Page 61 of A Soul to Touch

She looks tired.There was an additional crease in the lower inner corners of her eyes.

Faunus knew it was still early morning by the dim light that was fighting its way through the dark cloud cover.

She was never awake this early, and he doubted she’d slept well since she’d woken in the middle of the night. Faunus had wanted to touch her then, to stroke her face while she slept, pet her hair, but he hadn’t wanted to be caught doing something she may not have wanted, nor had consented to.

After what they’d just done together, he felt his more innocent but adoring touches were acceptable. They were more vulnerable for him.

He was trying to show her it wasn’t just her body he desired but all of her.

The little mew she gave when his claw tips drifted over the back of her neck was enthralling. When he did it again, wanting to soothe her, she gave him another mew as she buried her face against him more.

The fireplace was in full force now. He was uncomfortable so close to it, but he was thankful he’d added that bit of log. Otherwise, her home would still be as cold as ice, like when he’d gone back outside to cut some more properly. He hadn’t been able to sleep since he’d been experiencing an intense, pestering need to touch the pretty female who had been using him as her bed.

He never expected to walk inside to the scene that played out before him, but he was ever thankful for it. He wondered if any of this would have happened today if she’d woken still on top of him.

She’d been alone, doing something he’d mostly seen humans do privately.

“Don’t think I’m not mad at you,” she mumbled. Yet she tilted her head forward so he could have more room to play with at the nape of her neck.

“And what can you be mad at me for?” he asked with a quirk of humour in his voice.

If he recounted everything correctly, she’d not only consented to his touch but had asked for it. Then he’d done everything he could to make her scream multiple times for him, forcing her to come over and under his tongue. From what he’d seen, this was sometimes a difficult task for a human man to achieve, and when they did so, the woman generally seemed to be happier afterwards.

The longer he played with her neck, occasionally scraping his claws into her hair to dance along her scalp, the droopier her eyes became.

She even gave a small yawn.

He knew there had to be a level of deep trust for her to fall asleep like this. He was petting her while she was naked against him. He was supporting all of her weight on one arm, sheltering her with his body and giving her his heat.

“You didn’t give me what I asked for,” she mumbled, her voice even softer than before. Then her eyes shut completely. “Next time, you better give it to me. Orelse.”

Before he could even respond, she was out.

It seemed her lack of sleep and their busy morning had tuckered her out. She started snoring lightly against him with her lips parted.

Faunus would have chuckled if her words didn’t weigh heavily on him.

He should be rejoicing that there was a possibility of more. He should be filled with satisfaction and triumph that she wanted his body to sink into hers until they were joined.

But he wasn’t.I won’t fit.

Those words were now becoming a sad mantra.

He could try to fit, but Faunus knew the girth of his cock and now the snugness of her channel. They weren’t compatible at all.

I’ll break her if I try.His tail swished and flicked in unease against the timber flooring.

Although he’d love it if she tried to fuck him to death, he wasn’t willing to cause grievous harm to her just so he could fulfill his fantasies.

He curled his arms around her and brushed the side of his feline jaw against her.I would give anything to be closer to you, Mayumi.

He pulled back and turned his head over his shoulder so he could peer out her kitchen window.

Is there a way?

Beyond this house and the northlands belonging to the humans... if he were to go back to the Veil that he promised himself he would never return to, would he find the answer?

Faunus knew of at least one other Duskwalker that had a human companion that had not only become his bride but had given him a child.

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