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Yarvok shakes his head.
“This is craziness. Absolute craziness.”
“No, this is creation,” I say, putting my hand on his taut forearm. “Relax. These two know what they're talking about. I wouldn’t have hired them if they did not.”
The days come and go quickly. You know the old adage, time flies when you’re having fun. If we’re not laughing or pulling our hair out at the fratvoyan’s antics, or the kiphian’s shrewd vanity, then we’re sneaking off to make out by ourselves, where we don’t have to worry about annoying our houseguests with the noise.
Then the day arrives when the Erebus Collective officially announces the festival and contest. It’s just gotten real. We find out there’s going to be other, big box liquor brands holding their own taste tests, but there are only two official contestants.
Gordo Brewery, and our as yet unnamed company.
It’s too late to back out now. We’re all in on this.
And I can’t wait to show Gordo who’s boss.
Thirty-One
Olivia
The night before the festival, my house is abuzz with activity. We’re making all of the last minute arrangements and having team meetings and preparing for the big day.
I know for a fact that we’re ready. Our spiced apple ale is undeniably delicious, packs a punch, but isn’t so sweet that it turns people off.
We don’t just have the one type of ale, of course. I personally prefer the summer wheat ale, which has as nice thick head and an almost creamy aftertaste. But it requires quite a few ingredients not found on New Verdan.
Meanwhile, Gordo’s offerings are almost all made with imported ingredients. His claims to use one hundred percent New Verdan water is true, but pointless. We’re all using one hundred percent New Verdan water, which is quite abundant.
Finally, as the sun sets on the last day before the competition, I sit with Yarvok on the roof of our prefab home. The veranda is beautiful and shaded from the afternoon’s harsher sun by a wide canopy. It’s about as private a place as one could hope for.
The sun casts its red golden light over our bodies. We’re wearing only our swimsuits, ostensibly sun bathing though we got out here a bit late for that. The truth is it feels good to shed everything, every shred of clothing and responsibility possible.
“Tomorrow is the big day,” he says unnecessarily.
“No, really? I had no idea.”
He laughs and sits up on his lounger. His muscles ripple beneath his fine crimson scales. Yarkvok pushes his sunglasses down further on his nose so I can see his golden eyes.
“You are full of sass.”
“Just the way you like it.”
I lick my finger and then reach behind myself and make a hissing sound. He laughs, but his eyes smolder.
“You are exquisitely beautiful,” he breathes, reaching out to smooth his hand along my flank. His touch sparks a tingle which passes through every cell in my body.
I roll over onto my back and put my arms over my head, stretching sinuously.
“Oh? You like what I see? You really don't want to have a girl with scales or anything?”
He licks his lips as he runs his eyes all over my barely clad body.
“No, you are perfection.”
Yarvok’s big, thick finger traces a line from my neck down between my breasts. I cry out in spite of myself when his finger dances over my sensitive belly. He moves further down, until he caresses my pussy through the thin material of my bikini bottom.
I rear up against him, yearning to feel more of his touch. He obliges, sliding his hand in between my skin and my swimsuit. I gasp when he runs his fingers along the wetness between my swollen lips.
He continues to play with me, while his mouth moves over and nibbles the triangular patch of material away from my nipple. He latches on as soon as the pink nub is exposed to the dying sunlight. I rear against him, my hand going to caress the ridges on his head.
