Page 125 of Coco and the Misfits

She laughs softly. “What gave me away?”

“Well, you come so hard I?—”

“Zach.”

I grin wider. “Yeah?”

Her gaze drops down to my lap. “Can I see?”

“I don’t think my knot is the prettiest sight in the world,” I warn her.

“That’s for me to decide.”

True. Everything is for her to decide. “We don’t have to do more than this.”

“But you’re still hard. And your knot?—”

“The knot won’t go down so easily. If you were in heat, I’d knot you and stay inside you for hours, maybe days.”

For some reason, her smile falls. “Yeah…”

“What did I say?” I whisper.

“Nothing.”

“Coco…”

“You’re right, we shouldn’t do more than this,” she breathes. “The plan was to get to know you more, not to fall into bed with you.”

“Does that mean I get another chance? You want to see me again?”

She taps her lip with her finger. “If you promise to let me look and touch next time.”

“Deal,” I say and rub my chin. “Look, Coco… We tease and laugh and joke about it, but I want you to know that this is serious for me. I’ve never been more serious about something in my life. I also want to get to know you, to spend time with you. To touch, but also to listen and to do stuff together.”

“Good. That’s the plan. Now…” She takes a breath. “Good night. We’ll talk about meeting again.”

“Promise?”

“I promise,” she says with a smile.

Swallowing a sigh of reluctance, I get up and take my leave. We did more than I had expected. I can’t bitch and moan about not getting inside her.

Don’t be so fucking greedy, I tell myself. It’s a start. A good start. She didn’t have to give you a second chance. She deserves better.

So give it to her.

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COCO

No matter how tempted I am to ask him to stay the night, to try his cock and even his knot with me, to explore and take more pleasure, I walk him to the door and close it firmly behind him.

Dammit, why am I so strict with my decisions? Why can’t I say fuck it and invite him back inside?

The thought of a future with Zach is sweet. The way he touched me and pleasured me, with such reverence and attention… They say good sex matters in a relationship, right? If that’s the case, we’d literally rock this thing between us.

But what about Atticus and Ryder?

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