In The Bathtub

The clothes slipped from her shoulders easily, so easily that it fluidly slide away down to the ground, making Belle toes to curl deeper to the floor.

“It’s off,” Leon slowly spoke as if announcing it slower to make this time move in a turtle phase for him.

Belle gulped, she held to her last piece of clothes as he slowly led her to the bathtub.

“You… will stay?” She whispered, startled when her own voice echoed.

“I do have a spell to finish. I don’t want you coming out still smelling with her. If one day you faint like that in front of me again,” he drawled, his eyes darkening when he said, “I won’t be able to take it peacefully anymore.”

Belle felt as though her heart had jumped on his statement. She can find his worries on his eyes but was still unsure, “You were that worried?”

Leon looked up. He wasn’t dumb not to know Belle was testing him. He could lie. He knew he was a good liar. Yet despite himself he said, “I was. A hell lot.”

As she felt giddiness that spread over from her ch