SMITTEN

Warning:

There's a steamy scene at the end! Please don't read them if you're uncomfortable. There's more in the next chapter. ;)

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"Mr. Lee! Let me in!" Lady Aisha was shouting outside Leandro's Chamber, waking him up from his deep sleep.

Leandro was already in his bed and dozing. 

He had a rough day. Making a decision to distribute the Spelta that was stored in the Castle warehouse to the Centauri Clan was difficult for him. But he did.

He would have to rely on harvesting Riso for the people in the Castle so that they could have food to eat..

Aside from that, Lady Marina told him about how she and Lady Aisha were involved in a conflict during the tea party.

He wanted to clarify the truth from Lady Aisha and have a talk about their conversation during breakfast. But she said she needed some rest a few hours ago.

"What's with this now?" Leandro growled under his breath as he took off his blanket and grabbed his robe.

"Mr. Lee! I promise I won't sneak out again. It's true this time! Please let me in!" Lady Aisha continued to rant outside his door.

Her voice sounded like she was desperate and even on the verge of crying.

Leandro was a little annoyed and at the same time surprised that he decided to open the door of his Chamber and faced her. 

"Who is Mr. Lee? And why do you want to come inside my Chamber?" He asked in a rough voice. 

It is true that he wanted to talk to her, but not at this hour!

As she saw him, her jaw dropped open. "King Leandro? What are you doing at our house? Are you here to pick me up and bring me back to Gaea?" She asked in bewilderment.

Leandro drew near her as she smelled quite different. He was right. She drank Prunum wine!

With her reddened face and muzzy appearance, she must have drank a lot! And her human body could not tolerate it. It must be the cause why she was hallucinating now. 

To his astonishment, she continued to walk inside his Chamber without his permission as if she owned that place.

"No. I don't want to see you and Lady Marina. I'm staying. I will never go back to Gaea again," She responded sluggishly as she walked in a tipsy manner to his bed.

"Wait!" Leandro tried to stop her. But before he knew it, she was already lying down on his mattress.

"You are in Gaea, my lady. This is my Chamber. And I believe you should also go back to yours," He tried to explain to her, even though he knew that in her state, she would not understand a thing.

Prunum wine could only be found in the kitchen. She must have gone there for midnight refreshments. Of all the wines in Gaea, it has the least alcohol content, making it the most friendly drink during occasions. 

He has no idea that it has that effect on humans. Or was it because she has consumed a lot? They usually drink 1-3 cups during ceremonies. Perhaps she has drunk it with something else that could have hastened its effect in her bloodstream?

"Why are you still there? Go home. I don't want to see you," Aisha said as she tilted her head and narrowed her eyes at him. 

Her thick eyelashes fluttered slowly as if she was having a hard time seeing him clearly. Then her head went back to his pillows. 

Leandro didn't know if he would be irritated or amused with her. She was sending him out of his own Chamber! But what intrigued him was her refusal to see him. 

"Why is that, my lady? Did I do anything wrong that upsets you?" He drew near and sat on his bed. 

Lady Aisha's eyes were still closed. But her forehead was crinkling, revealing her awakened state. 

"Why do you have to talk to Lady Marina that way? Do you still love her? Would you still see her like that even after we're married?" She opened her eyes and asked straightforwardly.

Leandro was taken aback by her question. He didn't know that she saw them talking. He was already on his way to the dining hall when Lady Marina stopped him and told him about what happened. 

Lady Marina was indeed emotive when she talked with him privately. But it was just a normal thing for him. 

Seeing her being affected by it, he decided to just allow her to stay in his Chamber for the night. He wanted to continue conversing with her. 

"Is that the reason why you drink the Prunum wine, my lady? Do you want me to distance myself from her?" He asked as he pulled over his blanket and tucked her under it.

Usually, he felt suffocated when other women cling to his affections, making him distance himself from them. 

He wondered why, with Lady Aisha, he finds it heartwarming.

"Punu wine? I don't know what it is. But if I will be coming back to Gaea, I don't want to see you with other women anymore. If you'll do that, I will just stay here," Lady Aisha's lips pouted. Her pretty eyebrows knitted together.

Leandro couldn't help but smile. "All right, but you have to promise me one thing, too. You will stop finding happiness from other people. That even if you lose everyone that you love, you will still be happy." 

Leandro recalled their conversation as they were having breakfast a while ago. That was what he wanted to tell her. But he didn't know if it would sink into her right now. 

"How could you be happy when you have no one beside you? That is so hard," Aisha answered as she rubbed her forehead and heaved out a sigh.

Leandro drew in a deep breath as he answered, "Yes, it is. But you have to." As he said that, he couldn't help but think back on his own life. 

Since it's making him melancholic, he decided to just shove it away and pulled up his blanket on the other side of the bed. He was just going to sleep beside her.

It seemed that Lady Aisha didn't mind, as she didn't move an inch. 

But Leandro seemed to doubt his decision as the skin on his arms touched her warm side. He didn't know if he could sleep in the same bed with her without having contact! 

And she was drunk. He didn't want to violate her in her vulnerable state.

He tried to move away until he reached the edge of the bed. Then he faced the wall, so she was at his back. 

"Your Majesty?" Aisha said behind him.

"Hmm?" Leandro answered her. But he pretended that he was already asleep.

"Do you still love her?" She continued to ask. 

Leandro couldn't help it but faced her again. 

"I wasn't in love with Lady Marina, my lady," he answered her in an understanding tone. 

He wondered why she was insisting that he was in love with her when he was not. He has resolved to himself to never give his heart to a woman as long as he was alive.

But as he was now facing her, only a foot away from her, his heart started to beat wildly. 

Beads of sweat formed in his forehead as he gazed at her glowing face, her copper eyes covered by her thick eyelashes, her small nose, and her pink moist lips. 

"I see. I thought you fell in love with her because of her boobies. Mine are small," Lady Aisha answered him nonchalantly while pressing her breasts together.

The Prunum wine must have taken all the inhibitions away from her that it's making her extremely bold right now. 

Leandro gulped, a lump in his throat as it suddenly felt dry. Her actions heated up his temperature. 

He drew nearer to her until he was just a few inches away from her. "Do you want to know how I feel about them?" He asked in a hoarse voice.

"Yes," Lady Aisha grinned at him. 

Leandro thought that she was giving him the privilege of invading her privacy by her agreement. 

So he removed the blanket that was covering her and started planting kisses on the curve of her neck, going to the upper part of her creamy, swollen mounds.

"Wait! That's not what I mean," Lady Aisha tried to push him away. 

But her strength was not enough, probably because of her intoxication of the Prunum wine. 

Leandro wanted to stop since he was the sober one. 

But his thirsty lips have already tasted her flesh, and her human feminine scent was like an intoxicating wine that was luring him further. He just had to have her.

His head went down to nibble her left swelling flesh, while his masculine hand caressed the other one, molding and reshaping them at his pleasure.

He felt Lady Aisha froze for a few seconds at what he was doing. But she was not pushing him away.

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The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides