Minotaurs and other Magic: mm monster romance (Mytho Collapse Book 1) by TJ Nichols

Author:TJ Nichols [Nichols, TJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

“When you said bath, I thought you meant in a bathroom.” Nate eyed all the tiled surfaces and the steam rising out of what was more like a small swimming pool. It reminded him of the Roman baths he’d seen as a kid.

He rubbed his wrist. The skin was raw in places from the rope, and he carefully stretched his arms.

“This is the bathing room.” Rohan pulled his tunic off and dropped it into a basket. “That is for dirty clothes. You may put your shoes beneath the bench.” He stood there, not caring that he was naked with everything on display.

“So we bathe together?”

“Yes. Do you not? Who washes your hair?”

“Me. I wash alone. Except…” He couldn’t find the word. “After exercising, there are communal showers, but no one is looking or helping.” Most of the time, anyway, but he wasn’t about to discuss hookups.

“Undress, and I will show you how to bathe the Tarikian way.” His dark eyes glinted as if there might be more than bathing.

He’d have welcomed a rule upload along with the language upload.

He pulled off the tunic and put it in the basket, then sat to undo his boots and pull off the socks he’d been given.

Rohan waited. He cracked his neck and then his back. His muscles flexed with each move. He was all power and yet so gentle.

Yet there was a part of Nate that questioned the attraction. The power imbalance. The difference in their…species?

He unlaced his pants and pulled them down, aware that Rohan watched his every move with more than casual interest. He was not that buff, and he’d lost weight over the five. No, six days that he’d been there.

Aside from being an oddity who didn’t belong, Nate wasn’t sure why Rohan was so intrigued. Did it matter why?

Why was he questioning everything so much?

This morning, it had been much easier to pretend he was in a coma or something and that this wasn’t real. But it was, and this was his life for the next year and half a day. And it was better to be a minotaur’s pet than to labor for vampires or humans.

This way, he could teach and learn.

Rohan’s gaze drifted up to Nate’s face. That smile danced over his lips again, and he wasn’t hiding the heat in his eyes.

Nate tossed the pants in the washing basket. “Do you like what you see?”

“I do,” Rohan said with a small nod before turning and walking away. “Follow.”

Nate obeyed.

A man with pointed ears and long brown hair, wearing a simple robe, was in the main room. He inclined his head at Rohan. “I have gathered your favorites. Your new friend will need to make a selection.”

“He is used to bathing on his own, so will have the full experience.”

“Wait…what is the full experience?” What was he getting signed up for?

The elf smiled and appraised him, no doubt taking in the marks on his wrist and the bruises on his arms and legs from the rockfall. “Hair, nails, shave, wash, rinse, massage.

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