They Say an Age Gap Like This Doesn’t Even Need Matching - Chapter 67

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Her shoulders.
The graceful curve of her back.
The dizzying line that continued beneath it.
The places I had touched with my hands now carried an entirely different meaning.
I couldn’t tear my gaze away.
It was simply impossible.
Slowly.
Very slowly, she turned her body.
From her prone position, she rolled diagonally to her side and settled onto her back.
That simple movement captivated my gaze and flooded my mind with white noise.
How could she possess such sacred beauty and breathtaking sensuality all at once?
As she lay there adjusting her hair, her expression was utterly composed.
It was hard to believe she had been moaning beneath me just moments before.
Then suddenly, she looked up at me.
Her languid eyes curved into crescents.
“Are you just going to keep staring like that?”
She asked playfully.
Her lips curved upward, as if she had realized exactly where my gaze was fixed.
“….”
Elhart couldn’t respond.
No words came to mind.
No—truthfully, I wasn’t in a state where I could speak at all.
I was completely entranced, capable of obeying any command she gave.
I felt I could topple a nation itself, convictions be damned.
“Hmm… this won’t do.”
She tilted her head curiously, then rose and crawled toward me on her knees.
My gaze remained fixed on her, drinking in her every movement.
My throat moved heavily as she drew closer.
“…Ser.”
My voice was thick and low as I spoke her name.
“Hmm?”
A brief reply came back.
As if she knew nothing.
Or perhaps she knew but pretended not to.
Her pale sky-blue eyes, soft in hue, drew me deeper with their gaze.
I tried to pull back.
I knew I should.
Because I was fully aware that I wasn’t in my right mind.
“Today… I don’t think I can go further.”
“Yeah, I know.”
‘I wonder if she could really be that oblivious,’ she laughed softly.
“Then let me get the oil…”
“Why?”
Why, she asks…?
“You gave me one, so I should return the favor. It’s your turn now.”
“That is… what do you mean?”
“You said you’d never had a massage before. Experience it yourself. See how wonderful it feels.”
Even as she spoke, her hands had already drawn close and were swiftly unfastening the buttons of his shirt.
“Iserna, wait…”
I tried to protest in my confusion, but she merely glanced up at me with her eyes and did not stop her hands.
“You don’t dislike me doing this, do you?”
“That’s not… it’s not that.”
“Good. Then we’re settled.”
A sense of crisis washed over me that this was not what I meant, yet I felt not the slightest inclination to push her away.
My racing heart seemed to betray just how much I was anticipating this, even as I tried to stop her.
The moment her touch would meet my skin.
The mere imagination of it felt almost intoxicating.
…Truth be told, I was already halfway there.
‘How can I be this hypocritical.’
I was nearly disgusted by my own duplicity.
One button, then another came undone.
Iserna’s hands moved with ease, yet without pause.
Each light, fleeting touch scattered my breathing.
“There.”
She slipped the fully unbuttoned shirt from my body.
That unhurried motion was almost like an embrace, our bodies drawing close.
At that soft sensation, I squeezed my eyes shut.
“I’ll set the jacket aside.”
The jacket draped around my waist was removed.
“You seem more tense than I expected.”
What was she looking at to say such a thing?
My clenched lips, perhaps? Or…?
Sitting astride my lap, she picked up the oil bottle.
“Shall we start with your shoulders?”
Before I could answer, she poured the remaining oil onto my shoulders.
Her hands gently worked across my shoulders and the nape of my neck, spreading the oil.
I felt her fingertips trace the contours and form of the muscle.
Then she pressed her palms firmly and began to knead my shoulders.
And that was…
‘Mm…?’
Refreshingly cool, despite how unsuitable it was for the current situation.
“Ah… I really do covet this.”
When I opened my eyes, I saw Iserna with her tongue out, moistening her lips.
“To think you’re this magnificent.”
She gazed into my eyes from close proximity as she spoke.
“You’re the first person whose body I’ve ever coveted, Your Highness.”
As she kneaded my shoulders firmly, her expression was lost in rapture.
‘I’m the one entranced, so why is she…?’
Even in my bewilderment, I had to suppress the sounds threatening to escape.
“If Kailyb had obtained this body instead of Mikhail’s, we would have had to flee.”
“Surely not to that extent.”
“No. That extent is exactly right.”
Her hand, gradually moving backward from my shoulder, caressed my deltoid.
The sensation of her skin sliding slowly across mine was far too vivid.
“You trained today as well? How long?”
“…About four hours.”
I barely managed to answer her somewhat excited words, gritting my teeth.
Our bodies pressed together again completely, and the stimulation felt simultaneously across my chest and back shook my reason.
“With this level of training intensity, muscle rupture would be inevitable, yet your recovery is truly remarkable.”
Iserna seemed to covet my body.
Yet I was going mad coveting hers in an entirely different way.
Just before her hand, trailing down my spine, could reach further below, I urgently opened my mouth.
“Ser.”
“Mm…?”
“I really can’t go any further now.”
At my words, she slowly blinked her eyes.
“The massage is sufficient at this point.”
“Really?”
I nodded.
“So….”
“I know. You want me to kiss you?”
No.
I had clearly intended to head to the bath immediately.
Yet my instinct, betraying my reason, moved my body of its own accord.
As if I had been waiting for this moment, I nodded quickly.
“Then, let me touch you more next time.”
“As much as you wish.”
The moment my answer fell, our lips met.
The slight distance remaining between us crumbled completely as our bodies collided and our breaths intertwined.
Words were no longer necessary.
All the restraint I’d held back came crashing down, and my reason scattered like wind.
I kissed her desperately, as though I would steal every breath from her lungs.
A sweet fragrance rose from her flushed skin.
If I didn’t regain control, I feared I would reduce everything to ruin.
“Haah….”
Elhart squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them.
She was still before me.
Truly, Iserna….
Our bodies intertwined without gap, and her warmth transmitted directly to me.
The frantic beating of my heart and my ragged breathing.
This was already the second time I found myself together with her like this.
Merely acknowledging that fact stripped away my reason.
“Ser….”
A voice, thick and heavy, spilled out.
Instead of answering his call, she blinked slowly and gazed at him.
He pressed his lips to hers without ceasing.
Forehead, cheek, lips, jaw—he lowered his lips without discrimination.
As she steadied her ragged breathing, she gently bit his lips where they met hers.
With her teeth still holding his lips, he lifted his eyes.
Our gazes met instantly.
As I stared, captivated by her eyes, she slowly released my lips.
“Why are you looking at me like that…?”
She asked him in a soft voice.
Elhart struggled to understand what she meant.
She raised her hand and caressed the corner of his eye.
“It’s strange.”
At her murmur, he barely opened his mouth.
“…Is it.”
I suppose I was staring at her far too intently, lost in thought.
“Perhaps it’s because you’re so beautiful.”
At his honest answer, she laughed softly.
That laughter scattered close to me.
In that moment, Elhart’s heart beat all the more fiercely.
‘Ah….’
This was truly a grave matter.
My feelings only deepened with each passing moment.
Words like infatuation or affection were now woefully insufficient.
That despite loving her so deeply and becoming this intimate, she could still never truly be mine—it was maddening.
To remain by her side, I could only suppress myself, and if she ever decided to leave, I would have no way to hold her back.
‘And yet….’
And yet.
To him, she was a miracle.
The greatest fortune he would never experience again in his lifetime.
So all he could do was give his utmost in this moment.
Where reason had completely fled, only sensation remained.
The pleasure, the vertigo, the exhilaration of touching, overlapping, intertwining and feeling.
And so, at least for now, she seemed to fill him entirely.
His existence seemed to be etched vividly into her.
He surrendered to rapture.
In that moment when the standards he had built throughout his life tilted helplessly.
Elhart realized he had crossed the boundary.
Perhaps that had been long ago.
In any case, it was too late. Certainly.
‘So there’s no need to stop.’
It was a simple matter.
‘It cannot be undone anyway.’
There was only one path left.
To honor the rules I had set and love only her—Iserna Airbain.
Having stepped onto this effortless path that required no particular effort, there was no reason to look back anymore.
Elhart, who had been gazing at the enchantingly beautiful Iserna as if mesmerized, slowly leaned his body toward her.
“Ser….”
As their lips met again, he whispered her name repeatedly amid the dizzying sensation and spiritual fulfillment that washed over him.
Indeed, he had no thought of escaping.
From this distant paradise.

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