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We’d just barely started eating when Ana strolled up to our table. A tall, muscular, blond unseelie followed behind her with a finger looped in the back of her seelie-style shorts. He was Druze, the basilisk fated mate who had been chasing her since she first came to unseelie territory. She’d been giving him hell for such a long time that it made me grin to see her with him willingly.
“Hey. Is it cool if we sit here?” Ana checked, plopping down without waiting for an answer.
I laughed. “Of course.”
“Thanks. There’s way too much new blood,” she grumbled.
Ana hated change more than just about anyone I’d ever met, so I wasn’t surprised in the slightest that she wasn’t thrilled by all the new ex-humans.
“Congrats,” Teris told them, and I didn’t miss the way he slid a little bit closer to me. Our sides were already pressed together, so we couldn’t really get any closer.
“You too,” Druze said, with a tip of his head and a small grin.
I inhaled, and my eyebrows shot upward as I looked at Ana. “He finally convinced you?”
“I made an offer she couldn’t refuse,” Druze corrected, smirking.
She smacked him on the arm, and he chuckled.
Ana admitted, “I got tired of fighting him on it, and decided to focus my anger with him in more enjoyable ways. I know, I know, the mighty have fallen. Rosalie gives me shit for it constantly. At least I’m not alone, though. We’re falling like flies. Rose and Devv, Blue and Oren… Hell, even Presley already ended up in Korrik’s bed.”
I grinned. “She didn’t make him chase her for long.”
“Exactly my thought.” Ana pointed her fork at me. “And you… keeping this a secret for two decades?” She gestured between me and Teris with that fork. “Impressive. Really damn impressive. You should be proud.”
Teris snorted, and my grin widened. “Thanks, I think.”
The four of us chatted as we ate, and I found out from Druze that the old unseelie council were enjoying their lives a hell of a lot more now that they weren’t in leadership positions. That honestly didn’t surprise me at all.
When we finished, we excused ourselves, and walked back to our cave with our fingers tangled and our shoulders brushing.
I was tired, but in a way I absolutely loved. A day spent with friends, enjoying my life… well, I hadn’t had a day like that in way too long.
“Thank you for today,” I told Teris, staring up at the sky through the trees. If there had been any more dragon attacks, they hadn’t been a big enough deal for anyone to hunt Teris down and drag him back to the fight, which I appreciated.
“I should be the one thanking you.” He lifted our connected hands and brushed a kiss to my knuckles. “You’ve made my life feel worth living again, Nai.”
My heart about melted at that. “And you’ve done the same for me.”
He kissed my knuckles again, dragging his tongue over them slowly, and warming my body in the process.
We reached the house soon enough, and Teris climbed in first. When I was near the bottom, he plucked me off the ladder and into his arms, hugging me fiercely tight. When he set me down on my feet, I stretched my arms out, yawning. “I’m ready for bed.”
“Since when do you go to sleep early?” Teris teased me, grabbing the bottom hem of my tank top and tugging at it playfully.
“Since I spent so many days flying aimlessly through the mountains, looking for a cave, while some sexy sabertooth stalked me,” I tossed back.
He grinned. “That guy sounds hot.”
“I mean, if you’re into chiseled abs, soft hair, and big dicks…”
Teris laughed, the sound rich and genuine. He tugged my tank top over my head, and tossed it to the ground, still grinning as he skimmed his fingertips over my nipples. They hardened for him, and my body heated. “If you’re going to bed in our place, you’re going naked. No clothes allowed.” His fingers looped in the top of my shorts, and he tugged them down my thighs.
“Sounds like a rule I can support.” I remarked, stepping out of my shorts. When he stood, I unfastened his pants and wrapped my hand around his erection. I squeezed him, and earned a low growl for doing so while he pushed his pants down those insanely-strong thighs.
“Is sleeping all you have in mind?”
“That depends if my sabertooth stalker plans on ravaging me or not, I suppose.” I released his cock, turning and striding toward the bed.
