“How promiscuous, putting your nipples on display,” he says as he pokes one.
I raise an eyebrow. “Oh yes, I definitely was the one putting them on display.”
He proceeds to pull my shirt the rest of the way off and tosses it. “So scandalous,” he comments while his fingers venture downward.
“There seems to be a single culprit,” I say as he flicks the button of my pants open. His fingers don’t stop there. They dip down, teasing my cock before slipping back out. Then he shimmies my pants and underwear down so I’m sitting naked on his lap.
“I wish you’d just walk around naked all the time. You could be the naked horseman of the apocalypse. It would set you apart from the others.” Torin seems to be thrilled by this idea for some odd reason.
“It’ll set me apart as the pervert of the group?”
“Exactly,” he says with a grin.
I shake my head, wondering what exactly this man is going on about. “Why didn’t we get naked down there? Like am I supposed to scale down the side of this cliff in the nude? What if I fall and scrape my nuts on the rocks? And if you say that we’re going to ride Quill down, the idea of riding him butt naked sounds less than pleasing.”
“No, we’re jumping.”
That makes me arch an eyebrow. “Oh hell no.”
“You’re going to love it,” he says as he stands up and whips his clothes off in record time. I assume that’s why clothes here are designed differently. They’re hard to put on but sure easy to whip off… just the way Torin likes it.
He ushers me over to the edge, and Kit and I look down at the drop that leads to the water below.
“Nope.”
“This is nothing like those things you made me ride yesterday.”
“Those were safe! We had little safety bars and they’re checked regularly by inspectors.”
“Well, I inspected this myself and I’m a god. We’ll jump together.”
“This looks ridiculous… I can see it now: ‘The god and the horseman destined to save the world tragically died while skinny-dipping.’ And Mickey would be the one to find our bodies… if he thought to look for us, so who knows what story he’d come up with. He’d probably bring us back to life to make us tell our own story.”
“It’s really not that far of a drop,” Torin assures me. “We’d have teens jumping off here all the time and I don’t think anyone ever even got hurt. There’s nothing to fall on. No rocks. It’s very safe. Come on.”
I eye the water below. It really might not be that far, but it’s plenty far for me. “I’ll walk.”
“Okay. Quill will take you down,” he says as he tries to pick me up to stuff me on his evil mount. The creature with a dragon-like head and equine body glances over at us, like he knows we’re talking about him. Last time I rode him alone, he bucked me off and then tried sharpening his antlers on me. So I decide I’ll just walk myself.
“Nope. Not going to happen. He has it out for me every time you turn your back.”
Torin, looking shocked that I would dare say something about his precious creature, cups the beast’s ears. “Don’t listen to him, sweetie pie. He’s just jealous.”
“The last thing I am is jealous of that creature,” I say.
“Fine, fine, walk down with no help. Just… meet me down there,” Torin says as he pulls me in for a quick kiss and then dives right off. Kit and I watch him jump as Quill starts rubbing his antlers on me now that Torin’s not here to fend him off. Either that or his plan is to do away with me by pushing me over the edge.
Torin pops out of the water laughing and looks up at me. “The water is beautiful. Come.”
“Kit… what do you want to do?” I ask, but Kit’s already ready to dive off. That creature is fearless. So when she sees me contemplating my choices, she leaps onto my bare shoulder and begins excitedly dancing. “I’m going to regret this so much.”
And then I run and jump, plugging my nose and questioning how I got suckered into this.
There’s a brief instant of “What the fuck am I doing” as the wind whips through my hair a moment before I land in the water and discover that the jump honestly wasn’t that high or traumatic. It was actually… kind of fun.
Which I will never tell Torin.
Kit left me at some point, but it’s pretty easy to figure out which way is up. And when I break through the water, arms wrap around me.
