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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: Did I not satisfy you?

Hyerin was shaking tremendously behind that disgusting fake smile. Her fingers secretly tightened around the hem of her dress, as she tried to be numb from showing her pain.

"You don't have to feel sorry for me or beg, Minjae-ssi."

It's disgusting and making her eyes hurt.

"You did the right thing. If it were me I'd do it too."

It's just that I realized this too late that I fell for a pathetic person of a man. If only I had known this sooner.

But if she did, would her end be any different? In the end, she'll be plagued with this illness. Even if it wasn't Minjae, another man will still bound to abandon her.

She smiled. The kind of smile that was tearing her up inside. Inside, something was already collapsing.

She was the one broken. But he was a damn traitor and a hypocrite.

That night, she watched him walk out the door. He didn't even glance back. Minjae was determined to leave her. To forever leave the home they spend more than three years filled with their memories together.

"Bastard. Minjae, you lying bastard!"

As soon as he left her door, her knees gave out and she collapsed to the cold floor. Hyerin clutched her chest. There, alone, she screamed in bitterness and pain as her repressed tears quickly began to pour and drown her.

"Aghh!"

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The sky had darkened for many days, as if the heavens had mourned with her.

She had been left alone.

No family. No friends close enough to call. Just silence. Just the echo of the doctor's words and the memory of Minjae's back as he walked off her door without turning back.

Rain began to fall. It was slow at first, then suddenly pouring down as though the sky itself had broken open.

During the past days, Hyerin became a headless chicken. Haggard, depressed and skinny. Today, she stepped outside without an umbrella, letting the cold soak her to the skin.

Hoping that the pricking sensation from the raindrops would wash away the searing pain that plunged her upon seeing Minjae's picture perfect profile in a tuxedo, kissing another woman and sealing a lifetime together forever.

Yet, it only made it worse. She felt so dumb and unwanted.

"S-Since when..." Her cold chapped lips quivered as she spoke. Since when are they seeing each other behind her back?!

Her mind was filled with so many questions. Her eyes were red and cold. Did he ever truly plan to marry her? Was it really her condition that drove him away?

"Curse you! Liar! Two-timing bastard!" she cried and cursed through the stormy night where only soaked pavements and hollow street lamps could bear witness in her crestfallen form.

She walked.

She didn't know where she was going.

Her bright eyes looked dead and her soul resembled the desolate streets.

Each step felt heavier than the last. Her shoes were soaked through. Her long, midnight hair clung to her cheeks. She could taste salt, but she wasn't sure if it came from the rain or from her own tears.

What had she done to deserve this?

Why her?

Why did her body choose this betrayal? Why did Minjae...?

She had tried to be good. Tried to love. Tried to live. Was that not enough?

Her legs moved on their own, taking her past silent cars, puddles that swallowed her steps, faces that didn't see her.

She felt invisible. Forgettable. Defective.

She was walking aimlessly like her bleak future when suddenly, the ground rumbled.

A deep vibration pulsed through the earth. Streetlights flickered. Alarms shrieked. The tremor surged like a living thing. Glass shattered in a building nearby.

The girl who had been weak and depressed wobbled and lost her stability. Her breath caught.

She instinctively turned to grabbed on something to steady herself but just in time, a streetlamp swayed and fell on her direction.

There was no time to run and evade.

Tears escaped her eyelids. Hyerin saw her life ending in a flash along with unbearable pain.

And then, she was swallowed by darkness.

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Hyerin woke with a dull ache in her body, but it was the burning pain between her thighs that made her gasp.

Before she could understand what was happening, she felt her bare skin pressed against something cold and smooth, thick and firm, coiled tightly around her lower body.

She froze, her breath caught in her throat. Her eyes widened in fear and her sleepiness vanished at once.

Inside the dimly lit cave, a massive black tail covered in scales was wrapped around her from the waist down like a living shackle.

And beneath her, a figure lay still with eyes close.

It was a man. A beautiful... No, wait... More specifically, a creature having a face of a devilishly handsome young man but with a body of a giant serpent.

Suddenly, she saw the man stirred and slowly opened his eyelids revealing a pair of exquisite crimson red jewels that glowered at her like a meek prey.

Hyerin's body trembled, eventually drowning all her initial admiration with raw fear.

"Woman, stop moving on top of me," the man grumbled sleepily. "You've ridden me night after night until dawn. How are you still not done?"

This damn female. She had sucked all his beast energy that now he was no better than a withered tree root. Just how big is her appetite behind that small frame?

"Did I still not satisfy you?"

Sol gritted and turned to her. His half-open eyes shone fiercely it looked like stars, slowly closing the space between their faces. Seol lowered his head to her shoulder blades.

Hyerin felt his hot breath against her bare skin that made her shuddered with strange familiarity. The blazing sensation of his lips brushing lightly on her fair neck and his teeth nibbling on her flustered skin.

She winced and let out a stifled gasp which she immediately regretted.

Oh god, d-did she just moaned?

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