Page 31 of My Ogre Husband
Well, don’t mind if I do.
I order pretty much everything on the menu that sounds delicious, and Egorr nods and grins until the fairy waitress starts to look worried.
“Anything else?” she asks as if she doesn’t want to know the answer.
Egorr pipes up. “A bottle of wine, please.”
Then we hand over our menus. The waitress nods and flits away, half-walking and half-flying. It seems like a perilous thing to do in a restaurant, but she easily dodges a waiter coming the other direction and vanishes into the back room.
We chat companionably about Egorr’s day, and I tell him about talking with Celeste. I avoid what happened yesterday, though, because I don’t want to ruin the good mood. But I’m still thinking about what she said—how we need to regain trust between us again—and I think this is a good first step.
Then the food arrives, and it’s all I can think about. The table is packed full of goodies, from sea scallops in a creamy sauce to bone marrow whipped and served inside the original bone.
“This is incredible,” I say, mouth full of food. “It must be costing you a fortune, Egorr.”
He shrugs. “I don’t spend a lot of money, and I live pretty modestly. I finished paying off my mortgage last year, which is one of the reasons I decided to finally apply for you.”
I cock my head. “Oh?”
“It felt like my life was stable enough, and…” He sighs. “I don’t think what happened yesterday is the first time I’ve been oblivious to what my partner needs. I’ve been alone for a long time, probably for that reason.”
I’m surprised that he’s broaching the subject, but I continue listening.
“So when I paid off the house and found I was living there all by myself, it was a big moment of realization for me.” Egorr looks wistful. “I knew I didn’t want to be alone anymore.”
“And that’s why you applied for me?”
“Yep. So I went to the New Eden website and saw you there, and I guess I just knew.”
I lean forward on the table, the delicious food momentarily forgotten. “You knew what?”
“That you were the one for me.” He smiles cautiously. “Your little note was so cute and fun and sweet, then I looked at your picture, and it was obvious to me that you were perfect.”
I’m swooning so hard I could just fall right out of my chair.
I understand exactly where he’s coming from. I understand that deep loneliness, like you’re supposed to be at someone’s side, but that someone is missing.
Maybe I could be that someone for Egorr, and maybe he could be that someone for me.
“I’m sorry I ran off last night,” I say, taking a bite of the whipped bone marrow because I can’t keep myself from devouring what’s in front of me.
Egorr lets out a heavy breath. “I thought that rock giant was going to squish you. I’ve never been so scared in my life.”
“I thought it was the end for me, too.” I slide my hand toward him around the many plates on our table, and Egorr takes it in his much larger palm. “I promise I won’t do it again.”
“And I promise I won’t give you a reason to,” he says in return, rubbing my palm with his big thumb.
After dinner, I have to practically waddle back out to the car because of how much I’ve eaten. Egorr belly laughs as he helps me into the passenger seat, then takes us home back to the hill.
ChapterEleven
I’m practically falling asleep by the time we pull into the driveway. Egorr suggests that we relax on the couch to digest, and I tumble easily into his lap with a book. But as we read together in front of the fire, his big thighs wrapped around me, there’s a growing heat low in my abdomen. I shift a few times to get comfortable, which has the side-effect of rubbing my butt over his crotch.
Soon a rather fat lump is pressing at my ass. There’s almost nothing I want more than that cock in my mouth again, aside from that cock being inside me, which isn’t an option right now.
“Maddie.” Egorr lowers his head so his lips are right by my ear, his tusks getting tangled in my hair. “Do you have any idea how much you turn me on?”
I wiggle a little more against his groin, and he grunts in response.
