Chapter 19
The mental torture I put myself through for the rest of my shift could not be measured accurately enough.
It was hard enough putting on a straight face when I’d gone out and seen my sister.
I didn’t get a chance to meet her guy, because we’d been plagued by more guests and she didn’t want to bother me while working.
Which made it a hell of a lot easier to not have to divulge the details of getting railed by Arze while I’d been on the clock.
I didn’t see Arze the rest of the evening, unsure if he was just avoiding me or if he had left work all together.
Luckily though, the girls that had walked in on us having sex weren’t sharing the story freely.
We were very fortunate because it seemed like they just figured it was all a part of the show.
Why they would think that an Orb and a human having sex was part of a haunted house and not a much more natural thing than most people thought was beyond me, but whatever.
Khalice kept asking me what the hell was going on and where Arze had gone, but I just avoided her gaze and shrugged, telling her that I had no idea where he was or what had transpired.
At least I’d had the forethought of cleaning the floor in Spore Sector before anymore guests came through.
No one needed to know about what Arze and I had done.
A mix of emotions kept plaguing me, even as I rode my bike back to the RV park after my shift.
As exhilarating as it was to have sex with Arze, especially the level of deranged rough sex that happened which made me hard again just to think about, I also felt absolutely horrible for him.
I still didn’t know why tythwig and humans weren’t supposed to entangle themselves together, but I knew enough to know that Arze might be beating himself up about giving in to the boiling chemistry between us.
I tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep without reliving our tryst and waking up too hard to sleep or feeling expansive pangs of guilt that kept my mind whirring into the abyss of self-infliction.
I didn’t want Arze to regret what we’d done, but there was a high possibility that he was in a spiral of doubt and self-hatred. And that absolutely tore me to shreds.
I woke up to a text from Arze, curious that he even had my number in the first place, but between wiping through the sleep around my eyes, I was able to fully take his words in.
Hey Krueger, it’s Arze. I got your number from Jane. I’m sorry for running off, but I was wondering if we could talk about last night before work today? Let me know if you’re available
My heart tossed as I reread the text once and then twice just for good measure.
I was elated that he wanted to discuss things, but I was also really nervous that I wasn’t ever going to see him back at work.
For all I knew, he wanted to meet up to ask me to quit working for Jane so he wasn’t tempted for a repeat, considering that he started working there before I did and I was leaving town anyway.
Even though that looming deadline was hovering over me like a swinging axe waiting for its opportunity to be let free, I couldn’t let go of the sex we’d had.
It was…unlike I’d ever experienced before.
Even with Lincoln, which was great, it was a mild black pepper compared to the ghost pepper habanero Arze had to offer.
I had no idea why I was so hung up on seeing him again. It wasn’t like we could date or whatever. But did I want more sex out of it?
Hell fucking yes.
Pushing my thoughts of being beneath Arze again to the wayside, I refocused my attention back on my phone and typed up a quick response.
Yeah, I’d really like to talk. We could talk at the RV park if that works for you. My sister’s home, but we can go somewhere else? Whatever makes you more comfortable
There. That didn’t sound too desperate to have his dick again, did it?
God, I didn’t even get to see him naked.
I’d barely gotten a glimpse of his dick and I had to admit, my curiosity was running on overdrive at the possibility of seeing his nude form and getting confirmation on whether it was different from human anatomy or not.
Some stellymn had different tongues than humans, but I apparently it was a case by case basis.
I wondered if tythwig had anything like that and only hoped I’d get the chance to find out first hand.
Which meant I’d have to at least talk out these, I’m assuming, hangups with Arze about why it was so scandalous for us to have done what we did.
My shower was hasty, too eager at the prospect of Arze coming over that I didn’t take as much time as I normally would have, no time for lather, rinse, repeat.
I was pulling on an old Sailor Moon t-shirt and a pair of pink shorts when my phone chimed on the bed.
When I made my way over to it, a smile charted a course over my face as I saw that Arze had agreed to meet at the RV park and would be over in less than fifteen minutes.
I walked out into the living area of the RV, seeing my sister downing an iced coffee from a local shop she must have already made a trip to this morning.
“I got you one.” She said without looking up from her phone as she scrolled, tilting her head to gesture toward the kitchen counter where a large iced coffee sat.
“God, I love you.” I scoffed playfully, walking over and grabbing the coffee. I sipped the sweet blended caffeine, savoring the jolt of flavor that slithered down my throat. Was there anything greater on the planet than coffee?
Arze’s dick is a pretty good contender, my brain thought without a single beat of hesitation. And that was without even fucking seeing it. I was down bad for a dick I’d yet to fully inspect.
Myers’ smile brightened her face. “I agree, I’m a great sister.”
“You are.” I smiled, sliding into the seat across from her at the dining booth.
I watched as she still prodded on her phone, a lazy smile forming yet again as she typed away on her phone’s keyboard.
I’m sure she was texting the stellymn she was crushing on.
My mind was hit with a sharp pang of recognition.
“Oh right, how did your date with the stellymn go? I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to meet him at the haunts.
” Work had gotten so busy that I didn’t have a chance to go back out and see her while they were still perusing the house and the maze, unable to update each other on our suddenly messy love lives.
You’d thought I’d just told her that today was Christmas morning and she’d completely forgotten until my reminder, lights in her eyes shining so bright and wide that I thought something was seriously wrong with her.
“It was amazing.” She nodded, trying to keep her excitement tempered. “I don’t want to get my hopes up, since we’re leaving soon, but I don’t know, Krueger. I really like him.”
“I mean, that’s great.” I smiled, genuinely meaning my words. I certainly had no room to critique what she was doing in the dating world when I was having my own sordid mess with Arze. “I’m glad you found someone you really like here.”
“I just…” She started, but thought better of it, shaking her head.
“Anyway, I’d love it if you’d come by the movie theater sometime to meet him.
” Gazing into her eyes, I could see how much this meant to her.
I was nowhere near ready for her to meet Arze, considering I had no fucking clue what the present held for us, let alone the future.
However, if she wanted me to meet him, I was more than down for it. “If that’s okay.”
“Of course it is.” I nodded along, pairing it with an unmistakable smile of sunshine. “You know I’m off on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so just let me know when you want me to stop by and I will.”
“Great. Thanks, Krueger.” The obvious elation radiating off of my sister was enough fuel to sustain a small village, but it waned soon after.
I took another sip of my iced coffee, jostling the contents around in an attempt to stir it to peak flavor, and Myers gave me a skilled glint of a look.
“Look at us. The Lin siblings, infatuated with their respective Orbs and wondering what to do about it.”
I smiled, but didn’t immediately agree outwardly.
Thoughts of all that I needed to figure out with Arze raced across my brain, keeping me from feeling the joy that I’d had him already, that we’d at least established a physical connection.
The question was, would we get the chance to build that emotional connection?
One that I couldn’t believe I was so eager to explore, given my stance with Lincoln.
I shivered thinking about Lincoln again, shifting him out of my mind and refocusing on the look on my sister’s face.
Myers cleared her throat, her eyes like burning coals as they focused on me.
“So, what’s going on with you and Arze?” I swallowed the lump in my throat that formed as soon as she spoke his name.
I made a quick glance at my phone, sitting on the table between us, and wondered how far away Arze might be from arriving at the RV park.
“Unless you don’t want to talk about it. ”
“No, I can.” I said assuringly. “It’s just…really complicated right now.” My phone buzzed on the table, illuminating Arze’s name across the screen, which was quickly caught by Myers as we shared a look afterwards.
Arze was here.
I sighed inwardly and set my shoulders forward, slight cracks happening as the tension within my body started to build, needing to be received by the hopefully cathartic release that talking to Arze was about to bring on. “But it’ll have to wait until after we talk things out.”
Myers winced. “That complicated already?”
“Sort of.” I scoffed back, shaking my head and laughing lightly, even though what was brewing between Arze and I was anything but a laughing matter.
Three cheers for nervous laughter as a coping mechanism.
I retrieved my phone from the table and slid it into my shorts as I stood up.
“I’ll tell you all about it once I figure out what’s going on myself. ”
“Well, good luck.” Myers stood up too. “I’m off to the movie theater.”
Laughing, I scoffed again. “You just can’t get enough of that stellymn boy, can you?”
“Shut up.” She shoved me playfully as I neared the door, making my shoulder brush up against the wall of the RV. When I turned back to face her, she was laughing with me.
Now if only my meeting with Arze could go as well as catching up with my sister.
As we stepped outside the RV, I gave my sister a quick hug and bid her adieu as she started walking toward her truck.
I glanced down at my phone, seeing Arze’s words staring back at me.
Realizing that I wasn’t nearly as prepared for this as I thought I was, I tried to fortify some steel in my lungs and in my veins.
“Krueger.”
His deep velvet voice tore my locked leer from my phone, unable to hold back the smirk that graced my face as I took in his handsome features.
He was wearing a lovely green tank top that really showed off his muscled purple arms and a pair of khaki shorts.
Arze never appeared as sporty as he suddenly did right now, and if the dick stirring in my shorts was any indication, I was pretty into it.
“Arze, hey.”
He stopped before me, giving my body a once over, giving me a weak, thin-lined smile. “We should talk.”
Right. This wasn’t a sexy rendezvous. It was time for answers and to see if, after those answers, there would be a future in which we could explore our wild chemistry.
“Yeah, we should.”