Page 64 of Searching for her Heart
“Would you like to have dinner now? There is somewhere we can sit and have a meal over there.” I point to a patio surrounded by the firebug lights she loved from her wedding.
“Yes, now you mention it, I’m starving.” I lead her to the patio and we’re seated beside each other, with a view of the festival in front of us.
“Tell me about yourself, Indy. I know you take care of horses, but tell me more about it,” she asks, biting into her chicken.
“I train horses as they get old enough to be ridden, or help train ones that aren’t working well for their owners.”
“You don’t raise them?”
“No, I never really had the space to do that. Nor have I ever felt settled enough somewhere to call it home and set down roots.”
“So, I guess you do for horses what Ryker does for skyreachers?” she asks.
“Yes, exactly. Sometimes I do care for them if their owners can’t for a while, but yeah, training is the main part.”
“If you had a home and space for it, would you want to raise some yourself?”
“I don’t think I’d like to raise them just to give them away. But I’d love to raise my own, you know, for my own family. I wouldn’t mind having a small farm to work on.”
“I love that idea, and I imagine it would be important to grow your own food here, where possible.”
“It’s not like that where you’re from?” I ask curiously.
“Well, there are farmers, and some people grow some of their own vegetables, but pretty much everyone goes to the store to purchase their food.”
“Well, lonelings like me who don’t have our own home, we have to purchase our food from a store as well, so I suppose it’s not that different.”
“Is there somewhere you’d like to live in Dyconia? Like a specific village or area?”
I think about it for a moment before answering. “No, I don’t think so, but I’d hope that wherever it is, you’d be there.”
She gives me a soft smile and I see her eyes move to my lips. I lick them as I press my palm to her cheek, using my hand to tilt her face towards mine, and as my lips press to hers I swear I feel sparks throughout my entire body and I’m instantly hard. I softly bite her lower lip, causing her to open her mouth, and I take the opportunity to press my tongue to hers. I’ve never been able to imagine what kissing would feel like. I never thought I’d get to experience it myself, and I find the feeling indescribable. Somehow, I feel it through my entire body and straight to my cock. Her tinyfingers dig into my chest, and I use my free arm to wrap around her back, holding her to me, afraid for this moment to end.
Finally, we pull back, panting, as she whispers my name, “Indy…”
I lick my lips, savoring the taste of her there before I tell her, “Thank you, Sugar.”
“For what?” she whispers, staring up at me with her beautiful green eyes.
“For giving the most amazing first kiss a man could ever even imagine.”
“Your first kiss… ever?” I nod. “You’re a thirty-nine year old virgin… wow.”
“That’s surprising?”
“Yeah, it’s pretty much unheard of in my world. Men, in particular, tend to start having sex early, normally in their teens. They’ll pretty much sleep with anything at that point.”
“That’s hard to imagine. Even women don’t act like that here, and they would likely have a fleet or men willing to do it.”
“I think that’s the difference. In my world, people have sex for fun most of the time, and not because they want something serious or even feel a connection.”
“And what about you, Sugar?” I ask her.
“Me? I slept with a few men before I came here. For me, it wasn’t so much as for fun, but because I did see a future with the men. Unfortunately, I found out too late that they didn’t feel the same way.”
“The men in your world sound rather wretched.”
She laughs at my description. “You aren’t wrong.” After a minute of us eating, she speaks up again. “I’m glad I came to this world. It can be a bit unpredictable and scary, but I know I belong here.”
