Page 47 of Seven is Swell

“Ooh, fireworks! I can make fireworks, too! Watch!” Unfortunately, we do watch. Naked Adam runs to the kitchen and digs through a cabinet, pulling down a bag of rice and grabbing a fistful of it. He makes a really terrible explosion noise and then releases it all into the air, scattering it everywhere.

“That wasepic! Delaney, did you see my sweet fireworks?”

“Yes! Oh, fucking fuck. That was so fucking dirty and so fucking good.” She flops to the side as Cory crawls on top of her and shares a filthy kiss with her, smiling down at her in a way that is very much marked with a boat load of self-satisfaction.

This is absolute chaos in here and now Adam is pouting that no one appreciated his starch-fueled pyrotechnics.

“Order in the court, order in the court!” Adam comes running back over, nearly tripping over what he swears is an invisible rhinoceros calf in the middle of the room, before banging on the back of the couch with a meat mallet. “We will have order, or I will hold you in contempt!

“Delaney, do you take this fine snake daddy to be your mate? For freaky times and nasty ones? For cuddle sessions and uncomfortable discussions about feelings? And snake daddy, do you swear to always compliment Delaney’s tits and smack her ass a minimum of twice a day? Do you promise to help in meal rotation and cum donation?”

“What is happening?”

“I think you’re getting mated,” Cory whispers very loudly to me.

“Uh...”

“Doth the snake daddyprotest?Off with his head!”

Delaney jumps up, preventing Adam from having access to any sharp objects from the kitchen. “Okay you big strong boy. Let’sjust take a seat for a second on the couch next to your buddy Jackson, alright? That’s such a good boy.”

“Do I get tummy pets now?” I swear his eyes get round like a cartoon character’s briefly as she does in fact give him tummy pats. Then she turns to the rest of us and I’m so fucking confused.

“I don’t even know what questions to ask right now,” I admit.

“I got this. Sex with her, once bonded, makes us high. It’ll fade but we tend to get really weird, so this is actually quite normal.”

I nod at Ash’s explanation. “That explains why all of you are merely a bit amused by Adam’s extremely alarming behavior. So this is how he normally behaves after he...I’m sorry, did he call it cum donation?”

“Yeah, that was a new one,” Ash says, scratching his chin casually. “But in all honesty, I’m pretty sure that was their first time fucking, so who knows if this is typical for him. I want to say yes though. Word is that August pretends to be an astronaut or something? I don’t know. I only caught the tail end of it once.”

“What about you? What’s your go-to?”

He blushes. “We haven’t, uh...”

“Woah. Okay, would it be inappropriate to ask who she’s fully bonded with?”

“Just us,” the twins say as they raise their hands. Then they smack the back of Adam’s head until he volunteers a hand as well.

“Interesting. I thought I would come in here and completely upset the working dynamic of this complex relationship, but it seems we’re all sort of on the same page.”

“She’s also boned the stone daddy outside,” Adam says with a sleepy smile. “That washawt.”

“Should I put on pants for this conversation?”

Everyone emphatically yells no at Delaney, who decides to just lay down and put her head on Cory’s chest. “We're moving at our own individual paces. You said you were here under duress, but then you started spouting stuff that was actually kind of sweet. Which is it? Do you want me, or do you want to pretend there’s nothing at all between us to save face with the other old boring people you work for?”

She needs to be free to show affection to any of her mates she feels called to in the moment, so as I get to where she is, I don’t fuss over the fact that she’s already with somebody.

I hold myself over them and make my intentions clear before sinking my mouth onto hers, kissing her for the first time. I can still taste the faint remnants of that little bit of release I won from her, now mixed with the faint essence she acquired from tonguing Cory, brightening up my palate once more.

A moan escapes unbidden from the deep recesses of my chest, and I chase her mouth for more. Her lips are so damn soft and feel so good against mine that it’s hard to remember I moved over here to make a point. “I think I always knew I was going to lose against myself, and I’ve never been happier to be so wrong. I thought I could keep you at arm’s length and justimaginehow good we could be together, but now that I've had you on my tongue and seen you take your passion, you’re fucking stuck with me. I’m so sorry for my reticence; we do have a lot to discuss because I unfortunately have some baggage we’ll need to deal with later. But I’m a possessive asshole once my mind is made up and you’re fucking it for me.”

“Can we backpedal to the baggage part?” Cory asks, looking at me with concern on their face. “Are we talking a crazy ex that thinks you’re still with them? Or like, something else entirely?”

“Family drama and ancient magic, the usual.”

“Cool, cool. Um, what?”

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