Kefir looked from Ellery to where he’d put his clothes, then quickly back to Ellery.“May I, sir?”he suggested after a little while.
Ellery nodded his permission.Leaning back against the headboard, the blanket covering him up to the waist, he watched Kefir remove every stitch of clothing on his body and set each item neatly aside.There was no hint of embarrassment to him.He was entirely unselfconscious, perfectly at home in his own skin, and still amazingly unaware of how stunning he was.
Ellery happily inspected every inch of the little lion’s body as he moved across the room toward him.
Kefir was hard and making no attempt to hide that fact.There could be no doubt that he hoped to do far more than sleep that night as he came and knelt by the side of the big double bed.
Ellery had never told him he needed to do that, and he was also pretty sure Kefir wasn’t doing it because it was part of one of his own fantasies either.It didn’t feel like Kefir was trying to introduce a protocol he thought was hot; it just felt odd.
Ellery let him wait there a full, silent minute before he tapped the mattress next to him.Kefir happily climbed up onto the bed.He smiled a little shyly at Ellery as he slipped under the blankets beside him.Turning toward Ellery, he waited expectantly, not making any request, but his hopes still clear in his eyes.And there was still something off.
Without a single word, Ellery reached out and switched off the light.Darkness descended on the room.Ellery made himself comfortable, as if to go to sleep, curious to see if that would spark an honest response from Kefir, something that wouldn’t feel so artificial.
In the shadows, Ellery was aware of Kefir still sitting exactly where he was, watching his master.With no idea how good a lion’s night vision was, Ellery wasn’t inclined to take any chances.He made a point of laying very still and letting his breaths fall into a slow, easy rhythm, as if he had fallen asleep the moment his head hit the pillow.
With his eyes still closed, Ellery sensed Kefir lie down on the other side of the bed.Minutes passed.Ellery was almost ready to believe that the little lion had simply fallen asleep, and he was silently cursing himself for buggering about with silly games when he could so easily have just demanded the information he wanted, and kept demanding until he got something honest in response.Then, he felt a movement on the mattress.A few seconds later, the blanket stirred slightly above him.
Ellery remained motionless as he felt Kefir slowly creeping closer to his supposedly sleeping master.Another full minute passed before bare skin brushing against his arm.
Then more skin, more of the little lion sliding against his body.
For a moment, he thought that Kefir was trying to start something.Another silent minute had passed before he realised that the careful movements had nothing to do with sex and actually had everything to do with sleeping.The boy was just trying to snuggle against his master before he drifted off.
Yes.At least that felt honest.It fitted Kefir in a way that so many of his actions hadn’t that evening.Ellery lay very still, letting his breaths continue on in a sleeping rhythm as Kefir tried and fit himself against his body without waking him.
It was like lying next to a living hot water bottle.That hadn’t been a trick of the mind the previous night.Kefir really was running hot—in all ways.The little lion’s erection rubbed against Ellery’s hip as Kefir’s cheek came to rest against his shoulder.
Kefir didn’t go so far as to hump against him, but Ellery had no doubt that he was tempted to.He smiled into the darkness above the bed as Kefir finally fell still with a content little sigh.
“Are you under the impression I’m asleep, Kefir?”
Every muscle in Kefir’s body tensed.
Ellery expected him to retreat, and he wasn’t inclined to prevent him doing that entirely.But he’d also assumed that Kefir would stop retreating before he reached the opposite side of the mattress, but Kefir didn’t stop there—he got off the bed.Ellery opened his eyes just in time to see a shadow walk around to his side of the bed before disappearing from sight.
Frowning, he fumbled for the switch above the bedside table.Light flooded the room.Kefir was nowhere to be seen—until Ellery looked down.The little lion, still in his human form, lay curled up on the bedside rug.
As Ellery glared down at him, Kefir blinked back up at Ellery.
“What are you doing down there?”
“It’s where human submissives sleep, sir,” Kefir informed him.
Ellery studied the boy’s serious expression for a few seconds.“And what do you think of that?”he asked, when no further information was offered.
Kefir sat up, looping his arms over his knees as he fell into his habitual pose.“Lions are more used to sleeping close to people they care about, sir,” he observed, each word carefully neutral.“I didn’t realise that human submissives weren’t allowed to do that before.”
“And what makes you so sure they’re not?”
Kefir looked down for a moment.“There was a website…” he began.He must have sensed Ellery’s reaction then, because he fell silent.
So many idiots posting so much nonsense about kinks that they didn’t practice or understand.Great.There was no way of knowing what kind of stupidity Kefir might have stumbled on.But, given how many people loved to post their fantasies pretending that they were facts, Ellery knew there was a pretty good chance it would have him worried his master might turn into a psychopath at any moment.
A sub had wandered onto a website that probably wasn’t accurate.It should have been a mild annoyance.Ellery was caught completely off guard by the fury that burned in the pit of his stomach.Not with Kefir, but with anyone who might have upset the little lion, however unintentionally.
“Sir?”
Ellery took a steadying breath.“I own one website.It’s about bikes, not leather.Whatever site you found, I had nothing to do with it.”
