Page 16 of You Otter Know
Then Bodhi was coming for him, the wet ripples of his orgasm spreading as wet heat fell on River’s belly. That was all it took for his knot to fully engage, and he felt as if it had not only happened so fast, but it had also taken forever. He slammed into Bodhi one last time and came and nothing had ever felt so right. He was staking his claim.
They collapsed together, panting, and he rolled to one side so he wouldn’t crush Bodhi down. His mate was pregnant, after all. They needed to be a little bit careful, at least.
That idea after the violence of how they came together was so ridiculous that all he could do was start laughing.
Bodhi clutched him tight and laughed right along with him until tears streamed down his face, and he had a feeling that Bodhi had needed to release that tension.
“I have you, baby. I promise. I have you right here, and I’m not letting go.”
Bodhi just nodded against his shoulder, sniffling. He knew there was still going to be a lot of talking going on, but right now it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that they were together, and they could work this out.
Chapter
Nine
Bodie listened to his stomach rumble as he wandered into the kitchen, hunting a snack of some sort. When he’d first moved in with River, the smell of coffee, feijoada, and a few other foods like bacon had made him barf his guts out.
Now, though he was just hungry all the time, he figured it was like a miracle because as soon as the baby bump had popped out like half of a basketball, he’d lost the morning sickness and gained the “I have to eat the house”.
He still couldn’t believe when they’d left the lodge the second time, he had just gone with River. Right now, he was working remotely on his same job, but he was kind of thinking about trying to find a new one after the baby was born. While it was nice that he could do his job from anywhere, it still took a lot of long hours, and he would really love something with a little more flexibility.
River came wandering in, his little headset still on, his phone in his hand. “Hey, babe, did you want to have a snack together?”
“Together, separately, eternally, always, yes.” He winked at River. “I’m starving.”
River came to wrap both arms around him. “What would you like to have? We have lots of weird little canned fish products.”Unlike a human, he could eat fish while he was pregnant. Lots of it. Including shellfish.
“You know what I want right now?” Bohdi felt his belly rumble again.
“What’s that?” River kind of slow danced him around the kitchen.
“Grilled cheese. With clam chowder.”
“Okaaay.” River snorted but moved to the pantry to pull out a couple big cans of soup. “You heat this up and I’ll make the sammies.”
“You’re the best.” He burned grilled cheese every time. Every. Single. Time.
“I try, baby.” River tugged out bread, butter, and cheese, and they moved around each other happily, their silence companionable, not strained.
The only time Bohdi had any… angst, he supposed he would call it, was when River shifted in order to go swimming.
River had a house with an indoor pool room that was weatherproof…
While Bohdi was an excellent swimmer, it made him super sad that he couldn’t get his otter on and play with River that way, but he would never ask River not to shift. It was a huge part of who he was, and it was important as hell to him.
“So, what have you been up to today,amor?”
“Very boring data entry.” He rolled his eyes. “I needed to put in a bunch of statistics to get a new form created, and ugh.” He grinned. “What about you?”
They’d worked in separate rooms today because River had been doing a bunch of remote meetings.
River spread butter on the outside of the bread before filling the inside with American cheese. They had discovered they both liked that on grilled cheese alone, so they always had a small pack of it on hand.
He opened the cans of soup to make sure they weren’t going to make him barf, and everything seemed to be on the up and up, so he started to pour it into the pot to heat it.
River shrugged. “It was meeting after meeting, you know how it goes. But we got a bunch of stuff settled, so now I can start on that big project.”
“Nice, I know you were waiting for that.” Some kind of funding had fallen through on River’s project to begin with, but then they’d gotten a new partner, and it had come around, so that was great news.
