He leaned towards her and licked her sweaty neck before uttering, "that is the least I can do. I can't bite my wife out of hunger."
Isadora's eyes widened when she heard those words from him. Her heart felt like someone was beating it and there was a leakage that was pumping out her blood faster than she expected. And in some odd way, as he leaned towards her, she could imagine her bleeding heart pumping out blood and the neighborhood crown prince sucking from it. That vision was so horrible and at the same time, unnerving. The realisation that he was not a human and he was like acid to a human skin made it even hard to keep standing in his front, and this close.
She immediately blinked out the image of him biting into her skin and plunging into her neck with his animal claws. She had not seen their true appearance aside from Ezekiel, so she was scared that this man's appearance might be worse.
