CHAPTER 571: CHAPTER 571 - THE NEXT BEASTMAN HUSBAND (PART 1)

After prepping up the room, I dropped myself face first on the bed. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t somewhat excited as to who will accompany me tonight. Whether you believe it or not, I also still feel nervous when I am with a new man since there is a pressure for me not to hurt them as well as make their first night with me memorable in a positive way.

I don’t know how much more I have to wait for them to finalized the order so I decided to just close my eyes for a little nap. I don’t know how long was I asleep but when I opened I sat on the bed abruptly. I looked around and eventually found someone sleeping on a fetal position on the floor next to my bed as if somebody bullied him.

The light inside the bedroom was dim but I can clearly see some of his defining features like his golden, round and fluffy ears as well as his long and spotted tail. Artak is surprisingly wearing minimal clothing today with his lean and toned upper body bare. As he was a leopard beastman, he doesn’t seem to feel too cold even if he was sleeping on the floor.

I could help but compare how he looked like now to the time I first met him in that dark and musty cave. He looked like someone who is on the end of his life and was ready to die anytime. At present, he is kind to everyone and also started to show some leadership skills. His charisma is enough to make even the beastmen from other tribes to believe him and follow his lead.

I am honestly not comfortable seeing my man sleeping on the floor, no matter how comfortable he looked so I lifted him gently with a telekinesis spell and placed him next to me on the bed. In this way, I can watch him sleep a bit closely too.

After about a quarter of an hour inside my room, I saw his ears twitch as his body must have realized the changed in the texture of the surface he was laying on. His eyelashes fluttered as his eyes opened slowly. His golden pupils are dilated and he looked dazed from having just woken up.

It took a few more seconds before his mind told him that he is laying in a bed and I was in front of him just watching him closely. His eyes widened then he hurriedly sat up from the bed and then kneeled towards my direction, his face red and his body shivering.

Before I could even ask the reason why he was kneeling, he started apologizing in a shaky voice, "I’m so- sorry for falling asleep. I was- I saw you asleep and I didn’t want to wake you. I don’t- don’t know how I was on the bed but I am so sorry. Please do not kick me out."

I couldn’t help but be surprised but I eventually ended up chuckling. Artak slowly looked up in shock and simply watched me as I giggled at him. Eventually, he looked at me with worry while biting his lower lips. He looked even more adorable with that facial expression.

I slowly sat up from the bed and sat in front of him. I first poked his nose with the tip of my finger then I used both my hands to reach for his ears while just watching his facial reaction.

As my hands touched his ears and started playing with it, his eyes closed halfway and his body significantly relaxed. I couldn’t help but imagine him as a domesticated cat. The only thing that he isn’t doing for me is making a purring or meowing sound.

While he is distracted with the blissful feeling of his ears being touched by his chosen mate (me), I used my left hand to reach for his tail that is swishing a bit next to his thighs.

Almost instantly after I grabbed his tail, his whole body stiffened and his face blushed. I also started hearing his ragged breaths, one of his hands reached out to the sheets covering the bed, grabbing it tight. While the other hand, hurriedly covered the part between his legs that seemed to have been starting to make a very obvious tent out of the clothing on his lower body.

In between his ragged breaths, he started pleading with a soft voice, "Wife... Please... Not at the same time. They- They’re sensitive."

I smiled at him in amusement and the removed my hands from both his ears and his tail while opting to just stare at his face. Realizing that I stopped touching him, Artak’s face started to show panic as he started apologizing again and he even promised that he will not complain about me touching him from now on.

I grabbed both sides of his face and pulled him towards me to give him a brief kiss. The sudden intimacy, successfully stopped his ramblings and over thinking. He simply stared at me half-closed eyes and I could hear his heavy breathing clearly.

I smiled at him and asked, "Why are you apologizing again? What is going on with your mind? Are there beastmen rules that I have to know about?"

Artak looked surprised at my series of inquiries then he looked confused after a few seconds as his eyebrows furrowed in deep thought. Were the questions too hard to answer immediately?

He inhaled deeply and with a sigh, he started explaining how mated relationships are between beastmen. It turns out that men in the beastmen tribes are expected to do unconditional servitude to their mates. This was due to a few reasons and one of that is to have more mating chances in a polyandrous household.

Another reason is that men can only choose one mate for life. If their partner dies, their bodies will wither and die too. The effects are the same when their female severes their relationship or abandons them so beastmen have no choice but to be obedient at all costs.

He continued with some simple rules such as not entering the female’s room without permission and even when allowed to enter the room, sharing the bed is still another permission yet to be given by their female. He also said that it is normal for beastmen households to have favoritism and sadly, the more mating chances one is given. the higher chances for a man to have an offspring as well.

This final point is the same for all races I guess. Since the fertility rates are not that great, you could only try your luck by doing it as many times as possible while your a male beastman is in heat. But, just because one is in heat, it doesn’t mean that the woman will choose to spend intimate times with them. This is a cruel truth that beastmen have long since accepted.

I remember when they asked me if they still have to hunt or forage for their own food after they got pregnant and I guess this is also a product of the imbalance in the roles taken by the men and a woman in the household. Although women were expected to bring food to the household, she can choose to only hunt for herself or just for a few of her favorite mates which means the others have to find a way to feed themselves. He said that carnivores have stronger physiques so somewhat they are luckier but for omnivores and herbivores, they can only rely on the rest of the community to live through the pregnancy and their poor conditions at home.

The more he described how men are being treated by their mates, the more I felt angrier inside. I did not show any hint of it on my face since I do not want to scare him. With how he shivered and panicked earlier about being on the bed when he was not given verbal permission to do so, I don’t think that seeing me angry will help. I do not want him to think that I am just as abusive as beastwomen.

I reached for one of his ears again and then played with it gently. Just like earlier, as he was an oversized cat, his eyes automatically closed halfway and his body relaxed. While he was distracted, I guided his body to lay back down on the bed which he cooperated in though he seemed to be absent-mindedly doing it.

When he belatedly realized that I laid him down, his eyes widened and his mouth opened a few times but no words came out. He did not dare to sit back up though since I was the one who placed him in the lying position and doing so will equal to disobedience towards me.

This fact made me smile sweetly towards him. Artak swallowed nervously with the smile that came his way out of the blue. What can I say? I am happy with the term "unconditional servitude" in a sense that it aligns to my dominant nature and I am excited to see how things will turn out in the future with these beastmen husbands of mine.