Chapter 7 - A Rejection

"Hah…Hah…" 

A bit, or a lot, Ana wasn't sure which, unsteady; that was how Eva was currently as she used Ana as support to stop herself from collapsing.

Ana helped her slowly sit down on the table, the one where the crystal ball was, and Eva felt grateful to both the newly ranked hunter's help and the carpenter who had the architectural keen insight to make the table just enough tall so that Eva's relatively longer height, than her fellow colleague female peers, perfectly matched the end of her bum with the edge of the table.

"I'll call for help. Wait here ma'am." Ana, not being a nurse or an expert in magic, didn't know how serious Eva's condition was so he decided that he should bring in someone else.

He did read the message that asked him to seduce Eva, and he had already stopped asking about the absurdity of this afterlife, but Eva's skin was hot, both to the touch and to his eyes, so he was unsure that he would be able to manage her properly lest he succumbs to the feeling that was asking him to embrace her; afterall his hands that were touching her skin ever so lightly wanted to eat up Eva, share her warmth and provide a gradient for the contrasting temperatures of their bodies to balance out.

"I'll be back as soon as possible." Ana started to turn to leave, barely restraining his villainous desires that were about to supersede his superego that valued and cherished cute vulnerable women.

"No…wait…" But Eva grabbed Ana's hand before he fully turned.

Unknown to both of them, small sparks of electrons connected their flesh, a torrent of stimulating electricity flowing from Ana's higher potential into Eva's undefended body. 

The result of such a connection was the effect of the aphrodisiac skill that Ana had inadvertently created to adjust the extra power of a SSS class skill for a F-rank body. 

"What… rank … did…" Eva's body grew hotter and hotter the more she touched Ana but since she was unaware about her body's internal status, she didn't know that the hair follicles on her forearm, that were almost devoid of any coarse hairs, were sending reflex goosebumps all over her limb.

"I got a D." Ana truly wanted to help her so he showed her the crystal ball but also made a slight mistake of touching her upper arm in the process.

Eva was probably being punished for wearing a sleeveless shirt today, since Ana's electrocuting touch sent shivers down her spine. The tingling sensations were so overwhelming that her sense of logical reasoning got drowned by an immoral pleasure originating from her lower pelvis.

"Are you alright, ma'am?" Ana wasn't a fool and he figured out that the cause of Eva's suffering was none other than he, himself.

"Hah…hah…" Eva again returned to her monotonous gasping.

Ana did wish to break contact so that Eva recuperated but the situation he faced was similar to a helpless drunk woman finally looking at him lustfully, after a difficult evening of trying to get her in the mood to take off her pants, in the middle of an intense staring session in a cramped room where even the humid air was an audience to the sinful debauchery that young hormonal birds committed in before becoming eventual lovers.

"I-I think I should go now…" Ana wasn't sure he could hold himself back any longer, even though his skill wasn't working on his own body, his arousal was at its peak.

"Wait…" But again, Eva grabbed Ana's shirt. "Don't go…"

Due to the little sense of duty, which was about five percent of her total senses, in a far corner of Eva's mind, she still reminded herself of her responsibility as an instructor to guide Ana since it was his first day but the other ninety five percent just wanted her to touch him more, or better yet, have him touch her.

"Ma'am." The chains holding his inner beast broke and Ana dropped his gentleman act. "You can't blame me if you make a face like that."

Like a ravenous omnivore, diving to gulp the fragile avian infront of him, Ana kissed Eva on the lips.

"Mmm!" Being an inexperienced kisser, she slightly opened up her mouth, not knowing how to use her tongue or position her glossy lips, but Ana acted like an instructor for her and quickly used his own mouth to adjust her to the sensuous kiss.

Eva's tongue was wet but bouncy, a delectable feast that Ana tried to devour as he pushed himself against Eva's body.

The table on which they were enjoying themselves was a medium sized furniture so it didn't have a lot of room to lie down and true to its marketing value, Eva's back touched the wall as Ana forced her backwards while locking her shoulders.

"Mmm…" Molecular sparks of pleasure danced on her skin and her tongue, in all the places that Ana made contact, making her forget the fact that she was a powerful Matriarch who wasn't supposed to engage in sexual activity with anyone, let alone a student, since she was already engaged for marriage.

Or perhaps she did remember, but the enjoyment she was getting from just a simple kiss far outweighed her correct judgement even though she is known to her people as the Matriarch of Justice.

"You're pretty, Eva." Ana gently ended the passionate kiss and complimented her.

Eva peered into his eyes before slowly putting her hand on Ana's lips.

"Hah…don't…" The tinge of blush under her eyes only deepened the more she touched him. "Don't…say…my name…"

Eva was living a fantasy, a forbidden one, and she didn't want Ana to break that immersion.

But her words had unknowingly hurt Ana a little since his past wounds were still fresh in his heart.

Munch

Ana chomped down on Eva's neck and let his tongue slide down from there as he unbuttoned her shirt which seemed too tight to cover her shapely breasts, now that Eva was pumping up her chest due to her accentuated heavy breathing.

"Hah… are we really…" Eva couldn't believe what was happening to her. "Doing it…?"

How could she? Too restricted by her parents in her childhood and too busy in her personal life, she's never had an opportunity for pure romance.

Ana would have backed away in any other situation, but Eva's rejection unconsciously made him desire her more, after all he was just a broken man looking for someone who'd love him just as much as he would love her, and in the end, it was all about having a place, somewhere safe, a delicate heart if possible, in which he could rest his softer side, the side that wasn't battered and hardened by the coldness and ruthlessness of his indomitable and unblemished pride. 

"I want you." Ana raised his head and looked into Eva's emerald eyes. "Only you."

His face displayed no dishonesty, no signs of betrayal, no tricks, nothing that one might call, a 'fault'.

Eva's eyes widened as she heard Ana's faultless confession, interpreting them as honest words without knowing that it was she herself who pushed Ana to chase her like that.

Maybe it was her tired mind that was riddled with the complexities of being an esteemed Matriarch or maybe due to an innocent longing for someone similar, she cleared her pleasure driven tongue as she made a judgement quite unlike herself.

"Mmh." She very faintly nodded her head and let it fall on Ana.

With that, their foreheads connected and so did their wishes to have each other.