My Husband Is Actually a Werewolf

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I always felt like my husband had some kind of condition.

Every time we had sex, his rough fingertips would push me to climax over and over,

But just as he was about to fully possess me, he'd always pull away abruptly.

All night, I listened to the water running in the bathroom and the muffled sound of a man trying to breathe quietly. I figured he must have been forced into this marriage. That was why he was so half-hearted.

Then came that night. Divorce papers in hand, I stopped outside the study. The door was half-open.

"Kai, you're clearly addicted to Nora, so why won't you touch her?"

"Human girls can't resist temptation. You better watch out or some other wolf will steal her away one of these days."

The man being teased took a leisurely sip of his drink, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the back of his neck.

"What do you guys know? I dream about absorbing her into my very bones.

But what if I lose control and hurt her? What if I scare her away and she doesn't want me anymore?"

His friends all laughed at that. "Then maybe stop taking those ice-cold showers for two hours every night."

That same night, while Kai was in the bathroom taking another cold shower, I unlocked his tablet with trembling hands.

Ninety-nine search history entries, all variations of the same question.

"I finally married my mate, but I'm a werewolf and she's just a human. How can I have sex with her without hurting her?"

My fingers flew across the tablet screen,

The further down I scrolled, the more my hands shook, until even my breathing trembled.

A condition? Forced marriage? Frigid?

All lies.

He was actually a werewolf!

The bathroom water stopped.

Before I could process the truth, the bedroom door swung open.

Kai's black hair was still dripping wet. When he saw me holding his tablet, the color drained completely from his face, and he even stopped drying his hair.

He froze in the doorway, panic and helplessness flashing in his eyes.

We stared at each other silently for a good ten seconds before I finally broke the silence, my voice shaking uncontrollably,

"Kai, is all this stuff you posted real?"

His Adam's apple bobbed hard as he walked toward me step by step.

"Nora, let me explain..."

"Explain what? Explain that you're a werewolf? A monster?" I looked up at him, my eyes instantly reddening,

"You've been lying to me this whole time!"

"Yes." He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were filled with honest humility,

"I'm the Alpha of the Karen Pack of werewolves. I'm sorry, Nora. I've been hiding this from you for so long."

"What about the arranged marriage?" My voice tightened,

"When my sister suddenly called off the engagement and ran to Europe, you had something to do with that, didn't you? This marriage was your scheme from the very beginning?"

"Yes." He didn't hide anything, his voice hoarse as he laid out all his secrets,

"The day of our college graduation, the first time I saw you, I knew you were my fated mate-my one and only partner for life."

"To switch the arranged marriage to you, I helped your sister arrange everything for Europe so she could pursue the life she wanted without any worries."

At this point, Kai clenched his fists,

"It's not that I didn't want to touch you-I was afraid I couldn't control the werewolf possessiveness and would hurt you. Even more, I was afraid that if you found out I wasn't human, you'd be scared of me. That you'd leave me."

He laid all his restraint, all these years of hidden love, bare before me.

My heart felt sour and numb, but more than anything, I was shocked at being deceived and terrified by this truth about werewolves that was beyond my comprehension.

For twenty-four years, I'd never imagined that the husband who'd slept beside me for half a year wasn't human.

Looking at this man I'd once thought cold and distant, I only felt he was strange and frightening.

I jerked backward, avoiding his outstretched hand.

"Don't touch me!" My voice cracked with tears as my whole body trembled,

"Kai, you say you love me, but you couldn't even give me basic honesty. You lied to me for six whole months!"

"Did you ever think about how scared I'd be when I found out?"

"Nora, I..." His eyes filled with hurt and regret,

"I was just afraid of losing you. I never wanted to hurt you, never."

"Stop talking." I grabbed my coat and bag from the bed, desperate to escape this suffocating place.

Kai's tall figure blocked my path, his hands covering my shoulders as he looked at me with reddening eyes,

"Nora, I won't force you, just don't run away, okay?" His voice shook hoarsely,

"I'll tell you anything you want to know. You can yell at me, punish me-I'll take it all. Just don't go out alone. I'm worried about you."

I wrenched free of his grip. "Kai, I think we both need to calm down."

Ignoring his anxious calls behind me, I slammed the door and drove off, heading straight to my best friend Jade's house.

When Jade opened the door and saw my tear-stained face, she jumped in alarm and quickly pulled me inside.

"Nora? What happened? Didn't you say you were going to ask Kai for a divorce? Did he fight with you?"

All the emotions I'd bottled up that night came crashing down. I buried myself in her arms and told her everything about Kai.

Jade's eyes went wide as saucers, her face full of disbelief.

"This is more insane than a movie plot! There are actually werewolves in the real world?"

"So he's not impotent-he's afraid of losing control and hurting you? And he's had a crush on you for four or five years?"

"Yes." I sniffled and grabbed the whiskey from the table, taking a large gulp,

"But my head's a complete mess right now, Jade. I don't know how to face him."

"So what are you going to do? Actually get divorced?" Jade handed me a tissue, asking carefully.

My hand holding the glass froze.

Divorce?

I'd been set on divorce before because I thought this marriage had no love-only half-hearted obligation.

But now that I knew about all his restraint and deep feelings, I couldn't bring myself to say the word "divorce."

Yet I couldn't immediately accept that he was a werewolf and interact with him without any reservations either.

"I don't know." I took another gulp of whiskey, my eyes reddening even more,

"I just feel so confused. He kept me in the dark for so long. Now when I look at him, he feels like a stranger."

Jade didn't push me further, just kept me company as I drank glass after glass.

My mind was chaotic and stifled. I drank quickly and heavily, and before long, my consciousness grew fuzzy.

In my daze, I thought I heard my phone vibrating non-stop, but my eyelids felt glued shut. I simply turned off my phone, rolled over, and passed out.

Meanwhile, at the villa,

Kai sat in the living room all night, the ashtray piling up with cigarette butts as the bloodshot in his eyes grew heavier.

Looking at the messages that remained unanswered, his mood grew increasingly heavy, but he didn't dare push too hard, afraid I'd become even more resistant.

He leaned back, muttering to himself, "Nora, what am I supposed to do with you?"

When I woke up the next day, my head felt like it was about to explode, my throat was parched, and my whole body was weak.

Rubbing my neck, I picked up my phone. The moment I turned it on, a flood of messages and missed calls poured in.

Reading through dozens of messages made my chest ache.

Jade woke up too, yawning as she asked me, "Awake? Figured things out yet?"

I shook my head, but I knew that no matter how confused I felt, I couldn't keep hiding here forever.

What needed to be faced would eventually have to be faced.

After saying goodbye to Jade, I drove back to the villa.

As soon as I pushed open the front door, the heavy smell of cigarette smoke hit me.

Kai sat on the couch, radiating unmistakable exhaustion.

Hearing the door open, he whipped his head around. The moment he saw me, he immediately stood and strode quickly toward me.

"Nora, you're back." His voice was extremely hoarse, his gaze urgently scanning me,

"Are you hungry? I kept some porridge warm for you."

His cautious demeanor made me feel even worse.

But thinking about how he'd hidden things from me for six months, I hardened my heart and didn't respond.

Just then, his gaze fell on my neck, and his pupils constricted sharply.

In that instant, I clearly felt the surrounding air turn cold.

An extremely strong sense of oppression emanated from him, and even his breathing grew several times heavier.

He opened his mouth, his Adam's apple rolling repeatedly. "You... who were you with last night?"

"None of your business. I didn't sleep well last night. I'm going upstairs."

I waved him off and walked straight upstairs without another glance.

After I turned to go upstairs, Kai's fists clenched so tight his knuckles went white, and he ground his teeth.

The werewolf possessiveness over one's fated mate was an instinct carved into their bloodline.

Those overlapping red marks on my neck stabbed into his heart like needles.

Jealousy and pain submerged him like a tidal wave, but he didn't even have the right to question me.

He was the one who'd hidden his identity first. He was the one who'd never dared touch her, making her suffer so much grievance.

He closed his eyes, forcibly suppressing the metallic taste rising in his throat, left only with overwhelming bitterness.

I collapsed into bed as soon as I got to my room. The hangover hit hard, and by the time I woke up, it was already completely dark outside.

As I tried to get up, I felt burning hot all over, without even the strength to kick off the covers.

In my daze, the bedroom door was gently pushed open.

The moment Kai entered and saw me curled up under the blanket, my cheeks flushed red with fever, he walked quickly over and touched my forehead. His whole body panicked. "Nora?" "How did you get such a high fever?"

I frowned and instinctively shrank away, my voice hoarse. "I don't need you. Go away."

His hand froze in mid-air, his eyes instantly flooding with heartache and self-blame.

"Be good, don't fuss. Let's take your temperature and you'll feel better after taking medicine, okay?"

He turned and quickly fetched a thermometer and fever medicine.

I was too dizzy and weak to argue with him, letting him help me obediently swallow the medicine.

When his cool fingertips touched my burning lips, the hand at his side clenched tightly, and his breathing grew heavy.

In my foggy consciousness, I seemed to hear the sound of cold water running in the bathroom, continuing for a very long time.

When I fully woke up again, it was already morning.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I found myself tightly held in Kai's arms.

Seeing me awake, he immediately looked down at me, his fingertips touching my forehead before he let out a heavy sigh of relief.

"The fever's finally broken. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Do you want some water?"

Looking at the dense bloodshot in his eyes, most of my anger dissipated, though my words remained stubborn.

I struggled out of his embrace, saying ungraciously, "I won't die. I don't need your fake kindness."

Kai's hand froze in mid-air, a flash of hurt crossing his eyes as he said quietly,

"It's my fault for not taking good care of you. I knew you'd been drinking but still let you catch a chill and get a fever."

"What does my fever have to do with you?" I looked at him as two days' worth of grievance and anger suddenly surged up,

"Kai, who are you putting on this devoted act for now? You weren't honest from the start, and after we got married you wouldn't even touch me. What exactly do you think I am?"

The more I talked, the more wronged I felt, and I continued recklessly.

"Jade already found me two male models with eight-pack abs. Being with them would be better than staying with an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud like you!"

The moment those words left my mouth, Kai's expression changed instantly.

His pupils contracted sharply, his hand gripping the bedsheet so tightly his knuckles went white.

But seeing my reddened eyes, that towering rage was forcibly suppressed.

"Nora, I'm sorry."

Seeing him only capable of apologizing made me even angrier. I rolled over with my back to him, not wanting to deal with him anymore.

Kai sat behind me for a long time-so long I thought he'd left-before I felt him gently touch my hair,

"It's my fault. All of it is my fault." His voice was very low, heavy with self-blame,

"Don't be angry, and don't go to anyone else, okay? Whatever you want, I'll give it to you. I'll change everything."

I ignored him, keeping my eyes closed and pretending to sleep.

He sighed softly and got up to leave.

The moment the door closed, I opened my eyes, my heart a tangled mess.

Outside the door, Kai leaned against the wall and closed his eyes hard.

His friends were right. If he kept being such a coward, he really would lose his fated mate.

Kai pulled out his phone and messaged his childhood friends, asking them to come to the house.

He needed these brothers to help him figure out how to make his little mate stop being angry,

How to make her completely believe that he loved her more than his own life.

The fever completely broke the next afternoon.

After sleeping through it, I woke up feeling much lighter, though my stomach growled with hunger. I wanted to go downstairs to find something to eat.

Just as I reached the top of the stairs, I heard Kai's friends' voices.

"Kai, you're clearly addicted to Nora, so why won't you touch her?"

"Human girls can't resist temptation. You better watch out or some other wolf will steal her away one of these days."

Kai's voice carried deep exhaustion,

"I'm afraid she hasn't recovered yet. She's still angry with me and won't even talk to me."

"Being angry means she cares! If she really didn't care, she would've asked for a divorce already. Would she even come back to this house?"

"You didn't dare touch her before, and now you don't dare speak up. Wait until Nora really runs off with someone else-you won't even have a place to cry!"

Listening to their conversation, the last of my stubbornness and anger gradually faded.

I took a deep breath, about to walk downstairs and talk everything through with him.

Just then, the doorbell suddenly rang. The crisp chime was particularly jarring in the quiet living room.

Immediately after, two young men's voices came from the entrance, loud enough to penetrate right through the door.

"Is Nora here? We're sent by Jade. She said you weren't feeling well and asked us to come keep you company and cheer you up!"

The conversation in the living room stopped abruptly.

I froze on the stairs, my mind going blank with a buzzing sound.

Oh no.

When I'd been venting to Jade earlier, in the heat of the moment I'd agreed to her suggestion about male models, then completely forgot about it. I never thought she'd actually send people over, and at this exact moment!

The living room fell deathly silent.

The next second, I saw Kai walk to the door.

His voice was as cold as ice. "Get lost."

The two male models outside hesitated, trying to say something more, when Kai spoke again,

"Say one more word and I'll make sure you never leave this neighborhood."

Even through a door, a top-tier Alpha's dominant pressure was enough to make two ordinary human men break out in cold sweat.

The voices outside immediately went silent, followed by panicked, fleeing footsteps.

He slowly turned around.

Looking up, he locked onto me standing on the stairs with pinpoint accuracy.

His friends very tactfully moved toward the door. "Kai, we'll head out now. You and Nora take care."

Kai's gaze fixed on me as he walked toward me step by step.

His eyes were thick with desire that couldn't be dissolved, and the aura around him was frighteningly cold.

He trapped me between himself and the stair railing, his tall figure completely enveloping me.

"Nora," his voice was extremely hoarse, "do you want it that badly?"

My heartbeat skipped. I was about to explain that Jade had messed things up.

He lowered his head, his lips brushing my neck, his hands restlessly moving downward,

"Whatever they can give you, I can give you too. What they can't give, I'll give you even more."

His hand stopped between my legs, and my body couldn't help trembling,

"Nora, give me a chance to be your real husband, okay?"