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His lips quirked. “What is the makeup about?”
“The concierge didn’t understand what I was doing, and he thought that Loki was a North American business man with a geisha fetish.”
He looked at her from the left side and the right before he leaned in and kissed her softly. She stared and blinked slowly as his breath trickled into her lungs. He backed away, and she blinked, giggling. “You are wearing my lipstick.”
He smiled. “I don’t care.”
He pulled her against him and kissed her again. She felt his face moving, and she made fists inside of her sleeves, gripping the edges of his yukata as she held on as he kissed her again. She leaned back and blinked. He was a monster.
Red skin, long black hair, curving silvery horns, red eyes, and a fascinated expression. “Oh, hey.”
He grinned, showing way too much teeth. “Hello, Polly.”
“So, you got bigger.”
“Kimono and yukata are very forgiving.” He chuckled.
The creature would have been terrifying, but he wore lipstick and white makeup. It softened the expression.
She stroked his cheek, and he leaned into it. The marks on her back were tingling in an unfamiliar way. The tingling went everywhere.
Polly licked her lips. “So, if you have forgiven my act of self-defense, I should probably be going.”
He held her with arms above and below the stiff obi. “I think you should apologize once more, so you realize how close you came to triggering my taking you with that little action. It is hard to control the kijin when he rises. He likes you though. He likes you very much and wants to keep you happy and willing.”
He changed back into the handsome, graceful features she had been staring at for days during negotiations. She touched his face again and rubbed her thumb across his lips. “Happy is easy for me. Willing is more difficult. Surrendering is the hardest thing of all. But I need to get out of the kimono before I stain it.” She blushed. “I put the deposit on Loki’s account. He might notice and freak out.”
He chuckled. “I will tell the concierge to move the deposit, but if you could remove the makeup, that would be helpful.”
She nodded and had no means of purchase where she was lying. “Could you help me up, please?”
“Of course, my bride.” He lifted her until she was standing.
She bobbed a quick bow and found his bathroom. The makeup didn’t come off as easily as she would have liked, but it did come off.
Polly returned to the outer room, where Minoru’s face showed no signs of makeup, and the concierge was speaking rapidly. Minoru was rubbing something between his fingers, and she swallowed as she recognized the hair tie he had snipped off her head with his claws.
Polly walked up to them and bowed to Minoru. “I think I should stop playing dress-up and get back into my standard clothing.”
He chuckled. “Not just yet. Do you have any zori?”
She blinked and shook her head.
The concierge nodded. “Yes, of course. I will be right back.”
He let himself out.
Minoru turned to her and lifted her chin on his fingers. “Lovely. You scrubbed hard, though. I like your skin intact.”
Loki was muttering, and he walked by the open door. He paused. “Polly, what the hell is this fifteen thousand dollar charge on my account?”
“The security deposit for this kimono and the cost to have dressers put it on.”
Loki paused and cocked his head. “You are stunning, Polly. But, what the hell?”
“Formal apology, remember? You can’t get much more formal than this unless I cut off my pinkie.”
She was immediately hauled back and held against Minoru. “No cutting anything.”
