Blessed by Night

Her name was Emi Inui.

She lived a somewhat boring life, with no husband, children, or even any real friends to speak of.

Her parents had passed away too so she was really and truly alone in the world. But in her heart of hearts, she had always wanted children.

She would see young mothers walking by on the street with the little bundles of joy in their arms and a subsequent feeling of jealousy would inflate in her stomach. With that singular desire in mind, she started dating in the hopes of marriage. Even without Chang\'e\'s blessing, she was still a very attractive woman so it was not very difficult for her to attract attention from men despite her advancing years. But after going out onto several blind dates, she realized that it just wasn\'t meant to be. The men she went out with were decent people and hardworking, and she was sure that they would have made fine husbands. But be that as it may, she did not believe that they would have made good life partners. They were all somewhat stringent, and living in the same kinds of dull grey existences as the one she was currently trapped in. She wanted to be with someone who pulled her into a world filled with color where everyday contained no less love than the last. Even if they did nothing but sit on the couch all day and get old and fat, she would be more than satisfied if they spent that time laughing and loving each other. But the men that she met just weren\'t capable of that. Wishing them farewell and good luck, she cut her contact with all of the men she was seeing and resigned herself to never finding her ideal partner. Unfortunately, one of the men she was seeing was a bit more in love with her than she realized.

When she tried to cut contact, he followed her back to her home while demanding a proper explanation. When she tried to ask him to leave, he became enraged and pulled a knife on her. Her slashed her across the face, and she was stabbed in the stomach several times before the neighbor arrived to help. In the end, the doctors were able to save her life, but it was required that they perform a hysterectomy due to all of the damage suffered in her midsection. Traumatized and broken, she left her job not long after due to the stares she received from coworkers about her haggard new appearance.

She contemplated suicide on an almost daily basis, yet something seemed to always prevent her from stepping off the ledge. And then one night after the first dungeon opened, her life changed forever. She was blessed by the goddess of the moon, and her face was not only healed, it was transformed. But while her face and body were now perfect on the outside, her uterus did not regrow. As powerful as blessed may be, cases like the primordial blessed who could regrow whole body parts in the right conditions were unfairly rare. But even without children in her future, Emi was certain that she could make the most out of her new life, and she would never need to be helpless again. She adopted the name Luna Autumn as a way to pay homage to the goddess who had given her a new outlook on life. Deciding to leave Japan, she traveled to America where she displayed the new icy personality that would come to symbolize her. She allowed no men to get close to her, subconsciously causing her to build up a guild for other women. Whether she realized it or not is a mystery, but she worked so hard for them that they became something like her children. And though there were challenges in her new life, she still considered it to be vastly superior to her old one. Especially since she had found the one man who could fill her life up with color. It seemed like Malachi was always forcing a smile onto her face, even when she didn\'t want it. To top it all off his consideration of her and his other girlfriends made her feel like he saw her as more than some trophy, but an integral part of his life. It was a level of thoughtfulness that filled her entire being with more feelings of desperate love than she knew how to handle. From now until the end of time, she could no longer be without this happiness that she so rightfully deserved. -

True to his word, Malachi ravaged Luna without rest until both of their bodies were dripping with sweat and it was well into the afternoon. After several different positions, a chorus of sensual moans, and passionate promises of pregnancy, Luna finally had an orgasm hard enough to send her tumbling into unconsciousness. Malachi removed himself from her, and all of his attempts to give her a child came spilling out of her swollen flower. He cleaned the area up the best he could before carrying her into Luna\'s private bathroom. He lowered both of their bodies into the bath, and allowed their bodies to soak in the hot water as his mind ran wildly. When Luna first asked him to get her pregnant, he felt a wave of incredible lust sweep through him. But more than that, he started to feel a subtle sense of longing as well. He always thought that he would be okay if he didn\'t have children, but in the blink of an eye he had some sort of vision. Watching Luna as her stomach got bigger, teaching his child how to tie their own shoes, and introducing them to all of his favorite cartoons. He knew that there was a great deal more to having a child than just those things that had been mentioned, but just those small parts made it all seem worth it somehow. \'Mom...maybe I can\'t become your avatar after all.\'

"Hnn..." Gradually, Luna began to stir in the water, and she slowly opened her eyes to see herself in very familiar surroundings. A moment later, she felt an even more familiar pair of lips on her neck, and the arms around her waist tightened their grasp. "Good morning, love." n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Luna wanted to return his greeting, but the words became caught in her throat and she released a soft noise instead. Malachi\'s hand traveled to her smooth and perfect stomach and Luna was reminded of all of the embarrassing things that she had said earlier. Her body sank lower into the water, and she placed her own hands over his. "I\'m sorry...you must\'ve been surprised, right?" "Hm?"

"When I said all of that stuff about you getting me pregnant... I\'m sure it came as a shock since it\'s not like we even talked about it but I just felt so good that I..."

Luna didn\'t finish, but Mal could tell by how red her ears had become that she was probably mortified. "I think that you might be forgetting something." He reminded. "I didn\'t exactly seem to be against the idea, did I?" Luna briefly recalled an instance where Mal held her up in the air and pleaded for her to have his child as he finished inside of her for the eighth time. The mere memory heated up her insides before it was replaced with a great sense of shame. 23:00

"Darling... I can\'t get pregnant." The words were hard to hear out of her own mouth, but they still needed to be said. Out of everything that Malachi expected Luna to say, that most certainly wasn\'t one of them.

She took a deep breath and clasped their hands together before she finally told him the story of her life before she was blessed. The attack was undoubtedly the hardest thing for her to talk about. She had transformed herself so that no one would ever look at her as weak or a victim, and yet here she was telling this sad story. It was so embarrassing that she wanted to crawl into a hole and die. When her story finally ended, she was expecting to hear the typical things that people say when you tell them something sad. \'I\'m so sorry.\'

\'You didn\'t deserve that.\'

\'That\'s so awful.\'

She didn\'t tell him the story of her past so that she could hear things like that, she told him because they were together and he had a right to know.

But in her heart of hearts, he just hoped that he wouldn\'t start to see her as something weak that needed to be protected. Malachi took a while to speak and he simply rubbed Luna\'s stomach silently as if something was already growing inside. "Okay then... So having a child together will be more difficult than we thought."

At first, Luna suspected that he was being sarcastic, but a nagging feeling in the back of her mind told her that he was not. "What...?"

Malachi smiled and pulled Luna\'s body further into his. "Are you forgetting that magic exists in our world now? Somewhere out there, there is a potion or a special item that can regrow organs. I just need to find it for us."

"W-What\'re you saying...? There is no such item out there."

Malachi shrugged as he stared up into the ceiling above them. "I\'m sure there is, but ain\'t nobody found it yet is all. I\'ll do whatever I have to do to bring it back to us, and then we can have a baby."

"Why... would you go that far?" Luna asked in a hushed tone. Malachi suddenly lifted Luna up and twirled her body around so that she was straddling him. Her pink eyes met his bright purple ones as he made a vow that would change her life forever. "Because something you held dear was taken from you, so I should do my best to get it back. Cause if the shoe was on the other foot I know you wouldn\'t even hesitate to do the same for me."

His words hit Luna like a ton of bricks, and her heartbeat began to race at an out of control speed. She never expected to receive this kind of response. Most people would be thinking about adoption as a next step, or even a surrogate. But Malachi was pledging to do the impossible and give her a child that was all her own.

All their own.

It was a vow that had shaken her to her core. "Don\'t joke with me... Do you really mean that?"

Malachi smiled and pressed their foreheads together until both of their tattoos were touching. "I mean it. We\'re going to have a child together."

Even though Luna hated to be seen as weak, a downpour of tears fell from her face. She did not realize how deeply buried this hope of hers was until the man she loved brought it to the forefront of her mind. All of the years that she believed she\'d spend her life alone, all of the times she spent crying herself to sleep after the assault, they were all being washed away like bad dreams.

For the first time ever, they were being replaced with a blinding hope for the future. "Malachi... I love you."

Luna sobbed softly as she brought her lips to Mal\'s and it seemed like the mood was going to heat up once again. Just as Mal\'s hands dropped underneath the water to cup Luna\'s bottom, a familiar scratchy voice echoed in his mind. \'un...ry...\'

\'Hun...y...\'

\'Hungry.... So hungry...\'

Earlier today I had two novels in the top fifteen of the trending list and I feel like that’s such a crazy thing to even say. 

I called my momma, my girl, and even showed my daughter. (But she was on some hater shit she was acting like she wasn’t happy for me fr.)

But I left out all of you who have carried me to this point and I want to say that I am so incredibly grateful for the blessings and the support that you continue to give me.