“Beautiful.”
“Yes. Beautiful,” I moan.
He strokes faster, but not as fast as I want. He keeps me on the edge for an absurd amount of time. My heart is pounding. I can hardly breathe. I feel like I’m going to pass out.
“Faster, Aliko. Please, I want to come.”
For once, he does as I ask, the tentacle inside me pressing down on my prostate at the exact right time. I explode—no, I detonate. Every muscle in my body spasms, my body coming alive like never before.
With a growl, Aliko comes too.
The mess is ridiculous, cum puddled between us—a lot of it.
“Okay, now we need to shower,” I say with a laugh.
He leans in to kiss my jaw, but we don’t move from the bed for at least another ten minutes.
Chapter Thirteen
Aliko
“What do we do with this?” Leif asks, picking up my egg from the mattress. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of his hand, the dark blue shade similar to me in my true kraken form.
We’re just getting out of the shower, where we washed up quickly. We only wanted to wash the cum off so we could get into the hot tub and it not be weird. I love cum, but I don’t want to sit in, though I wouldn’t judge someone who wanted to.
“I don’t know,” I answer. “I didn’t know it was possible to do that in this form. I am not sure what will happen to it.”
“Will it rot?”
“Rot?” I question.
“Like… go bad?”
I shrug.
“Can you make another one?”
“I would assume so,” I say. “It just kind of happened. A heat of the moment thing.” I take it from him, squeezing it to see if it is still hard. There is no give to the light grey shell, the texture as rough as I know them to be. When eggs are not accepted by females, the body rejects them, and they turn soft as they become one with the ocean, eventually disappearing. But we are unsure if that happens because it has been inside or just because it is a bad egg. This one is still very solid. Though of course it could not do anything to Leif, as he is right—he cannot be pregnant. “Let’s get rid of it just in case. Better safe than sorry.”
He nods but looks slightly disappointed.
“I’m sure I will make another,” I add and he gives me a small smile.
“What does it mean that you did? I thought you said you only do that with mates? Like when someone is in heat?”
“Yes, that’s what I thought. Perhaps I am just so attracted to you that my body assumes it’s the same thing?”
Leif grins. “I kind of love that.”
I place the egg into the trash and hope no one says anything about it. Maybe I should let someone know it’s there and make sure it’s disposed of the right way? I don’t need humans to learn there is a kraken egg here and take it to study.
“Everything okay?” Leif asks from the bathroom doorway.
I turn to face him. “I’m not sure how to throw this away. I don’t want someone taking it.”
He nods, understanding crossing his face. “There is a dumpster outside. Maybe wrap it in a towel, throw it in a bag, and toss it in the dumpster in the morning.”
I nod. “Good thinking.”
