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CHAPTER10
Lions and Elephants
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For some reason I slept like a log that night. Fleur’s closeness felt soothing to me, and when I finally woke up, she was lying on her stomach with her arms crossed under her chin, looking out through a window in the tent that was covered by mosquito netting.
“Good morning.” I yawned and lifted my right leg over hers, snuggling closer. All night we’d been touching in some way. After three days of our being together day and night, we’d become friends and I could feel us bonding, but I was very aware that I didn’t want to get stuck in the friend zone.
“Good morning,” she said without looking at me or asking me to stop touching her.
That emboldened me to slide my hand down to the small of her back, circling my fingers in a lazy stroke. “Did you sleep well?”
“Mhmm.” She’d only just said the words when a lion’s growl made me jerk.
“What the fuck was that?”
“Look.” She moved over a bit to let me see out the window. Right outside two lions lay sprawled on their sides looking like they were sleeping, but farther away one large male stood over a smaller one that had to be female. She was snarling and growling at him and he retreated.
“Are they fighting?”
“He just bred her and she’s not happy.”
“Why?”
“Because breeding hurts her.”
“Why? Is he too big?”
“No, but all male cats have barbed penises.”
I gave her ayeah rightlook.
“I’m not kidding. It’s true.”
The large male lion lay down next to the lioness and rolled to his side.
“Over there in the grass to the left there are more lions; I’ve counted three. They’re feasting on something.”
“What about the others? Aren’t they hungry?”
“They ate earlier.”
“What time is it?” I asked and looked at my watch.
“It’s early. I’m guessing somewhere around six thirty.”
“Close. It’s a quarter to seven.”
Looking back to the large male lion, I saw him lick his female on the ears before moving back, licking her behind.
“Is he trying to give her oral?” I asked feeling wildly fascinated by the nature show not far from our tent. “He needs to spread her legs.”
“He wants to go again and he’s nudging her to get into position.”
The female, who had been on her side, moved to lie on all fours and the male moved behind her, making rocking movements with his hips while biting her neck to keep her in place. After no more than ten seconds, he bit down on her neck and growled before he released her. Once again she turned and snarled at him.
“That’s it?” I asked and wrinkled my nose.
