When A Ghoul Falls In Love - Volume 1 Chapter 153

My body reacts to his kiss as if he is the melting sun and I am a mere flower that must bloom under his touches; his grips on my arms loosen up as he takes my lip between his teeth, pulling. His tongue probes my teeth, demanding them to open. When I don’t respond to his teasings, he runs his hands on my skin before he rests them on my waist.

I realize that I am frozen — not because I am disgusted by him. The temperature of his lips is affecting mine. Feeling my heart beating so fast in my chest and my knees getting weaker, I stick my back to the wall of glass; I try to decipher what is going on.

This isn’t similar to Killian’s kiss.

When Killian kissed me, I felt my body turning cold. But this man is putting a fire in my body with a mere clumsy kiss. He is nowhere as good as Baek Joon Woo. And he isn’t even holding me tightly anymore. I know that I am letting him kiss me.

And he knows that too.

His eyes open slightly, looking into mine. My heart skips a beat. Why is it beating for him? I don’t like these overwhelming feelings that are coming out of nowhere. I don’t even know this guy’s name.

Then, he kisses me slowly, sucking my lips. He pecks my chin, trailing my jaw until he reaches my earlobe.

My stomach takes a pleasant turn when he takes my ear in his mouth.

I let out a gasp when he mewls like a cat before he sucks my ear. His hands are on my h.i.p.s now, going lower bit by bit. I grab his hands before they can reach my butt and push him.

However, my tiny strength is nothing compared to this ghoul. He continues to suck my ear, pressing and rubbing his lower body against mine. I feel his hardness poking me.

“Stop!” I shout. “I will kill you if you think of –”

Something warm dribbles on my skin slowly, dropping on my collarbone. I let go of his left hand and touch that place. When I look at my finger, it’s transparent and glistening on my skin.

It’s his saliva.

This guy is salivating for my ear.

“Mhmm.” He m.o.a.ns as he breathes against my ear that is slathered with his saliva, “Delicious.”

“Gross!” I cover my wet ear with my hand and look at him. “Are you a v.i.r.g.i.n?”

He blinks his eyes. “Wife, do you remember everything?”

“I am not your wife.” I take a step backwards. His lips are slightly swollen while my lips feel stinging with heat. How can that be? “You are totally a v.i.r.g.i.n.”

“If you don’t remember anything, how do you know that I am a v.i.r.g.i.n?” His eyes become bigger. “You remember me, Nell.”

“I guessed it,” I say to him slowly because he doesn’t seem like he belongs to an intelligent species. Who would believe that this man is more than six hundred years old? This is insanity! “If you had any experience, you wouldn’t be sucking my ear as if it’s a lollipop.”

The man opens his mouth and then, he closes it. He repeats his action again, blinking his eyes as if he is at a loss. Then, he utters meekly, “You used to let me suck it.”

“I don’t believe that.” Did I forget the last ten years? Can my friends die? I don’t believe this. But why did I react this late to his kisses and sucking? I should have objected the moment his lips touched me. I should have tried to push him away.

“I love you,” He tells me with a clear voice. “I love you a lot. It hurts me that you don’t even remember my name.”

He exhales, turning his back to me. His shoulders quiver weakly. Is he crying again?

“Eli, right?”

In the next instant, he dashes to me and grabs my hands with sparkling eyes and raised brows. “Yes, do you remember something?”

So, it was his voice indeed. I have heard him talking. He was asking me to wake up. I think the second voice that I heard belonged to the cat or the green-haired man.

My stomach sinks with an ominous feeling. Did they truly die?

“Nell, you remember me, right?” He keeps asking me with a desperate voice. “Please say that you remember me.”

The desperation in his eyes seems so real. The voices that I heard were also real. If I believe what I am looking at, it means that they are also dead.

“Even if Baek Joon Woo is dead, I can’t imagine myself with someone else.” My heart throbs painfully. Am I lying? But attraction isn’t the same as love. I can’t love someone else other than Baek Joon Woo. “If I believe what you are saying, do I also believe what that cat said about Baek Joon Woo, my mother, and my friends? All of them are gone? Why am I the only one alive then?”

This is not a dream. I had already found their behaviour odd in my dreams. When I cried about someone poisoning me, they didn’t react. Sometimes, I would say the words that I didn’t want to say. Then, I would forget. At other times, it felt like reels of a movie were repeating and I was only a character who was replaying my role. But I don’t remember everything. Did the movie stop in the middle? Why did I wake up then?

And who is this person who feels so familiar to me? Did I truly forget Baek Joon Woo and get engaged to this man who looks like him?

Did I betray Baek Joon Woo? What about my promise to him? I always said that I wouldn’t love anyone else but him.

The moment I let out a sob, he embraces me tightly. He speaks with a hurried tone, “Why are you asking that question, Nell? Would they want you to be dead? If they truly loved you for a second, they would have told you to live on.”

I would have wanted the same for them. If I had died instead of them, I would have wanted them to live for a long time. Even if I could no longer be a part of their lives, I would never wish death upon them.

This can’t be true. If Killian really killed them…

“I want this to be a nightmare,” I cry while he pats my back. “I want to relive those memories forever if they are truly dead.”

He stops patting my back. “No, I will never allow you to do that.”

I glare at him. “Who is asking for your permission?”

Eli doesn’t smile or frown. He stares at me calmly. “Nell Solomon, I can accept that you don’t have any memories of me, but I will never let you go back and relive those memories. It’s better if you live like this forever. I won’t ask you to remember me again. But you can’t leave me and find your utopia in a mirage that will leave you in pain eventually.”

He sounds like he is warning me. If I cross the limit, he would do something.

“Stay by my side.” He rubs away the tears from my cheeks. “That’s what you promised me. You said that you would live for me. I started to ask more, but I guess that I was being too greedy. Then, I won’t ask for more. Don’t say frightening things like going back to those memories. Live with me in the present. Your life belongs to me.”

I am at a loss for words. What did I do in the last ten years? How could I give my life to him? I have made such scary promises. “I won’t ever love you back.”

“With or without memories, you have told me the same many times.” He exhales, tilting his head, “Nell, do you like me?”

“No.” I shake my head. “I just met you. I don’t even know your surname.”

He chuckles. “I guess that’s true.”

“You just kissed me without my permission.” I furrow my brows. “You don’t even know how to kiss. How could someone so old don’t know how to kiss? Even if I didn’t love Baek Joon Woo, I would have never dated you. How did I say yes to the engagement? You are going to be horrible in bed.”

Eli sniffles, “You taught me how to kiss badly.”

“What the…” I place my hand on my face. “There is no way that you are my lover. Did I lose my intelligence in the last ten years? How could I have agreed to be with someone like you? A ghoul who likes to lick ears in a creepy way… God! What was that?”

“Nell!” The earlicker whines, “I will get better.��

“I don’t want to be your practice buddy.” I shoo him away. “I already had a hard time with Baek Joon Woo. I can’t deal with a v.i.r.g.i.n again.”

“You had a hard time with him.” He looks at me curiously. “Was he truly bad?”

“Why do you want to know?” It’s odd that someone with Baek Joon Woo’s face is asking me that question. “Never mind! I don’t want to know.”

He cups my face and pecks my lips shortly. I pull my head back, resisting hard.

“Hey, don’t kiss me.”

“I want to get better.”

“Kiss someone else.”

“Someone else doesn’t have your lips.”

He pushes me down on the floor and presses me underneath him. There’s a light mischievous smile on his lips.

“I want to visit Baek Joon Woo’s home.” I press my hand on his lips when he bends down his head. “I don’t believe that they are dead. I need to see it with my eyes.”