Chapter Seven #3
Once they were on the ship, two crewmembers reached to help them up the steps, but Temal snorted, crouched, and jumped up and over the railing.
Yeskin used the steps.
“Uh, Temal, Yeskin? That’s a woman.”
Piper grinned. “They need confirmation, or is that a statement?”
“We have a no one-night stand rule on the boat.” Yeskin grinned.
“Oh.”
Temal chuckled. “She is a permanent addition.”
“Oh, fuck. Congratulations.”
She smiled. “Thank you. It was an honour just to be nominated. I’m Piper.” She waved.
“I am Ralz; this is Viko. Pleased to meet you, Piper.”
She would have said something, but Temal turned and walked toward the stairs that led below decks. She said, “I am going to need a tutorial on the parts of a boat.”
“Ship or vessel,” Yeskin growled.
Temal laughed. “Or yacht.”
“I know precisely zero nautical terms.”
Temal walked down into the ship.
She looked at Yeskin. “Just be lucky I didn’t call it a water house.”
Temal snorted.
Yeskin chortled. “It’s very good that you didn’t.”
She tried to memorize the halls, but that wasn’t her strong suit.
Piper was carefully eased into a room with grey, black, and silver décor. “Okay, whose place is this?”
Temal smiled. “Mine. Yeskin is next door, but I carried you, so I got to pick.”
Yeskin muttered, “If we are just making these rules up, I will have to make notes.”
Temal set Piper on the bed and tilted his head. “Will you dance for us?”
“Play some music, and I will do what I can.” She stood up and bounced on the balls of her feet. “By the way, the rules still apply. I need to be fast on my feet tomorrow.”
Yeskin nodded and pulled his phone out. “Agreed.”
Temal nodded. “Agreed.”
The music started. It was pop with male vocals singing in a combination of languages.
She listened and then said, “Restart it.”
Yeskin nodded, and the music restarted. Piper looked at them and started to move.
Their gazes warmed her skin, and she let the beat and the notes determine her movements. The song was bright and not sensuous, so there was a lot of hopping. That got their attention, and Yeskin looked rueful. When the song finished, her skin was sweaty, but they were laughing at something.
“Perhaps a ballad? You get one more tonight, and then we either start snuggling, or I get off the water house.”
Temal snorted and then played a soft ballad with a light drum track, and Piper listened and then said, “Start it again.”
He did, and she moved along with the music and felt like a piece of seaweed in a current, waving and swirling along with the notes. When the music was over, she stood and said, “That’s all until you put another quarter in the machine.”
Her skirt was sticking to her legs, and the water dragons were both staring at her. They were fixed, and their eyes were doing something weird. They were flickering through a different colour palette that she had seen before.
“Uh, should I go take a shower?”
Yeskin walked up to her, and scales moved over his body in a wave. “We will take care of it.”
“It?”
“Any additional moisture on your person. Now, if you want to keep the clothing intact, remove it, please.”
She blinked and unhooked the chain that held her top up. The sweat kept the fabric stuck to her, and it didn’t fall. She unclipped the chain at her waist and peeled the silk from her. The skirt hit the floor, and she removed the matching panties. She hated flashing those who weren’t expecting it.
Just in case, she removed the clip that held a foot of her hair off her back and let it fall.
She stood there with Yeskin looking at her up close, his chest moving rapidly.
She cocked her head, leaned forward, and said, “Boo!”
He blinked and grinned. “Not afraid?”
“No. You?”
Temal was already naked. “I confess to a bit of nerves. I don’t know if I can stop.”
She smiled. “Is there any piece of metal here that you don’t need?”
Temal frowned and found a coin. “Will this do?”
She held out her hand. He tossed it over. She held it between her index finger and thumb and smashed it flat. She worked it between her fingers until it was molten, and then she stretched it into wire. She held up the loop on one finger. “So, you stop when I say stop, or you end up in jewellery.”
Piper cocked her head. “Or part of you will.”
Yeskin laughed. “Fun. I like that you can take care of yourself.”
Piper looked at him seriously. “I have been doing that for nearly a decade. I would like someone else to give it a try.”
Temal walked to her and lifted her again. “That is a shameful oversight on others’ part but lucky for us.”
Skin-on-skin felt amazing, but the kiss was better. Temal held her close, and his lips coaxed her into participating. She wrapped her arms around his neck for support as a hand brushed her hair away from her neck, and kisses moved across her shoulders.
Piper whispered, “I hadn’t accounted for the overstimulation.”
Temal paused and raised his head.
She pulled him back. “I didn’t say stop.”
They both chuckled, or maybe they growled, but their lips and bodies moved on and around her. Eventually, the world tilted, and they parted her thighs. She felt fingers slipping and sliding around her opening and thought it must have been Temal, but the palm on her hip said Yeskin.
She kept her vocalizations to light moans and soft sighs, as ordered. She shivered wildly and squeaked. They both chuckled softly, and Yeskin kissed her shoulder. “That’s one.”
She licked her lips and whispered, “We are counting?”
Temal chuckled. “Well, there are two of us, and neither one of our beasts likes sharing, so we have to give them opportunities to please their mate.”
“Wait, so there are five of us in bed?”
Yeskin laughed. “More like nine. Temal and I each have four forms.”
“Oh, but I am only going to have sex with two.”
The guys chuckled. Temal said, “Our human glamour, our elf form, and the elf-sized water-being shift.”
“So, the large dragons are not going to try to have their way with me?”
Yeskin growled. “No. They will want you to swim with them, but that is all.”
“Can either of you help me get scuba certified? I can barely dog paddle. I am much better on my feet.”
Temal said, “I like you on your side.”
“I am a fan of on your stomach,” Yeskin said, “so I can move my body over you like the tide while you make soft noises into the sheets.”
She smiled. “That sounds nice.”
His fingers started to move again, and she leaned toward him.
Temal kissed and gnawed softly at her throat, and she began her rounds of moans and sighs.
She held her voice back when she wanted to scream, and her body shuddered and twitched under their touch.
She had no idea who was touching her where, but when Temal’s head began to glow, things were made clear.
She croaked softly, “How did you get back there?”
He laughed. “A mystery for the ages.”
Yeskin chuckled from between her breasts. “You are keeping up well.”
She swallowed. “Is there water around here? This is thirsty work.”
Temal snickered. “We are doing the work.”
“Aw, you think this is work? Poor baby.”
“The work of a lifetime. I am happy to refine things.”
She croaked, “Going to go for a speed run?”
Yeskin laughed as he slowly licked her breasts, sucking at her nipples softly. “We need to save something for the first anniversary.”
Piper threaded her fingers through his hair. “Boy, are you optimistic.”
He looked up at her. He grinned, and there was a dark light behind his eyes. “We will be together for far longer than you can imagine.”
“Oh, that’s not creepy at all. How many canines do you have?”
He chuckled. “Lots, but biting is not how we make our mark.”