Askance by Viola Grace Read Free Book Online

walked toward her. It had no one particular set of features but rather had a constantly shifting face.
    “Niiko?”
    The creature smiled and sat at the edge of the bed, running his hands down her body slowly. The twisting agony turned into an irritating prickle as it spread across her skin instead of burning from the inside out.
    She bared her teeth and controlled her pain with measured breathing, but she knew that this was about to be the suckiest honeymoon on record.

Chapter Nine
    After two days of physical torture, the pain suddenly stopped.
    Silari looked over at Maksuan with a smile. “It’s over.”
    Relief was a mild word for his expression. Even the energy form of Niiko visibly relaxed.
    “Can I have a bath now?”
    Maksuan lifted her from the bed, a sheet the only thing around her. “Shower first, then a hot soak.”
    She chuckled weakly and held on. Maksuan had not left her side for the entire ordeal. He had held her every moment when he was not bathing the sweat from her body or wrapping her against the drafts.
    Her shame over the marks on her body had disappeared three hours into the change. He had removed her wedding clothes to keep them safe and wrapped her in the first of many sheets. She had fought the wrap, then shuddered with cold in turns.
    When he had started to sponge the sweat from her, she had fought him, at first. But the bliss she felt at being reasonably clean for a few minutes outweighed her embarrassment.
    Now, he carried her into the bathing room and sat her on a chair while he removed the wrap around his hips. Naked, he lifted her again and stood her up under the warm spray of the shower.
    “Thank you, Maksuan. I don’t think I would have made it through this without you.”
    He stroked her hair, untangling it with his fingers before applying soap and lathering her up. With care and patience, he washed her from head to toe. When she was clean, he set her back on the chair and took care of his own cleansing.
    The moment that he was done, he lifted her again and carried her to the huge hot spring that provided them not only with water for bathing, but other fissures could be used to cook meals.
    As he lowered her in to sit on the ledge carved out by Avatars past, she groaned.
    “What is it? Do you still hurt?”
    She chuckled and reached up to kiss his hand. “No. It feels good. My muscles are sore from being tense for so long.”
    He slid in and settled next to her before moving her so that she was sitting between his thighs. “Lean back and relax. I remember the stiffness from the pain, but it was a shorter duration for me. I was almost dead already, so he was healing and burning his own pathways at the same time.”
    She grunted as he started a massage on her neck that moved on to her shoulders and down her arms. Silari dozed off while he worked on her, but it was a peaceful sleep and not the fitful writhing of the last two days.
    His touch on her soothed her into dreams of walking the world of Niiko, her scars glowing to light the way.
    Snug in her bed with Maksuan around her, Silari opened her eyes to see Niiko smiling down at her. The glowing figure brushed her hair with his hand and she felt pleasure at his touch instead of the burning pain.
    Maksuan stirred behind her and his hands moved from around her waist and between her breasts to cupping her breast and sliding between her thighs.
    Silari leaned her head back against his shoulder and placed her own hands on top of his, encouraging him to stroke, squeeze and explore.
    He trailed his lips along her shoulder while his other hand parted her sex and slid two fingers inside.
    Maksuan started a rhythm that started slow and then when she arched into his touch and parted her thighs, he worked her with more intensity.
    The soft, wet noises of her sex made her blush, but when he turned her and moved over her, sliding his cock against her wet, swollen folds, it became a worry of the past.
    She didn’t get a good look at his member, but