Beastmen Love
Chapter 230: Seeing Behind The Mask

Chapter 230: Seeing Behind The Mask

Wayde approaches Astri, biting his lips so he doesn’t drool. She smiles, full of lust, too, but she teases him by opening her robe a little. He purs, biting his lips harder.

He hugs her waist firmly and then kisses her lips deeply.

"Finally.. Only mine.." He says, between their kisses.

He opens her robe, letting it fall behind her, and his pupils adjust when he finally sees her naked body again. She undresses him, desiring to feel his hot skin on hers. He takes his time kissing all over her body, tasting every corner, tasting her folds. Astri always feels like it’s a special moment to make love to Wayde, because it makes her remember that he was the one who could convince her to embrace this natural feeling, and to accept being loved and to love.

He didn’t let her take control very much, because being kissed by her is enough to take out all of his control, and if she does more, he will probably be too brute with her, and the last thing he wants is to hurt her.

When he finally felt himself being embraced inside of her, it was like all the weight he was carrying was removed from him. He didn’t even count how many times he filled her with his seeds.

Only when he sees that she’s too tired, and that if he continued, it would be very selfish of him, he decides to stop. He helps cleaning her in the bathtub.

"I’m sorry if I was too..brute. I missed you so much." He sincerely says, while cleaning her back.

"You were amazing, my hot tiger.. I really think that by the end of this line I’ll end up pregnant." She says, passing her hand on his face.

"That would be an amazing thing to see again. You’re the most beautiful thing when you’re pregnant." He smiles.

"I have... 8 children. I would never have imagined I would have this many children before meeting you. I didn’t imagine many things before meeting you. Claud helped me to accept who I am, but breaking this shackle of not believing in love, you broke so easily." She says.

"You broke it in me, too." He says, and hugs her from behind. "Are you saying I’m your favorite?" He smirks.

"No. I’m saying you have a special place in my heart because you made me accept things I didn’t believe it could be real. The others also have special places in my heart, but for different reasons." She chuckles.

"I know. You never treat any of us better than the other. And we appreciate that very much. I think that’s the biggest reason for us to love you so much and for not even thinking about giving up."

"And I appreciate that, too. For never giving up."

"You didn’t give up on us, too. If we did, we would never forgive ourselves."

He takes her out of the bathtub when she starts to shiver in the cold water, then brings her back to bed and lets her sleep, spooning her body. Sleeping with her in his arms is the best thing to heal his heart, because her scent is everything he feels and can even dream about.

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The next day, while Astri decided to cook, Renzai, Seiryuu, and Seijuurou decided to organize the new festival and asked all of her spouses what she liked the most. And of course, they wouldn’t let other males build something for her without helping, because they also want to make her happy.

While they were discussing, Seijuurou saw Yuki under a tree by herself. He slowly walks to her, and checks what she’s doing. She was drawing in a sketchbook she made by herself. He noticed that it was a drawing of him.

"Is that... me?" He asks.

"Yes, Your Majesty." She answers, without looking at him, and concentrated on putting some colors.

"You.. Are very good at this. Why are you painting me?" He asks, curious.

"I draw everyone I meet. It’s something I learned that mother does, too, and some years ago I started doing the same." She answers, showing other drawings of other people on other pages.

She has also drawn Seiryuu, Renzai, and even Keiko. On Keiko’s side, Yuki made a small drawing of herself with a disgusted face at Keiko, and that made him laugh.

"You’re very creative." He says.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

He thought that she felt something about him for drawing him, but he was mistaken. Yuki doesn’t look at him with the eyes all females look, he wonders if it’s because she’s not of age, yet.

"I’m sorry to ask, but.. Do you have spouses?" He asks.

"No. I am not of age yet."

"But you must have suitors."

"It’s not because males want me that I accept them. I don’t want to have males until I learn everything I want to learn. My mother became my father’s spouse when she was 21. I’m planning on doing the same." She answers.

"Oh..." He’s impressed with what he heard.

She looks up to him.

"Why do you ask, sir?" She asks, curious.

"No reason.. I think it’s just the first time I heard a female say what you just said. It’s impressive.." He says, looking at her with different eyes.

"You asked me a personal question. Can I ask something, too?" She asks.

He sits on her side.

"It would be only fair." He answers.

"Are you lonely?" She asks.

Her question was so direct to the point that it surprised him.

"Well.. I don’t know. Why do you ask?"

"My family said to me that I always had a good sense to feel other people’s energies. The way you look at my mother is not that of someone who is falling in love with her. You feel well with her because she makes you feel the same as her."

"...You’re very smart and watchful. You’re right. I feel comfortable with her because, for once, I feel I don’t have to be on edge."

"Being an Emperor is not an easy task. And it is not easy to keep a good one while everyone wants to be your friend just for winning something from you. I’m far from being what you are, but just because I’m my mother’s daughter, males want to become my spouses just to have the opportunity of having stronger names for being closer to my mother." She says.

"Yes.. You’re right."

"Don’t worry, Your Majesty. I won’t tell anyone. I’m happy to see this side of yours. No one is always strong. I saw that very much while my fathers were away from my mother all these years. And it’s all right to feel weak sometimes. Just know you have friends now." She smiles, and taps her hand on his shoulder.

She goes back to painting, leaving him amazed. He smiles and looks away.

"Thank you. You’re my friend, too, Miss Yuki."

After hearing her say she wants to learn everything she wants to learn before thinking about having a spouse, it made him think that he also didn’t need to worry about having a spouse soon. He has at least 10 more years before needing to have an heir. And he needs to have faith that nothing will happen to him. He needs to follow his heart instead of only what his father did before him, and only find a female to have heirs and make sure the throne is secure.

He started to ask her if she wanted to join and help build a festival for her mother, and she accepted it happily, bringing more ideas of what would make Astri happy.

Renzai sent the word to the villages that a new festival will happen in Hinoshiki Village in 15 days, and also told the villagers to organize a very beautiful decoration in the village, organize activities for children, and also asked artists to put their art all around the village.

Astri doesn’t even imagine that they’re planning something for her, because she was thinking about a festival for United Tribes and thinks that her spouses, family, and friends are only focused on their training.

On the next day, Seijuurou invites everyone to visit the Jade Palace. Astri sees that her family is curious to see Seijuurou’s palace, so she agrees to go. She can see that her family is taking their time to go back to the United Tribes. She can see that all of them liked that realm.

Naturally, they would like to live in a more balanced place. She wonders if it’s a good idea to build a place for them there, so they stay periods of time between Tsukihina and the United Tribes.

When she imagines less, she’s drawing ideas of a new place, while they were traveling to the Jade Palace in carriages. Yuki, Aurora, and Atlas are very much like their mother. They like to write and draw, so inside their carriage, they spent most of the time drawing everything they saw during the trip.

Astri’s spouses look around as they are walking, wishing that peaceful energy could be a constant.