A Wolf's Howl, A Fairy's Wing-Chapter 613 - Leila [2/2]

With his hands remaining in his pockets, Erik resisted Leila's strength with barely any effort. He smirked casually and tilted his head. "Why would you think I'd just lie down and let you do as you wish?"

Leila pouted surprisingly cutely. "Because you're clearly a horny pervert who can't keep it in his pants!" Finally deciding her efforts were useless, she removed her hand from his chest and took a step back.

Indignantly, she pirhouetted to show off her body again, before glaring at him with both hands on her hips. She was clearly proud of her obvious beauty. "I refuse to believe you don't want to get with me!"

Smiling confidently, Erik shrugged. "Right on both counts, Leila. I can definitely be classified as a horny idiot, and there's no doubt I'd love to get my hands on you."

"Ha!" Leila laughed victoriously. She pointed at him with one hand and grinned widely. "I knew it! Well, the only way you'll get to touch me is if you submit to your mistress!"

Erik couldn't suppress a chuckle as he shook his head. 'Man, Naeku's aunt reminds me so much of Nora… She, too, was overconfident in her own ability to persuade and dominate. But, in the end, Nora only ever played with first rankers, and this Leila only interacted with her family's subjects.'

'Still,' he continued with an inward, almost regrettable sigh. 'I can't handle this one the same way I did Nora. In fact, I'm not going to do anything with her at all. Not yet, anyway. I'll talk to Naeku about it first, and even then it'll depend on Leila's actions.'

Seeing him laugh, Leila became indignant again. "What the hell are you laughing at?!" she grumbled in an annoyed tone.

From the moment she'd seen Erik's dominant form prancing around the palace, she'd become increasingly obsessed with the idea of dominating him. Yet, she didn't want to hurt Naeku, and she was clearly interested in him.

Because of that, she'd suppressed her desires, until today. A few hours ago, Naeku told her Erik basically had a free license to have sex with anyone he liked and she immediately jumped on the opportunity.

Amused, Erik smirked and shrugged casually again. "Because your overconfidence is amusing, Leila."

Suddenly, with blinding speed, he stepped forward, grabbed her chin, and brought her face to within inches of his. Leila's eyes widened in surprise. She had no chance to react at all. "W— Wha—"

"The backing of your big brother has made you naive and weak, Leila," Erik growled with a lustful smirk. "You teased me and made me excited. Now, for some reason, you're under the impression I'll follow your rules, rather than just taking what I want from you. I mean, how much do you even really know about me?"

Leila's eyes widened further and panic started to rise. "B— Big brother, Naeku! T— They'd hate you!" she stammered, never having expected him to act this way. "A— And your mother!" she suddenly exclaimed, knowing Runa had a strict moral compass.

"Bold to assume my mother wouldn't forgive me," Erik smirked indifferently as he bundled up Leila's hands, and forced them behind her back with his free hand. At the same time, he pulled her body against his. "She'd be disappointed, sure, but I'm still her son. You are just a friend she made recently."

Naturally, Erik regularly talked with his mother, who told him how she'd gotten friendly with Leila on several occasions.

Leila started hyperventilating as her heartbeat started pounding crazily in her chest.

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"Not that it even matters," Erik continued, his smirk gaining an evil edge. "Elora wouldn't give a flying fuck what I did to you, and she could simply erase your memory after I'm done with you. No one would be the wiser."

"S— She can do that?!" Leila exclaimed as a feeling of dread clamped down on her mind. Her body, pressed against Erik, started trembling wildly. 'H— He's actually going to do it?!' she screamed in her mind.

'No,' Erik answered in his mind with a chuckle. 'Not with a second ranker, anyway. Not without some kind of inroad into her soul like she had with Ankhur when she made him forget about the deal she'd made with Naeku to cure her father from Lilith's shadowflame infection.'

Outwardly, however, he shrugged with a confident grin. "Maybe…?" Suddenly, he lunged forward and pressed his lips against hers. Instantly, all of Leila's thoughts halted when she felt a strange mix of excitement, horror, and pleasure at the intrusion of his tongue, and the taste of his saliva.

Erik kissed her for a few seconds, before finally releasing her and taking a step back. "The point isn't what I can and can't do, it's that you don't know what I can and can't do," he told the stiff and shocked Leila. Suddenly, his demeanor returned to calm and casual, rather than domineering and threatening.

He shrugged, smirked, and stuck his hands in his pockets. "The world you live in is going to become more dangerous, Leila. You're lucky I abhor forced sex, but next time, you might not be so lucky. Either be more careful, or stick with those already subservient to, or weaker than, you."

As his words sank into Leila's shocked mind, she began to realize he wasn't actually going to do anything more than steal a kiss. Extreme relief flooded her mind as her thoughts slowly started moving again.

"Anyway," Erik continued when he noticed Leila was having trouble forming a response. He tilted his head. "I may be a horny idiot, but I have four wives and two servants to fulfil all my needs. Why would I submit myself to you?"

Finally, he started walking towards the door, brushing past Leila's bare shoulder along the way. "Besides, I'd certainly never do anything with you without asking Naeku first, and I'm definitely not doing that while she's planning our wedding."

He opened the door, and glanced at Leila's back with a hint of blame. "NaeNae may have accepted I occasionally sleep around, but if you think that gives me free licence to fuck anyone, anywhere, at anytime, then you're underestimating myself, and your niece. You should think on that."

Without another word, he disappeared through the door and closed it behind him. In the room, Leila was finally starting to move again as her thoughts had fully rebooted. Slowly, she brought her fingers to her lips and touched them with a strange look in her eyes…

***

Meanwhile, a commotion was happening in front of the palace, and Erik got a message about it from Astrid. "You should come," she told him with a strange chuckle. "I think you'll wanna see this."