“Maybe you should reinstate my gentleman and knight titles?”
“Maybe…”
“You know, I can’t help but worry about what goes on under your sexy underwear. After such a gruesome battle, you should clean every inch of your body properly.”
“… Gentleman my ass! You want to touch me there!”
“Me? I wouldn’t dare.”
Vex wasn’t impressed. “So if I offered, you would deny?”
“I would feel you up in a heartbeat.”
“I can’t watch this teen drama any longer. Free the shower, or I’m leaving,” Iris decreed with irritation, having had enough of our display.
“Join me here!” Kitsara shouted from the bathing pool.
I shook my head. “No bathing before showering.”
“Then-“
Iris didn’t have enough time to finish her statement.
“You wanted a shower? Be my guest, my beloved companion.” I casually raised my hand and snapped my fingers.
A high-pressure jet of water blasted her right in the face like she’d just offended Poseidon himself. With a sputtering shriek, she was launched backward in a flurry of limbs and swearing, spinning like a windmill as she tumbled across the grass.
“You son of a bitch! I’ll-“
Iris didn’t even get to finish the sentence. The force of the blast had completely drenched her, making the woman look like a very pissed-off drowned cat that someone had tried to baptize with a fire hose.
Despite that, she pushed herself upright with sheer might, her spine straightening as she refused to lose. Her glare alone could have cracked stone.
“Give me a twirl,” I cooed, grinning.
In response, she raised both hands, middle fingers extended like proud banners flapping in the wind.
…But then—then—with the slowest, most passive-aggressive spin I’d ever seen, she actually gave me that twirl. The twirl of someone already composing my obituary in her head.
“Hmph.”
With a final huff, she sauntered to the edge of the bath and leapt in with barely a splash, settling in beside Kitsara with an annoyed grumble. “I swear…”
Kitsara giggled, playfully petting her hair. “There, there~”
“Stop petting me!” she snapped, but didn’t move away. In fact, she even relaxed a little, settling in as the warm water worked its magic.
Meanwhile, I looked down at Vex again, smiling like the smug bastard I was. “So, where were we?”
A cold tone came as a response to my question. “I believe you were dreaming about touching my privates.”
“Oh, yeah, right. So?”
“No?” Her answer was swift and steadfast.
“Yes?”
Her lips trembled, visibly faltering. “No…”
“No?” I asked with a raised eyebrow, amused at her change of tone.
“… Yes…”
“Yes?”
“Just my bre-breasts… If you must!” she huffed, refusing to meet my eyes.
“Well, my good lady, I must, for if I don’t, I’ll die a horrible death! A sinister curse is eating away at my body, and the only way to heal me is to touch a sexy white-haired girl’s breasts.”
“Hey, how about me then?” Kitsara purred, puffing her two chests out with her arms.
“They have to be old- I mean, older than a century…” I corrected my mistake, forcing Vex’s head to snap back in my direction so she could glare into my very soul.
“I changed my mind. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
I raised both hands slowly in surrender, stepping toward her with the gentlest smile I could muster.
“Alright, alright. That was a poor choice of words,” I said, my voice softening as I approached. “I didn’t mean old, I meant… timeless. Mature. The kind of beautiful that’s aged like fine wine.”
Her glare didn’t waver, but I caught the subtle twitch in her lips—like she was fighting back a smile.
I reached out, brushing her damp bangs to the side, letting my fingers linger just above her cheek. “You know I love your hair. And your age?” I leaned in to her ears, lowering my voice. “It makes you stronger, wiser, more dangerous, and ten times hotter.”
Vex huffed through her nose, but her expression cracked just slightly. “You’re just saying that because you want to regain my permission to touch my boobs.”
“True,” I admitted with a grin, “but that doesn’t make it any less honest.”
“…Tch.” She looked away again, crossing her arms beneath her chest with far more bounce than necessary. “You’re lucky I’m weak to flattery… Idiot,” she murmured.
But she didn’t tell me to stop.
Vex was still pretending to look away, arms folded as if to deny me the access she herself had just permitted. I stepped behind her, gently resting my hands on her shoulders first, letting my thumbs circle into the tension there. “You’re tense…”
“I wonder why,” she replied dryly.
“You sure you’re okay with this?”
A beat passed. Then she gave the smallest of nods.
“I’ll be on my best behavior,” I promised, even as the smirk on my face probably said otherwise.
Slowly, I slid my hands down her arms, letting the warmth of the falling water wrap around us. When my fingers reached her sides, she stiffened—but didn’t stop me. With the gentleness of a man who truly cared for more than just her body, I brought my hands up, cupping her through the thin, wet fabric of her bra. They were soft and warm, fitting perfectly into my palms.
She sucked in a tiny breath through her teeth but didn’t pull away. “Gently… No twisting or anything barbaric, ok?” she whispered.
I obeyed, moving my fingers under her cloth.
No strong squeezing. No twisting her nipples. Just… holding. Appreciating.
“You’re so damned hot…”
“Stop talking. You’ll ruin the moment,” she mumbled, her cheeks red even as she leaned back into me, giving me better access to her bakery.
I let out a quiet laugh and pressed a kiss to her shoulder.
For a while, we stayed like that—silent, warm, connected. No teasing. No tension. Just two people stealing a moment of softness in a world that rarely allowed it.
“Why do I feel something hard pressing against my butt?”
“I wonder why… Such a mystery; perhaps only the Goddess knows,” I said while groping her sensual breasts to my heart’s content.
“Hmph…”
A sudden, deep shout interrupted my heavenly mound inspection. It came from Sunscar, but the force with which this individual bellowed easily carried his voice to us.
“DIE, LIONKIN SCUM! GRAAAH!! FOR KARGRIM!”
The siege of Sunscar had begun.
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