Chapter Ten
Sequin
I hated to stop kissing his mouth, but I dropped off his lap onto my knees on the floor. He wasn’t hard again yet, but I could fix that. I was in heat. Getting my mate hard was the biggest built-in perk of my heat cycle.
“Can I take these off you?” I asked, already tugging at the knees of his pants.
“Here,” he said, raising up his hips and sliding them off.
Somewhere further into the house that damn phone rang again. I growled and tossed his clothes aside. Too many damn clothes. Too much damn fabric. Whoever invented clothing deserved a swift kick in the ass. Hell, maybe I deserved a swift kick in the tail for all the clothes I sewed over the years. It all contributed to keeping me away from Xav. I nuzzled into his belly, reveling in his scent sinking into my skin. The more alike we smelled the more everyone would know he was mine now and they couldn’t have him.
The phone rang again and I muttered about blowing it up. Xav ran his fingers through my hair and gathered up the strands into his fist to keep it out of my way. I let out a long, slow breath. The phone wasn’t the enemy. Hell, not even the person calling was really my enemy but why was everyone and their sister intent on making me wait?
I nuzzled lower, marking his dick as mine too. My dragon purred and yipped. Yipping wasn’t really a draconic thing but mine made that sound all the time when he was happy. Xav rolled his hips, rubbing his now half-hard cock against me. The phone kept ringing. If it was my brother calling him, I’d descale him. Xav sniffed.
“Like smelling me?” I murmured kissing all around the base of his cock.
“Uh, Seq, I smell magic.”
“You do smell like magic. You always do,” I nodded. It was weird to dirty talk about himself but if that was his thing I could live with it. I talked about knotting more than was reasonable. I talked about it---
“No, door magic,” Xav blinked, rolling his hips again.
“You don’t think?” I rose up and he let go of my hair. “What would be that important? They wouldn’t! Would they? Liatris and Selt are better friends than to follow us here, right?” I blinked.
“Uh… I… I thought so,” he said, looking around for his pants. I grabbed them and handed them over, mumbling under my breath. Was it such a crime to want some time alone with my mate?
The tiniest little mew traveled through the house and Xav sprinted off, still hopping into his pants as he went. I followed on his heels, but his elven ass moved like the breeze even when he was in his solid form.
“Selatris?” Xav called out. “Are you here, sweetheart?”
I pulled on my pants and silently wished I grabbed my shirt too.
“The baby?” I blinked at him. “Why would they send their baby here?”
“Trouble would be my guess, but we’d have heard about it,” Xav said, still sprinting toward the back of the house where the mewing was coming from. “Grab my phone. 2802 is my passcode.” He grabbed the cloth we used for dishes earlier and wiped clean his chest and stomach before tossing it to me to do the same. No one wanted to run headlong into an emergency covered in my jizz.
“I bet the bad guy would think twice about grabbing us then!” My dragon sounded off into my thoughts. “Touch me and touch my jizz! That’s what you get for fucking around with my matingmoon!”
“Shit. I guess we are the real deal,” I laughed, repeating the 2802 to myself. Heat made it difficult to think but I managed to hold on to the number and get into his phone. All his texts were from Liatris asking if Sealtris was here. I put the phone to my ear to listen to the voicemail.
“I hate to do this, Xav! Did the baby come to you? We fell asleep and I woke up to the sound of a door. You know my sort of freaking door. I caught a glimpse as it was fading away but couldn’t grab it. I swear the damn thing wasn’t even up to my knee!” Panic danced through his words and he took a deep breath on the recording. “I don’t think he knows that many places to go! He’s not at the Starscale house! I had Sunny check! Besides trying to find you I don’t know what he’d do! Please pick up the phone! Please pay attention to the flight link! I’m so sorry --- but the baby!”
“XAV!?” Panic cut through me at the thought of any baby roaming the whole existence with the magical ability to open doors to go wherever he wanted. “Is he here?”
“He’s here!” Xav called back. “I’m moving the dryer. Poor guy’s stuck back there!”
I cringed as the dryer slid across the floor carving into the tiles. Xav wasn’t fucking around when it came to his god baby. I sprinted into the bathroom to see him cradling a lion cub to his chest. My heart melted and the room cooled down ten degrees. I fumbled with his phone and had to ask for his passcode again but Liatris was already texting his relief. He felt us find him over the flight link.
“I guess he missed you,” I sighed, looking at the cub now purring in his arms.
“I missed you too, buddy, but you can’t go running around like that! You could get hurt.”
The baby was too young, of course, to understand the consequences of his actions but I still swore silently. All that fighting over my house with Daliah and I was going to end up living on a Starscale world anyway because I couldn’t see taking Xav away from the cub.
I watched, fixated, as he paced the kitchen, comforting the baby before opening the fridge and trying to find something the baby might want to eat. Thankfully, in lion cub form, he was old enough to eat some ground beef. He licked it up in tiny bites from Xav’s hand.
We hadn’t had the baby talk yet. Before Xav showed up at Glitter Bomb having kids was something I thought I’d always eventually do. When I met my mate at some point. It was something that everyone did, right? It was what everyone expected, and I figured kids wouldn’t all be horrible. I was a fan-fucking-tastic kid after all. Now watching Xav with Selatris made everything inside me ache. I wanted a baby. I wanted to have a baby with Xav. Maybe it was the heat talking. Maybe it was some primal draconic instinct pushing itself forward, but I didn’t care. I’d have his baby if it was the last thing I ever did.