Chapter Thirteen #3
“Mark… you?” I asked. I knew what she meant, but it was a little hard to think straight, so I was a bit slow at the moment.
“Like I just marked you. I want you to leave a mark as proof you won’t leave me.”
“I wouldn’t leave you, Lupa. You’re stuck with me until you decide to leave.”
“I won’t. Ever.”
“Will leaving a mark make you feel better?”
Lupa looked away as if she was feeling a little shy and nodded. “Master is too good to be true. I’m afraid I’m going to wake up and you’re not real. If you leave a mark… it’s proof you’re real. It’s proof I’m not alone anymore.”
I might have been a virgin, but that didn’t mean that I didn’t know when the situation called for not acting like one.
I grabbed onto Lupa, rolled her onto her back so that I was on top of her, and sunk my teeth into her neck.
Leaving a hickey was something I had no experience with. All I knew was that it involved biting someone’s neck. I had no idea how hard I was supposed to bite nor did I know for how long exactly I was supposed to do it, so I just tried to copy how Lupa did it.
Lupa squirmed beneath me just as I did when she was the one on top. Only, she wrapped her arms around my neck to keep me pressed against her.
I probably stayed latched onto her neck for longer than I was supposed to. By the time I was done, there was a serious bruise left there that made her look like I abused her, and there were tears forming at the corners of her eyes.
“Shit, I’m sorry,” I said. “Was that too hard? Too much? Did I—”
Lupa pulled me back against her for a hug. “I’m happy. Master is real.”
“I’m real, Lupa.”
“Master… won’t leave me?”
“I’m not going to leave you.”
“Can I stay with Master?”
“For as long as you want.”
“Forever?”
“Forever.”
“Is it possible to be this happy?”
“You tell me.”
“I’m so lucky.”
“That’s what I was thinking.”
“Everyone else left me… but Master won’t leave me.” Lupa tightened her grip around me. “Can we stay like this? Please?”
“I have a better offer. Lighten your grip.”
“Mm.” Lupa did as told.
Now that she wasn’t squeezing me so tightly, I was able to roll off her onto my back while pulling her with me, positioning her so that her head rested against my chest. That allowed me to wrap one arm around her to hold her while my other hand stayed on her head to pet her. “How’s this?”
“Much better. Warm… and safe. But… it feels wrong. Like I’m being too selfish…”
“Don’t worry about that. I’ll be happy to spoil you whenever you want to be selfish.”
“Those are dangerous words.”
“I know what I’m about.”
“Then… I’ll be selfish tonight and stay like this.”
“I’d like that just as much as you.”
“Mm. Goodnight… Master.”
“Sleep tight, Lupa.”
It didn’t take long for her to fall asleep after that. She fell into a pattern of soft breaths against my chest in no more than five minutes.
Lupa was so worried about me not being real that I ended up being the one worrying about things not being real again. Life was just… too good. It was genuinely terrifying at times.
If I woke up and found myself back on Earth stuck in a nursing home again, I’d do everything possible to kill myself. There was no way I could ever go back to living like that after experiencing all of this.
I opened my eyes to the sight of a Lupa who was still sound asleep on top of me. Though, she readjusted herself a bit in her sleep so that her head was turned to look up at me at some point.
She was too cute. She also made an excellent blanket.
But also.
We weren’t alone in the room.
“Good morning,” Rosie said before going back to pouting while standing next to the bed.
“M-morning,” I replied. “We didn’t do anything, by the way.”
“Oh, so that’s why you both have hickeys on your necks.”
Lupa opened her eyes just in time to make the situation even worse.
“Mm… not a hickey. Mark of bonding.” Lupa reached up to touch the bruise on her neck and smiled when she felt it.
“Proof that Master will stay with me for life.” Then she leaned up toward my neck to lick the bruise she left on me.
“And proof I won’t leave Master.” She nuzzled against me and closed her eyes after that.
I looked at Rosie and asked, “Uh… want one? And I’ve got the other side of my neck free.”
Rosie sighed before… smiling pretty tenderly at us. “I’m glad she got some sleep.”
“And it sounds like she’s getting more already.”
“She couldn’t sleep last night, so I told her to go to you.”
“Oh, you told her to come here? I figured she snuck out.”
“Nope. Though… I’ll admit I might have done it for a selfish reason since she wouldn’t stop moving around and waking me up.
I wasn’t going to get any sleep if she stayed with me.
Plus, I had faith you wouldn’t do anything without me.
” Rosie looked at our necks again. “But maybe I had a little too much faith.”
“That’s about all we did, don’t worry. Well, she also… rubbed me a little, but it was only over the clothes.”
“Should I act angry and jealous, or should I admit I already came to peace with the possibility of you two going all the way in the heat of the moment anyways?”
“Angry and jealous would be cute.”
“Then your punishment for letting her get ahead of me is not getting to see me act angry and jealous.”
“Aww…”
Rosie then crouched down next to the bed and reached forward to poke Lupa’s cheek. “Hey, it’s time to get up.”
“Mm. Don’t want to,” Lupa answered. “Comfy with Master. Want to stay like this forever.”
“You need to take a bath or else he’s going to think you stink.”
“Then I’ll get to mark Master with my scent.”
“Nobody wants to be covered in somebody else’s musk.”
“I want to be covered in Master’s.”
“Come on. You didn’t bathe last night, so you need to bathe this morning. No breakfast if you don’t.”
Lupa grumbled and looked up at me. “Master… I want to stay with you.”
“Sorry, but being clean is important,” I said. “Go take a bath.”
“Mm… okay. After five more minutes.” She nuzzled back against me and closed her eyes.
Unfortunately for Lupa, she wasn’t going to get five more minutes.
Rosie made use of her strength to effortlessly lift Lupa off, causing Lupa to sleepily kick her legs and arms around while looking at me.
“Master… help,” Lupa said.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “We can cuddle more later, okay?”
“But cuddles now…”
There was no compromising.
Rosie was already walking out of the room while carrying Lupa as the latter looked back at me with an extended hand silently begging for help.
Until we were out of Rosie’s place, though, I couldn’t let Lupa be dirty. That was inappropriate as a guest and I didn’t want to bother Frolin or Ailsa at all.
That being said, if Rosie kept true to the expectations she set for tonight, then there’d probably be no harm in me joining them in the bath starting tomorrow, right?
…
I just realized something.
I was most likely losing my virginity before the day was over.
Yep. I was definitely going to go do a dungeon since there was no way I would be able to think about anything else otherwise.
But first, I grabbed my shirt and gave a sniff to the part Lupa was sleeping against.
It smelled good.