Beastmen Love-Chapter 102: Mermen Visit

Astri’s group was all ready after two more days. Deanora will miss Astri very dearly since they have become very good friends. Astri said she would get in touch as much as she could.

The trip back was almost all peaceful. They were attacked a few times by Monsters, but whenever the Monsters felt Biggie arriving they would "swim" for their lives.

First, they go to the South Mermen Tribe, both to visit Koa and also to spend some days on land.

"Welcome. I’m happy to see you again." Koa says, but everyone can sense he is directing his words more to Astri.

Koa is happy to know Astri kept her promise and came back. And he’s impressed when he discovers Astri and Beau are now spouses too, and that Beau had quit his position as Captain of Aquaterra to be with her, and that was his decision, not hers.

At night, Astri is walking on the beach with Beau, Kai and Elias. Beau and Astri are holding hands, and Astri hugging his arm to keep herself warm.

Koa spots them walking in the distance and he can’t deny that he feels envious and jealous. After she leaves again, no one knows when she will be revisiting them. And even if he goes to the Salt Market himself, he will never see her there. His heart is heavy thinking about that, so he decides to calm down his heart.

He runs on the sand to catch up with them. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

"Oh hey, Koa. Is there something wrong?" Astri asks.

"No.. Can we talk in private?" Koa says to Astri.

"For what?" Beau asks.

"Not your business." Koa answers him.

Beau discovered that he’s very protective of Astri when she’s near any other male. Whenever Shan, Ferd, or Hawa get near her his senses are tripled and his aura wants to explode to keep them away.

After becoming her spouse, he now understands why the others didn’t want to share her. Her love is too good to be shared easily.

Astri chuckles and taps Beau’s arm.

"Don’t worry, love. You can go. Take the cubs." Astri says.

Beau sighs internally and nods. Since she was the one who told him to go, he obeys silently. She tiptoes pulling his head down and kisses his lips, calming down his heart and stealing a smile from him.

Beau calls the boys and starts to walk back. Koa and Astri keep walking on the beach, he sees Lee’s feather on her hair, and Tyr’s necklace on her neck. She only removes them to bathe or shift.

Koa takes a deep breath to gather courage.

"I said I would have something to give you when you come here." He says.

He also wears his bracelet every day, so he got braver when he saw it too.

He shows her a bracelet. It’s a delicate golden bracelet with a silver string spiraling it. It has some colorful little stones hanging and a dark blue scale being the center. That scale is a jewel by itself.

"It’s so beautiful.. This scale is yours?.." She says.

"Yes. I’m impressed you noticed." He smiles, happy to know that she recognized his scale.

She smiles but doesn’t say that she watched him a lot from the control room. She wears the bracelet, admiring it on her wrist.

"Thank you. I’ll cherish it forever." She smiles at him.

Happiness embraced his heart.

"I’m sorry I can’t be with you now. This is a sign that in my heart, you’re the female I want to protect. I’m training the next leader of my tribe, and once I know my tribe will be aimed to survive fine without me, I’ll go look after you.. Will you wait for me?" He asks, looking at her expectantly, feeling his heart in his throat.

She nods, smiling. In the human world, a woman would never wait because they grow old and might find another man interested in building a family, but in the Beastmen World is different. Astri doesn’t see a reason to not wait.

"You know where to find me." She answers.

He smiles brightly.

"Thank you.. I feel blessed to be your spouse. I know I’m not being a good spouse not putting you as a top priority now. I know it’s selfish. I’ll compensate in the future." He says, passing his fingers on her face.

"I know you will. You’re not selfish for taking the responsibility to ensure your people’s future. I’m proud of you for that." She says.

"I don’t mind if we become spouses officially when you’re older too. I don’t mind if I don’t get mermenlings too."

"Don’t worry about that. Age won’t kill me, even if you take 10 years I’ll look the same. You live longer too, so I don’t think you should worry." She reassures him.

"Oh.. That makes sense. But will you watch all of us die?" He asks, worried. Knowing she loves all of her spouses very much.

She denies it with her head and says: "No, because of my energy, they will also love forever. I’m blessed to have the loves of my life with me forever. You will be the same."

"That’s... A great blessing. Thank you for choosing me." He says, knowing that she wouldn’t choose just anyone to be with her.

"Thank you too. Don’t worry. You know where to find me."

After meeting the South Mermen Tribe, Astri can see that there’s no other like Koa and he will take time to train someone good to take care of the tribe.

If Koa died, the next leader wouldn’t be prepared to keep on with the empire of the Salt Market and would probably get lost in the luxury of it.

"May I hug you?" He asks.

She opens her arms and hugs him, laying her head on his chest. He hugs her back with a wide smile, smelling her good scent.

"I wish I could do more now.. I want to kiss you... And more. But if I do any of that, I’ll end up giving up on my tribe."

She chuckles.

"Then let’s stop here. I don’t want to force you to do anything. Just know that you’re not the only one waiting anxiously for that." She says, stepping back a little and then kissing his cheek.

His heart comes to his lips. He looks at her face and the desire to kiss her is too great. However, he knows that if he kisses her, he will want that always and will end up leaving.

Elder Jin thinks he should go already, afraid that she change her mind in the future, but he can’t argue with Koa’s wishes and only helps him with preparing the next leader.

They stay in the Mermen Tribe for three more days. Koa enjoys his time with Astri the most he can, taking her to beautiful places and giving her the chance to find new beautiful plants to try to raise in her garden.

Every moment they spend together, he fixes it in his mind as a reminder of the reason he’s doing what he is doing and where he wants to get, and how.

His heart feels lonely right after the ships start to leave.

"Are you sure? You still can go with her now." Jin asks Koa as they watch the ships leaving.

"Yes... And no. My heart is with her, but my mind is here and wanting to finish everything as soon as possible to go after her." Koa answers.

"Leave whenever you want. I hope you find happiness on the path you have chosen." Jin says and walks away, letting Koa reassure himself watching the ship where she is get smaller and smaller in the distance.

"I’ll always be with you. If you ever feel confused, not sure of when things will have an end, remember that. I’ll be waiting for you." She says in Koa’s mind.

He smiles thrilled.

"I promise I’ll do everything to be with you soon. Until then, be sure that my heart will always be yours." He says, as a statement to her, to himself, to the ocean in front of him, and to Nature.

"I know. I’ll get in contact with you as much as possible. The bigger the distance, more energy I need to use and the more concentration I need to have. But I’ll try to connect with you as many times as possible."

"Thank you. I’ll be waiting." He says.

"You can leave back to your place now."

He chuckles. The ship in the horizon is almost invisible already.

"I want to fix in my memory the image of where I need to go and where my heart is."

"You’re good with your words. Smooth like a newborn."

They laugh together. Koa is very romantic with his words and sweet nothings. All of Astri’s spouses learned to be romantic, but Koa is a natural at that.

The trip back keeps on going smoothly and without anything major to worry about.