Page 200 of A Soul to Touch

“No, but my allergies aren’t usually this bad.” Her eyes narrowed into a deep, spiteful glare. “I bet this is allyourdamn fault. My whole damn face is itchy, Faunus!”

He looked down her body and then rolled his head forward. She could almost picture him rolling his eyes if he had any! He shook his head while his shoulders bounced like he was laughing at her.

“I warned you I would be victorious, that you wouldn’t be able to stop me.”

She placed her hand over her swelling abdomen. “If you weren’t carrying all my shit, I’d throw something at that big, fat, hard head of yours.”

Currently, they were transferring a large number of items from her home to deep within the Veil. They were going the long way around, avoiding it as much as possible, so they could enterit from the southwest. They were still rather north and had been for most of the week.

It didn’t take much for Mayumi to realise she was pregnant, not that it was a surprise considering he’d been honest with his intentions. She’d let it happen, knowing there was nothing she could have done to stop it.

His pull-out game was impeccably poor, considering not only his tentacles but also his barbs. She tried to calculate her cycle, tried to avoid it, which had failed terribly.

For two whole days they avoided sex in the middle of her cycle, yet here she was, carrying this horny Duskwalker’s baby.

Once she’d realised, after vomiting what he called darkness from her stomach – which sucked horribly – they’d both discussed their options.

Mayumi had already been toiling with the idea of going into the Veil since Faunus had expressed that he was disappointed he couldn’t see his brothers and their own brides. She also knew, without a doubt, he hated her home.

He doesn’t fit in it.

It wasn’t fair to make him live in it when he couldn’t even stand upright.

What made her fast track her decision was this. For the first time in her life, Mayumi was a little... scared? Okay, really scared. What the hell was she supposed to do with a childanything? And taking care of one of his kind seemed hard, and he barely had any answers.

Magnar and Delora had one, and she planned to strangle them for answers if they wouldn’t give it willingly. Faunus told her she wouldn’t need to, but her anxiety was making her want to be violent – maybe her pregnancy hormones as well.

Faunus and Mayumi were going to find a section of the forest near their homes and build their own. Faunus planned to lay down his own protection ward to keep her safe and was hopingto strong arm Magnar and Orpheus into helping him build a house that would be suitable for them. However many ofthemthere would be.

Now that his skull is strong, he’s no longer afraid of Jabez.Faunus had told her he’d love to ram his partially golden skull into his.

Mayumi let out a little sigh.

I really hope I can come back and collect all my family’s stuff.Currently strapped across Faunus’ back from neck to backside were bags upon bags of her things.

She’d left behind what she could bear to, with every intention of returning to bring it to her new home. What she had were her clothes, her board games, her kitchen supplies, and weapons upon weapons.

There was also an old-style military tent she’d paid Klaus, Henry, and Yoshida to steal from the old barracks of Colt’s Outpost. They planned to use it as a temporary home. It wasn’t very wide, but it was tall enough that even Faunus could stand in it – she hoped.

Those boys annoy me sometimes, but I’m glad I got to say goodbye to them.

She’d told them that Faunus was alive, surprised when Yoshida seemed to be the most relieved at the news. She also informed them that she was leaving and didn’t know when she’d be returning.

After a little while of travel, her sneezing fits calmed since they weren’t travelling through a particularly bad section of trees, and she began looking around at the warming world.

She was searching for something, waiting.

There wasn’t much to do on the back of a Duskwalker but annoy him, and she currently had a game she enjoyed playing. She would have to say it’s one of her favourites of all time now.

“Veer a little to the right,” she demanded quietly.

When he did, he slowly took them past a fallen tree trunk that was roughly knee height for him. She shook her head and eventually told him to go to the left when she spotted something else.

A boulder. A nice, big one.

“This looks perfect,” she purred, rubbing the underside of her boot against the back of his horn. “It’s your hip height. Perfect for laying me across.”

Faunus’ bodyviolentlyquaked between her thighs as he shuddered, one of his hands crossing in front of the other before he almost stumbled. He even let out a shaking groan.

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