He grabbed a piece of pineapple from the bowl and dipped it. I tried to take it from him with my hand, but he dodged my arm and popped the slice of fruit into my mouth.
I picked up an apple slice and slowly buried it in the fruit dip. "If you don't want to tell me, it must've been bad. Something sexual about me, or about someone you were with in the past. Since you haven't been with anyone else while you've been feeding on me?—"
Grayson plucked my apple from my hand and lifted it away from me, like he was holding it captive. "Stop trying to figure it out."
"Then tell me."
Grayson growled. "Some things don't need to be repeated."
"I would usually agree, but not this time."
He bit into my apple slice himself.
When I reached for the fruit bowl again, he slid it away from me and dipped the other half of his slice into the bowl, before lifting it to my lips.
"You can't double-dip," I argued.
"Our souls are connected. I can feel you in my mind. I've had my mouth on your cunt. Double-dipping is the least intimate part of our life."
My face flushed.
When I opened my mouth to disagree, he popped the apple inside it.
I chewed automatically, flashing him a look of annoyance.
He ignored my annoyance and picked up another strawberry.
"Fine," I said. "Be an asshole."
He bit into his strawberry. "I've never pretended to be anything else, Love."
I stole his bowl of fruit, and his dip.
He reached over my arm to grab another grape, and popped it into his mouth without dipping it.
"I had an interesting conversation about knotting while you were gone," I said, returning to the plan I'd made before despite the unexpected change in his mood.
"Who thefuckare you talking to about knotting?" The rage in his voice was quiet and gravelly, but unmistakable.
"Maybe if you talk freely with me, I can do the same with you."
He growled. After a few tense moments, he gritted out,"Leon asked me what sounds a fae queen made when I knotted her. The fucking coward ran before I could tear out his fangs for it."
I blinked.
I hadn't put together that people would be discussing that particular aspect of us being mates, but yeah, it made sense.
"Knotting someone who isn't a demon is seen as pretty kinky,"Isaid.
"It is."
"So by mating with me..."
"It changes my reputation. I don't know in what way. Won't know until everything settles. Assuming it ever fucking settles. Whether or not we do it won't affect it, reputation-wise."
"People are going to assume we do."
"They are."
