I was looking at the tub that Kolya called it, filled with steamy water. I touched it and it was nice to feel on my skin. I did not know that such a reaction can be pleasurable and right now, I wanted to get comfortable.
He left me alone to get clean up before I was trying to get off from the thing that covered my body. What was it called again? Ah yes, garment. I took off my garment and it pooled on the floor. By the looks of it, I think it can be classified as a dress but it was too stuffy and I know the weather was not permitting me to be exposing my skin.
But who cares what others think anyway?
I was putting my toes first before I was sitting inside the tub. I sighed before I was leaning back, making sure that my body was immersed completely. I tied my hair into a knot on the top of my head before I was looking at the scenery through the window that was high above my head.
It was showing me the night sky with the twinkling lights that were known as stars. I smiled before I was washing, not wanting to make Kolya wait and I was sure he would like to get clean up as well.
Once I was finished, I did not know what to do with the water that dripped down my body. But I put on my dress anyway and it was stuffier than before since the water made it clung to my body. I shrugged, perhaps that was normal for mortals anyway. I got out and I heard someone was knocking on the door.
"Dinner," a feminine voice told me before I was opening the door and I was looking at the young girl, carrying some food on a thing that was called a tray. There's bread, hard cheese, and beef before I took it from her hands.
"Thank you," I said as I closed the door with my hips and I went to put the tray down on the table in front of the fireplace. I was looking at the food and suddenly, my stomach growled. But Kolya was not around and I don't know if I should be indulging this alone.
Perhaps I should wait for him.
I went to discover the room even more as I was opening the dresser and trying to find something that was going on the thing that was called bed and the night table. Nothing interesting but someone was rapping at the door before I opened it.
Then, Kolya stumbled inside.
"Kolya?" I asked him before he was staggering before he was closing the door. He turned to look at me with his blue-grey orbs before he was smiling at me.
"Well, well, well. I don't think I would be lucky tonight to have such a beautiful woman in my room. Say, what's your name, darling?" he asked me as if he did not know who I was.
Perhaps he did not remember anything considering that he reeked with ale. How do I know that? The wind told me.
"Kolya, why are you drinking so much? Are you sick? Are you perhaps bored?" I asked him, thinking of anything that would drive him to seek ale. I don't know if it had to do with the previous kiss that we shared.
It was explosive, I tell you that much.
Kolya blinked his eyes at me before he was straightening himself. He was leaning against the door before I heard a click sound. I don't like the look on his face but right now, I was rooted to the spot. Kolya took a step toward me before he was assessing me from up and down.
I noticed that my body was clinging to the garment that I wore. Dress, I wore a dress. I was itching to get away from his gaze but it stopped when I saw the look on his face.
Lust, desire, hunger…
There was something that was embedded inside me and I was attuned to such emotions. Sure, I was learning to associate the mortals with the desire that they expressed from themselves.
Happiness, sadness, excitement and so much more. But those three emotions were something that I have accustomed to.
For I was a succubus and I just escaped the VOID to take those emotions to the next level.
"Kolya?" my voice dropped a few octaves as I was hearing it. It was husky and something that I don't usually hear from myself.
Mostly I hear thoughts in the VOID for we were all merely shadows.
Kolya turned to look at my face before he was taking a step forward. My feet were having their own mind as I staggered back until my back was hitting the cold, hard walls. Kolya trapped me inside his arms before he was looking at me as if I was a foreign object. I gulped before I was looking at his handsome face.
"How old are you?" he asked huskily before I snapped my eyes to him.
"What?"
"Your age, Alvina." He said as he was trailing his fingers lightly on my arm. I shivered from his touch and something else was awakening inside me.
"I…I…I don't think that would be appropriate for a gentleman like you to know, Kolya," I said as if I had been practicing. But I wasn't and I don't even know how these words were forming inside me. Kolya chuckled.
"Liar," he said before he was kissing me on the lips again. It was filled with lust, hunger, and desire.
For me, but I was sure that it was because of the allure that I poured out whenever I was not in control of my emotions.
And right now, I was afraid but also curious of why the sudden change in him.
I gripped his lapel before I was pulling him closer to me. Kolya groaned and he was kissing my neck and jaws as I was turning my head to the side. I opened my eyes, trying to take in this pleasure before I was looking at the food and everything crashed down.
Kolya was affected by the allure. He doesn't want me because I was me. but he was attracted to me because I was a succubus.
I pushed him slightly as I was looking at him. Kolya was shocked to know that I resisted it. I was breathing hard as well as him but I gained my control quickly before I was using my allure to make him forget about this.
About who I was.
"Sleep, I assure you will feel better in the morning, Kolya," I said before Kolya's eyes were blinking and he went down, dropped to the floor, and snored as the sleep took over him. I breathed hard before I was collapsing against the walls again, dropping to the ground. I turned to look at the dinner and my stomach growled.
Well, I guess I will be finishing for both of us.
*****
I left Kolya to sleep on the floor as I was sleeping on the bed. But then, the better part of me was nagging me to pull him under the cover as well. I did that and I removed his boots as well as his coat. I sighed before I was slipping under the covers beside him.
I turned to look at his breathing before I was tracing my fingers on his jaws. He stirred before he was mumbling something about the expedition and what was his father used to tell him.
I sighed as I was looking at him. I know that I was not a good thing for him but it piqued my interest when he averted his eyes from me when I was naked.
Years ago, people would love to see me naked but I guessed they have changed. For better or for worse. I was taking in Kolya's scent, imprinted it inside my brain before I was closing my eyes and the sleep claimed over me.
I was dreaming I was inside the VOID again. I cannot breathe. I cannot shout. All I saw was darkness and I was not in my physical form. I panicked before I felt someone was holding my shoulders and shook me.
"Alvina? Alvina? Alvina?!" Kolya's voice was penetrating through my eardrums before I was opening my eyes and I was looking at his handsome face. There was concern in his eyes before I was hugging him. I don't know what to do but I was nuzzling his neck as he was patting me softly, hesitated at first as I was gripping his shoulders.
"Shh, it's okay now. You're safe. They cannot get to you here," he said as I turned to look at him. What was he blabbering about?
"Who cannot get to me here?" I asked him before Kolya blinked his eyes at me.
"I thought you were having nightmares? That's why you're trashing in your sleep," he said before I was remembering that I was afraid that I was still in the VOID. But I was not and the thing was, I don't think I want to go back.
Not if I know there was a way to stay in this dimension other than the Dark Realm.