Chapter 74

Chapter 74
Persephone’s POV

I stared at the water and stared at Tak’s beautifully handsome face and the shock written on it. It seems that the ploy that I had in mind worked.

“You really do wish to swim here?” he asked me again and I smirked.

“Of course…as far as I can understand through my magic I can feel that this is connected to a hot spring and the water is supposed to be magical and healing. There is something else also I can sense but I can’t completely understand what is in the water.”

Takumi smiled at my words and said,” It has got healing and transformative properties. The magic that you are sensing will be appealing to you since you are a pure soul and it will try and touch you and make its own. This spring is connected with the ocean and that makes things very easy for us. We come here to recharge our magic and also heal ourselves. Water in itself is very magical. A child when created in womb or in egg or anywhere starts its journey with water and that in itself makes things magical.”

“So you are of the opinion that I should be in the water, right?” I asked him as I pulled off the crop top that I had worn to bed last night. Takumi had begun to speak but he stopped and his lips parted open and they remain open as he breathed out very carefully. It was a ragged intake of breath which made me feel almost giddy with pleasure. He had seen me completely at the point when I was at my most vulnerable and yet I could see so much heat in his oceanic eyes that it was becoming difficult for me the sultry self that I wanted to be for Takumi.

He wasn’t like the others. He wasn’t like Zmiyrenan who knew that he was mine and he would claim me at his own time as if he had an eternity to be by my side. Neither he was like Wilhelm who was assured and confident that despite all the darkness and secrets that he had hidden inside himself he could be open as a book with me. And Bernard! Well that one was the worst of the lot….I had so much to say to that idiot but Butcher of Immortals, an epithet he had earned. That wasn’t a joke and still he did things that might enrage me but were all finally done with my good in my mind.

Takumi was nothing like them. He was the calm in the eye of the storm. When everything was over and all was dead he was the one still standing to hold everything in control. His calmness and his subtle strength was so much of an comfort to me I had not been able to realise that until he drenched me with water to put out my fire.

I dropped the crop top on the stone slick with the water as he breathed in again.

I stared at him as I opened the button of my shorts and then slowly pushed it down my hips and then my thighs as he said,” Persephone!”

My name was like a prayer on his lips. He was begging me for something but I had no idea what. I kept staring at him and did not break my gaze as I pushed away the shorts from my feet and now I was in my lacy underwear before him. I unfastened the snap of my bra as Takumi whispered something in a language I had no idea what.

But then I heard him speaking in my head,” You truly are a Goddess and no one, mortal and immortal deserves you. You should be only worshipped. I wish I could do that..”

I threw the bra along with the rest of my clothes as I pushed my panties down my hips and I bared my clean shaven vulva to his gaze and it almost felt like he would cry. His gaze was reverent and hungry and I said,” You have seen before, Tak.”

“And it will never be enough!” Before he could come and touch me I jumped in the water and splashed water all around. The warm water engulfed me and it felt sooooo good that I whooped. Tak was standing at the corner and I found that he had undressed as well and then he said,” When I will go into the water, I will change. It will be different how I will look like.”

“And how does that matter?” I asked as I wiped the water from the eyes and my face.

“Because you have never seen someone like me before,” he said slowly as my gaze stuck to his abs and I could help but let out a soft moan. It almost felt as if the water was pulling at my nipples and touching my back and all my crevices and making me feel more horny than I had ever sanely and consciously felt in my life.

“And you are fine with me seeing you in your shifted form?” I asked him. I had seen Nyra shifted plenty of times, I had no idea why he was so damn scared of showing it to me.

Then he dived in the water from the rock ledge and dove in completely. The depth that he swam into would be almost till the point where my feet did not reach..and then when he was up his skin had changed completely and it was iridescent. His eyes were the same but he was shining and glowing from within like a bioluminescent pearl. I stared at him with my mouth open as I stared below and found that he looked nothing like Nyra. There were no scales. Only skin stretched into a huge fish tail and it almost looked like the lower end of a shark.

And the best part, he had horns or fins or I didn’t know what to call them all over his back.

“You are beautiful,” I whispered as I went closer to him but I was hesitant to touch him.

“I am a monster,” he replied, his voice soft but pained at the same time and I softly kissed the tips of his fingers as I pressed my body closer to his and wrapped my legs around his waist and said,” If you are a monster then maybe I was made for monsters. To love monsters. To be a monster all along with you.”

Takumi stared in my eyes and kissed me. He kissed me so hard that I could feel a trickle of blood from my lips. His teeth had sharpened and he had nicked me but that did nothing to reduce the passion that we shared.

Finally as we moved an inch apart he said,” You are the only one for me, my muse.”