Touch me and I’ll kill you

“Actually, I had a vague idea.”
It was an experience that would be traumatic for anyone.
So, Selene felt sorry for Theron.
Even while her mind was clouded with jealousy at the sight of Theron, who couldn’t enter the water alone, recalling his dark past.
‘Inhumane.’
Selene was engulfed in a rare feeling of misery.
“I’m sorry, Theron.”
“Huh…? For what?”
“For questioning you like that today. My feelings came before your pain.”
At Selene’s apology, Theron shook his head.
“It’s fine, so don’t be sorry. I’m just angry that I can’t even save you if you fall into the water.”
Theron let out a deep sigh, as if he couldn’t stand the situation that hadn’t even happened.
He had a frustrated expression.
Selene comforted such a Theron.
“I won’t fall in the water anyway.”
“You never know what will happen to people.”
“Do you wish that would happen?”
At Selene’s clumsy comfort, Theron had a dumbfounded face.
Still, his furrowed brow had smoothed out, so that was good enough.
Theron, who was pouting, cautiously glanced at Selene.
“By the way, how do you feel when you hear stories like this…?”
Selene tilted her head slightly.
“What kind of stories?”
“My gloomy past, I mean. Isn’t it surprising that it’s so different from how you’ve lived, or do I look a little different to you?”
Although he was asking in a roundabout way, if she were to grasp the intention of the question, it was asking if she disliked him.
‘Because she had said she would gauge their relationship based on how different they were.’
“It is surprising. I don’t think ordinary people have such experiences either.”
“Well… that’s true.”
“But I don’t think you look that different. It’s not like you chose to go through those things.”
She didn’t know if it would be different if she learned something else, but for now, she just felt sorry and pitiful for Theron, who had suffered misfortune for no reason.
Selene wondered if her feelings would hurt Theron.
Many people disliked being pitied.
Fortunately, as if he hadn’t noticed her inner thoughts, Theron continued with another question.
“If I were to take you to the place where I lived as a child, would you be alright?”
“The place you lived…?”
“There is. A dark back alley where someone like you would never even go near.”
Although Selene had never been to the place Theron was talking about in person, she had seen it in the newspaper.
That crimes like murder and assault often occurred there.
“If that’s a part of you that you want to show me, I’m willing to go.”
At Selene’s words, Theron let out a hollow laugh.
“What if I answer seriously? It was a joke. I can’t say anything to you.”
“I answered with the meaning that I could go anywhere with you to get to know you.”
At Selene’s sincere reply, the tips of Theron’s ears turned red again, as if he had been drinking.
Then he muttered to himself as if in lament.
“Anyway, sometimes it seems like you’re born to seduce people…”
Selene did not hear.
“What did you say?”
“Nothing. By the way, what I said earlier was just a joke. I don’t want to take you to such a dangerous back alley. It’s too dirty for someone like you to go.”
‘Then what kind of meaningful place would there be to get to know Theron?’
As she was thinking and scanning Theron from head to toe, his thick-knuckled fingers caught her eye.
Fingers.
The image of Theron, playing a jazz piece, came to mind.
“How about a pub?”
“A pub…?”
“I want to go to the pub you worked at when you were young. You said you learned the piano there.”
Selene knew that the piano was both a painful and a joyful memory for Theron.
So, she wanted to go to the place in the past where Theron had purely enjoyed the piano.
The place where his pure passion had shone.
“Um…”
“You don’t want to?”
“Honestly, it’s not a place with only good memories. I didn’t tell you in detail, but I hurt my finger there.”
‘Ah. Come to think of it, Selene didn’t know when and where Theron had hurt his finger.’
Theron scratched his cheek with an awkward face.
“It’s not that I hate the sight of it, but it’s been so long that I don’t know if the pub is still there.”
“If it’s gone, we can’t help it.”
“Now that you’ve brought it up, I think I want to go too… now that my heart doesn’t hurt when I see a piano.”
Selene pictured Theron, who had been fidgeting in front of the piano, and smiled gently.
‘Theron at that time was like a little boy trying hard not to look at a delicious-looking candy in front of him.’
‘The fact that he couldn’t play the piano due to an accident must have been a big wound for him.’
“I want to see Theron’s finger.”
Selene suddenly felt the urge to examine Theron’s finger in detail.
“Is that okay?”
“…”
Even though Theron did not answer, Selene pulled his hand towards her and began to examine the long, thick fingers that were different from her own.
“Where did you get hurt?”
“…This finger.”
Theron answered, tapping his third and fourth fingers on his right hand.
Although the knuckles were particularly prominent compared to the other fingers, the shape was not very different, so it did not look like it had been injured.
‘It must have been because a lot of time had passed.’
“It must have hurt.”
“Well… I guess so.”
Selene was not the type to deeply empathize with the pain of others.
However, Theron’s past related to the piano particularly made a corner of her heart ache.
It was the same now.
Even after confirming the shape of the seemingly fine finger, she did not feel good.
“But Selene. How long are you going to keep touching my hand?”
Just then, at Theron’s words, Selene lifted her head.
“Is it uncomfortable?”
“No, you’ve been groping me all over with an indifferent face as if you have no intention, but the person on the receiving end is not so indifferent.”
At Theron’s remark, Selene felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
She had examined Theron’s hand so intently before.
‘Was it at the art museum?’
“You may not know, but touching someone’s hand here and there while saying you want to look at it is also an old-fashioned seduction technique.”
“Old-fashioned…?”
“It’s just a saying. Because you have no intention of seducing me. But the problem is, I get seduced even if you just brush my fingertips.”
As he said that, Theron pushed Selene’s shoulder.
Her unbalanced body easily fell onto the bed.
“So, choose. Either you touch me elsewhere, or you let me touch you here and there.”
Selene, who had belatedly grasped the situation, looked at Theron with a furrowed brow.
“I don’t want either. I was just trying to look at your hand, so why should I have to?”
“Then how long do I have to keep getting turned on and then taking care of it myself?”
‘Take care of it myself?’
Although it was a statement Selene could not understand exactly, she vaguely felt that Theron was making a lewd joke.
“Theron Cox. Your vision is clouded by lust right now.”
“It’s always cloudy, so don’t worry.”
“I was never worried. And get off my body.”
However, Theron was already stealthily climbing onto Selene’s body, and he lowered his head to bring his face close.
“I’m drunk, can’t you just let it slide once?”
“I know you’ve sobered up.”
“No. My face is still so hot.”
Theron grabbed Selene’s hand and made her bring it to his cheek.
At the same time, he stealthily rubbed his hot cheek against Selene’s hand.
“Then I won’t touch you, so just let me kiss you.”
“…Get down.”
“Just a kiss…”
Theron said, as if begging, and lightly kissed Selene’s lips.
Peck.
A sound was made as their lips touched and parted quickly.
However, the blue eyes, filled with heat, were still in front of Selene’s eyes.
At his earnest gaze, Selene could not refuse.
She was weak to those blue eyes.
“Theron Cox…”
“Yes.”
“If you touch my body, I’ll kill you.”
Theron, who had grinned, immediately swallowed Selene’s lips.
The clashing lips were as hot as the heat radiating from Theron’s body.
As if he had been waiting for this act all along.
However, even though it was their first kiss in a long time, Theron did not rush, but stole and tasted Selene’s lips meticulously, as if licking flowing honey.
Selene’s gently closed eyelids trembled slightly.
‘Yes. A kiss with Theron felt like this. Delicate yet intense, affectionate yet rude.’
When their breaths mingled between their touching lips, it gave a quite large sense of satisfaction and stability.
And yet, when his tongue pushed its way through the gap, her mind gradually went blank, and she became so focused as if only the two of them were left on this earth.
Selene was soon clutching Theron’s hair tightly.
Her lower abdomen was getting hot, and desire was stirring.
But Selene thought that the sound of their breathing, connected by their lips, was enough for now.
‘With that, she didn’t think she would regret allowing this kiss today.’