CHAPTER 79
It must have been midday when she finally woke again. Now Kallias was awake and aware, and he smiled at her almost conspiratorially. “Good morning, my wife.” He seemed to get immense pleasure out of the word; his tail even flapped a bit and his joy made her blush.
Pulling him close, she kissed him again. “Good morning, Husband.” And now it was his turn to blush, though she had to admit she had said it rather seductively—or at least, that had been her intention.
“Did you not get enough?” he asked, his eyes shifting to seduction himself.
“I’ll never get enough,” she purred, rolling on top of him and kissing him again.
They laughed then—like music—before she settled on him, lying fully atop him with her head resting against his pecs. They were not the pillows they promised to be.
“Do you really want to again?” he murmured. “Should you eat first?”
“What do you want to eat?” she asked.
“Whatever you need. I can always get some fish.”
There was a pause as she thought it over. “I want you first,” she said.
“Oh?” he asked, with an uncontained smile. “I think I must be the luckiest man in the world.”
“Perhaps you’re just a great lover.” She smiled.
“Is that it?” he asked, blushing. “Well, you must be too.”
“Do you need to eat first?” she asked. He was already kissing a strand of her hair, and though she couldn’t explicitly feel it, he was so beautiful doing it, so tender and gentle, so borderline reverential that her entire face lit up and she wanted him all the more.
But she’d rather he eat if he needed to; she’d never want her own selfish desires to put him in distress.
“I’ll just eat you,” he said, sitting up and pressing his lips against her neck and playfully nibbling.
Laughing, she hugged his head, and then in a single second, she was back on her back.
“We need to get closer to the water,” she murmured. The bottom of his tail was touching but not much else.
But he said, “I think we’ll be fine. Let’s see what it’s like like this. Not in water might be better for you. We don’t know.”
“No, we don’t,” she agreed. “If you can.” Was he not exhausted from last night? He had been doing most of the work and now he didn’t even have the water to assist him.
He smiled dangerously though. “I can handle it.”