Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 124077 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 414(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 124077 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 414(@300wpm)
She shook her head.
“I know it shouldn’t be a big deal for you to see me naked—I mean, you saw nude the very first time we met. But, well…you’re my boss now. I’m afraid…afraid you’ll lose respect for me.”
“Terra, what makes you think my respect for you has anything to do with how many clothes you do or don’t have on?” Taurex asked, frowning. “I respect you because of your incredible management, organizational, and accounting skills. I respect you for the heavy load you carry as a single mother and someone also caring for a parent. I respect you for your intelligence and wit. Please don’t think I would lose that respect just because I saw you naked.”
“Wow…” Her eyes got wide as she looked up at him.
“What?” Taurex asked.
“That’s the longest speech you’ve ever said to me,” she pointed out. “Usually you’re practically monosyllabic.”
Taurex smiled.
“Maybe I’m just passionate about the idea of not losing respect for you. Now will you let me examine you or not?”
Slowly, she nodded.
“Yes, I guess so. But do the lights have to come all the way on?” She looked up at the glow-vines, which had dimmed their lights to almost nothing because it was nighttime.
“I only need a little light to see by,” Taurex promised her. “We Monstrum have excellent night vision. Now, come—open your towel for me.”
Blushing, Terra did as he asked. The fact that she was so reluctant to show herself touched something deep in Taurex’s heart. It told him that she didn’t find it as easy to disrobe as one might think, considering her past. It must have taken real courage for her to dance on that stage in front of so many strangers. But then, he knew from the few flashes he’d gotten from her that she had mainly done it to help support her family.
When the towel was gone, he could see her bare body clearly and Taurex knew at once his suspicion was correct. Her formerly pink areolas and nipples were dark red where the pleasure blooms had sucked her. And he feared if he spread her thighs, her inner pussy would be the same color.
“What is it? Taurex?” Terra was looking at him with apprehension in her lovely eyes. “What is it?” she asked again when he met her gaze. “What do you see? Is it bad?”
“It’s as I feared—you’re having a reaction to the pleasure blossom secretions,” he told her.
“Well then, I need to wash it off!” She sat up in bed, but Taurex put a hand on her arm to restrain her.
“Wait—water won’t help,” he told her. “If it could, the water of the bathing pool would have washed the secretions away.”
“Oh…” She paused, considering his words. “Then what am I going to do? I’m feeling really, really uncomfortable here! What’s the cure?”
Taurex paused, trying to think how to tell her but apparently, he thought too long because she poked him in the bicep, her eyes wide with concern.
“Come on, tell me! There must be a cure, right? It’s not incurable, is it?”
Seeing that she was getting upset, Taurex hastened to reassure her.
“No, no—it’s not incurable,” he told her quickly. “It’s just…you might not like the cure.”
“I’d like anything that makes me stop feeling so achy between my legs.” She pressed her thighs together. “And makes my nipples stop throbbing,” she added. “So what’s the cure?”
“Well…the pleasure blooms were cultivated back when we Monstrum still had mates,” Taurex explained carefully. “Back then, if any of our women had a reaction to the pleasure bloom secretions, the cure was in her male’s touch.”
“What?” Terra gave him a blank look. “I don’t understand.”
He took a deep breath—she was not going to like this.
“Let me be blunt—only the compounds in a male Monstrum’s saliva can dissolve the chemical bonds of the pleasure blooms’ secretions,” he said. “I know what that sounds like—that I’m trying to get you to let me suck your nipples and lick your pussy.”
“Well, yes—that’s exactly what it sounds like.” Terra glared at him. “Is this why you wanted to get me up here?”
“No, I swear that’s not true!” Taurex shook his head earnestly. “And I swear, if I’d had any idea you would have a reaction, I wouldn’t have let you within a light year of my bathing pool. Forgive me, Terra—I have failed you in many ways tonight.”
He bowed his head. Now she would hate him. Now she would demand to leave and go back to Earth at once. She would probably quit her job with him too. He would lose her and all because he hadn’t been smart enough to keep her out of the bathing pool in the first place.
But to his surprise, after a moment, Terra tapped him on the shoulder.
“All right, I’m done being angry,” she said, when he looked up. “Though I’m still not happy about this. Are you sure you, uh, licking me is the only way to dissolve the secretions?”