60. Her bite marks

In the Castle of Ayruzglow
Ivan Shirk was simultaneously gathering information about his biological sister, Nora, and accompanying another sister, Akshara.
Ivan, as promised, took Akshara to the training field where Dev was practising his sword with a bare chest and a black cloth that covered his lower part fully. He wore a pair of leather shoes matching his lower cloth.
He tied his silver hair while it visually showed his abs to make any girl fall for him. Akshara was stopped by seeing the manliness of her husband in the training field.
Akshara drooled on witnessing Dev’s handsomeness. The heart of Akshara beat as fast as it could to bring her love out of her and the amulet she wore glowed automatically like a torch when her love emitted from her heart.
Akshara was unaware of the radiance from her amulet and continued to drool over Dev. The radiance reflected in the sword of Dev, which flashed in his eyes to distract him from his sword swirling.
Dev turned in the direction of light emission from the corner of his icy-blue eyes and found his wife was drooling over him. He felt warmth in his heart and thought, “Sara is too cautious to admit her love towards me. I will make her fall for me and make her admit her hidden love willingly. “
Akshara was not aware of his sight and continued to gaze at him. Dev, knowing his lover was watching over him, gave his best movement in his sword fighting. The pearls of sweat beaded on his abs. After the training, Dev walked in her direction.
Dev came near her, twitched his eyebrows, and winked at her. Akshara’s eyes shined unsteadily, more to bring her to reality, and she turned her head away from him and quickly ran towards Ivan.
“Oh,” Akshara held his hands and asked him, “Shall we move to another place? It is so boring here. “
Ivan asked her, “But... You just said you wanted to look at his sword practice...”
Akshara closed his mouth with her hand and talked in his ears through her teeth, “Yes, I did.” But now I am bored. Take me somewhere. “
Dev saw her actions with Ivan, and it aroused some jealousy in his heart. Ivan identified the mind of Dev and tried to lose his hold on Akshara’s hand.
Akshara pulled Ivan by his hand. “Let’s go,” and Dev called her, “Sarah.”
Both Akshara and Ivan stopped, and Akshara suddenly turned to hear him call her Sara, and Akshara found she had fallen for his husky voice and it drenched her heart with love. So she ran towards him with bright eyes, leaving the hold of Ivan behind.
Akshara answered him with bright eyes, “Yes, Devil.”
Ivan reached out to her to stroke her forehead, “Told you not to call him by that word.”
Akshara reacted to the pain in her forehead. “Aww, Ivan. I am sorry.”
Dev frowned a little at Ivan’s action of punishment. “It’s okay for her to call me any name. She is free to name me... “
Ivan turned his back and replied, “I can witness the man who slipped in love, who walked with his head instead of his toes. Do you know who the man is? “
Akshara thought Ivan was throwing some puzzles at her. “I don’t know the man who walks upside down.”
Dev ignored him and asked Akshara, “Sara... Where are you heading?”
Akshara replied with a blush, “Ivan is taking me on a tour around the castle... but what’s the puzzle about?”
Dev replied, “You can ask me... Why bother Ivan? “
Ivan replied to them, “Understand! I won’t bother you both... You just continue your romance,“ and he left the place.
Akshara turned towards Dev and asked him, “Look, he is angry with me. It’s because of you. He accompanied me when you left. You throw him away. “
Dev furrowed his brows. “You prefer him to me. Sara... “
Akshara was ceased by his loud words, understood his mind, and talked to convince him, “I didn’t know until now that dragons can get jealous (looking at the reaction on his face, it was still shrinking)... Devil, do you hear me? “
Dev replied by not looking at her face, “I can hear you.”
His response disturbed her a lot, and she tried to convince him, “You are tough to handle.”
Akshara looked at his bare chest and wondered, “No wound, no scar. Your self-healing is great. “
Her sweet talk persuaded Dev and wanted to continue pretending to be angry to find out how his wife persuaded his anger. ”You are an annoying dragon. Does the castle have any historic fountains, gardens, or anything?"
Dev maintained his poker face, trying not to look at her. “I have a conflict on the very second day as the crown prince’s bride,” it exhausted Akshara in convincing him, “Devil... Tell me, what do I do to make you smile?”
Dev tricked her with his words. “You can’t do that, even if I tell you.”
“How did you underestimate me?” Akshara easily fell into his trap, easily provoked by his deceptive words, “I can do whatever you asked me to do. Humans are more possible doers than they appear. “
“Kiss me.” Dev looked into her eyes.
“What?” Akshara widened her eyes and her cheeks turned red in blush. “I can’t do that. How dare you ask such things of me? “
“Told you! You can’t do that. Accept your failure.“
Akshara ran away from him and halted in the mid-way before the wall while Dev laughed at her. “Sara, I know you are more familiar with this place in your router than Ivan. If you want to go to our chamber, follow me. It’s headed on the west side.”
Akshara followed him silently. “You still didn’t admit that you cannot do anything,” Dev remarked.
“How do I know you will trick me with your words?”
“So, you can’t. Sara, never confess to anyone that you can do anything.“ Dev tricked her again.
Akshara pulled his arms with a ragged face and said, “What did you say?”
“You are a coward, a liar, a false exhibitor...” Dev invoked her with his words. Dev’s mockery was halted when Akshara pulled him to plant her kiss on his cheeks.
Though happy, Dev wanted more. “You are a coward to kiss me on my cheeks.”
“You said only to kiss you, but you never mentioned where.”
“I will call now to show your bravery. I am a mighty, legendary white dragon and the wizard calls you, Sara, the humble and feeble human, to exhibit her bravery by kissing me on my lips. “
“What kind of war call is that?” Akshara asked with knitted eyebrows, and she turned her head from left to right to double confirm no one was present. Akshara pulled him by his neck, which he resisted initially, to bend down to her.
“Don’t give me a hard time, Devil, I can’t reach you,” Akshara pleaded, her lips pouted and her eyes pitying, as Dev bent his head towards her after witnessing her innocent act.
Akshara pulled him back and locked his lips with her sweet kiss, and when she was about to depart her lips in claiming her victory, Dev pulled her back to resume their actions.
Infuriated, Akshara moved her lips to his cheeks and opened her mouth to mark his cheeks with her bite marks.
“Hey?” Dev shouted, and Akshara replied, “That’s my mark on you. It says you are mine, and you may not cast your eyes on any woman of any species.“
“Is this real? Or am I dreaming?” Dev questioned her.
Akshara has spoken her mind, “These are the effects of your charms that are driving me crazy about you.”
Akshara’s reply amazed Dev and he asked, “Effects of my charms? What are those? Does it have any history back to the night we spend in Frozen Crescent?”
Akshara replied, “Tsk, those are dreams, my dreams, how did you know about that?”
Dev told in her ears, “That’s all applied on your face.”
Akshara rubbed her face quickly and Dev caught her hands, “You blush on seeing me but you hardly control your facial expressions. Sara, remember, your husband is a wizard by nature, I can find anything you hide, even in your dreams.”
Akshara ran away from him. Dev scoffed after wiping his cheeks and felt overwhelmed after watching her craziness in exhibiting her love.
Indigo watched everything, a dragon-maid of Nora, and she burst into anger after watching the romantic relationship between Dev and Akshara.
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