
“Kiss my lips, Koichi.”
Kimijima Koichi shut his eyes tightly,13Please respect copyright.PENANAeEecyzZw0S
as if trying to suppress something dangerously wild rising from within.
“…I’m sorry, my lady.”13Please respect copyright.PENANA273ZohHMWK
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“…This… is the one order I cannot obey.…”13Please respect copyright.PENANAnaf4GzY3cj
His voice was as gentle as ever,13Please respect copyright.PENANAb2Hs0CNeVN
but trembling—so tightly restrained it bordered on breaking.
Suzuran froze.13Please respect copyright.PENANAZW3myuc3Da
Then tears spilled from her eyes—just as he added quietly:
“…This is my personal will.”
And in the very next moment—
his lips came crashing down.13Please respect copyright.PENANAAQMVR5cFA5
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That wasn’t a kiss between servant and mistress.13Please respect copyright.PENANApybYbnEIuP
It wasn’t gratitude, or manners, or carefully restrained affection.
It was—13Please respect copyright.PENANA0b0KDCweyF
a man’s raw desire finally breaking free.
He was like someone who had finally allowed himself one moment of recklessness,13Please respect copyright.PENANAd1yQO4izae
tearing through years of self-control,13Please respect copyright.PENANAA4Pwa8Mbp5
releasing everything he’d buried deep inside his chest.
That kiss carried all the love, all the pain,13Please respect copyright.PENANA5xyZh0fatM
all the things he could never say.
Suzuran froze in place, her lashes trembling.13Please respect copyright.PENANAnO9ojMYgfR
But in the next breath, she reached out—and wrapped her arms around him.
As if using every ounce of strength13Please respect copyright.PENANASbeYqE93pH
just to hold onto the man who had finally stopped running.
In that moment, she knew—13Please respect copyright.PENANAmCMZCB28Qg
She hadn’t been imagining it.13Please respect copyright.PENANAsrkmRAkcaA
She wasn’t being rejected in silence.13Please respect copyright.PENANAM8g5lp3FS2
She hadn’t been loving alone.
The man she loved… had finally kissed her back.
The moment his lips touched hers, Suzuran forgot how to breathe.
It wasn’t a brush.13Please respect copyright.PENANANgx5qtxHeU
It wasn’t hesitation.
It was a kiss that had been held back for far too long,13Please respect copyright.PENANAYzXQLCIifY
and now—finally—it was flooding out.
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He kissed her hard—but not roughly.13Please respect copyright.PENANAnymMnTRKVf
It was filled with longing,13Please respect copyright.PENANA9oohl7Fqjg
a tenderness pushed to the edge of madness.
One arm wrapped tightly around her waist,13Please respect copyright.PENANAdfpKZDyFef
the other cradled the back of her head, pulling her into him completely.
His grip was possessive, but firm—13Please respect copyright.PENANAKh0XAL7XjA
like someone who had waited his whole life just to hold her this way.
Their breaths tangled,13Please respect copyright.PENANAE6WK8p62nz
his kiss deep and consuming—13Please respect copyright.PENANAF5qGYymCW9
sometimes urgent, sometimes slow,13Please respect copyright.PENANAsQHKo6P2hQ
like waves of wordless hunger crashing over her reason.
Suzuran instinctively clutched his shirt,13Please respect copyright.PENANAgzxeOKOxXh
her body pinned against his until she could barely move,13Please respect copyright.PENANAACojE3yavG
small gasps catching in her throat as he kissed her breathless.
She stared up at him through hazy eyes—13Please respect copyright.PENANAzEv5aKEXZM
his brows drawn tight,13Please respect copyright.PENANA94SfX6o4wS
his focus locked entirely on her—
like he wasn’t just kissing her lips,13Please respect copyright.PENANAnsMRpyJqLf
but her very soul.
Those weren’t a servant’s eyes.
They were the eyes of a man who loved her.13Please respect copyright.PENANA8cxWVHJpDk
Deeply. Desperately. Entirely.
Her breath hitched,13Please respect copyright.PENANAmBjqHPfYSt
her chest rising and falling under his touch,13Please respect copyright.PENANAZgTR9nt6cj
her body absorbing the heat of his.
She could barely think—only feel.13Please respect copyright.PENANA5kWACHo2Kn
Only let herself be kissed, piece by piece,13Please respect copyright.PENANArEmRp6qQkn
by the man she’d wanted for so long.
Every time she gasped,13Please respect copyright.PENANA6kinRzHMtN
his kiss only deepened, gentler yet more desperate.
He was no longer holding back.13Please respect copyright.PENANAfiIZ3Ghhip
No longer retreating.
He poured everything into that kiss—13Please respect copyright.PENANAbnXELlsfIR
his love, his grief, his devotion.
It wasn’t just a kiss.
It was defiance against fate.13Please respect copyright.PENANAJR5RmxAnnx
It was a vow.13Please respect copyright.PENANAjaBTyfivm3
It was the giving of a soul.
Tears blurred her vision.
She clung to him, trembling,13Please respect copyright.PENANAueZOKSZ371
her fingers curling into the fabric of his shirt.
And she kissed him back.
Letting him steal her breath,13Please respect copyright.PENANAnGI7ADeTPI
just so she could be closer to him—
to the man who had finally chosen her over duty.
Their breathing tangled,13Please respect copyright.PENANAoXXh3Hdegp
their mouths meeting again and again,13Please respect copyright.PENANAunowoCvp7c
until all that remained was them.
No titles.13Please respect copyright.PENANA59D1MIrXml
No rules.13Please respect copyright.PENANAn0kHbiBpT2
No fear.
Just her—and him.
Just this kiss.13Please respect copyright.PENANARhTCVIEhR6
Kimijima Koichi kissed her again.13Please respect copyright.PENANAOPde8GxPJy
And again.
Pulling back only to return to her lips like he couldn’t bear the distance.
Suzuran gasped, barely able to speak.
The more breathless she became,13Please respect copyright.PENANAlTD5FeaN4J
the deeper his kisses grew—13Please respect copyright.PENANAKZbQOmHCcN
wild and unrestrained.
Like he’d fallen from the cliff of control,13Please respect copyright.PENANAKBXaZTIv9C
and there was no going back.
“H-Koi…”13Please respect copyright.PENANA9Odw85CUni
Her voice trembled as she whispered his name.
He finally stopped,13Please respect copyright.PENANAlUdZYlk8bH
resting his forehead against hers.
His breathing ragged,13Please respect copyright.PENANADrSpi1dP9g
his brow damp with sweat.
He didn’t speak right away.13Please respect copyright.PENANAAgpD7zMrR0
Just held her, then whispered softly—
“…Ran.”
Their eyes met.
And for once,13Please respect copyright.PENANAhcFTosBGE7
his eyes weren’t calm.
They were burning.
She looked into those eyes—13Please respect copyright.PENANA7a7jpomFdR
the ones always so composed.
But now?
They were filled with raw, aching emotion.
He looked not like a servant,13Please respect copyright.PENANAmdqUpoxq3R
but like a man who had loved her for far too long.
She bit her lip,13Please respect copyright.PENANAQqHnsvChYX
then finally asked the question that had haunted her for so long:
“…Koichi, do you—really love me?”
Her voice was barely above a breath.13Please respect copyright.PENANAydKnzrbLYA
Tears shimmered in her eyes.
She almost didn’t dare hope that the warmth she felt…
was truly hers.
He was still breathless.13Please respect copyright.PENANA0Qy48L113M
His chest rose and fell violently,13Please respect copyright.PENANAAZjvCdnEjS
as if he’d just come up from drowning.
Usually so calm,13Please respect copyright.PENANACVbxow1519
Kimijima Koichi now looked utterly undone.13Please respect copyright.PENANA10XElc9Qrc
Raw.
He didn’t answer right away.
Instead, he pressed his forehead to hers again,13Please respect copyright.PENANA887xl259eF
eyes closed tight, as if enduring something painful.
Finally, his voice came—hoarse, shaken:
“…I wasn’t supposed to love you.”
“But I’ve loved you—this whole time.”
“So much I can’t stop.”13Please respect copyright.PENANAmS58SlnEZo
“So much I can’t even meet your eyes.”13Please respect copyright.PENANAGAkW0Zv4rx
“So much I’ve had to use everything I have to hold it back.”
His voice trembled.
Like the words weren’t just spoken—
but torn out from a bleeding wound.
Suzuran whispered:
“I thought… I was the only one whose heart was racing.”
“I thought it was just me…”
“A one-sided love.”
The words fell from her chest like a sob,13Please respect copyright.PENANAmIWkAS2ION
barely held together by pride.
He didn’t answer.
He simply took her hand—13Please respect copyright.PENANAqWrtSMSm4r
gently, as always—
but this time, with certainty.
And then, he placed her palm over his chest,13Please respect copyright.PENANATGDvJBpprm
where his heart was pounding.
“Why don’t you see for yourself?”
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