Entering the trap of the big bad wolf.

Ch-123

"Are you expecting something, Little Seductress?" he whispered in her ear as he blew his fiery breath in her ear, tinting the tips of her ear. Esther immediately opened her eyes, only to see his teasing look making her embarrassed. 

"W-who i-is seduct-seductress? And I am not little… I am a big girl!" She said as she stuttered. 

"Why are you stuttering?" he asked as he went near her. Esther felt like a kid when she was with Cyrus. He was more than a foot taller than her. When he bent towards her, she felt like she was facing her father. 

Cyrus: '...' 

Dammit! In the end, he was called a father. 

[What's there to feel bad? You are over five hundred years old. And she is only twenty-three years old and is going to turn twenty-four years soon. You are an old man!] His inner self taunted him, making him feel ridiculed. Cyrus's jaw ticked in annoyance as he kicked his inner self back into his brain.