“Gab-bae, you have brought me more pleasure than I ever thought possible. First you tell me I am not cursed, then you grant me your smiles and your laugh, and now you touch me in ways I have never thought possible. Gab-bae I…I do not have the words to express how I’m feeling.”
I lifted her hand to my chest and placed it over my heart. “Do you feel that? My heart beats for you, my kira-si.”
Gab-bae placed her other hand on my chest and looked up at me with confidence in her eyes. “I think my heart beats for you too.”
A weight I did not know I carried lifted off my shoulders at Gab-bae’s words. I scooped her onto my lap and held her in my arms until she yawned.
“Come my Gab-bae, we should get some rest.” We laid down on the furs and Gab-bae cuddled against me and rested her head on my arm.Truly, I was the luckiest male alive.
Chapter 16
Tarak
Gab-bae and I stood outside of Orsu’s den the next morning as we waited for the rest of my hunters and the females to gather for our walk home. I felt like a new male. I walked tall with my chest puffed out. Gab-bae laid in my arms as she slept last night and I wanted nothing more than to lick the sweetness between her thighs until she moaned my name. I longed to bring her endless nights of pleasure, I wanted to taste her sweet floral nectar again and again. I almost asked her if she’d be my mate last night, but I did not wish to scare her with such a bold request. We had only just met and she might not feel as strongly about me as I felt about her.
Perhaps the goddess will bless me again and Gab-bae will luminesce for me when the moon is full. I shook my head of those thoughts. It was too much to hope for.
Unfortunately, I could not think about any of that now. We had a long and dangerous day ahead of us which would require all my focus.
Brexl and Rhaz were the first to approach with their females in tow and I was reminded that I needed to speak to my hunters soon about the things Gab-bae taught me last night. If any of the females wished to claim one of my hunters as their lovers or mates then my hunters should know how to please their female before they take her to the furs.
I recalled how frustrated I’d felt last night when I’d wanted to pleasure Gab-bae but did not know how, and I did not wish for my hunters to experience the same frustration that I had.
Soon Axon arrived with the two females he’d watched over last night. Then Lumod and Drovo exited the den with the remaining females.
“Savrix, we must speak to you privately before we leave.” Lumod and Drovo rushed to my side before I could give the command to start walking. They both looked nervous, which wasn’t normal for either of them.
“Come,” I motioned for them to follow me. I walked far enough away from the others that no one would hear us, but close enough that I could keep an eye out for Gab-bae, in case she were attacked by a predator.
“What troubles you?” My voice came out gruff. I was uneasy with so many females out in the forest, far away from the safety of our mountain, and even though I’d just stepped away from Gab-bae my heart ached to be near her again.
“The females Kayla and Hai cannot travel far,” Lumod began.
“Why not?”
“Hai has a chronic illness-”
“-and Kayla has what she called mobility issues,” Drovo interrupted.
Chronic illness? I had never heard of such a thing. For every illness I’d seen the person would get better or they would die. No one lived while sick.
“Why can’t you just carry them if they cannot walk far?” Surely they had brought this up in the time they spent together in the den last night.
Lumod and Drovo exchanged glances. “We are not supposed to touch any females,” Lumod said slowly.
“The other dekes is not here. You have seen Gab-bae and I hold hands, have you not? I am your Savrix and I say since these females are humans and not of the other dekes, the rules do not apply.”
They both nodded but still looked unconvinced. “What if they do not wish to touch us?”
“I do not think the humans will see our shifting abilities as a curse like the other dekes does. Did you shift in front of them last night?”
They shook their heads no. “We are worried what they might think if they saw us in our animal forms.”
“Let us worry about one problem at a time. Ask if you may carry them and see what they say. If they say no, I will ask Gab-bae what she thinks we should do, but either way we must get going.”
“Thank you, Savrix.” They both put a fist to their chests and gave a short bow before they left and then I returned to the group.
Gab-bae was giving and receiving hugs from the females when I returned. Lumod and Drovo approached the females they’d guarded last night and asked if they could carry them on our journey home.
