When we finally broke apart, I said, “While I do not have a ring, I do have another small gift for you. Follow me.”
At the hospital site, I told Xennet and Dorn to go and get some food from Rivven at the saloon, then I pulled Lualhati into the bedroom.
“Oh, it’s bigger than I imagined!” she said, spinning slowly in the centre of the room. “Even with the walls and roof on, it feels huge!”
“I had anticipated it being filled with your things,” I said.
She stopped spinning and sighed. “Yeah. I know.”
“But, besides the gifts from Xennet and Dorn, we do have one item to put in it.” I entered the closet where I’d left the mug to dry on the shelf. The adhesive was well and truly hardened now.
“Here,” I said, returning to her and holding it out. Instead of taking it, she snatched her hands away, slapping them over herown mouth. “No!” It came out very muffled. “How do you have that?”
“What do you mean?” I frowned at the mug. “I collected all the pieces the day it broke. That glue is food-safe and heat-stable, so you can use it as you did before. Why are you looking at me like that? I told you that I’d fix it for you.”
“I thought you just meant you’d fix the mess!” she exclaimed, dropping her hands. “I thought you threw all the pieces away!”
“Absolutely not,” I replied. “I told you before that I would never yeet your things.”
She laughed then, tearily, and then carefully took the mug.
“It’s perfect!” she marvelled. “I can’t believe you found every single piece and glued them back together. Some of these are tiny!”
“It did take quite a bit of time,” I admitted. “I was not willing to compromise, or have any missing pieces or gaps. That is why I was late getting home to you last night.”
She hugged the mug to her chest. “If I could have saved one thing from that house, Hallum, it would have been this. Thank you so much. You don’t know what this means to me.”
I brushed my knuckles across her tear-dampened cheek.
“I have something that means a great deal to me now. So I can imagine.”
“Is there anything you would have saved?” she asked, putting the mug down on the one piece of furniture in here so far – a little table. “If you’d had the chance?”
“Hmm. Just one thing, I think.”
Her brows lifted expectantly. “Oh?”
“Your shirt. The one you left on my bed that first night.”
“You kept it? I had no idea! I never saw it anywhere!”
“It was in the drawer of my desk.”
“Ah ha! I knew I should have looked there. Damnit! I was too busy trying to be polite and protect your privacy!” she laughedagain and shook her head. “Well, you can have as many of my shirts as you want, Hallum. Once I’ve got a few more in my collection, anyway. Here. Start with this one!”
She whipped her shirt off and threw it at me. I almost didn’t catch it, so distracted was I by the sight of her heavy breasts encased in her lacy black human bra.
“Maybe you’d like this, too?” she ran her hands over the material. I watched in lurid fascination as her nipples hardened beneath. My cock thickened.
The air between us shifted, seemed to become somehow charged, even without the electricity hooked up in here yet. She let one strap fall over her left shoulder, then the one on the right. One more twisting sort of manoeuvre later, and the bra was off.
“Touch me,” she whispered. My hands rose at once to obey her, cupping her there. Groaning, I relished the hot weight of her human flesh.
The bra had left little red marks and lines on her skin. I traced them tenderly with my thumbs. Then my tongue. She arched, clutching my shoulders tightly, making needy little sounds that turned into a breathy moan when I captured one bud-like nipple in my mouth. I sucked her like that, alternating one side after the other, until she pulled her delectable flesh from my mouth and fell to her knees before me.
“Now you,” she panted. My cock leaped when she mouthed it through the fabric of my trousers. Her fingers dragged up my thighs, tugging at the belt buckle and my trousers’ fasteners until it all came apart.
She caught the stiff bob of my cock in one hand. Her other hand she gave entirely to the cock tail, gently pinching and stroking it until, with a great stab of pleasure, it wrapped tightly around her thumb. The next moment, her mouth was on my cock, and all thought was lost to me.
