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The entire time, he’d been taking them southwest. He figured the lake next to his nest eventually drained into this one in an underground network of tiny tunnels he couldn’t access.

She backed up when he thought she would have climbed in to be with him now that she knew the water was agreeable. He tilted his head and forced his orbs into a questioning glow. He reached his hand up, claws facing upward, and beckoned her closer.

She gripped the bottom of her dress garment with tight fists. “I-I don’t want to get my clothes wet,” she grumbled.

Disheartened, Nathair lowered his hand in disappointment.But I cannot show her without going to the other side.He didn’t wish to force her, but if she didn’t get in the water, all of this was pointless.

To his utter shock, she lifted her dress off her body. When she pressed the bundled material to her chest, her softened gaze was shier than normal. He noted that her knees had knocked inwards, yet she still dropped the garment to reveal the white cropped undershirt beneath it.

Warmth, hotter than the water surrounding him, swelled in his chest.

He didn’t believe his sight when she then pulled at the ties of her grey pants, and suddenly his mouth went dry. Nathair had seen peeks of Linh’s creamy thighs, but only when they flashed at him yesterday with her pink dress and the day she first fell in his nest.

Which was why, when she lowered the material and kicked it off from around her knees, he lowered himself to drown his immediate purr. Her underwear was a strip of pale-green cloth, with two ties resting over her curved hips, and she looked like fuckingheaven.

With his gills submerged, he also stifled his groan when pressure surged behind his seam with a desirous throb.

She looked so awkward standing there, barely clothed for him. Her knees were still knocked, and her arms had crossed to hide the fullness of her generous, weighty breasts and her pubic mound. Her flush was so deep it blotched on her chest and biceps.

But she looked so damn cute, with her long pigtails and curved yet petite body, that he considered her divine. Her breasts propped up by her arm offered more cleavage, and they sat above a narrow waist, wide hips, and perfect-looking thighs.

There didn’t seem to be a mark on her, and her fawny skin reflected the glow of the firelight like a hypnotic dance.

Had she stripped completely, he may have taken it as an invitation, and he would have forgotten why he brought her here in the first place.

So, instead of trying to see if he could rut her like hedesperatelywanted to, he reached his hand out once more. He didn’t need to ask her to trust him; he knew she did by the fact she was scantily and teasingly dressed.

Bring that little arse here, female,he thought, waving his fingers at her.

Linh came closer. As soon as she was at the edge of the water, she removed her hand from her pubic mound and slipped her palm in his. Nathair helped her to sit on the ledge so she could glide into the water with ease.

He didn’t let her go, even when he swiftly dragged her to the centre of the large lake. Her underwear clung to her plump, round arse cheeks, and all he wanted to do was grab them both with his hands. They looked soft, had felt soft in his palms the occasional times he’d kneaded them, and he wanted to play with their moulding forms.

Just as he halted them, and was about to sign something, he had to sink his gills beneath the water again to drown out his groan.Fucking hell. She should have kept her damn dress on.

Her white undershirt was apparently so thinly made... it’d turned completely see-through. How was he supposed to keep his hungry hands to himself when her perky breasts were showing? Even her pale-brown nipples didn’t look a shade different from how he normally saw them.

The garment was pointless, and now his cocks were threatening to push through his seam. Given his aquatic nature, hedidhave extra feeling around his seam within the water to know when or if he was about to extrude, but it still softened the muscles. This could become awkward at any given time, but he just hoped he could contain his control on his dicks and not ruin this for her.

With strain, he signed, “I need you to hold your breath.”

Her lips tightened, but she nodded obediently. She did as he asked when he wrapped his arms around her torso, making sure not to grab her anywhere she would be uncomfortable. Her body slipped against his, and he drowned any sound that could come from him in the euphoria of it.

Her soft, sinful thighs nestling around the scales of his sides and hips felt divine. Just her breasts and bare abdomen againsthis scaled torso clamoured at him to bring her closer. Even the weight of her arms around his shoulders felt wonderful.

Ignoring all this, Nathair stopped swivelling his tail and let himself sink. The moment they were a foot below the water, he arched backwards to tip them upside down. The long length of his tail crested the water in a loop before he flailed it to dive.

Nathair saw well in the dark, but even he had to partially navigate by the vibrations of the water speaking back to him as he moved through a narrow tunnel. He protected her head, just in case he didn’t see something jagged, and swam as fast as he could.

Linh clung to him, but she didn’t need to hold her breath for long. Within seconds of passing through the sharp and deadly spiking walls, Nathair swam towards the surface.

Darkness greeted them, and her breaths echoed in the large cave. He chuckled from the way his orange orbs glinted all around them, so he directed his skull in a way that would minimise it before she could notice. After sputtering for a moment, she lifted her face to his.

“Okay... so now what?”

Since she couldn’t see, Nathair lifted one of her hands and placed it over her eyes. When he pushed away from her, she flailed in the water. She wasn’t confident with swimming, so he steadied her and made her cover her eyes again.

“I’ll keep them closed,” she argued, while lowering her hands so she could use them to keep herself afloat. Nathair answered with a soft growl. “I promise!”