Exiled Villainess: They Threw Me Out, Now Every Beastman Wants Me novel Chapter 28

Chapter 28: His Golden Rod

Tera didn’t know how long she was staring.

But Xavi’s back was a landscape of muscle that shifted and rolled with every movement, and her architect brain was doing the thing it always did when presented with an impressive structure: analysing every line, every curve, and how it all connected.

The clouds were covering the moon, so she could barely see as well as she would have liked, but she watched the water trickling down his shoulder blades, following the deep groove of his spine before disappearing below the surface. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Tera realised she had never seen Xavi’s ass before.

He must have a nice ass.

Very possibly even nicer than hers.

His arms moved slowly as he scooped water over his shoulders, and each motion made the muscles along his sides flex and release like something mechanical and precise beneath his skin.

He was built so well...

Tera bit her lip.

This technically wasn’t the first time she had seen him shirtless, which he constantly was. But seeing him bathing, and knowing very well that he was naked underneath, was a nice layer to the experience.

Xavi stopped and turned slightly. Their eyes met across the water.

Tera shot to her feet so fast that she didn’t register the small, jagged stone until the bottom of her foot came down on it with her full weight.

The pain was immediate, specific, and absolutely blinding.

"FUCK—!"

Her leg buckled, and she went down sideways, catching herself with one hand while the other grabbed her foot. The stone had jammed into the tender arch of her foot with the precision of a homing missile, and the sensation was so sharp and so sudden that her vision went white for a second.

It felt exactly like she had stepped on a lego brick!

’IT HURTS!’

Xavi was already moving. The water churned around his waist as he strode through it, and Tera realized that he was about to walk out of the water naked to come help her.

’YES. COME!’

But the words that came out of her mouth were something else.

"I am fine! It’s nothing! Just a—OW—just a stone! I just stepped on a rock..."

He paused.

’You fucking idiot!’

Why did she say that?!

"You are in pain."

Tera winced, still clutching her leg where the dull, painful ache was radiating from. She couldn’t think straight with it.

"It really, really hurts."

Xavi looked concerned, but he stopped at the edge instead of walking out entirely. He crouched down and moved closer.

"Let me see."

"It’s just a bruise, It will heal—"

"Do you not like help?"

Tera paused, not entirely understanding where the question was coming from. Then she realised a second later.

’Oh...’

"Give me your leg."

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