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He growled in irritation and buried his face in my hair.
“Stay with me until the sun threatens to burn the sky and I will take you back.”
It was a compromise, one I was willing to accept.
We both laid there as Morel told me stories of his battles and triumph, as well as his dark days before my arrival. They were tales that tore at my very being prompting me to turn in his arms once his cock slipped out and pulled him into a tight embrace.
He hummed against my bosom and I closed my eyes and sighed. How easily would it be to get lost in his world? I didn’t have any plans on returning back to the states and my great aunt had a life before I arrived.
Would it be so bad to leave it all behind? It was a hard question that garnered no answers today.
I rubbed his head and hummed a tune my mother used to when troubled thoughts kept me awake as a child.
Morel grumbled against me, pouting about his suffering and I humored him with gentle pats.
Too soon, the hours passed and Morel helped me up from the ground, dusting the leaves off my nightdress and hair.
He restrapped his blades across his chest and I wondered what kind of trouble he got up to while he was away from me.
The boned wings expanded to its full glory of smoke and magic right before he wrapped his arms around me and purred against my ear.
“Hold on tight,mo chridhe.”
Fen
“You are absolutely glowing today.Yesterday too.”
I placed my hands on my cheeks in embarrassment. “Am I?”
“Do ya think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat yesterday, girl?” My aunt exclaimed loudly.
I had no idea what that meant whatsoever so I stared at her in confusion.
“I wasn’t born yesterday, something has changed. It has to be a man,” she slapped the table, rattling the teacups. “There’s no doubt about it!”
She let out a loud boisterous laugh and with wide eyes, I took another sip of my tea.
“And what if it was? Aunty, I’m a grown woman—”
“I know that, lass! You are misinterpreting what I’m saying.” Her fat cat chose that very moment to let out a loud yowl by his empty bowl. “You’ll have to wait a minute, Bonnie Bean.”
She leaned in and took a sip of her own tea, contemplating who knows what as she stared into the walls behind me.
“Love is hard to come by, sweetie. Ya must embrace it while ya can as it comes. Ya never know where life leads or how short it can be. Well, ya know what I mean.” She gave me a sheepish look as she took another sip.
“I feel like there’s a story here I don’t know about. You have some secret admirers, Aunty Ainsley?” I teased.
Her jovial smile fell slowly as she turned to look at me with a serious expression. “You wouldn’t believe me if I told ya.”
I was taken aback.She had no idea. “Try me. I’m more open minded than you think.”
She took another slow sip and I did too. The pregnant pause between us was awkward, at least on my part.
“Our family tales say our great grandmother was a selkie.”
This was not what I was expecting. At. All.
“They were mermaids?”
