Page 37 of A Very Monstrous Desire

Some hours later they found themselves relaxing on the bed, fed, watered and ready to get some rest. Theo was tucked up against the wall with Baku between him and the door. Though he wouldn’t admit it out loud, Theo was pretty damn glad of that fact. The medicinal soap might have taken away the pain of the bruises, and the relentless pleasure Baku had given him soothed the worst of the aches, but Theo was exhausted and not just physically. He wasn’t sure how it had only been less than forty-eight hours since he had set off with his squad to battle the munching monsters. It seemed so much longer. Perhaps it was simply that he was spending every moment of his time with Baku—well, except those where he was being dragged off to be eaten by other monsters—but Theo felt like he knew his monster.

He didn’t though.

Theo was well aware that no one could know another person after just a few days, and that didn’t even take into account the whole other dimension element that was involved in their relationship.

But Theo felt it.

It made no sense.

Were he less exhausted, Theo might have spent some time considering it, fretting over it even in his slightly neurotic way. But for now, tucked into the bed, body relaxed—though aching slightly from the memory of Baku’s cock deep inside it—and brain exhausted, he simply accepted that it was all fucked up, there was nothing he could actively do about it, and instead looked up into the moonlit eyes of his monstrous lover.

“I find myself…captivated by you, my human Theo,” Baku said as their eyes met. It was the first time the monster had called him his human, and it gave Theo an unexpected thrill. “I did not imagine that would be the case.”

“What do you mean?” Theo asked.

Baku shrugged one massive shoulder. “The people I have encountered so far from your world have not captivated me.”

“I’m not the first human you have met?”

“The first I have had any interest in.”

Theo tried to imagine what other humans might have thought the first time they saw Baku, with his bulk and his purple skin and that silvery glow. On the other side, Theo’s side, it would be so much more pronounced as he would have the inter-dimensional shimmer as well.

“How many times have you been to our world?” Theo eventually asked.

“A few.”

“Why?”

“To gather information.”

“Are there more of you there now?” Theo asked, his mind boggling at the thought of a huge purple monster wandering around Westminster.

“Yes.”

“How many?”

“Many.”

“Are you trying to invade?”

The monster almost laughed at that. “Your world is not for us. It is too…busy.”

“There are billions of people and billions of animals,” Theo said. “The population generally has been growing for centuries, but they say it will stabilise soon.”

“Not so here,” Baku said. “Our populations have been falling for centuries. There have not been billions of people here for some time.” He paused. “There were more before the rages but since then…”

“How many of your people have the rages killed?” Theo asked but then wished he hadn’t. The rages genuinely frightened Theo.

“It is not as simple as that, Theo,” Baku said.

“They don’t kill you?”

“I—”

“No, don’t tell me,” he said quickly. “I don’t want to know.”

“Theo…”

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