“Yes, but I waited. I guess, I waited on you. Not consciously. I was waiting on someone I not only clicked with, but also who could be a partner. Who could slide seamlessly into my life. I know that was idealistic but it’s how I felt. It was sort of stupid, looking back. No one can come in and just know what to do. I get that.”
I thought about what I wanted to ask next for several bites of my pizza. Away from the crowd of lions staring me down my appetite had returned.
“What do you want in a mate? A rock finder? Someone who can stand up to the lions? Someone who is okay with you –” I stopped myself.
“Kissing them all?” Jade filled in the blank for me.
“Yeah,” I nodded, only feeling a bit like a jackass.
“You get why we do that, right?” he asked.
“I get that it’s pride affection and stuff. That it’s a way to communicate a whole lot of information without speaking, but—”
“But what?” Jade asked, his golden eyes narrowing on me.
“You’re going to think I’m a jackass.”
“Try me,” he sat up straight again.
“All I could think was why did they get to kiss you and I haven’t,” I said.
“If that’s your concern, we can remedy that,” he took my plate and set it aside before straddling my lap and pushing me flat onto the bed. He captured my hands and held them above my head against the green flannel duvet. I stared up at his parted lips as he leaned forward and brushed them lightly against mine as if I made him nervous. Then he traced my lips with the textured tip of his feline tongue. First the outside, then the inside, as if he was really tasting me. I opened my mouth to ask him what sort of feline foreplay he was performing, but that was when his mouth closed over mine and his tongue dived inside. My hands ached to run up and down his muscular back or maybe to grab a handful of ass, but he was stronger than he looked and was able to keep my hands in place.
“Duh! He’s part dragon. You saw how big his carrier was,”my dragon chimed into my thoughts from inside his inner sanctum.
I could’ve kissed Jade forever. His warmth spread over me even as my wrists flexed under his grip, desperate to move but also enjoying his strength. No wonder he thought I could deal with the lions. He was so strong. Phantom fur danced all over myskin. As we kissed his hair escaped its messy bun and fell around both of our faces.
A little scratch sounded at the door. At first, I ignored it. It could be anything. Maybe he had a housecat. Maybe it was the teenager messing with us.
“Dad,” Jondi whispered from the other side and the dick that was starting to harden against my belly as Jade leaned forward kissing me fell soft. Jade didn’t apologize, only shrugged as his mouth left mine and he released my hands.
“One second, Jondi. I’m looking for my hair tie.”
“Your extras are under the bed,” Jondi said, sounding sheepish.
“Did you put them there again?” Jade said, his expression amused as he tried not to laugh.
“Yeah, with some rocks and stuff. They have shiny bits. I can’t help it,” the little boy said, sounding almost amused with himself. “The other me really likes them.”
“The other you is you too,” Jade said, dropping seamlessly to his belly to look under the bed.
Still hard, I rolled onto my stomach and looked over the edge. Under the bed was a pile of hair ties, rocks, gems, and other shiny little trinkets. I spotted a few keys in there too and made a note to keep my keys in a secure place whenever he was around. Jade grabbed a hair tie from under the bed and shook the otter fluff off before putting his hair back up.
“Can I stay in here a minute?” I asked Jade quietly.
“Yeah, for that,” he nodded toward my crotch when I rolled back over. “But don’t stay in here all day, okay? You’re allowed to mingle.”
“Will you come back looking for me if I do?” I teased him.
“Maybe, if I have time,” he shrugged and I wanted to bang my skull against his headboard. It wasn’t that I didn’t want Jondi to have Jade’s attention. I just wanted Jade to be as miserable about not being alone with me as I was about not being able to be alone with him.
I laid there a few minutes waiting for my dick to give up its hopes of Jade coming back. It wasn’t like we’d have had sex anyway. Not with everyone right out in the rest of the house but I wanted to keep kissing him. I wanted to run my hands over his muscles and curves. I needed to run my fingers through his long hair, entwining my fingers in his locks. It was almost enough for me to actually bang my skull against the headboard.
“He’s a lion. That’s his cub. They put the kids first all the time. He wants us to follow him,”my dragon chimed into my thoughts.“If we want to spend time with him I think we have to be where he is. It’s not like we have anywhere else to be. What? Do you want to follow Sermon and Gaia around and have to keep ‘disappearing’ when they wanna fuck?”
I didn’t. Not that I minded much most of the time. There was always someone around to hook up with or something to do. Now all I wanted to do was be around Jade. I was a snake eating my own tail. I wanted to be around Jade but now that I kissed him, thinking about him made my dick hard. My dick being hard kept me locked in the bedroom.
Someone knocked on the door. I opened up my mouth to tell Jondi that Jade had already went out and then for a half of a second, I held my breath, thinking that it was my mum. One deep breath told me it was neither of them. It was Gaia. I didn’t know who invited her and Sermon or if Jade would like how she waltzed into the room and flopped down on the bed next to me, but it was enough to kill my erection. I laughed at the thought of our inebriated tryst compared to now.
