Total pages in book: 161
Estimated words: 162269 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 811(@200wpm)___ 649(@250wpm)___ 541(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 162269 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 811(@200wpm)___ 649(@250wpm)___ 541(@300wpm)
“This is because she wants Teddy and my affection, but she wants that and more from you,” Faunus returned.
Saturn slowly sat back in his chair.
“You do know,” Teddy told him, “that if you are just you, loyal and good-natured, amusing and protective, she would have no option but to fall deep for you. She has seen the worst in men, and you are the opposite. But you aren’t giving her that.”
“She approaches,” Faunus muttered.
Teddy stopped talking.
Saturn’s head tipped back to look up at her when she came to stand by their table.
“Shall we go?” she suggested.
“You are most beautiful,” Saturn declared.
Teddy sat stunned.
Moira’s eyes jumped to him.
“You have perfect skin that I want my hands and mouth and tongue on,” Saturn continued. “Everywhere.”
Oh gods.
“Fucking hell,” Faunus whispered.
“And the smell of your hair makes my cock hard,” Saturn carried on.
“Saturn,” Teddy murmured urgently.
Saturn did not heed him.
“And I could listen to the sound of your voice all day. It fills me with pride, as we journey, and you try to learn my tongue from Teddy and Saturn, so you can speak to my people when you arrive in your new home.”
Well, that was better.
For good, or worse, Saturn wasn’t finished.
“In saying this, what I wish you to know is that you do not have to fear me, tata. Not only would I never harm you, I would kill a man a thousand times who tried, and I desire you greatly. You are not only beautiful to look at, you have spirit and fire and affection, and when we make love, I will make you explode for me again and again and again.”
The table was deathly silent when Saturn stopped speaking.
But it was only Saturn who did not seem to have taken in the feel of it.
He stood, scraping back his chair, and Teddy nearly shot out of his seat to stop him when he seized Moira’s hand, twisted their arms up so she was forced to press herself to his side, her head tilted far back to continue to hold his eyes, through all this her lips remained parted.
And he went on.
“We will wait until you are ready to lie with me. Though I would hope, in the waiting, you would allow me to kiss you and touch you and make you climax with my fingers or my mouth so you would be aware of all I will give to you when you finally have my cock. Until then I will teach you your new tongue. And Faunus and Teddy have impressed upon me that it is important to you to know that I very much like goat’s cheese, and I very much look forward to eating it with you tonight.”
After delivering that, he turned his attention to Teddy.
“Now we go deal with your father so we can have that unpleasantness done, eat cheese and on the morrow, journey home.”
And with no further ado, pulling Moira with him, they walked to the door.
As they did, Moira looked back with an expression on her face that was a mixture of dumbfounded, afraid…
And excited.
“I don’t know whether to laugh or charge after them and save her from Saturn’s version of courting,” Teddy told the door they’d disappeared through at which he was still looking over his shoulder.
“You told him to be him, bello,” Faunus reminded him, and Teddy swung his head around to look at his lover. “He is being him. If she does not like it, she will either tell us, or we will sense it, and one of us will intervene. But she did not fight at all, the walking out of this place on his arm.” He grinned. “So, I am thinking good thoughts.”
Teddy was thinking good thoughts too.
Thus, he smiled.
“Now,” Faunus began to push out of his seat, “we go deal with your father.”
And at that, he was no longer thinking good thoughts.
Thus, he frowned.
Teddy had learned much living with Lorenz and Nyx.
One of the things he had learned was that, when you loved someone, and it was clear they were intent to do something they felt they needed to do, even if you didn’t want them to do it, you let them.
And all right, there were occasions when Nyx did not do this with a great deal of grace.
But this was only about things she very much disagreed, like Teddy putting his life on the line to become a spy.
Other than that, if there was something in Lorenz that needed it, she gave it.
And Lorenz did the same.
He and Faunus had hardly begun to become what they were becoming when Faunus had declared he would do what he was now intent to do in the event of that becoming.
And as they rode ever closer to the farm where his father raised some sheep, and some goats, and alternated the fields over the years to grow wheat that was milled in town, seeing familiar landmarks he had not seen in years, and had thought he would never see again, he did what he had seen Nyx do. And Lorenz.