45 Sweet sailing

Blaze started moving slowly and as carefully as possible, moving down from the high structure while making sure that the person who was asleep on his back wouldn't slip while Ell and Levi were walking behind him.

They walked for a while and reached a place where more than five deer corpses were placed beneath the tree that was hunted by Levi and Blaze when they were chasing Ell. As they didn't have any space to carry them, Ell took them and put them all in his space, and they all continued back, and just after fifteen minutes they were at their caves and sitting under the flower tree in their lawn, roasting and eating the meat together while talking.

"I think, now, calling you guys 'pursuers' would be wrong because it's misleading," said Jessica while eating.

"You can call us mates!" replied Ell, making Jessica speechless. "What would you like to term us as?" replied Blaze, when he looked at her face.

"Since I've agreed to be your mate, which in my world is equivalent to accepting a marriage proposal, we can call each other fiancé," she explained.

"That's so nice!" exclaimed Blaze.

"Jessica is our fiancé, and we are yours, right?" said Levi, as if still trying to confirm, and received a smile from her.

"This sounds much better than mates, humans are indeed quite intelligent that they could come up with such a beautiful term," said Ell in an appreciative manner, receiving a laugh from Jessica.

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Jessica is sitting in the river while the suns were shining brightly on the water, with her back supported by the river bank, wearing her black snake skin bikini and her shades on to avoid getting her eyes hurt by the strong glare, and with a green water-filled coconut and a wooden straw in her hand. She is relaxing her body while enjoying the hair wash session with Ell, who is happily supporting her head as he massages her head with a red gel-like substance that he created after collecting a lot of fruits and herbs together, with a beautiful calm smile on his face.

In front of them, inside the river, a big white tiger and a black python were entangled with each other so enthusiastically that it was hard to tell whether they were fighting or playing as they kept on lifting and splashing each other into the water, creating huge ripples and making the atmosphere quite lively.

It's been four days (that in reality felt like a week to her) since she accepted them as her fiancé and in these days a lot happened like she got to know that the room she was staying in was actually Blaze's because one day before when she came back after taking the bath and entered the room to change her clothes, she saw Blaze standing inside it naked, which made her scream in surprise, but when she realised that he was also changing in his room, she realised that it was her who was the intruder and not him so she apologized.

But instead of blaming her or something, Blaze said that he was very honoured that she wanted to use his room, so he told her that he would create another room for himself, and before she could've stopped him, she saw that he got into his beast form and started ploughing the cave wall to create a brand-new room opposite Jessica's.

Surprisingly, it only took him a single day, and he had already created a room as big as hers and even asked for her opinion, because according to him, males are supposed to decorate their homes in order to get females to accept them. 

Not only that, he even gave her a big canine tooth that he transformed into a pendant using a white string and made her wear it when he saw her wearing Levi's scale, which according to him was his milk tooth that every tiger beastman cherishes a lot.

Now, how can our Ell stay behind? So he also gave her a necklace that he created using his many bright, colourful red feathers.

Ell's gift looked the most sophisticated of all, and when Jessica got to know the origin and meaning, she asked Ell to put the necklace back into his space because his feathers could get destroyed if she wore it daily and asked for his single feather that she could use as a pendant.

Ell smiled after realising how thoughtful she was being, so right in front of her he went into the very first room that was on the left side as you entered the cave and brought back many feathers of different sizes for Jessica to choose.

When she chose one small feather, she saw that Ell instantly broke his one red hair and skillfully tied the feather and the newly made pendant set around her neck.

Jessica was shocked when she realised that the threads were in reality their hairs! She looked at her neck, which literally looked like a hanger with everything hanging on it, and sighed as a helpless smile took over her face.

She carefully removed all the gifts and with the help of everyone she took everyone's gift and attached it to her gold chain, making it light and a bit practical, satisfying each of them, which made her smile at first but then soon regrated as she looked at her swollen lips and those hickeys around her neck that they created in her small mirror. The only stress relieving thing for her was Blaze, who will always help her in situations like this by healing her and soon become a life-saving figure for her, but it wasn't free because he would usually compensate himself by licking her here and there whenever he got the chance. 

It was quite bashful for Jessica in the beginning, but she soon realised that it was one of the most common practises for tiger beastmen with their mates.

After confirming their status, all the guys started acting much more intimately, as they would not leave a single chance to hug her whenever they found her waist unoccupied, which was indeed very hard for Jessica in the beginning because she got a very sensitive body and mostly part of her body were her tickle centres due to which many touches usually startled her. But thanks to these guys' continuous efforts, she started getting used to their touches as well as becoming more comfortable in their presence.

In these four days, another important thing that happened was that she caught Ell and Blaze red-handed peeping at her when she was taking a bath in the river. After all, for how long will she avoid that gaze? So in the end, she decided to take a dive in the water and refused to come outside while holding her breath. Just in two minutes, both of them came out of hiding with a worried expression, and Blaze was ready to jump in too

When she came up with an expressionless face, showing herself up to her shoulders, at that moment they both realised that they had fallen for her trick and started to apologize.

She kept on looking at both of them for a while without saying a word and just sighed because she herself was at a loss for words; she didn't know what to say because their response after finding her gone clearly showed that they were indeed worried about her security, so she decided to let go of it, but they still got an earful from her for peeping at her. Both of them listened with their heads down, showing they were self-blaming.

She stopped when she felt that maybe she overdid it, so she swam to the bank and asked them to turn around in front of her as she got up and wrapped a big fur around her like a towel and asked them to walk her back. Both of them hurriedly picked up her clothes and followed her back with a worried expression as they realised they both got themselves on her black list, but to their surprise, while walking she suddenly said, "You guys don't have to secretly follow me tomorrow, we all can go for a bath together," which surprised them in the beginning but soon had them flying on the clouds.

Both came to her side as if asking for a cuddle but were shunned as she said, "Don't even think about doing anything before I get myself dressed," and just as she wanted, she was ravaged by their kisses just after getting changed (Levi included because he came back after them with a grin as he didn't get himself caught).

Another important thing that happened was that yesterday her phone finally ran out of battery because Blaze wanted to click more of her pictures, but when he looked at the phone, it didn't switch on, which made the three of them think that they might have broken it somehow, so they together told her about it while continuously trying to apologize.

Jessica looked at the phone and said, while trying to ease their mind, "It's fine, the phone is dead, and it's nothing that you've done." but received a surprising yet funny response as Ell said, "This thing was alive?"

"We never fed it once…" said Blaze as he looked at the phone with guilt and sympathy.

"We should perform a funeral for it…" said Levi while looking at the phone with longingness.

"ugh… guys? "This thing just ran out of battery because I can't charge it, so it's nothing to fret about," replied Jessica, holding back her laughter.

She took the phone and gave it to Ell as she said, "Eleanor, place it somewhere in your space carefully, and don't you guys try to cremate it, I'm telling you," she completed while looking at Levi.

She thought that the situation might have been over, but the least she knew was that the three guys, at midnight, held a ceremony in the name of the smartphone as they prayed to the beast god while sitting on the lawn, because no matter what Jessica said, they still recalled one thing very clearly: that she said the phone was "dead."

Thankfully, Jessica was asleep at that moment, or else she would've questioned herself on her choice of choosing these guys as her husbands.

(Present)

Jessica was looking at the live wildlife show in front of her when she was splashed quite hard with the strong and high water ripples that were created because of their fight. They both halted and looked at her, waiting for themselves to get reprimanded because she was completely drenched, making her remove her sunglasses with a shocked expression. Not only that, her coconut also fell into the water and had already drifted quite far, which made them ponder whether they should wait or just run away, ignoring the big fresh coconut pile that was placed near her that Levi got back when he came back from the shore after getting salt.

They noticed that Jessica looked at them as she squinted her eyes while thinking something and asked Ell, "Are you done?"

He nodded as he wiped her face with a fur handkerchief while placing her sunglasses on the ground. He didn't ask more as he was engrossed in grooming her, which was more fun for him, when Jessica suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him in front of her. She moved forward and slowly whispered in his ear, "Then help me take revenge," softly, which made Ell's surprised expression instantly turn into a happy one.

He got into the river instantly with his one hand wrapped around her waist as he said, "I'll do anything for my fiancé," as he moved and kissed her on the lips, which made her blush, but she didn't stop to reciprocate.

With one hand in the air, he isolated a small area around both of them as they started discussing their plan on how to act, while Blaze and Levi were trying their best to decipher their words because they couldn't hear them.