Lost in the Afterglow

[In a Sleep-Induced State]

Lucian was smiling sweetly, holding Shana’s cheek with one hand. His eyes were unfocused.

“…Lucian, what are you doing?”

But Lucian didn’t answer.

Instead, he began to gently stroke Shana’s cheek with his thumb.

As if handling a precious jewel, his touch was cautious yet suggestive.

Shana tried to pull her face away.

But Lucian, without a care, stroked her cheek and then grabbed Shana’s face with both hands.

“Don’t run away.”

“No, I’m not running away….”

Shana mumbled, her cheeks pressed in.

Then Lucian stroked Shana’s hair and said.

“Yes, you are pretty.”

He was saying it with an affectionate gaze, so Shana couldn’t help but freeze at those words.

‘Was the medicine’s effect too strong?’

Lucian was acting as if he was drunk.

Unlike Shana, who was completely rational.

“Lucian, you can let go of my face now.”

Although it was true that Lucian looked even better than usual, she couldn’t accept this behavior.

How was she going to face him after waking up?

But strangely, Lucian didn’t listen to her words.

This was despite the fact that he usually followed Shana’s words quite often.

“Yes, later.”

Saying that, Lucian brought his lips to Shana’s cheek.

The sensation of his lips lightly touching and falling away was clear.

From the part where his lips touched, the heat spread throughout her body.

Shana was frozen in place.

“…Are you crazy? It’s not a dream, Lucian. It’s because of the medicine.”

How much would he regret this when he woke up?

Shana was sure that she, too, was acting a little strange after waking up due to the medicine, but she was certain it wasn’t this bad.

Lucian looked at Shana at those words and smirked.

“Even if you keep saying that, I know it’s a dream.”

“No, it’s not a dream, you know?”

“It’s over when you wake up… but since Shasha says so, I want to listen.”

Smooch, Lucian kissed Shana’s cheek once more.

This time, a little longer than before. Shana, unable to say anything, froze in place again.

“…Stop it, alright? Pull yourself together!”

“What’s there to be pulled together?”

“It’s not a dream!”

Lucian looked up at Shana at those words and then pinched her cheek.

Looking at the soft cheek that stretched as she held it, Lucian laughed and said.

“Um, it doesn’t hurt, right?It’s a dream after all.”

It was ridiculous.

‘It’s not going to work.’

Now it was time for physical therapy.

Shana decided to awaken Lucian’s mind by lightly stimulating his pain points.

In other words, it meant that she would give him a good punch.

“Wait and see, I’ll show you that it’s not a dream… What are you doing?”

Lucian was lightly, but with an irresistible force, holding Shana’s wrists.

“Yes, Shana. Stay still.”

Shana looked at Lucian with suspicion. And it was at that moment.

[Bind.]

Bind.

Binding magic.

Shana’s face turned pale the moment she thought of the meaning of the magic.

“…Hey!”

As the spell was chanted, two circular magic circles wrapped around each of her wrists, and Shana couldn’t move her hands.

“Why are you doing this?”

“To prevent you from running away.”

Even while saying that, Lucian was looking at Shana as if he was feeling good.

At that moment, the sensation of her wrists tightening poured cold water onto her hazy mind.

“I’m not going to run away! Release this.”

“No, you keep disappearing in the middle.”

She had no idea when she had done that.

Lucian came towards Shana as she was about to pull her hands to escape the bondage.

With the feeling of the bed sinking, Lucian embraced Shana with his arms.

She was being embraced so tightly that she was suffocating.

“So, just bear with it for a moment.”

Lucian patted Shana’s back as he said that.

That touch was gentle, but the intention of the action was clearly to hold her.

Shana opened her mouth in frustration and bewilderment.

What was really strange was that she felt good at the touch with Lucian.

The state where her brain was completely mushy due to the medicine, even though she was holding on with all her might, was the same.

“Lucian… pull yourself together.”

“Um, the real Shasha doesn’t say this. She wouldn’t even talk to me first. She wouldn’t hug me like this either.”

She couldn’t tell what he was looking at her. It was when Shana was letting out a deep sigh.

“Shasha.”

“Why?”

“I’m sorry, Shasha. Don’t go.”

“I’m not going. I have to record the experiment.”

“What record?”

Lucian looked at Shana’s eyes and asked.

“Bring that notebook over here.”

Shana pointed at the notebook with her chin.

Lucian, obediently, released his arms and brought the notebook.

“What should I write?”

“Lucian. Strange. Seems crazy.”

“I’m not strange, though?”

Lucian, smiling, threw the notebook aside and hugged Shana again.

From the way he smelled, he seemed to have passed somewhere along the way, and Lucian’s body smelled like a wet forest.

She was trying to come to her senses when she thought, the smell is nice, for a moment.

‘I have to pull myself together.’

The extraordinary medicine that she had created was making all types of sensations sweet. Especially if it was related to touch.

Shana, wriggling in Lucian’s arms, said.

“You… you’ll regret everything you’re doing now. Wait and see when you wake up.”

“Hahaha. Haven’t done anything yet today, have I?”

“Today?”

It seemed like things were going strangely. Shana looked at Lucian’s expression.

Come to think of it, Lucian had been caressing Shana’s arm since earlier. He began to touch her shoulders and even her neck.

His touch was soft, but his touch that was pressing her felt strange.

Rather than feeling cool, it felt like goosebumps were rising continuously.

Shana, leaving her arms that couldn’t move, pulled her legs.

“You’re being much softer than usual.”

“So, what?”

“Um….”

Lucian brushed aside Shana’s long cherry-colored hair with one hand.

Even the sensation of the palm of his hand brushing against his hair was strangely stimulating.

Lucian pressed his finger firmly as if he was stamping something on the white collarbone, and then kissed the area.

Next came the shoulders, the white neck, and the cheeks.

It had been once each earlier, but this time, he was doing it in succession.

As if savoring a delicious dessert in order.

When Shana was completely frozen and unable to do anything, Lucian said at a close distance where his breath could be felt.

“Like this.”

“I, I, I am.”

As Shana stuttered, Lucian swallowed Shana’s lips.

Lucian sucked on the lips and then put his tongue inside.

Shana clenched her hands at the sensation of him licking inside her mouth.

She couldn’t push him properly because the magic circle firmly fixed her wrists.

A raw sensation that she had never felt before pierced her brain.

Lucian lightly bit and let go of Shana’s lower lip.

“You’re flustered today. Cute.”

Today, today, more than usual. Shana realized that something was strange only then.

Lucian must have had this strange dream several times. In other words, a kind of erotic dream.

So the actions he was taking were natural. He didn’t lack sexual desire, unlike the general opinion.

‘And he’s mistaken that this reality is that dream. Oh my God. So, is it perhaps….’

Shana faced the truth with consternation.

Did he have someone he loved? It couldn’t be her, but he clearly thought it didn’t matter if it was Shana because of the medicine’s effect.

‘What should I do?’

As Shana was bewildered, Lucian began to take off his shirt.

“Don’t take it off!”

“Why?”

Shana hesitated for a moment at the question, as if he couldn’t understand.

It was because of the heat, so she had no choice?

She had already taken off the coat, but wasn’t the room hot anyway?

It also seemed like it was hotter because of the medicine.

‘No! Pull yourself together, Shana Crowell, you fool!’

This was all the effect of the medicine.

And Shana, too, was trying to succumb to the drug’s magic in the middle.

Reason and instinct were fighting fiercely in her head.

Looking at the abdominal muscles revealed between the opened shirt, Shana opened her mouth.

Lucian threw his shirt to the side.

As Lucian embraced Shana again in that state, Shana’s heart began to pound at the touch of their bare skin.

“Shasha, you feel warm today.”

“So, that’s because of the effect of the medicine….”

Shana paused.

Lucian was undoing the buttons of Shana’s slip.

As the slip came off and her bare skin was revealed, goosebumps formed automatically, and her body was getting warmer.

Lucian was slowly circling his hand and touching Shana’s stomach.

Shana lightly trembled because the movement was so sexually intended.

“Lucian, Lucian?!”

“Yes, yes.”

Lucian wasn’t listening at all.

Shana realized that she had been mistaken all along.

She thought the conversation was going on normally, except for the strange reaction, but it was actually not at all.

Lucian’s reply to Shana’s words was close to mere amusement.

At least, it seemed as though no words were getting through properly.

Because he firmly believed that this situation was a dream since earlier.

Shana curled up her body, but Lucian burrowed into her and stroked her back.

Lucian’s body felt hotter than before.

As Lucian got on top of Shana and thump something firm touched Shana’s thigh.

As Shana was bewildered by the heat and size, Lucian said with a smile.

“Don’t worry, Shasha. I’ll make you feel good.”