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Aarvi knew she was being over-sensitive when all he wanted was to avoid triggering her panic. Leaving his worry, she was also aware that she didn't dare to look down at him because she was afraid of going back on her decision of helping him.

She thought to face her fear to overcome it but forgot she also needs his approval.

Aaron didn't want to make her embarrassed. He was worried that she might get scared as the fear was too deeply rooted in her.

'Control.' He chanted it more than a hundred times to restrain himself. He really doubted he might pin her down then and there if he stayed there any longer.

Nonetheless, he was ready to go through any torture for her. So he wouldn't dare to do anything that would hurt her physically or emotionally.

He felt like it would be a torturous night yet accepted his fate just for his Cupcake.

The warm water was soaking her, her long chocolate brown hair was sticking to her slender waist, and water droplets were rolling down, grazing her supple skin.

'So audacious.'

Aarvi sensed a hand reach for her waist as her whole attention was on him. She slapped his hand away when she knew he was standing right behind her.

Even though she could weigh the situation clearly, her embarrassment was released as anger. "Don't touch me." She growled at him with her back facing him.

Despite knowing she will calm down soon, he still catered to her but wasn't so gentle and patient anymore. Even if he wanted to, he just couldn't.

His hand reached her waist and twirled her around. He pushed her against the wall before she could protest.

Unaware about his hard time, Aarvi was about to retort but the words stuck in her throat when she felt something hard pressed on her lower abdomen. She knew it was his Little Monster.

Removing her hands between them, he pinned them up to her head in a hand. While she was almost admiring the wet sizzling face of him, his hooded eyes and sharpened, defined jawline due to his clenched teeth.

His heavy breath tickled her lips, hitching her breath, slowly closing her eyes shut. The seconds ticked by, but the rough kiss she had expected didn't come by.

"Aaron..." She whined as she opened her eyes. Before she could notice he got rid of his wet pants, his lips crashed on hers.

It was a greedy kiss filled with hunger and passion, waking her desire to feel his warm skin on her fingers and whimper at his domineering kiss, which she couldn't beat.

The sharp painful pleasure by his bite at her earlobe slightly cleared her senses. She wanted to help him; why was he seducing her?

"Aa- Aaronnn... W-wait... Ahgmm..." Her knees went weak when he dipped his tongue to her ear. Aaron was quick to wrap his arm around her waist, leaving her hands.

"Are you sure?" He asked one last time. His husky voice on her ears caused her to open her eyes. She took time to fathom his words and nodded in response before breathily responding, sensing he had already stripped. "I-I w-will try."

'Guinea pig,' The words flew in his mind. historical

He kept her eyes on his and guided her hand. Her hand trembled, she gulped in nervousness. To stop thinking about the 'Little Monster,' She tiptoed and kissed his neck while her right hand finally touched the hot erected Little Monster.

Aaron suppressed his grunt when her soft slender finger barely held him. Aarvi felt the Little Monster move prompting her eyes to involuntary shift down, but Aaron lifted her chin.

He was holding the last straw, craving to send her out of the shower, so he least wanted to see her fear. Seeing no reluctance, Aaron guided her hand to stroke his length, once, twice, and thrice.

He had indeed underestimated her and her too. The help turned to pleasure him, and the little woman was fascinated looking at him in ecstasy. She looked proud of being able to please him back.

In the end, she pitifully glanced at her sore hands, glanced at him and the Little Monster when it sprunted all over her legs. Before she could grab the water faucet, Aaron pinned her back to the wall.

Aarvi shrieked, thinking she was falling down, "Aar-"

Nonetheless, in the name of cleaning her, Aaron left her weak on her knees, clinging to him with sore hands.

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He had fulfilled her wishes. She neither can keep count of his kisses nor think about covering herself when he carried her out of the shower after nearly an hour.

A sexy smirk hung on his lips, looking at her, still relishing in the spent tremors. He didn't know the water could heighten their pleasure. He stored it in his mind.

Aarvi practically felt like floating other than her sore hands. She doubted if there was an inch left on her where his brazen hands hadn't caressed, and his lips hadn't kissed. The thought of it made her toes curl, and her face turn hot red.

She was glad her heart wasn't going berserk again. It was getting accustomed to the emotional and physical excitement. 'Oh hoo oh,' she realized how Aaron was going to make her poor little heart strong.

Flushed, she thought to learn taming the Little Monster quickly so that her hands won't sore. 'Little?' Her blush spread till her chest.

Aaron was curious while watching her repeatedly flush with her own thoughts.

He wrapped her in the bathrobe first, before himself. Then the koala clung to him, frequently yawning while he blowdried her long wet hair.

Seeing her doze off, he was putting on his soft cloth nightshirt when he heard her mumble in a half-asleep state. He kept his ear closer and heard her voice laced with pain, "W-what if I had really tried to kill you? W-Will you h-hate me?"

He embraced her when she was trying to open her eyes to wake up. He gently caressed her back to calm her and put her to sleep, "I love you... I will always love you, no matter what."

He felt her snuggle at his words and breathed out in relief.

He had heard her say about the dream in which she pushes him to the lake. He had told her she never did that, and he was attacked by a group of criminals when he was a young teenager. He didn't expect her to be still bothered about it.

He was on the wooden deck of the lake when he was attacked. A military man had pushed him down to the lake due to the rain of bullets. Aaron knew to swim. The military man had taken the shots of Aaron. If his Cupcake had reached there, they would have killed her. As far as he remembers, his Cupcake hadn't got there yet.

Aaron guessed as his little Cupcake must have witnessed everything from far, and the shock might have affected her memories. That might have strongly impacted her. Hence she was getting the dream of her or a teenager drowning in the water during her teenage years.

He felt the need to find the truth out for Aarvi so that he could stop her from bothering herself by thinking about the reason behind her wiped-up memory.