Page 14 of The Mentor
Archer set down the last plate and turned to me. “I want to hear more about that fantasy of yours.”
I was tired after days of working long hours and especially tired of the two of them constantly arguing. I had backed myself into a corner and needed something to throw them off.
“Come on, what did you fantasize about?” Archer pushed me.
“I could tell you,” I said, slowly trying to come up with something creative, “but it would probably upset you, so I’d rather not.”
“Ha!” Magni shoved his hands into his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels. “You can’t possibly shock us, unless it involves animals.” He scrunched up his face. “Does it?”
I tilted my head. “Darn it, how did you know?” My laugh revealed that he wasn’t even close.
“Just spit it out,” Archer insisted, his blue eyes sparkling with excitement.
I yawned. “I’m too tired and I don’t want to offend you anyway.”
“Offend us?” Magni wrinkled his nose. “What kind of twisted fantasy did you have?”
“One that men like you could never fulfill anyway, so there’s no need to talk about it.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” Archer puffed his chest and took a step closer to me. “We’re strong, virile, and have more stamina than those wimps you call men back home.”
“Oh, I’m sure you do, but my fantasy is…” I sighed theatrically and waved a hand dismissively, trying to find a way out of the hole I had dug for myself. “Just forget it.”
“Spit it out, woman,” Magni said impatiently.
“All right, if you insist.” I looked from Magni to Archer and back again, desperately trying to come up with something, andwhen my lips started moving it was like seeing a drone fly straight into the side of a mountain. “I had this fantasy of being with two men at the same time.”
Not for one second did I think they would buy into a lie that big, but clearly, I wasn’t the only naïve person in the room. It was hard not to laugh at the way Magni’s mouth fell open.
Archer on the other hand just looked confused. “Why?” he asked.
“I don’t know.” I shrugged. “And it’s not relevant anyway.”
“And why the hell would that offend us?” Magni asked.
“Maybe not offend you, but rather upset you that my fantasy was something no Nman could ever offer me.”
“Why not?”
I laughed. “From what I have seen, I think it’s pretty obvious that you Nmen are way too competitive and combative to work together. I imagine only men from the Motherlands would be able to offer a woman something like that.”
I was pleased with my rational argument and amused at the genius in painting a rosy image of what working together could actually get a man. And just to drive in the last nail in the coffin I added: “I also get the feeling you’d make it all about you while they are more mature and would make it about the woman.”
“Hey, that's selfish! Why should it be all about you?” Archer objected.
“Because it'smyfantasy! You can be selfish in your dream too, you know.”
Magni had regained his composure. “I didn’t see that one coming,” he said and swallowed hard. “You really want to be with two men at the same time?”
I chuckled. “As I said, it was just a fantasy I had a long time ago.”
“And if two guys were willing…” Archer trailed off but his heated cheeks told me there was an offer in those words and my belly instantly did a somersault. Again images of him and me together that first night did funny things to me.
“It would have to wait until I’m back home,” I said and broke eye contact with Archer. “I wouldn’t dare do it here. I mean can you imagine two alpha males like yourself? They’d end up fighting before we even got to the fun part.”
“You couldn’t handle two of my kind anyway,” Magni claimed and gave a lopsided grin. “Hell, you probably couldn’t even handle two of Archer’s type for that matter.”
Archer whipped his gaze to Magni. “Fuck you! I’m not the one whose wife left me. Apparently, Laura wasn’t so impressed with your sex skills!”
