Page 234 of A Soul to Guide

Their chiming and rattling was comforting.

Merikh flung her into his arms, bundling her into his lap while taking back his sight. The metal container holding spare writing apparatuses flew from her hands in a clattering mess.

“Did you really just fucking walk on me?”he groggily asked in disbelief, his voice deeper in his monstrous form.

“You were in the way!” she exclaimed, trying her hardest not to giggle. “I told you yesterday I’d prefer if you didn’t lay there.”

“You could have gone around me.”

“It’s not like I hurt you. Did you lie when you said I weigh nothing to you?”

Red sparks glittered in her vision.“That’s not the point. You cannot just walk on top of me like I’m a rug. Wake me next time you want me to move.”

Unable to hold it back any longer, she burst with laughter. She covered her mouth to hide it when he growled.

“You did that out of spite to retaliate, even when I only wanted to contentedly sleep by you.”

“I did warn y–”

Raewyn squeaked when he rolled her over and splayed her across his lap. She tried to push up on straightened arms by pressing on his thighs, especially when he tugged the skirt of her dress to the side.

“What are you doing?” she asked as a draft whispered over her exposed backside.

“If my bride wishes to be naughty, then I will have to make sure she’s not again.”

Her eyes widened, realising what he intended. “Wait, no! I’m sorry. Please, don’t.”

“I would never actually hurt you, Raewyn,”he uttered with hurt in his tone.

He was upset she thought he would actually harm her, since she was wiggling to get free. However, that wasn’t the reason she was desperately trying to crawl away.

“I’m more hoping it’s the embarrassment that bruises you.”

Before she could say anything more, his big palm came down on her backside. It definitely wasn’t hard, only enough to tingle and make a slapping sound. He’d put absolutely no strength into it, but she gasped all the same.

Her face heated.I can’t believe he actually spanked me!

Not prepared for a second one, thinking the first would be enough, she was surprised that it stung a little. She wished a moan hadn’t broken from her, and she quickly covered her mouth with both hands.

She’d teased him about this in the past, but she’d never actually been spanked properly before. It wasn’t something her people did except as a sex act, and she didn’t have the heart to tell him otherwise.

She’d always wondered if it was something she’d like, since she wasn’t particularly fond of pain. It wasn’t the light sting from the third one that had her squirming, though; it was just the fact that it was being done to her.

“What the...?”he grunted.“Are youenjoyingthis?”

As if to punctuate his questions, he ran the fore knuckle of his index finger through her wet folds to collect her pooling arousal.

She moved her hands, and panted, “Maybe? I’m actually not sure.”

“I don’t understand. You aren’t supposed to like it.”

The cry that burst from her was paired with her legs shaking when he glided his claws over her now-sensitive backside. The tickle of them went straight to her pussy, like an electric spark.

His hand darted away in what could only be surprise.

Her entire head went hot in embarrassment at the weird, strangled, perverse sound that had come from her. In a panic, she tried to scramble away.

“O-okay,” she whispered, unsure why she was feeling bashful. Perhaps because it was new for her, and he was the one doing it? “You made your point.”

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