When I was okay enough with how the bed looked. I dragged a hand through his waves, messing his hair up until it was just right too.
"Satisfied?" he asked
"Not yet." I turned as I slid a knee over his chest and unbuttoned his pants, unzipping them too. After I freed his erection, I lowered my mouth to it.
When I wrapped my lips around him, he choked out a curse, gripping handfuls of my ass. The height difference between uswas too large for his mouth to easily reach my center, but he could see everything.
I bobbed over his cock, slowly taking his thick length into my mouth. With every motion, I took him a little deeper.
His hands slid down my thighs, opening me wider as he swore and jerked. I could feel his pleasure and need leaking through the bond, could feel the determined hold he had on his magic.
His fingers dug into my thigh and ass when he came. His chest rose and fell rapidly beneath me while his relief crashed through the thin divider between our minds even more than his pleasure had.
He was really, genuinely terrified of what he would do to me.
I was going to have to make sure he wasn't anywhere near me when I went into heat, no matter how he felt about that, or Iwasgoing to smash his boundaries.
Callum's grip tightened as he dragged my core to his face, eating me out until I was crying with pleasure and coming on his mouth, repeatedly.
He let me get him off again too. More than once. The iron grip he had on his magic never wavered. The itch I had to feel it on my skin didn't, either.
We changed positions over and over, enjoying each other from new angles and places, but never bringing up how badly we both wanted our bodies to fully connect.
When we finally curled up in bed together, sweaty and sticky and bare and deliciously exhausted, I murmured against his neck, "What if I wanted to feel a little pain, Callum?"
"The answer would still be no, Kitten." He tilted my chin high enough to kiss me slowly. Neither of us gave a damn about the taste of our pleasure on our mouths."This is enough for me." He pressed his forehead to mine, closing his eyes."It will be enough for you too."
His breathing evened out, and I couldn't help the twinge in my chest.
Itwouldn'tbe enough for me.
But I would make sure we got through heat without destroying what we'd started building. My feelings for Callum weren't dependent on sex, and they wouldn't be broken by a little suffering.
twenty-six
KAT
The next handfulof days went by quickly.
I checked in with my new employees, and when I was satisfied that they hadn't screwed anything up, I drove to each of my cafes to make sure everything was going okay.
It was.
Whatever Elle and my new people had done, everything was running much smoother than it ever had before, and it was a massive weight off my shoulders.
It occurred to me that Callum had proven how much I mattered to him by forcing his way into my business even before I really knew him. All of the paperwork was in my name, so he had no legal power over any of it. But he'd seen me struggling and called in a favor he could only use once, just so I wouldn't be under so much stress.
I guess there were more ways to show that someone mattered to you than I had ever really considered.
Callum went with me to my cafes the majority of the time, but he had other work to do too. We were never apart for more than an hour or two, and he brought me some new form of chocolate every time we were apart. He must've had someone running around the city for him, because everything he gave me was from a different shop, and most of them were nowhere near each other.
Truffles from a pixie-owned candy store.
Ice cream from a vampire-run shop.
Pie that was made by the centaurs.
Chocolate croissants from a bakery the monsters owned.
