Page 49 of The Kraken Games

Two dark eyes hovered mere inches away. An exquisitely shaped face, luminous blue in the moonlight.

What. The. Fuck.

A hand came up and motioned for her to open the window. Stupid as it was, she tried to cover her tits with one hand while opening the rusty window with the other. When it did finally give, she nearly fell straight out and into Kai’s embrace.

She righted herself, grabbing the window ledge. “How the hell did you find me?”

“I followed you. When you left in that selkie’s water taxi.”

“Making a habit of stalking me, are you?” Stupid dumb happiness at seeing him made her brusque.

“Just thought I’d come and help you celebrate.”

“Yeah, right. If you can call a bath to ease my bruises celebrating.”

“I’ve got a fair few of my own.” He smirked. “Anda very bruised ego after tonight.”

“Well, um, thanks. For doing what you did,” she said gruffly.

For a second they just stared at each other. “We need to talk,” Kai said.

“I tried to find you before I left,” she muttered, “but you’d disappeared.”

“I was getting a good dressing down from Shen. Now is really our only chance.”

“W-why?”

“I leave tomorrow, crack of dawn.”

Her heart dropped, way more than it should. “That soon?”

“Acha got the hell out of Motham when he was defeated. Two years of losing in a row, and I’ve got a truckload to answer for.”

“Guess you better come inside then,” she said, trying to sound grudging, even though her heart was racing.

Without a word, he jumped out of the water and flipped himself up onto the window ledge. Hauled himself in on his arms and swung his legs over in one easy move. He was in pure human form, Luna noted. Maybe he didn’t want her to see where she’d inflicted harm on him.

And then, to her utter surprise, he dived into the bath. Water gushed everywhere, overflowing onto the old linoleum. Luna lost her footing and skidded into the bath with him, legs and arms flying, and her pussy practically riding up into in his face.

Grabbing the side of the bath, she righted herself.

Kai chuckled. “Well… this is kinda cozy.”

Half laughing, half cursing, Luna scrabbled madly to vacate the bath and grabbed a towel. And then, well, just look at him… cheeky kraken. As if he belonged right there, Kai took over the bath, leaning his head back against the enamel and stretching out with a big sigh in the warm water.

There he lay, resplendent and blue, with just a pair of teeny tiny shorts on, the bulge in them hard to tear her eyes away from.

“Hmmm, this is nice. I’ll come out all peachy.” He huffed out a sigh. “What’s in it? Smells good.”

“Aromatherapy oils. Lavender and rose geranium.” Luna wound the towel tighter around herself.

When he closed his eyes, she couldn’t help feasting on the sight of him. He actually looked exhausted, the blue skin pale and drawn over his high cheekbones, shadows under his longalmond-shaped eyes. She could detect the lines of pain around his mouth.

“You can release your tentacles if that would help.”

He cracked open an eye. “Do I trust you?”

“W-what?” Did he think she’d jump his bones? Tempting.

---