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“Like beautiful one?”
“Yes.” He smiles and leans down as if he might… but then he stops.
“You can kiss me! I want, wish for you to, if you want to.”
“I do,” Odai says.
I plunge my tongue into his mouth as soon as our lips seal. I knew I’d taste better on his tongue than any time I’d tasted myself on fingertips or through another lover’s kiss. I pull back and whisper, “Can you use your real tongue?”
His smile is a grin when the forked tip flicks out. I kiss him harder, and he sucks my tongue with twists of his as expertly as he sucked down my spunk.
We have to stop, and I’m breathless when we do, exhausted, but content.
“The patrons have almost all gone,” Odai says with a crane of his ear toward the gift shop, “and Cas is growing curiouser than my powers can stop her.”
“Okay. But I wish to not have any obvious signs or traces left on me of what we just did.”
“Granted.” He kisses my cheek, and I feel as fresh as if I just showered and reapplied my Mattie makeup. The mirror is gone from the wall when he moves from in front of it, and he takes me by the hand to lead me after him.
“Where were you two?” Cas is waiting for us at the gift shop entrance.
“Just hashing out ideas,” I say. “We lost track of time.”
“Uh huh.”
I know she doesn’t buy it, but if Mr. Bevilaqua suspects anything sordid, he plays the oblivious card.
It is only after I’ve said my goodnights to them and am getting ready for bed that it dawns on me Odai has gotten me off twice now, and I haven’t returned the favor. Not that he’s asked for me to, but maybe he can’t ask unless I give him permission first. Unless I wish for him to make his wants known to me, like I did earlier.
It also feels weird or rude to not invite him to share my bed, but then, he doesn’t sleep. I guess it would be weirder and far more of an imposition to have him lie with me and not be able to do anything for eight hours.
“Um, Odai?” I peek out into the hallway anyway.
“Yes, Jeffrey?” He appears from one of the other rooms.
“Are you okay just having to stay up all night alone?”
“I can occupy myself. I was hoping to catalog the remaining items up here. If I may?”
“Of course! Anything you want. I mean, I wish for you to have whatever autonomy you need to, um, well, help with saving Madame Mattie’s, but also to get whatever you need. That’s probably too vague of a wish, huh?”
“Thank you, Jeffrey,” he says. “It is plenty clear and appreciated.”
“Okay. Well, goodnight.”
“Goodnight.”
This is still weird, going to bed knowing he’s out there like some ghost haunting my home, after sucking me off twice. I’ve never done that before with someone I wasn’t dating, and we are not dating. We aren’t even together.
Are we?
I am too tired to think about it. Since I don’t need to keep the amulet on, I decide to not wear it to bed this time, given it’s not the most comfortable thing when trying to sleep. I put it in the top center drawer of the bureau, which is really a vanity more than a dresser, with the center drawer, and then three drawers on either side where you can sit in front of an attached mirror.
The center drawer seems to stick when I push it in, and I figure something got caught, or maybe it got off its track. I pull it back out to reset it, but with it comes something else, rattling loose a part of the desk I’ve never noticed before.
There is a very thin board that pulls out above the drawer, sort of like a cutting board built into a kitchen. Probably for extra writing space. It takes a bit of effort, but I manage to pull it the rest of the way out.
It really is just a flat wooden surface, but thin enough to have been stuck in there with it… is a card.
