hers without giving her any time to react.

Elena gasped at his sudden action. She had no choice but to bend her neck backwards, or rather, her neck was forced to bend backwards. Gareth tightly clasped her waist with his hands and pulled her closer to him. He then parted his lips and hurriedly devoured Elena’s lips, unconcerned about where he was and who might be watching.

Everything had happened in an instant, and although Elena had instinctively sensed a strange atmosphere from Gareth as soon as she saw him, he was more destructive than she had expected. Feeling Gareth lift her up onto the wooden table behind her, Elena desperately struggled to push him away. However, Gareth simply proceeded to grope her body as he kissed her. His lips eventually trailed down her neck and arrived at her breast, biting her nipple through the coarse fabric.

“Stop. Stop!” Elena ended up shouting and pushing Gareth away harshly. She was beside herself with embarrassment, as Gareth was treating her like a whore in front of all the maids.

However, Gareth simply ignored Elena. All he could focus on was her reddened face, disheveled black hair, and the sweet breath he could feel whenever she exhaled. ‘Damn it. What do I do…’ Gareth hazily thought, feeling his undying thirst finally begin to subside as his desires increased. Having lost his sense of reason, Gareth tightly grabbed Elena’s wrists with one hand, holding them in place. He felt the same as when he would become overwhelmed with bloodthirst, but this was the first time he was frenzied without having killed anyone, which only made it more unbearable. Gareth forcefully spread Elena’s thighs apart and moved closer.

“Sir Gareth, please don’t do this here,” Elena pleaded.

“It’s Gareth. Say my name, Elena. Stop talking to me in that goddamn formal tone,” Gareth snarled, then grabbed the front of Elena’s dress as if to tear it apart.

Elena glared at Gareth as she panted in fear and shame. The man seemed to be out of his mind, looking completely different from usual.

“If you call me ‘sir’ one more time, I will kill you,” Gareth spat out terrifying words through his neat teeth.

Elena remained silent, her emerald eyes gradually turning dark.

“Why are you driving me crazy and irritating me like this? What’s so important about getting married?! Tell me what it is, because the only thing important for me is to survive each day somehow. You can’t whine and cry and rely on being my wife, Elena. You need to realize that I’m a mercenary and that I can die any day!”

Gareth overlapped his lips on top of Elena’s again and squeezed his burning tongue between her lips, taking control of the inside of her mouth without permission. He caught her tongue, preventing it from avoiding contact with his, then began to suck without reserve. Gareth then pushed his manhood firmly against her.

Elena suffocated from Gareth’s violent kiss until he eventually let her free. Having gotten a chance to speak, she begged, “Please don’t abuse me like this.”

“Abuse you? You’re the one who made me become like this!” Gareth thundered, causing his voice to bounce off the kitchen walls and pierce Elena’s ears again.

‘He’s… saying this is because of me? I can’t believe it…’ Elena began to think, but was interrupted by Gareth tightly grabbing her breast. She gasped in surprise.

“Do you know who I’m really abusing?” Gareth whispered into her ear with a devilish voice. “I become a dog when I’m caught up in an uncontrollable thirst for blood. I choose to become a dog before I go around committing random murders. Do you know what I do after that? Remember what happened when I killed four men in front of you?”

Elena flinched. Remembering what happened, her face became stained black. ‘Back then… he looked like he wanted to kill himself. Is that what he means? Is he doing that not to kill other people? Why is he living such a crazy life?’

“Do you want a family that bad, Elena?” Gareth continued as he continued to squeeze her breasts roughly. “Do you want to die in a pool of blood as well? Do you want to leave me here all alone?”

‘What is he… talking about?’

“I hear screams every night. They’re from my family I couldn’t save. I can’t sleep when I hear them, because everything turns into a nightmare. Do you want to scream like them as well? Is that what you want?”

Elena couldn’t understand everything Gareth was saying, but could realize that he had witnessed the death of his family.

“…What happened to your family?” Elena asked carefully.

Gareth roughly grabbed his chest at that moment as if he couldn’t bear to listen to her question. Elena could understand the reason he had lived his life the way he did until now. After this realization, Gareth’s black eyes began to look different. His ruthless lips also showed that he was living a bleak life filled with pain and sorrows.

Elena’s heart began to ache for some reason. ‘How could I feel so sorry for a terrible man like him… I must be going crazy. I must be… going crazy about him.’

Elena raised her head and kissed Gareth gently on the chin, prompting Gareth to lower his hand that was grabbing his chest. Elena then kissed Gareth a few more times, following his jawbone. Gareth’s lips then approached her, longing for her lips. Elena overlapped her lips on top of his.

Gareth closed his eyes as Elena’s lips opened and her sweet saliva entered his mouth. He could feel her lips feel around his and suck gently as if to savor his taste. Gareth placed both hands at Elena’s sides and moved closer to her. Elena then placed her hands on his chest before wrapping them around his neck. Her warm tongue gently pushed into his mouth.

Gareth hugged Elena tightly as he sucked on her tongue. The two only focused on each other and indulged in each other’s taste until they couldn’t endure it anymore.

When they finally separated their lips to breathe, Elena whispered, sounding out of breath. “Gareth, take me to your room. Please.”