Page 17 of Horns & Heart
Inkiri accepted that with something along the lines of a purr, then he peeled the plastic wrapping off my new and very cute cat socks and put them on me.If possible, he was being even more careful than he had when he’d taken my smelly ones off.
The new socks were super cute, even more cute now that I was wearing them, and it had all been worth it.Possibly.I wasn’t sure what else I would have to pay for the questionable pleasure of wearing socks in bed, but in this moment, I didn’t even care.
Once he was done, Inkiri moved up to my jacket and started to strip that off me too.
“Hey!”I slapped his hands away.Maybe it was the idea of ravishing I liked, not so much ravishing itself.I wasn’t sure.All of this was very confusing, and I didn’t know how these things were done, even with another human.How was I supposed to navigate any kind of ravishing with a monster?
Inkiri clicked.“You want to see me first?”
Which was when I realized something different was happening in my head here than in his.
“Excuse me, but what exactly do you think we’re doing right now?”
Head tilt.“You said you wanted to go to bed.You want me to show you I can give you pleasure, yes?Lissir told you I’m capable, but you want to see for yourself.Vergis used a saying…never buying a horse before you’ve gone for a ride, I think it was.You want to go for a ride.I’ve never been with a human, and I hope you’ll take that into account and still find me pleasing.”He grinned.“I’m a quick study.If you give me a chance, I’ll be very good for you very soon.”
To be fair, I’d mostly thought about just…letting this happen.I was sort of on board with simply taking what was coming my way, half-hard as I was.It made sense, in a way.I was fucked up after having been alone for so long, but so was the situation.
But.He’d framed it very differently.The way Inkiri had said it made it sound like he thoughtIwas testing him.And that meant if he failed, I could get a monster divorce, maybe?Basically, if I got quality time between the sheets for the first time ever and quite possibly for the only time ever, I could set myself free.That was simple enough.
I started grinning like the dummy I knew I was.Oh, if only I’d stuck with playing the second tree on the left all my life, none of this might have happened.
Anyway, this could be me getting off—I mean getting away, obviously.If getting off was happening, it would simply be an added bonus.I’d be able to leave, and if I played my cards right, I’d be getting some extra food out of it too.
I’d also be getting some extra…experience.I had none, except for that one time I’d attempted a blowjob and failed.This, I decided, would be my moment.After a lot of bad stuff, something good was finally about to happen.
