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"Haru, I am telling you . Takes.h.i.+ is terrible . He told me that my first kiss was with a dog . " Iori complains to Haru . "That's not all . He kissed me . Then, he said that he did it because I would date anyone who would take my breath away . Is something wrong with him?"

Haru lets out a sigh . Why he is suffering for other's sins? He feels like the innocent child whose parents are fighting . Takes.h.i.+ has stopped talking to Iori . He won't even sit with him if she's there . The cold war is happening . His brain cells are going dull . She's been complaining to him for days .

"Iori, he is not wrong though . It's true that it wasn't your first kiss with a human being . By the way, is he a good kisser?"

Good kisser? She purses her lips, thinking about that moment . The way he kissed her . . . her heart made doki-doki sound . Her body also felt strange . It was sort of pleasant .

Also, weird . It's Takes.h.i.+ . It's hard to accept .  

She inhales sharply .  "He's a horrible kisser . " 

But Haru isn't listening to her . "What's Takes.h.i.+ doing with Lina?"

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"Lina?" She turns around to see . In the other corner, Takes.h.i.+ is sitting beside Lina, Iori's number one enemy . Lina has a long term crush on Takes.h.i.+ . Ever since the first year of high school, she kept making moves on him . Takes.h.i.+ ignored her . Back then, the whole school thought that Takes.h.i.+ and Iori were going out .  

"I can't believe this . " Iori's eyes become round and big . "Because of him, I suffered for so long . Now, he is hanging out with that girl . "

"It seems like they are dating," Haru tells her thoughtfully . Lina is slightly leaning toward Takes.h.i.+, whispering something in his ear . Takes.h.i.+ nods with a straight face .

She slams the table . "Kissing me last week and starting to date another girl today? What's wrong with him?"

"How long can he wait for a thickheaded girl with unnatural expectations of men?"

s.h.i.+t! He slipped . Will Takes.h.i.+ kill him? Takes.h.i.+ already sort of confessed to Iori though .

"Thickheaded girl, who?" She didn't know that Takes.h.i.+ really liked her . "Me?"

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It's funny how she naturally a.s.sumed that she's the thickheaded girl with unnatural expectations of men . Haru takes a large bite of the sandwich .  

"Haru, that's impossible . " She sits down on the chair, looking in Takes.h.i.+'s direction . Was he serious that day? This feels strange . Does that hedgehog love her? "If he likes me, why is he with Lina?"

Haru stares at her . He knew that things would turn out like this . "Don't worry about him . He will come around and become our friend again . I am going to cla.s.s . Are you coming?"

"Wait . " She grabs his sleeve . "How long has he . . . ?"

"I noticed it when we were in middle school . " Haru wonders if it's okay to say all this . Then, he needs to push this thickheaded girl a bit . "It doesn't matter, right? Takes.h.i.+ can never be your ideal man . He finally accepted that fact and decided to move on . "

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The days go by quietly . Kiyohira is mad at me for doing what he wants me to do . He leaves home early and comes back late . I have nothing to say to him . If I could fight, I would fight him and escape . He's hardheaded about not letting me out . My last wish to deal with Chisa is taken away .  

I haven't been able to choose a single person to become his second wife . These women might be a lot better than me, but I can't imagine him with someone else . After thinking a lot, I can't let him touch another woman .

Having less to do, I only observe him . When he is working on his tie, his movement is smooth . There's tiny freckle in the corner of his right eye . He doesn't take much time in grooming and yet, he can manage to look like he's a runaway model .  

"If you give me away to another woman, you will lose this whole package permanently . " He tells me teasingly, "You will never find another man like me . "

I press my palm on his s.h.i.+rt, smoothening the fabric . I look up when I am done . He is watching me intensely . We haven't been intimate since the day he drowned my laptop . At first, he wouldn't come to me because I was sick . Then, he's mad at me for being serious about finding his second wife .

I don't know what's he doing with Chisa . But he's doing everything for me .

His lips press against mine . It's mellow and needy at the same time . In his warm embrace, I close my eyes and forget about the th.o.r.n.y collar around my neck for a moment .  

He keeps taking away what I have known all my life . He forces me to change . Because of him, my world has been taken away from me . He's there in this s.p.a.ce that I am forced to share with him . Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www . webnovel . com for visiting .

Then, he pulls away from me, leaving me cold . He kisses my forehead . "After a few days, our life will become normal . I will take you to beautiful places in the world . "

These days, my heart feels heavy whenever I see him leave .

That day at the temple, he said that he didn't want the woman he loved to remember her nightmare . It was fine with him to remain forgotten by her . I didn't remember him back then and yet, I was envied that woman he talked about .  

I sigh and take a glance at the piles of photos of women .  

With these thorns around my neck, is my heart capable of loving him back? 

"Can I love you back, Kiyohira?" I whisper to myself . "Do I already love you? Is that why I am like this?"

I keep thinking about him all day .  I have started to want and hope . I wonder about the beautiful places that he wants to show me .

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