Chapter 106: Chapter 54.2

“I feel hot. You sit here.”

After proudly putting him in his place, she glanced at Vihani and guzzled her champagne.

“Are you worried?” He just threw it out without thinking it was true, but it somehow made Yernia anxious.

Cassian felt thrilled when he saw her in a daze, as if she had realized something she hadn’t known in the first place.

Yernia was now conscious of him; it didn’t matter what she felt or thought.

The only thing that mattered was… she was finally aware of him other than her childhood friend.

Cassian thought he should be more proactive in his approach.

He looked at his body in the mirror.

He should use what Yernia liked a little more.

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These days, Cassian became more persistent when guiding after the cruise.

If he needed it this often, she had no idea how he was able to suppress it until now.

His demands seemed never-ending after claiming he found it hard to control his powers, but he needed to calm down.

And, also…

“Yernia, kiss me.”

Guiding had turned into kissing, and she hated her responsibilities lately.

However, this wasn’t done on purpose.

Yernia just couldn’t differentiate guiding from intimacy.

Before she knew it, her dirty mind had attached guidance to kissing Cassian.

“I already guided you a lot, Cassian.”

“Do you think I’ll be able to control myself today?”

Yena shook her head firmly.

“Let’s just hold hands.”

Cassian kissed her lips as soon as she woke up this morning.

Surprised, she tried to stop him, but he made ‘guiding’ his excuse.

She doubted whether her guiding was proper, but Yernia just let it slide since she couldn’t win against him.

“Why?”

“You’ll ask me to guide you again during the night.”

“You know me too well,” Cassian said boldly as he stared straight into her eyes.

Yernia refused to back down.

“You should look at our surroundings.”

“What do you mean?”

“Look at the rest of the world watching us.”

Cassian glanced around, wondering what caused Yernia’s concern.

As he blinked, his assistant and the rest of the servants staggered back.

“Is there any problem now?”

Cassian clasped Yernia’s wrists with one hand, urged her to lower her head, and pulled her behind his back.

“Just go away, Cassian! Don’t follow me to the garden.”

After packing some shovels and seeds to plant new ones, Yernia went to the garden to tend to her flowers.

Unfortunately, Cassian, who seemed to be in a good mood, appeared out of nowhere and suddenly asked her to guide him.

“What if I go crazy like this?”

I don’t run out of guiding just because I don’t do it once.

“Then I’ll guide you then.”

“Kiss me now.”

“What if you go crazy like this, Cassian?”

“I will not run out of guidance because we don’t do it just once. If that were the case, I would have turned into a rogue Esper in the past after strictly eating what the inhibitors gave me.”

“I’ll guide you then.”

“Kiss me now.”

Because of Cassian, Yernia kept mistaking ‘guidance’ for kissing, and it felt like he was doing this on purpose.

Now, it felt like they were kissing because they liked each other even if the truth was… she was only trying to suppress his  powers.

“I have to plant some flowers. If you aren’t satisfied with just holding hands, then let’s not do it.”

“How about a hug?” He asked sulkily.

Yernia found it cute, but she erased that thought out of her mind.

Who was cute?

Cassian?

The man was stubborn.

“You don’t know much about guiding.”

“As a guide, I know better than you.”

Yernia realized it wasn’t true.

She was unaware that guidance would become stronger with more physical contact than holding hands until Cassian told her about it.

“Really? Prove it to me.”

Yernia decided to ignore Cassian by pushing him away and turning her back on him.

She didn’t want to listen to him anymore.

Still, Cassian followed as he told her that he was about to die and would collapse.

Ignore.

She must ignore him and keep walking forward.

Cassian didn’t follow her at once, and she headed to the garden with a light heart.

She watered the flowers and pulled out the withered ones.

Then, Yernia’s movements slowed as she shoveled the soil to plant new seeds.

Something bothered her greatly.

“What if he lost control?”

She knew it wouldn’t happen because she guided him  this morning, but she couldn’t help but be worried.

In the end, Yernia went back.

“Are you here to guide me?”

Cassian was standing there when Yernia strode towards him and wrapped him in a hug but the difference between their physiques made it look like he was hugging her.

Cassian felt a bit stiff as he hugged Yernia.

This time, Yernia’s arms around his waist flinched.

“Don’t hold yourself back. I’ll just keep hugging you.”

“Then where do I put my arms around?”

“Just focus on guiding me.”

It felt strange because she hadn’t thought of hugging him before to guide.

At the moment, neither Cassian nor Yernia could do anything except focus on each other.

Whether holding hands or hugging each other, these intimate physical contacts felt dangerous to Yernia.

“When will we have our child?”

“What?”

“Why are you so surprised? I just said it because you looked so flustered.”

Having a Cassian’s child?