Page 68 of The Poison of the Earth
“Yes,” she says, simply, meeting my eyes with no hesitation or shame.
I take a deep breath.It’s not really something you normally ask right away perhaps, but I need to. I need to know if my mate enjoys similar things as me.
“Would you mind if I did, some of the time?”
She arches a white eyebrow. “I probably wouldn’t mind.” A tiny smirk plays at her lips and I smile, in relief, back at my mate.
Six rounds later and Ollie pushes herself back from the table. “I am not drunk, I’ll have you both know.” She giggles and I grin hearing it. “I need a snack though.”
She quickly leaves and returns with some bread, cheese, and olives and places them near us. She pulls a card. A four, a truth.
She thinks a moment. A scowl crosses her face, like a cloud over the sun. “I’m still a bit annoyed with you both for allowingthat batto lick me.”
I frown, remembering having to hold her arms. I had been afraid to hurt her, squirmy little thing. But the press of her, and the thought of getting to punish her misbehavior, had had me embarrassingly hard against her back. And the way she had slapped me, Gods. I didn’t realize that that would have turned me on so. But I feel a pang, knowing that the incident probably hurt the trust of my little mate.
I clear my throat. “I apologize Ollie. I shouldn’t have held you down.”
She grins. “Well, I like to be held down sometimes. But don’t worry, I’m making you both pay for it.”
“Wait, wait, wait, back the boat up,” Lonan coughs, “You like being held down?”
She presses her lips together and adds her card to the discard pile pertly.
I pull a nine. “Waterfall.”
Lonan explains “We all drink, when Kai stops drinking, I can stop. When I stop drinking, you can stop.”
I drink for only a few seconds, still a bit worried about Ollie’s tolerance. Lonan drinks and drinks before stopping. Oleander, to our shock, continues drinking until her cup is empty. She smiles prettily and reaches for the bottle in the center to fill her mug.
A few more rounds and Ollie has made the rule that only two people can sit in chairs. So, naturally, Lonan is sitting on my lap.
Ollie giggles, a wonderfully relaxed sound. “Now, tell me,” she says, showing her five, “Lonan, how did the two of you get together?”
“Well, you see, one day,” his eyes flick to me and I groan. “One day, we were out on a hunting trip, camping in the woods north of the castle. We were young. Green youth. But I was not so green as to have never enjoyed a fumbling grip from a pretty Fae, if you understand. But Kai...”
I bury my face against Lonan’s bare side.
“We were at the campfire and his eyes were upon me, drinking me in. And he said, ‘Lo, have you ever kissed anyone?’ So I replied affirmative and his face fell, the hurt obvious. Which I couldn’t stand. I’d known Kai fancied me for years at that point, but I wasn’t going to doallthe work for him. But, well, the pain in his eyes was too much for me.”
Oleander is entranced, face soft and eyes amazed.
Lo continues evenly, “So I sucked his soul out of his cock.”
Surprised laughter bursts from Ollie.
“That wasn’t exactly what happened next,” I rumble, which only makes Ollie laugh harder.
“Well that story makes my next question all the more interesting.” Ollie’s eyes meet mine around Lo. “Kai, tell me, do you want my lips around your cock?”
I blink, quite unsure what her goal is here. “Of course, Oleander. I... think of it often.”
She makes a little noise. “Lonan, why don’t you take my chair?” She offers.
He immediately hops up and Ollie stands in front of me, hands on my shoulders. She straddles me, lifting her skirts out of the way, her feet not touching the ground.
My hands raise and take her hips.
“How is your control, Kai?” She asks.
