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Vol 2 Chapter 35: Hunger and Desire
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“Wah!”
Upourning to the inn, Elyssa wasted no time dragging Diana into their room and tossing her unceremoniously onto the bed.
“Elyssa… w-what are you- mmph!?”
Before Diana could finish her sentence, Elyssa’s hand cmped firmly over her mouth.
“Say it,” Elyssa demanded, her tone dripping with authority. “Do you admit your mistake?”
“Mmph… mmph!”
“Hah. Seems not.”
Diana writhed, trying desperately to speak, but Elyssa’s iron grip refused to relent. It recisely the rea Elyssa sought- no ce for her prey tle free, no space for defiance.
“Do you uand the sequences of crossing a Vampire Duke?” Elyssa purred.
Diana shook her head violently, the sound muffled behind Elyssa’s hand.
“Elyssa, please…” she tried to say, but her words were drowned out.
Elyssa chuckled darkly, her lips curling into a wicked grin that sent a shiver down Diana’s spine.
“Oh, poor thing,” Elyssa cooed. “Do you have any idea what usually happens to someone who offends a Vampire Duke? The penalties are rather... severe. Iron maidens, impalements- that sort of thing.”
“!?” Diana’s eyes widened in terror, her imagination running wild. The mere thought was enough to make her tremble untrolbly.
Though Diana was a dragon princess, born with extraordinary strength and endowed with the unique magical prowess of a silver dragon, she was no match for Elyssa- a Duke whose power had long since asded to the lofty heights of the Tenth Tier. Against su oppo, her efforts would be utterly futile.
However, as her panic began to subside, Diana caught a glimpse of Elyssa’s expression. It didn’t seem as though she inteo employ those gruesome punishments. Surely, if that had been her pn, she wouldn’t have brought her here or even bothered with expnations.
Elyssa, sensing Diana’s brief flicker of relief, clicked her tongue in irritation. “Clever little thing, aren’t you? Always thinking oep ahead. Unfortunately for you, none of those methods are on today’s agenda.”
In a fsh, Elyssa’s face was mere inches from Diana’s, her crimson eyes glinting with unholy light.
“You see,” she whispered, her breath warm against Diana’s cheek, “wasting you on something so brutish would be a shame. After all, you’re such exquisite prey.”
Those ruby eyes shone brighter, their eerie glow digging into Diana’s very soul. Although her heart already beloo Elyssa, the iy still sent a tremor through her.
Slowly, Elyssa’s lips drifted downward, brushing against the snowy expanse of Diana’s delicate neck.
“Ahhn!”
A sharp sting pierced Diana’s skin as Elyssa’s fangs sank in. The pain was fleeting, giving way to a strangely euphorisation that flooded her senses.
Vampires, after all, were predators that evolution had hoo perfeany had developed the ability to transform the disfort of feeding into a pleasure so addictive that victims craved their touch. Elyssa, the infamous “Duke of Roses,” was a master of this art. Her prey often found themselves uo resist, falling helplessly under her thrall, much like Diana now.
“...Exquisite,” Elyssa murmured, pulling back at st. A thin thread of crimson glistened betweeongue and Diana’s neck. “You’re so delectable, my dear, I’m tempted to lock you away and make you my private blood bag forever.”
Elyssa licked her lips, sav the lingering taste of Diana’s blood as though it were the fi vintage wine. She gazed down at her prey, whose face was flushed, lips quivering with both shame and longing.
“My, my,” Elyssa teased, running a delicate finger along the spot she’d just bitten. The wound had already healed, the dragon princess’s natural resiliend Elyssa’s eive saliva w in tandem. “I’d thought dragons might resist my venom better than this, but it seems you’re nothing more than a on little fish.”
Diana jolted at Elyssa’s touch, her body betraying her with a shudder. Her legs tightened instinctively, her blush deepening.
‘This… this ’t be happening,’ Diana thought in despair. Her inal pn had been so simple: aa?ve, py the fool, and subtly manipute Elyssa into exposing her softer, tsundere side. It was supposed to be her game. But here she was, utterly overpowered by Elyssa’s sheer dominand shameless fidence.
The tables had turned, and Diana now found herself firmly on the losing end.
Elyssa’s hand moved downward, nding atop Diana’s chest. She smirked. “Sensitive, are we? You’re responding so quickly… what a pathetic little thing you are.”
Her deft firaced zy circles as she leaned close to whisper into Diana’s ear, her warm breath sending another wave of sensation rippling through her.
“Do you realize what you’re doing, my darling? Such tempting behavior- it’s almost as though you’re inviting me. And I am still rather peckish…” Elyssa’s voice was honeyed malice, her crimson gaze flickering with renewed hunger.
Before Diana could plead, Elyssa’s hands shifted to her thighs. With a firm grip, she parted them, the motion precise and unyielding.
“Wait! Elyssa- !”
“Shhh,” Elyssa hushed her. “You should know, there’s another artery besides the one in your neck. Surely you’ve guessed by now?”
“P-please, no…”
“I’m famished.”
Elyssa’s fangs desded upoender flesh of Diana’s ihigh, earning a muffled cry from her prey. The dragon princess covered her face with trembling hands, desperately stifling her voice.
Only when Elyssa was thhly sated did she pull away, lig the st traces of blood from her lips. Diana y beh her, drenched i, her chest heaving with bored breaths.
“You know,” Elyssa mused, runniongue over Diana’s damp skin food measure, “they say the reason vampire saliva induces pleasure is to qui the victim’s pulse and draw out more blood. Fasating, isn’t it?”
“P-please…” Diana whimpered weakly. “I ’t… take anymore. I’m sorry…”
Elyssa tilted her head, smiling sweetly. “Oh, my dear, did you think we were done?”
“W-what…?”
“You see, I’ve two distinct appetites,” Elyssa expined, leaning closer with a mischievous glint in her eye. “One for hunger… and one for desire.”
Diana’s heart sank as a dangerous new iy fred in Elyssa’s gaze. Her predator wasn’t finished yet- not by a long shot.
