NovelEnglishChapter 108 Intimacy
The gentle sound of humming stirred Malachi from his deep sleep.
A warm and soft hand was so gently caressing his face, and he almost didn't want to open his eyes. He was almost certain in the event that he did, he wouldn't get to be babied like this for much longer. And say what you will, but sometimes it's nice to be treated tenderly by a girl, you know?
A familiar scent of roses wafted into his nose, and he knew immediately just who was showering him with such love and care. Suddenly, the door to his room opened and he smelled another familiar woman enter. "You need some rest, Luna. You haven't left his side for like five hours now." Anna said. "Has it really been that long...? I miss him so much that I hardly noticed it..."
"Me too, but you know he wouldn't want you to burn yourself out like this. Come into the living room with Sei and I." Luna sighed and admitted defeat before she tore her hand away from Mal's face and stood up from her seat. She leaned down to place a kiss on his forehead.
"Wake up soon, my love. I miss you terribly."
"You're such a sweetheart."
Luna let out a small yelp as Malachi wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into bed with him. "What'd I do to deserve such a sweet girlfriend, hm?"
"Y-You.."
"Go on, I what?" He said with a cheeky smile. Small tears formed in the corner of Luna's pink eyes and she rested her head on his bare chest. "You're stupid... that's what you are."
"Ah, totally understandable."
This was an entirely new experience for both of them. With Malachi in the center, Sei in front, and Luna and Anna behind his back, the young man was in absolute heaven.
He had never been so grateful to be alive. "How long was I out for...?" Mal finally asked. "Four days." Luna said as she looked at the bruising along his back that was somehow even worse than the front. "The fight... What was it like?" Anna asked. She grew a bit more comfortable the more steam accumulated inside the shower, and she had actually begun to wash him of her own volition. "...Sure you girls want to know?"
Unsurprisingly, he received instantaneous nods that seemed to only be concerned with his wellbeing. "I won't lie, loves. It was easily the hardest thing I've ever done."
He told the girls in great detail everything that happened in his confrontation with Alex Heller. Everything from the extreme pain he felt when he used his powers, to the brutal clash their constructs underwent near the end. "And even after all that, I still couldn't kill him." He growled. Suddenly, Luna placed a soft hand on his cheek and made it so that they were looking eye to eye. "Darling... I hope you know that you haven't failed. Your training paid off splendidly, and you would have won had that man not shown up at the last second."
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmIt was clear by the look on Mal's face that he didn't actually feel a whole lot better."Luna, I-"
"Why must you be so stubborn? The fact that you came out alive is all that matters, everything else can take a backseat."
"He stole from you, he tried to kill me, he nearly got Opal and Nina killed. How am I supposed to let that go?"
Luna wanted to tell Mal that those items could be replaced and that his guild mates had forgotten all about the incident, but she couldn't dismiss the attempt on his life. "You aren't, and you're not the only one who is upset that he's still breathing, but look at the bright side of things." Sei suddenly hugged him and pressed her face against his chest. "You're alive, we can touch you and you can touch us. For now, nothing else should matter."
Anna was slower to display her affection, but she also did not shy away. "I'm so proud of you for everything you tried to do, even if you scared the shit out of me. But I want to focus on us for a bit since we just got together... no terroists or archenemies or broken bodies."
At the end of the day they hadn't gotten the result they wanted, but it was far better than the alternative. Malachi was able to take the sincere words of his women to heart, and he smiled wryly in defeat as he embraced each of them. "I get it... I'm really lucky to have you girls."
The four of them went back to showering not long after that, and the conversation became relatively light. Mal didn't want to spoil the mood with all of these beautiful and soapy ladies surrounding him, so he alternated between cracking small jokes and heavy petting. But in the back of his mind, he was still thinking about Alex Heller and that organization he'd joined. Unable to let things go, he opened his mind to his blessing from Nyx and tried to find out where they may have been hiding. After a while, Anna noticed that Mal had fallen silent, and for some reason he looked like he'd seen a ghost. "Babe? What's the matter?"
Malachi's eyes flickered between disbelief and complete absurdity. "My powers from Nyx... they're gone."
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