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He’d be offended that she didn’t want to be marked in it, but he just found the situation too funny to feel anything negative.

She bolted for the lake, hopping as she did. The moment she stepped her cum-covered foot down, it came out from under her. Nathair utilised all his strength to leap forward and cushion her head before it hit the ground.

“Whyyyy?” she cried falsely. “I slipped on cum! Why does weird shit always happen to me?”

Fucking hell. That’s really funny,Nathair thought as he snickered.

He couldn’t remember if he’d ever laughed like this, or even felt the lightness in his chest before. Nor did he think his lucidity had ever been this strong, the voices that constantly battered the back of his mind softer than ever. He thrummed in the afterglow of Linh somehow bringing thembothto completion this day.

Setting her down next to the lake, he waited for her to roll up her pant leg so he could help clean her.

Okay, little human. Wash your foot, and then we will find you more shells.

He hated them. They were not to his taste, as they were ugly things that didn’t shine like his gems, but he would never tell her that. His contentment at watching heraddto his precious home outweighed their ugliness.

She was making his homehers.

He seems... different,Linh thought, as Nathair poked another flower stem into her hair.

She regretted not braiding it completely, since she only did the top half while leaving the bottom half free. It was wet from their swim through his lake and up to his pond. Everything she wore was drenched, but at least the warm spring sun was drying her.

She fingered the fourth weed flower he’d put into her long hair, while staring up at his snake skull glittering in the light.

He seems more at ease ever since the first time I touched myself in front of him.

Her cheeks instantly warmed in memory, and she spun to hide her embarrassment from him. Her heart fluttered bashfully as her stomach flipped for the same reason.

She pressed on, searching for more herbs and any edible berries or nuts in the sparsely shaded forest.

An internal groan had her wanting to cover her face.He made me do it yesterday too.‘Made her’ was a bit of an overstatement, considering she quickly gave in when he requested it.I wish I’d known sooner he’s always been able to smell when I’m aroused.

It was pretty damn obvious now since his orbs would shift to bright purple, and he never once hid it over the past three days. It was like hewantedher to see it, to make it known that he could smell it, and he wiggled his long, forked tongue in her direction every time.

Which, being caught out, only made her scent deepen. He seemed so cocky about it, too, the jerk.

When a shrub caught her eye, Linh crouched down to inspect the blackberries on it. Firstly, to check to make sure they weren’t poisonous, and secondly, to hide her blush from her next thoughts.

I can’t believe I’ve been doing it for him.As promised, he never reached out to her. His poor nest had multiple dents in it now from where he’d crushed it with his mighty hands.

He didn’t come with her the second time, but she had a funny feeling that when she went to her bathing area to semi-panic, he’d eased himself. That, or he was so good at holding back his own need that he could make himself soften at will.

If so, he was incredibly forgiving.

Wouldn’t most men lose their marbles if they had a woman masturbating on top of them?And not just once, but twice?

It didn’t help that just the brush of his tail against her body had her remembering how she’d ground on it.I did that. I ground on a Duskwalker’s tail.She’d just been so groggy with sleep and turned-on at the time that it sounded like the grandest idea possible. Each reminder had her clit throbbing for her to do it again.

She wanted to be mortified by what she did, how she kept responding to the memory, but Nathair coming just from watching made her feel like the most sensual, alluring woman in the world. Even when he scented her desire,teasingher for it, her body would thrum.

Oh gods. What am I doing with a Duskwalker?It felt so perverted to have one watch her as she touched herself intimately, which made it all thenaughtier. Have I gone insane? Is that why I like it so much?

Although she’d acted awkward afterwards, unsure of how to react to him or what she’d just done, she found she didn’t... regret it. It didn’t make sickness cling to her heart or make her feel ugly on an emotional level.

Instead, she’d grow bashful, her head hot with a blush that wouldn’t settle for hours. She’d find herself eyeing him, wanting more, wanting to touchhiminstead, but then her hands would start shaking.

For three days, Linh had been trying to push herself. To shed her fears like a snake moulting its skin. To get herself to a point where she could finally let go and ease him like he was allowing her to ease herself. Gosh, she wanted his hands on her so badly she almost caved and asked for it today when he wouldn’t stop purring.

I feel like a frigid teenager.Like a trembling virgin about to lose her chastity.