Chapter 2: Peace Treaty on the Bed (1)

“‘Sir Adrian, Shocking Confession During Press Conference… Who Is the Hero’s Fiancée’.”

Sena read the article title out loud.

On the front page of the piping hot breaking news, a picture of a woman walking out with Adrian Blake’s coat thrown over her was printed extra-large.

Selena Han, herself that is.

Uncharacteristically, it was a dazed face.

Sena put strength into her hand and crumpled it up.

The newspaper company that put out this absurd scandal as an exclusive was .

It was her workplace.

She expected it, but it was a more terrible feeling than she thought.

Her beloved workplace had sacrificed her for the sake of achievements.

That must be it.

There was no way they could have missed this good opportunity.

{ Sena was always kind and quiet. We didn’t quite know that she was secretly dating… }

“What?”

Ha.

Sena only let out a laugh out loud after seeing the interview of her workplace colleague.

Naturally, it was not enjoyable at all.

“It seems the Oscar Tribune threw away things like camaraderie to the dogs, doesn’t it?”

A voice laced with laughter whispered in her ear.

At the same time, a warm breath puffed in suddenly.

Without realizing it, Sena got light goosebumps and trembled her shoulders sharply.

Behind her back, a man of slender stature was standing.

On the surface, he was good-looking enough to resemble a model.

However, Sena knew how threatening a weapon that body could be.

Was it because he was dressed entirely in a black investigator uniform?

Faded blonde hair and sharp facial features like a plaster statue stood out uniquely.

The man, Adrian Blake, made a subtle eye-smile as he made eye contact with Sena.

Why was that?

It felt sensual.

It wasn’t like him.

Sena was seized by a unfamiliar feeling.

She was confident that she knew him better than anyone else in this world.

She was a reporter who had covered Adrian Blake, a war hero and the top hero, for longer than anyone else.

She knew him.

Hidden assets, family relationships, secrets of birth, friendships, speech habits, jinxes of his first kill, school days, first love, and even manners on the bed.

Perhaps she knew him better than Adrian himself.

However, right now, she could not be confident that she knew him.

Sena became suspicious from the start whether she, too, had been played by this man’s acting.

An irreproachable hero loved by the Federation?

Bullshit.

He was a human who confessed to a leech-like reporter who followed him around.

He could not be seen as sane by any means.

Furthermore, whatever he was thinking, while she was dazed, he coaxed her well, brought her to his mansion, and even gave her today’s newspaper.

Look.

Even now, isn’t he checking her reaction with eyes full of expectation?

As he made eye contact with Sena, he naturally approached her side and spread his arms.

However, Sena merely stepped back without hiding her vigilance.

Adrian swallowed a sigh and smiled.

“…Very well.”

Since it was said that the person who loves loses.

The last words were barely audible, so Sena failed to catch them in time.

A soft touch wrapped around her waist.

Having failed to keep up with the situation, Sena struck it away a beat late, and he naturally withdrew his arm.

It was her first time experiencing a subject she always captured inside a camera angle coming this close.

To state definitively, she had never imagined making such familiar contact with this man.

Sena froze stiffly, then lashed out fiercely feeling like she was losing to him.

“I don’t know what it is, but if you’re done with your business, please let me go.

And don’t mind things like my workplace.”

“Business.

That’s a good point.”

Adrian smiled neatly.

The words that came out of his mouth were not neat.

“I need you.”

“Need me for what.”

Sena snorted.

It didn’t make sense.

“Do you make a confession to someone you need?”

“Depending on the occasion.”

“No, you probably made a public confession because I was an eyesore.

So the entire Federation would bite my head off!”

“…”

“And stepping out of the conference hall holding your hand, the scandal really became true.”

Trash.

As Sena muttered without hiding her contempt, a slightly raised voice came back.

“Did you view me as such a low person?”

Were her words a bit harsh?

Sena shrank her shoulders slightly and observed him.

Like it or not, there were only two people in this cramped room, and he was a soldier who considered killing to be like post-meal exercise.

That is to say, he held her power over life and death.

However, contrary to expectation, Adrian smiled calmly.

As if to reassure her.

“You’re right.”

Sena could not be reassured.

That answer was a clearer warning than anything else.

A large hand approached and tucked her hair behind her ear, but Sena failed to react in time.

Unlike his calm voice, his cheeks were dyed red.

She was not a fool who couldn’t distinguish between anger and sexual arousal.

This was dangerous.

An alarm bell rang inside her head.

“I am that kind of human.”

Feeling somewhat chilled, Sena backed away hesitantly.

However, on the contrary, she was trapped between him and the wall, unable to budge.

Adrian slowly extended his hand as if coaxing a cat that had left home.

As Sena squeezed her eyes shut, that hand passed right by her face and pressed against the wall.

Without realizing it, Sena tightly clasped her two hands together.

She was afraid to open her eyes.

“‘The dirty puppet of the Emperor’s faction, Adrian Blake’.”

At those words, Sena had no choice but to snap her head up.

It was a familiar phrase.

“‘The penis of Federalism’.

Or was it ‘The despicable plunderer acting like a guard dog’?”

Making eye contact, Adrian pulled up only the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Before those warm-less eyes, Sena could say nothing.

Those were all article titles Sena had written.

Special feature articles with Adrian as the subject always sold well.

And Sena hated the useless war caused by the Emperor’s faction.

Those two things created a synergistic effect, and Sena wrote countless articles defaming the war hero.

The problem was that Adrian Blake knew about it.

And no reporter in the world thinks a coverage subject will step out of the camera angle and approach them.

Sena’s face turned pale white.

“Don’t tremble.

I’m not trying to scare you.”

Adrian patted her shoulder.

“You alone tried to dig into my secrets, and published articles opposing the Special Bureau.”

“…”

“It was remarkable insight.

Exposing the sins of the Special Bureau and my dirty nature.

Especially the column written last month, the Deputy Director threw a fit in anger to that extent.”

Compliments heard in a situation where she was half-forcibly confined sounded like nothing but mockery.

While Sena’s face froze, before she knew it, he was casually touching the tips of her short-cut black hair as if playing.

Her mind was dizzy.

It was definitely a day like any other, but receiving a threat disguised as a confession from a coverage subject.

Sena could not believe reality at all and squeezed her eyes shut.

Through that, a sweet voice seeped into her ears like poison.

“I need you.”

“Right, let’s say that is so.”

Sena waved her hand feebly.

Merely pretending to be polite from beginning to end, Adrian Blake virtually confined her.

And now he was even threatening her.

When the situation came to this point, that darn phrase ‘I need you’ sounded quite gentle.

Sena intended to tell a few lies that she would roughly cooperate and then run away.

And as soon as she returned home, gather her emergency funds and leave for another planet.

It was right around the time Sena made roughly such a resolution.

Adrian lowered his face and pressed his forehead against hers.

Then, as if she was resentment-worthy for falling into other thoughts, he lightly tugged her hair to draw her attention.

“If you cooperate with me, I will guarantee your safety, which has become dangerous due to my confession.”

Blaming the victim has its limits.

Sena recalled an old proverb handed down from her people.

To brazenly give the disease and then offer the medicine like this.

However, the side holding the leash was over there, and she had no choice but to ask back with a low posture.

“Dangerous, what does that mean?”

“Did you think that becoming my weakness wouldn’t be dangerous?”

Ah, damn it.

Understanding the meaning of his words at once, Sena clenched her teeth.

Sena Han had become Adrian Blake’s fiancée overnight.

Naturally, she would be greedy prey to the villains lurking across the entire universe.

However.

“I’m very sorry, but I refuse.”

Sena pushed away Adrian’s chest.

Even if it meant incurring a loss herself, she did not want to help a man she disliked.

First of all, her pride, which had made her kick away the Special Bureau during her days as a greenhorn reporter, would not allow it.

As if slightly hurt, Adrian blinked his eyes slowly.

However, he soon shrugged his shoulders.

“Well, I thought as much.

Because you don’t like me very much.”

“It’s a relief that you know.”

“However, Sena.”

As if that was not the end, Adrian pulled something out from his coat.

Sena looked at it with a blank face.

“It was found in my villa yesterday.”

“This… this is…”

It was her mother’s first and last gift as well as her keepsake.

S.H.

Selena Han.

The fountain pen’s body engraved with her initials shone brightly.

A few weeks ago, which felt like a past life in terms of sensation, she had indeed entered Adrian Blake’s villa under the guise of reporting.

And she had discovered something she could not handle and fled.

However, she did not know she had left behind such evidence.

As Sena tried to grab the fountain pen with trembling hands, Adrian put it back into his inner pocket and admonished her in a rigid tone.

“To be this careless, I am disappointed.”

“That’s absurd.

I…”

“Housebreaking is illegal.

It’s a relief that the person who found it was me.

According to Federal Security Law, a person who inflicts harm on a government key figure will serve prison time.”

“Then… I…”

“However, Sena.”

Adrian softly whispered into the ear of Sena, who had her head deeply bowed.

“If you cooperate with me, it will be fine.”

It was a checkmate.

She could no longer avoid it.

Sena spat out in a cracking voice.

“What is it that I have to do?”

Then Adrian’s gray eyes sparkled as if just imagining it made him flutter.

“It’s simple.

Marry me.”

And let that become known to the entire Federation.

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