Page 92 of Dead Crown
“Well…it’s been a while. I’m not supposed to have sex yet.”
“I won’t die if my dick’s not sucked. My hand works if I need it.”
“If we’re going to get married-married people have sex of some sort. I should be able to please you, and-”
“And what? Where is this coming from all of a sudden?”
“My body isn’t the same,” Lumi said in a rush. “I can still take care of you in that way. I don’t think I can have sex without my heat anyway, but a blowjob is fine, and it’s something. Maybe I’ll look better in a few months if you can wait a bit for real sex.”
Jaki raised an eyebrow. “Look better?”
“I don’t look quite like before,” Lumi mumbled as he looked away. “The pregnancy...”
“That’s what you’re worried about? Come here.” Jaki drew him down to lie again and stroked his hair. “Lumi, I don’t care if your body isn’t the same. We all age, and things change.”
“Not like this.”
Jaki had heard pregnancy could cause stretch marks, and it didn’t take a genius to figure out a person’s stomach might not be flat for a while. Or ever again. It didn't bother him. “I don’t care if your body doesn’t look the same as last year. I didn’t know what you looked like under your clothes when you first came to the Castle. I still wanted you. I want you now. We can wait for sexual things.”
“Then why can’t I give you a blowjob?”
“You clearly aren’t into it, and I don’t want you using your heat. Now that I know you use it like a tool to trick yourself into believing you want to do the action-sit up for a moment.” The pinched look on Lumi’s face pierced Jaki as they got comfortable, and he took Lumi’s shoulders because he wanted to look him in the eye. “I don’t want us doing anything until you’re fully ready to do exactly what I asked.”
Lumi furrowed his brow and cocked an ear. “What are you talking about?”
“I want to stretch and oil you myself before I make you cum on my cock. All of your pleasure will come entirely from me. Not the heat. I don’t care if it takes you months to be ready either.”
He figured it would take quite a while for Lumi to want sex on his own, and not because he thought he needed to keep Jaki’s balls empty and planned to use the heat to get by.
“It’s going to be slow and gentle, not a near-rabid hate fuck on the floor of our sitting room,” he added.
Lumi didn’t look sure. “Abundant males aren’t mindless animals if they push their heat.”
“I know, but it’s been a crutch for you. I don’t want you to fuck me if you have to use a crutch. You have to want it entirely on your own, and not because you think you need to give me sex. You don’t have to suck me off to keep me. Those days of faking and doing whatever because someone demanded it are over. Understand?”
“Yeah…”
“I do like us cuddling together. We can do that if you want.”
They settled back down with Lumi’s head on Jaki’s chest again.
***
When they arrived, Jaki was grateful to get out of the carriage and do something besides sit. The area was rather bare and windy with scraggly patches of trees and snowy hills.
The tomb was a simple, rectangular stone structure above ground. If they went past it and up a snowy hill, they’d be able to see a small bay on the other side. Jaki couldn’t see the water since the ground was hilly, but he'd read a description of the area once in a book.
On their side of Iceland, they couldn’t go any farther north unless a barren island further out counted.
Jaki had a small pack with the Crown inside, and he hid it under his cloak. He told the men they wouldn’t be long, and they headed for the entrance with the High Mage.
The doors leading inside were stone, and as far as Jaki knew, they were the only ones that opened by themselves if one stood in front of them for a few seconds. He didn’t know what kind of magic made them work.
Once the doors opened to reveal steps heading down, Lumi held up the lantern.
“What if someone’s in there?” asked the High Mage. “I could see bandits living down here. Who’d bother them?”
“And who would they bother?” asked Jaki. “If there are any snow bears, I doubt they have anything to rob.”
