Page 52 of Myths and Shifts

Best. Mate. Ever.

He cried out a warning but I didn’t need it. All it took was one more gag and he released his control, coming and firing down my throat as I swallowed around him. The way his fingers flexed around me said he was still imagining fucking my throat, and I knew we’d have to work up to that fantasy someday.

Maybe for our wedding night?

It’d be a good anniversary present as well.

“Where did your mind go?” As I pulled off his softening cock, Daddy chuckled, petting my head as he smiled down at me.

“Planning a present for you.” Grinning, I didn’t try to hide the mischief that was probably radiating from me. “It’s a good one.”

“I don’t know whether to be worried or excited.” He tried looking stern as he helped me up, but his eyes were sparkling with barely suppressed laughter as he gave me a soft kiss. “That look.”

He liked that look.

I had a very smart Daddy…and asexy as fuckmate.

Chapter 15

Pierce

“No. I apologize for interrupting, but it was brought to my attention last night that while a significant portion of our group appreciated the stories we were telling yesterday, it might be a good idea to deal with the situation logically.” That got sighs from several people present and smiles from others, but no one contradicted me.

“Making decisions about sending people to other planets is scary.” Kenzie shrugged when every eye turned to him. “Maybe we should ask WWPD.”

Huh?

Merritt coughed, barely covering a giggle as his eyes sparkled. “What would Picard do.”

Oh.

Well, personally I wasn’t sure which captain was more reckless but it was a good place to begin. Merritt seemed to agree with him. “I think we need to start with an understanding that we’re not sending unwilling people there. We’re asking dragons and mages if they want to do something strange and reckless. They’re going to volunteer.”

A very good point that got nods around the room.

“We do not have to feel guilty about people volunteering to answer questions. I’m sure half this town would volunteer to go.” Especially if we told them they could ask people on the other side about their mating practices.

Hell, that was actually something someone needed to ask at some point. Because mates were popping up right and left lately and that hadn’t been normal in a long time.

“We do dangerous things on a regular basis.” Kenzie shrugged as he admitted that. “Daddy pointed that out when I started to worry. I can not worry about the stupid things other people do. So I will confidently send several stupid people through the portal and I will be very excited when they come back with good stories.”

He was strangely the most logical individual in the entire room and his Daddy was wearing an ear-to-ear grin as he held the wall up again.

“I agree.” Merritt sounded less likely to laugh that time but not by much. “I’ve personally seen half this town do incredibly dangerous things on a regular basis. This is just important and dangerous.”

No one could argue with that either.

“We need information.” Spelling that out shouldn’t be necessary, but it seemed like it was. “We need to know where we come from. We need to know who’s on the other side. We need to know if they realize the gate is open. I could keep going, but you get my point.”

That got a round of sighs from most of the room, but heads started to bob and even our resident Florida Man couldn’t give me any strange pushback.

“We’ve already agreed on the need to make sure the gate is monitored at all times.” That hadn’t been as difficult to get through to everyone as I’d thought. Primarily because they’d already barely stopped several teenagers from going on an adventure. “We’ve agreed on a combination of remote and in-person monitoring. We’ve actually made a lot of progress.”

Not really, but they seemed to like the praise, so I wasn’t going to give them facts that would get more drama from any of them.

“So next we need to start by making a few more basic decisions and then we can go from there.” The silence was better than the constant stupid ideas, so I took that as permission from everyone to continue. “From my perspective, I think the first decision we vote on this time is if we’re going to ask a mixed group of volunteers to go through the portal.”

There’d be a thousand decisions after that, but to me, it was the place to start.

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