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We headed toward the woods behind the house, and Zayn didn’t stop until we were in front of a giant leafy dome with gaps in the sides. He stopped, and I climbed off as he moved a piece of bark aside to expose a hole in the side of the dome.
It was a burrow. Serpent Zayn had built himself a burrow and was showing it off to me. Super cute. I grinned. It was a complicated burrow for a snake; it had a door and windows and everything.
He nudged me toward the hole.
“You want me to go inside?” Well, I was already here; I might as well.
I got down on my hands and knees, which earned me a bump of his snout on my satin-covered crotch. Zayn Serpent clearly found my human form attractive enough despite retaining his snake instincts like building burrows with sticks and leaves, which meant the man must not be too far from the surface. Hope fluttered inside me. Maybe it would indeed be possible to reunite the two and give him back his naga form.
The inside of the burrow was surprisingly cozy. Zayn had dug down into the dirt, and I was able to just barely stand if I wanted to. He’d lined the floor with leaves, and the gaps in the dome let in enough light that I could see.
The giant serpent entered behind me, following the curves of the wall around and around until he was coiled up, his body blocking the doorway. His snout came to a stop in front of my chest before he shoved me playfully, and I stumbled back, sitting on one of his coils.
He tried to fit his head under my tank top, but there wasn’t enough space, so he grabbed the fabric with his sharp teeth and pulled, tearing it. His tongue flicked out to brush against the swell of my breasts.
“Hey! I liked this top.”
Zayn Serpent was getting fresh, and I didn’t know what to do. He was fully serpent right now, and I didn’t think things would fit together very well…or at all.
Then he moved, and something hard and spikey pressed against my leg.
I glanced down and gasped.
I had heard once that some snakes had two penises. I could now confirm that this was indeed true. They were fat, with spikes. There was no way in hell we were compatible in this form. And I considered myself pretty freaking imaginative when it came to these things.
Too late, I realized that this wasn’t Zayn Serpent’s burrow. It was a nest. For us. And by coming in, I’d accidentally accepted some sort of serpentine courtship ritual.
I pushed his head away. “Zayn, I can see what you want. But it’s not going to work between us while you’re like this. We don’t have the right parts. And well, you have…two.”
I never thought I’d ever see a disappointed snake, but Zayn gave me the snake equivalent of puppy dog eyes.
“I’m not saying no to you, Zayn. You might have forgotten, but the human and the snake are two sides of the same being. Change into your human form, and we’ll do it right here in the nest.”
The nest he’d built for me. It was the epitome of sweet, so I’d put up with leaves in my hair and stones under my ass. It looked like he’d spent all afternoon on it too. Was his snake trying to tell me something his human wouldn’t? Couldn’t?
He pouted. Yes, pouted.
“We can cuddle and take a nap,” I suggested.
That seemed to satisfy him, and he tightened his coils just enough to form a comfortable place for me to relax. I leaned back, rested my legs up on his body, and pillowed my head on his tail. He laid his head on my chest.
A soft wind blew inside through the gaps, and we relaxed together in our den.
Chapter 16
Zayn
WherethehellwasI?
I blinked at the ceiling of leaves and branches. Oh. Right. The nest. I started to roll myself over but found Sybil in my arms, her dark hair plastered against her face.
Fuck! What had I done?
She made a soft sound and blinked a few times, then stretched her body awake against mine and smiled. “Hi. You’re back.”
“I’m so sorry. What happened? Are you okay? What did I do?”
“I’m fine.” She picked a twig out of her hair. “Covered in leaves, but fine.”
