Page 9 of The Hunt

Calliope tilted her head back.“Do you promise?”

“Yeah, promise.”He kissed the top of her head and then they both froze.

“Ugh,” Calliope said.

He was about to apologize.Why the fuck did he kiss the top of her head?What was going on with him?

“Let’s get some sleep.I think that would be good.We’re going to need our strength for tomorrow,” Calliope said.

It sounded like a plan.

Even still, he kissed her head and she was curled against his body.It had been so long since they had done this, but it felt good.It felt right.

Chapter Three

Something warm waspressed against Calliope’s back.It felt so good, and she couldn’t help but snuggle against it.She wriggled her ass, and that was when she became aware of multiple things.

First, she opened her eyes.Then, she remembered the awful realization that she and Jaxson were in The Hunt.The ogre, the lake, or sea-monster-riddled water.Finally, the sudden nightfall.Jaxson kissing the top of her head.

And now, she was snuggled against him.Sometime during the night, she must have rolled over, as his arm was her pillow, and Jaxson had snuggled against her.One of his large, thick arms was banded around her waist, and, well, she felt the hard ridge of his dick pressing against her ass.How would she get out of this without embarrassing him?This was crazy.But that decision was taken out of her hands as she felt the change within him.

Jaxson was awake.He didn’t move.Neither did she.It was like they both stopped breathing, and then quickly, as if on some kind of drug, they pulled away from one another at exactly the same time.

She looked at him, he looked at her.They stood, with only a small gap between them.“Morning,” she said, realizing if they even argued right now and an ogre appeared, they were going to die.Neither of them was prepared for an attack.

The best way to deal with this was to pretend it wasn’t happening.

“Morning,” he said.

“How did you sleep?”she asked.It was a perfectly reasonable and non-loaded question as far as she was concerned.

“Good.You?”

“Yeah, I slept well.”

Calliope didn’t know the last time she had slept that well.It had been a long time.

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