Page 58 of Trick Knot Treat

The dog comes running out of the dark.

“Hey, Zaire?”I tense, seeing something unnerving coming towards us.

“Yeah?”

“Does…um…is Spectre one of those dogs that brings presents?” I don’t take my eyes off the dog and the weird dark shape in its mouth.

Zaire whips around. “Spectre! No!”

The dog jumps between us, somehow missing both of us as it suddenly turns into a liquid dog and lands inside the house. I clearly see a scaled tail.

“Um, um, um!” I scramble into the house. “Spectrey, come here, boy.”

“Uh…” Jace says in exasperation.

Khione screams.

“Crap.”

I race into the house and find that Spectre has dropped a blue tongue lizard on the carpet, and the thing is pissed. Its mouth is open, and it’s whipping back and forth, its body tightly arched to the side.

I let out an exasperated sigh. “Spectre, you woke him up. Blueys don’t like to be up at night.” I grab a towel from where I’d left the folded washing earlier and then snatch the lizard up. Jace holds a box, and I place him and the towel inside and put him in the laundry out of the way.

We work so well together; I never have to say anything, he’s always just there.

Spectre woofs, wagging that massive tail.

“Yes, yes, nice save. You have a hero complex, don’t you?” I say to the dog and pat his head. He woofs, far too human-like. I turn to Zaire. “Was he meant for the firehouse?”

“That was the plan, but then he became something else.”

I’m not going to push him. It’s clear as day that he doesn't want to talk about it.

Felix points at the homemade pizza. I blink at it.

“How did you make pizza? I don’t have ingredients for pizza.”

“You do,” Felix says, walking past me. “I was going to make toasties, but Khione convinced me to up my game. I find myself suddenly wanting to woo my omega.”

I turn, inhaling his scent. The light catches in his hair, and he’s just so damn beautiful. Like an angry angel.

He sits down, and I go and sit beside him before anyone else can.

Khione sits at the other end, with Jace beside her. Zaire sits beside me.

The pizza is incredible. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten homemade pizza. Normally, it’s the frozen Frisbees from the freezer section of the supermarket.

“You have skills, this is incredible,” I sigh with pure pleasure and lick my fingers. “That was great, Lix. If Khione isn’t wooed, consider me seduced.”

“It’s just pizza,” he mutters, but there’s a happiness to his candied apple scent that makes me happy.

“I can only do the basics,” I say with a happy hum. “This is the kind of food that would have people on their knees.”

There’s a silence while I digest what I just said. I could take it back, try and back track, but I said what I said.

“You’d suck my cock for a homemade pizza?” Felix asks with a look that has me struggling to swallow my mouthful.

“I’d suck your cock if you just asked me to,” I say back to him. “You don’t need to barter with me, Omega.”