Page 38 of Chasing Tail
Chapter 21
Taron and Beck were naked before they shut the door. I was still standing there in this dress, wondering why they did this to women on land. I’d like to be naked right now too, but it was much easier for men to remove their clothes than it was for women. I’ll bet they could breathe a lot easier too.
I stuck my hands on my hips and glared at them. The two of them looked amazing naked, and I wanted to lick them, but I needed to know what the actual point was with these restricting clothes.
“I get that all of you on land feel the need to cover your bodies for some reason, but I don’t understand why you force women to wear these clothes.”
Beck chuckled and moved to help me with my laces.
“No one is forcing anyone. Even before I knew you were a mermaid, I had the tailor go with the least complicated and less restrictive options. If you don’t like these dresses, you’d hate what they wear in the palace. Topaz likes the most ostentatious dresses possible because it pisses my stepmother off.”
“Why would uncomfortable clothes make your stepmother angry?”
“Topaz is considered a great beauty. She looks exactly like my mother. My stepmother had every trace of my mother removed from the palace when she married my father, but she couldn’t get rid of my sisters. Topaz is a powerful druid, and we taught her in secret, but she thinks we can’t make a move on either of them. So she’s been passive-aggressively taunting our stepmother by making sure everyone fawns over her beauty in her presence. It’s pretty precious. If she were an oyster, she’d be making so many pearls sitting there listening to it.”
I nodded and laughed.ThatI understood.
“These awful dresses can be used for psychological warfare. Maybe they aren’t so bad.”
Beck's lips brushed my shoulder, and I broke into goosebumps.
“Taron, get over here. Shehatesthis dress. We need to take it off, and it’s sexier if we both do it.”
It certainly was. Beck had done this before. Taron was watching him and learning. They didn’t remove a single piece of clothing without leaving kisses behind. Sometimes, they would lean over my shoulder and kiss each other with me smashed between them.
Being with Taron alone was amazing, and I wanted to do it again. Beck and Taron together were fantastic. I didn’t think they would be into kissing Taron, but they seemed to like kissing me. Maybe I could talk Taron into invited Forrest and Callum. If two men felt this good, I would imagine four would be even better.
Beck stepped back.
“Okay, the first rule about having sex with me. Birth control magic. If I didn’t know you were a mermaid and didn’t have it, I’d scan you for it. If it weren’t there, I’d offer it. If you weren’t a druid, you might argue about moonstones, herbs, and various other methods I don’t know for certain work like this spell. Finally, we might agree to end our night and go separate ways, or you might allow me to make damned sure you don’t get pregnant, and my father kills you both, and we have a lot of fun.”
“Too many words,” Taron growled.
“Taron is right, Beck. What was that? I already asked you for the spell.”
Beck cleared his throat and mopped his hand down his face.
“I have a certain top-secret reputation here on land. The shifters fight over who gets to invite me to their moon parties. If I go to one or bring someone here, I make sure they have a really fucking good time, even if we don’t actually have sex. It’s not just the danger from my father that people aren’t going around blabbing I don’t just stick to druid women.
“I’m cautious, so he never finds out and punishes someone, but I’m also nice to people. It’s the right thing to do, but I’msupernervous about this. I’m guessing mermaids and sharks do things differently than we do on land. It’s like I have to make thisreallygood because you’ve never done this before.”
I touched Beck’s cheek, and Taron went up behind him to nuzzle his neck. He was just so sweet, and Taron and I wanted to do this because wewantedit to be different.
“If this were the ocean, Taron would be fighting you over who got to mate with me instead of inviting you. It’s the same with mermaids. I’d have to smack you around with my tail for ages until you proved you were worthy of mating with me. We can beat you up if you want, but we don’t actually want to now that we have legs. I’d like to lick you, and I think Taron wants to kiss you again.”
“I was trained to fight with weapons and magic, but I’d rather get on with the licking and kissing part.”
“Good. Taron?”
I didn’t even have to tell him. Taron picked up Beck and flung him on the bed. We might not want to fight Beck, but he would be prey to us in the water. Neither of us wanted to hurt him in a bad way, but we certainly wanted to play with him. Beck was laughing when we pounced on him.
“I adore how friendly the two of you are, considering everyone on land is scared shitless of sharks, and you beat up mermen for sex.”
“Most mermen have egos the size of all the oceans combined. The three of you are princes, but you don’t. And you’re very pretty,” I said, biting his nipple.
Beck groaned and pulled my hair.
“The two of you are gorgeous. There are people on land that look similar to Taron, but I’ve never seen a single person on land with dark skin, white hair, and eyes that shade of blue on land like Kishi. My father has entertained people from many different kingdoms. He’s tried to marry me off to some seriously ugly princesses to make alliances with kings who don’t like him. I’d love to show you around this kingdom and show you off, but I can’t while my father is still king.”
