Epilogue

POV Melissa

Two months later

I wake up and sit up slowly to try to minimize my nausea, and like a divine miracle, it seems that I'm not feeling nauseous now. In fact, I feel quite refreshed, and it must be because I spent the whole afternoon sleeping, judging by the darkness I see through the window.

"Kaleo?" I stretch my arm to try to find him on our bed, but the sheets are empty and cold. "Damn..." I mutter because I bet he must have gone hunting, thinking I would sleep until morning.

It's been three weeks of me vomiting all the time, always with headaches and body aches, and honestly? I can't take it anymore! It feels like an eternal virus, and if it weren't for the tea the giant is giving me, my throat would already be burned from the acid of the vomit.

If I take as long as Gen is taking to have her babies, I think I might end up dying from dehydration. But at least she said these nausea would be very intense for less than a month, and one day, they would disappear out of nowhere.

I hope that day is today.

To test my condition a little better, I get up, put on my new pair of boots, pants, gloves, and jacket, all of which arrived yesterday morning, and walk around the cabin looking for Kaleo. Now Cirion is making it much easier for us to access things from the outside, and I can vary my clothes more, which is quite fun. My current jacket has fur edges, and the rest is blue, almost the color of my Kaleo, and I even get to wear makeup.

"I’m already awake. Where are you?!" I exclaim, still inside the house, to see if he appears, but nothing happens.

So I go outside and discover that the snow has increased a little more. Kaleo said snow is rare on the Azuri side, but it seems that this year I’ll be able to make some good snowmen because there’s more than three fingers of it on the ground, this white stuff I’ve never seen before that makes me feel like I'm in a Coca-Cola Christmas commercial from Earth.

The trees around the house are white, the roof of the wooden cabin has a good few fingers of accumulated snow too, and the wind from Selvaria seems even colder than usual. The good thing is that the clothes I wear now have so much technology that I only feel a little cold in the exposed areas, like my face.

But even with suitable clothes, I know it's not good to be outside alone, and since I haven’t seen any sign of Kaleo, I'm ready to go back inside, close the door, and wait for him there, when suddenly I hear a low, hoarse moan.

Is there an animal around here?

The ones I've encountered so far didn’t make sounds like this...

"Kaleo, is that you?" I ask with concern, just to hear the moan again, this time a bit louder, so I can pinpoint where it's coming from.

I walk slowly to the back of the cabin, trembling with fear of what I might find, until in the end, it’s just Kaleo sitting on the snow-covered ground, his back against the wooden wall.

"Kaleo?" Normally, he would have heard me by now, and I wouldn’t even need to say his name for him to look my way, because Azuris have superior hearing compared to humans. But the male is staring very intently at an image on the hologram and seems not to hear me. "Kaleo, are you okay?" I walk up to him, and only when my body casts a shadow against his due to the light from the three moons in the sky, does the giant look to the side and notice my presence.

"By Novai, Melisha! You scared me!" he exclaims, his eyes wide, and he’s so tall that sitting, our heights are almost equal.

"What are you..." I begin to ask, but I don't even finish my sentence because on the hologram screen Kaleo was watching, there’s an image of a naked woman! More precisely, a naked human woman. "What is this, Kaleo?" My voice almost disappears.

I know many humans watch pornography even when they're married, but this isn't Kaleo’s style. He never even looks away; he only looks at me. So it’s a huge shock to realize my giant is outside, hiding, watching porn.

Tears want to flood my eyes right away, but I manage to hold them back.

"It’s you, Melisha! It's not another human, it’s—it's just you!" He even stammers while pointing at the hologram projecting the video in the air.

Then I look a bit more carefully and realize he’s telling the truth; it really is a video of me, from my camgirl days, naked and dancing on a pole.

Holy shit!

"I like to watch the videos of you using your dildos and dancing on that metal bar..." he confesses quietly.

I raise my eyebrows, not knowing what to say, especially because looking down, I realize that Kaleo is sitting with his pants down, both of his members exposed, along with his nyclo.

Holograms can be used in two ways: either you watch things on them like tablets, holding the two sticks separately, one in each hand, or you have it project the image in the air. And since Kaleo seems to be... busy with his hands, he put both sticks on the snow-covered ground and is making the hologram project my image in the air, so he can touch himself.

"Are you secretly masturbating to my old videos?" I ask, and he gives a very guilty nod.

"They’re so beautiful, and... I like seeing how your pussy opens, you always zoomed in on that part, especially when you used the—the tentacle that looks like my nyclo," he clarifies, sounding extremely nervous, and my face heats up with embarrassment because technically, those videos aren't for Kaleo, and who knows how many men have been watching my vagina swallow a blue silicone dildo shaped like a tentacle. "And since you’ve been feeling so nauseous, I didn’t want to bother you with sex, my little wife."

"I understand..." I murmur, still not really knowing what to say to him.

It makes sense that Kaleo would be watching me, because the only woman he says he’s interested in seeing naked is me. But at the same time, it’s a huge surprise that he’s accessing content that still embarrasses me to this day, still free on the internet.

It was one thing to do a show for just one man who would keep my image in his memory; another thing is having it recorded for anyone to watch for the rest of eternity, and that bastard Unob never replied to my messages asking him to take all that crap down from the site! He’s still profiting from me, even after sending me to die on a freezing planet with nothing to warm me up, because there are videos of mine that are only released to subscribers.

"Are you mad at me? You’re silent, Melisha."