My First Love Died, Now My Step Uncle Wants Me-Chapter 66: The Little Thing is Too Alluring

The words sent a violent tremor through Nina Wynn. She opened her eyes, a flicker of clarity passing through them.

She seemed to recognize Caleb Rhodes and recoiled in alarm. "No, it wasn’t them..."

Caleb Rhodes gripped her hand, preventing her from pulling away. The look in his eyes was so dark it frightened Nina Wynn.

"Nina, from now on..."

"Uncle!"

Nina Wynn suddenly looked up, cutting Caleb Rhodes off. "I’m thirsty. I want to drink some water..."

Caleb Rhodes picked up the freshly delivered ginger tea, let her lean against him, and helped her drink it, sip by sip.

Nina Wynn drank a few sips before stopping. She raised her hand as if to touch Caleb Rhodes’s face, but in the end, let it drop.

She looked at Caleb Rhodes’s face, her voice a faint, delirious murmur. "I envy Crystal Rhodes..."

Caleb Rhodes’s voice was low. "What do you envy about Crystal Rhodes?"

Nina Wynn looked at him, her gaze hazy as she whispered, "She has someone who cherishes her... who won’t let her be bullied..."

Her thin, frail appearance made Caleb Rhodes’s heart tremble. He took her hand, raised it to his lips for a gentle kiss, and his voice was low and soft. "Everything she has, I’ll give to you. And everything she doesn’t have, I’ll give to you, too."

Nina Wynn looked at him, as if trying to discern the truth in his words. But she was too exhausted. Her head fell onto his shoulder, her eyes lifeless, as if she were pleading with him. "Don’t like her, okay...?"

Caleb Rhodes felt as if he were holding a tiny, fragile cub—the sickly, abandoned kind. She was pleading with him, begging him not to like anyone else.

At that moment, the ice around his heart began to melt. He stroked Nina Wynn’s soft hair and whispered, "She’s just my niece."

Nina Wynn buried her face in his shoulder, her voice muffled. "I’m your niece, too."

Caleb Rhodes raised a hand and gripped her slender waist. "You’re not. And you never will be."

Nina Wynn was burning up with fever, half-lucid and half-delirious as she spoke. The question she had buried deep in her heart slipped out. "Is it because I’m unworthy?"

Caleb Rhodes narrowed his eyes. The hand on her small waist tightened unconsciously, and his voice grew cold. "You only want to be my niece?"

"Uncle, that hurts!"

Nina Wynn squirmed, crying out softly in pain.

Caleb Rhodes didn’t loosen his grip. He found her sickly, pliant state surprisingly endearing. He bent down and kissed her ear, his voice low. "Nina Wynn, if you’re going to be my woman, you will ache for me. Do you understand?"

Nina Wynn didn’t want to understand. Besides, her fever was raging, and the coolness radiating from Caleb Rhodes’s body felt incredibly soothing.

Her hands unconsciously wrapped around his neck, and she began to nuzzle her face against his.

She rubbed against every part of him, appropriate or not.

The longer Caleb Rhodes held her, the more he felt his control slipping. The little minx was getting bolder, her hands already sliding under his clothes.

One small hand was now on his waist, inching upward as she let out a satisfied murmur. "So cool... so nice..."

As she said this, her other small hand slipped under his shirt as well.

Her soft little hands moved over his waist and abdomen like small, slithering snakes, leaving Caleb Rhodes torn between laughter and exasperation.

This was the first time anyone had ever dared to take such liberties with him.

Apparently, that wasn’t enough for Nina Wynn. She pressed herself even tighter against him, as if trying to plaster her entire body onto his to leech away his coolness.

She was only wrapped in a bath towel to begin with, and all her wriggling had loosened it considerably.

The towel was hanging precariously, caught on the soft curve of her breasts, looking as if it might slip off at any second.

Her antics left Caleb Rhodes short of breath. Just as he reached to capture her wandering hands, the bath towel slid to the floor.

He glanced down, and his eyes instantly grew heavy and dark. His body reacted at once.

The high fever had flushed her entire body a delicate pink, making her look utterly delectable. The full, teardrop-shaped mounds of her breasts bounced with his movements, as if waiting for him to take control.

He narrowed his eyes and seized her hand as it traveled lower. "Enough!"

His voice was impossibly hoarse, a clear sign of his immense self-restraint.

By now, Nina Wynn was barely conscious, her only instinct to press herself against whatever felt cool.

He grabbed her hands, so she began rubbing her body against his chest instead.

The astonishing softness pressing against the thin fabric of his shirt sent a fiery heat through him, tempting Caleb Rhodes to the very edge of his control.

He pulled her vexing little hands out, picked her up, and wrapped the towel securely around her again. "Don’t move. The doctor will be here any minute."

"Hot..."

She squirmed, trying to lean against him again. Caleb Rhodes had no choice but to grab her hands, holding her still.

Nina Wynn’s body was burning up, especially her lips. They were a feverish red and so dry they were beginning to chap.

Pinned and unable to move, she parted her small mouth to breathe, occasionally darting her tongue out to lick her lips.

Caleb Rhodes watched her little pink tongue explore her fever-reddened lips, and the depths of his eyes grew darker still.

But Nina Wynn was clearly oblivious to the devastating effect she was having on Caleb Rhodes. She was still trying to press against him, desperate to absorb that sliver of coolness.

Just as one of her hands managed to slip inside his shirt again, Caleb Rhodes lowered his head and captured her lips.

To Nina Wynn, his lips and tongue were wonderfully cool, and she couldn’t resist exploring them with her own, tracing the line of his mouth and sucking gently.

So cool, so comfortable. Nina Wynn couldn’t help but let out a sigh of satisfaction.

It was a small, soft sigh, almost like a seductive moan.

Caleb Rhodes’s body went rigid, and his hand clamped down on her soft, slender waist.

With her hands now free, Nina Wynn unconsciously began to explore his body.

Her pliant, boneless-seeming hands roamed over him, stirring waves of scorching heat and an amorous atmosphere.

’She’s seducing me!’

’The little minx is this seductive even when she’s sick!’

Caleb Rhodes felt so hot he was about to explode. His lower abdomen clenched repeatedly.

’If she weren’t sick, I would have taken her right then and there.’

But the abnormal heat radiating from the little minx’s body forced him to remain rational. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

After another moment of kissing, he released her.

Her hair, still slightly damp, fanned out across the pillow and her pale neck, making the contrast of her dark tresses, red lips, and hazy gaze all the more striking.

One look was all it took for Caleb Rhodes’s eyes to turn red. He panted heavily, then stood up, closed his eyes, and turned his back on Nina Wynn.

’He’d never imagined it. He, who had always prided himself on his calm self-control, had lost it completely just because this little thing had dazedly groped him a few times.’

’In that instant, every violent impulse in his body seemed to awaken, screaming at him to devour her, to take her with overwhelming force!’

’She was his, after all. Taking what was his was only natural!’

’But... the little minx’s fever was too high, and she’d just suffered a traumatic shock. If he took her now, he feared it would cast an even greater shadow over their future.’

Just as he was waging this internal war, Nina Wynn’s hands wrapped around him once more.