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He’d let curiosity get the better of him and had abandoned his bride in their new home. At least it was safe – that would be the excuse he gave if she were upset.

He pushed off and headed towards the narrow tunnel. From the light that greeted him on the other side, he could tell she’d lit a few of the hanging lanterns.

A set of legs from the knees down were already submerged, then a naked backside slipped in to sit on a boulder. She was joining him in the water, and he didn’t know if he was disappointed he’d missed the show of her stripping, or relieved there lacked a barrier between them.

Then he absorbed that she’d so confidently, and comfortably, stripped in his lone presence, and was mollified by the knowledge.

Hello, naked female,he purred as he breached the water’s surface directly in front of her.

She’d even removed the twist of her bun, leaving her hair loose except for the braids resting on both sides of her cheeks.

“Having fun?” she asked, her eyes crinkled with knowing humour. “I knew you’d like it.”

Nathair rolled his head. “It’s fine. Safe from Demons.” His protective dome would make sure of that.

“Uh, huh,” she hummed as if she knew better. Placing her straightened arms on his shoulders, she brushed one of her legs towards him in a way that parted her thighs. “You know... we’re supposed to consummate our marriage now.”

Her voice was sweet, as if she wanted to sing the words at him.

“I don’t know what that means,” he answered honestly. It wasn’t something he’d heard or witnessed in his fragments. He did, however, come a little closer so he could nestle between her parted knees.

Her breasts, now just above the water, slipped against his scaled chest. Hardened nipples teased his sensitive skin as he pressed his abdomen to the apex of her thighs.

Leaning forward, Linh fluttered kisses to the front of his throat, narrowly missing the gills on the left side. “It means we’re supposed to have sex.”

Are we now?he thought with a humorous hum.

Nathair leaned back so he could get out of reach of her lips. “Are you aroused for me?” he asked, before pressing the backs of his claws against her cheek. He brushed a braid behind her ear, tucking it there while caressing the rounded top of it.

“Only a little,” she admitted, biting down on her bottom lip. “But I’m sure you’ll be able to take care of that.”

She leaned forward while pulling, and he let himself be dragged closer. She kissed the centre of his maw, and Nathair instantly reciprocated. He moved his segmented jaw in a way that mimicked lips to greet hers before he found the opportunity to sink his tongue within her mouth.

She gave a rasp of enjoyment, and Nathair answered her with a light groan. He danced the back of his hand down her neck, her chest – only pausing there long enough to play with a nipple – before he went lower. When he glided over her hip bone, she tilted her pelvis for him, and her heart fluttered faster.

Nathair sheathed his claws before he delved between her lips and found her clit. He played with the sensitive bundle of nerves, and her legs spread wide as she moaned for him. He circled her clit with practiced pressure and waited for her hips to start greeting him with subtle rocks.

Only then did he go lower, dabbing his fingertips at the slick pool at her entrance. He speared her with two fingers swiftly, and her muscles locked as she squeaked. Nathair proceeded to pump them, pleased to find that their kissing and his touches had made her soft and ready.

He broke his mouth from hers so he could lash his tongue across her neck, and then brought himself lower to lick at one of her nipples. Clamping it between his jaw segments, he let her feel the pinch of it, before he soothed any sting with more of his tongue.

He pulled away and licked at his maw before tilting his snout downwards.There is something I have always wanted to do.

Without wasting any more time to obtain his prize, he removed his fingers and dipped below the water. While he waited for his lungs to fill with water and his breathing system to morph, Nathair wedged his shoulders below her thighs.

Beneath the surface, he lashed her clit with his tongue. Linh swiftly leaned back, parted her thighs, and gripped his horns – the only person he would allow to touch them.

Since her soul was made of essence, Nathair had already discovered it appeared to be safe despite being submerge within water. That just gave him freedom to be his aquatic self and play with his female like this.

A moan from her reverberated through the water as he took a breath through his gills. Just as he dabbed his tongue at her cute little hole, he choked at the sting that instantly clutched his lungs. He ignored it, thinking it was just the shift of breathing in new minerals in the water. The longer he tasted his arousedfemale, the more it felt like lava had entered the small nerves or special veins branching around his lungs and heart.

I can’t breathe!Nathair had to breach the surface before he drowned. Placing a hand on the rock she sat upon, Nathair choked out pants as he forced his lungs to empty of water more rapidly than normal.

Linh sat up with widened, worried eyes. “Oh my gosh, are you okay?”

“No,” he answered with shaking hands. “Whatever is on your skin is making the water t-o-x-i-c.”

It’d tasted sour and sweet at the same time, and yet acidic.