Page 83 of A Soul to Touch

“It’s time to get up. I need to go to the toilet, and I’m hungry and thirsty.” She also noticed something else. His fur wasn’t soft along his groin and lower torso, and Mayumi’s skin felt cracked and... uncomfortable between her thighs, stomach, and even her chest. “Wealso need a bath.”

There was dried seed everywhere. She didn’t know Duskwalkers came like a damn waterfall. She tried to ignore the way her thighs easily slipped together with the warm, still moist slick there.

His head dipped as he lifted her higher. Mayumi squirmed slightly when his tongue slipped over the edge of her jaw to the corner before running up just in front of her ear.

“I can give you a bath, my dirty tiny human,” he said with an undertone of humour.

He began licking at her neck with determined swipes, leaving saliva in his wake.

“I’m covered in your come,” Mayumi answered in a flat tone. “I didn’t think you’d be interested in cleaning me of it.”

He paused mid-lick against her jugular.

“I don’t mind cleaning your pussy since I’d taste you and I mingled together.” He removed his tongue from her. “But no, I do not wish to lick my seed by itself from your body.”

Now that he’d pulled her higher, she was facing his skull while using his strong bicep as a pillow. They’d never grabbed her bedding, so the ground was hard against her hip.

Thankfully she’d managed to get the fireplace going at some point between their bouts of sex. It was currently dull and dying, but it was still producing a small amount of heat.

Faunus was warmer anyway, and part of the reason she didn’t truly want to get up was that he was comfortable. She couldn’t remember if she’d ever woken in someone’s arms before – she usually always escaped through the front door or the window before any lazy morning cuddles could happen.

I’m glad he came back after all these years.

Staring at his yellow orbs that were already gazing at her, Mayumi reached up and tapped the pad of her index finger against the bone around his nose hole, giving his snout a small boop. His tongue came out to swipe where she’d booped him.

Her eyelids became heavy and half-casted when he caressed the tips of his claws up and down the middle of her spine. It was when his other hand came up to start brushing through her hair, his touch overly affectionate, that Mayumi's heart squeezed sharply. Although she never felt fear, she wasn’t impervious to anxiety.

She quickly sat up to break contact between them.

I just want to have sex with him. Nothing more.

It wasn’t a good idea to get attached to him and vice versa. Many people had thrown around the idea that Mayumi had commitment issues, but it was just so damn hard to like anyone when they could disappear the next day – forever.

Sure, Faunus had ‘promised’ he had no intention of leaving again, but she was human. She could die, or they could get tired of each other. Nothing was ever certain.

He’d already left once.

Despite her jarring movements, he only wrapped his arm around her waist and curled around her to continue their cuddle while she was seated upright. He was holding her as though she was a teddy bear.

“Sleep more,” he demanded. “As soon as you get up, I know you are going to force me to work. What terrible things do you want me to do today? Remove the roof of your home so you may lay down a new one? Pull up a tree and rebury it on the other side of your yard?”

The fact his desire to hold her seemed more like a prevention of chores rather than to be romantically intimate eased her. Mayumi gave a snort of laughter.

“Just how long have you been studying humans, Faunus?” she asked, raising a brow at him.

His head lifted suddenly. “What do you mean?”

“Well, considering you seem rather versatile in dirty talk and playful sarcasm, it seems you’ve picked up on a lot.”

An irritated, rolling huff came from him as he laid his head back down. “You humans are so annoyingly loud. Sometimes I can hear you long before I see you, and you often play and tease each other. Humans are vocal in everything they do. In eating, in sex, in life, and even in death.”

That still didn’t answer my question.

With a sigh, Mayumi let it go.

She managed to wrangle her way out of his embrace and, crawled on her hands and knees over to the fireplace. She stabbed it with the poker a few times, feeling the cold prickle of goosebumps assaulting her entire body. Her nipples pulled taut in a stingy way, and she quickly threw a fresh log into the embers so it could warm the house.

When she turned back around, Faunus was lying on his side with one knee bent. He’d also bent the arm under him and had placed the side of his head in his palm. His tail swished behind him, but it was his purple orbs that caused her to halt.

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