When the Witch is Imprinted

His heart raced with excitement or fear.

At last, seeing that he had Luce in his grasp, Carlyle hurried up the stairs. As expected, the second floor was decorated as Luce’s private space.

Creak-

He found the bedroom without difficulty and put Luce down on the bed that seemed too narrow for the two of them to lie on.

“Ah!”

“Wake up. It’s almost impossible to run away from here.”

Carlyle did not give up and gently subdued Luce’s shoulder, who was trying to get away from him, with force. He grabbed Luce’s stomach at once like a leaping wild beast to break Luce’s will as if to scare her on purpose.

Common brown hair and more common features. And the small but thick-lined skeleton looked like a man from every point of view.

‘Definitely. This aura is certain.’

But even the perfect trick didn’t work for Carlyle, who had the ability to recognize the special person called his companion. He couldn’t remember Luce’s face, but Carlyle was convinced that the man trapped in his arms was the ‘Ruby’ he met at the inn that day.

‘Why did you have to hide your identity? To run away from me?’

It was just one thought, but he felt very dirty. Even if it wasn’t true of her, he understood very well in a short time that she was not happy to be reunited with him.

“Now that I know everything, stop using that nonsensical appearance.”

Maybe it was because he realized that the future he had with her would be a thorny road.

Carlyle, who was once more anxious, spoke in a ferocious tone without realizing it, and pressured Luce, who insisted that she did not like it.

“…….”

The fact that she turned her head and shut her mouth stubbornly as if she wouldn’t make eye contact at all was really enough to drive him crazy.

‘Damn.’

Seeing Luce rejecting me reminded me of my deceased parents. After taking his mother, who despised his species, the marquis tried to imprint her by holding her day and night. Her heart was still tightly shut, but through continued sexual intercourse, he finally succeeded in being tied to his companion. Carlyle was a child born in the process.

Naturally, the Marchioness despised her son, a remnant of that horrific day, and she cursed everything about the Winningtons until she died from a wretched ailment. Carlyle grew up learning feelings of abandonment and being shunned from his mother.

She was tragic, but her story was familiar to the Winningtons. If you look at the books that record the history of the family right now, similar stories were poured out.

‘And I’m no different.’

He felt his patience run out. In addition, the unspeakable sadness that he had accumulated over the years hit his heart like a wave.

“Ruby, I don’t want to use force as much as possible.”

“……!”

Carlyle, who had been appealing while clutching Luce’s body tightly as if it were a lifeline, wrinkled his impression as he felt his vision gradually blur. Tears falling silently wet Luce’s clothes.

“Ah…….”

Luce, who did not know that he would even cry, was momentarily bewildered and opened her mouth blankly.

Carlyle stared at her puzzled face with fondness, and covered her warm cheek with his hand.

As he paused for a moment, he recalled the days when he was discouraged by the many estates he searched in the past six years. And in the midst of great disappointment, the moment when he found her in a place he never expected. At that time, Carlyle was just happy to have met Luce.

“By the way, I don’t understand. Obviously, you made a promise to me and the future……. Really, was it all a lie?”

She doesn’t know how much he regrets returning to the castle alone. No matter how lovely and affectionate she was, he should have been more careful. If he hadn’t passed on that day like a fool, would things have been a little different?

‘…… no way. In the first place, isn’t the woman now rejecting me?’

Carlyle stared at the man with a hazy impression under me, trembling anxiously, and sneered.

“Actually, you know everything.”

What? Luce, unable to keep up with Carlyle’s psychology, had a small question, but the voice that whispered to her wounded face was strangely crushing her heart, so she couldn’t say anything.

“That I am a dirty wolf.”

“……?!”

What? It was a story that couldn’t help but be surprising to Luce, who had no memories of that day gone with drunkenness.

“Isn’t it because I’m a disgusting wolf, the fact that you erased my memories and disappeared without a trace, and that my existence is difficult now?”

Disgusting wolf. Those were the words he had to hear tiringly until his mother passed away. Even though he already knew it in his head, the misery poured out as if it was something to spit out directly. If possible, he wanted to remove the traces of the dirty wolf that was soaked in his blood.

Still, I thought we would be different. Carlyle lowered his head in shame, as if he had suffered a brutal heartbreak, and quietly let his tears run down his cheeks. It looked so pathetic and pitiful, for Luce, and for a moment, she felt like she had become a huge sinner.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t remember anything.”

“Then why did you run away that day?”

“…….”

“Stop telling lies.”

Carlyle raised his head coldly, staring at Luce with bloodshot eyes, and uttered destructive words like a moth leaping into the flames.

“No matter what you think of me, I don’t want to let you go.”

Carlyle sneered at her coldly as if it was funny even after she spit it out. When he also met his companion and was in a similar situation, he understood the destructive feelings of his father, who forced his mother to embrace him and put her next to him in the past. It was the twisted deficiency mixed in their blood that they had to have their comparison, even if they had been desperately destroyed.

Carlyle laughed coldly to see if it was funny even after I spit it out.

“Ah…… !”

“I intend to finish the imprinting by force here, and I will keep you by my side until the day I die.”

He emphasized the word imprint to Luce. She didn’t know exactly what that meant, but she felt it wasn’t very good for her, so she tried once more to shake off Carlyle’s arm.

‘Please let me go!’

What was this man thinking? One thing was certain: he was obsessed with her beyond understanding. Besides, he didn’t seem have any sense of guilt about this situation, so she had an ominous feeling that he would be more than capable of completely arresting her.

“So come back to your original form, Ruby.”

“Please let me go……!”

Carlyle tenderly urged him, and Luce struggled like a beast caught in a net, and at the same time, a holy white light enveloped Luce’s body. It happened in an instant.

‘No……!’

Luce, who knew all too well what the present light means, screamed inwardly and hurriedly covered her face.

The ordinary man with the scent of medicinal herbs disappeared, and a woman with red and luscious hair sat naked beneath him.

“Hng……!”

“Ha, Ruby.”

Carlyle said softly to Luce, whose stomach was trembling more than before, clutching Luce’s rich chest as if it were his.

“You have to show me your face.”

“Please……!”

“No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t remember so I about about to go crazy.”

Carlyle grabbed Luce’s slender arm and pulled it out. Luce desperately persevered and resisted tenaciously, but it was impossible to defeat a man who had been trained in the first place by force. The white arms were ripped apart as Carlyle wanted, revealing the face she had been hiding as if it were a precious treasure.

“……!”

Carlyle seemed to have stopped breathing when he saw Luce’s red eyes that were vivid and intense, unlike his eyes.

Eyes that were wet like a frightened deer, a nose that slides gently, and lips that were covetable enough to make any man laugh.

“……witch.”

Carlyle muttered blankly without realizing it.

“……!”

Of course, from Luce’s point of view, it couldn’t be helped. He found out what she wanted to hide the most.

‘Ugh……!’

Now I’m going to die. I will be horribly murdered. A trauma from the past that had barely been forgotten suddenly came to mind in Luce’s head, who had been thinking scary thoughts.

‘This wicked bitch……! You dare to deceive me!’

A father who has whispered his love until this morning brutally murdered her mother when he found out about her mother’s identity. She returned to her house just in time and witnessed the scene and saw that he looked at her with a filthy, monstrous gaze filled with hatred.

A lot of red blood in the peaceful family. Her mother’s body, which collapsed helplessly like a crumbling sandcastle. The vivid horror of that day…… There were terrible moments when I ran down the dirt road to the point where my soles of my feet were scratched while swallowing nausea.

‘Now, like mother, I am finally to this man…….’

They all came together like a lump, threatening Luce, who was not yet free from that day, and rushed in.

“Ah…….”

“Ruby!”

Unable to endure the excruciating pain, Luce eventually lost her mind.