Chapter 78

Eckart vividly recalled what happened last night. He couldn't believe that it wasn't a dream. He thought he snatched her wrists or saw her wet eyes in his dream, but that was not true.

'What the heck did I do last night?'

He clenched his lower lip. His mouth was dry. He was so cold last night, and now it seemed like his body was burning away. Every time he swallowed dry saliva, his swollen uvula went up and down.

"…Marianne!"

Like a split tree, he stiffened and called her. She was breathing out instead of replying.

"Marianne, wake up now."

"Uhhh…"

She reacted annoyingly at his second call. Following her drowsy nasal voice, she put one of her slender legs on his thigh.

He frowned more dramatically than ever before.

"Damn it, did you take off your pants too? You're driving me nuts, man."

He now lost his desire to wake her up. He felt time would rather stop forever.