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“Y-yes. I like it,” I stutter out. “I also like your horns,” I admit in a drunken lust haze.

Then I do something far bolder than I thought myself capable of and reach up to stroke his horns. Gripping tight at the base I glide my hands up and back all the way to the tips before returning to the base, where I stroke the smooth base with a fingertip. Kai’s hips buck into me and his nails dig into the flesh of my ass. The tail between my legs spasms and jerks as he momentarily loses control.

“Fucking hell, Daisy. You have a hidden temptress inside you I very much look forward to bringing out.”

While I still grip Kai’s horns, he leans down and claims my mouth again. Barely controlled hunger emanating from his lips with low growls.

His lips trail across my jaw to my ear, where Kai brushes away my hair to expose the moderately elongated shell. He runs his finger around my lobe and all the way up and around the tip, sending pleasant shivers through me. Which he only intensifies when he traces the same pattern with his tongue, nipping at the pointed tip with his teeth.

I moan and rub myself shamelessly against him, reveling in the press of his cock against my pelvis.

“I fucking love your ears, Blossom. I want to mark them with my teeth and line them with gold. Would you let me, Blossom? Can I give you something to wear on these perfect ears?”

“I guess so. But they’re not pierced.”

“They don’t need to be.”

Reaching up to his long, graceful ear he removes a small gold cuff. One that doesn’t require a piercing but hugs the outside of the ear. Kai delicately places the cuff around the bottom uppermost part of my ear nearly to the tip, squeezing it so it hugs snugly and won’t fall off.

Kai groans when it’s in place. “Fucking perfect.”

With another lick, he tastes my ear and prods my new jewelry with the tip of his tongue. His lips pressing wet kisses to my neck and throat until he finds his way back to my lips.

This kiss is slow and exploratory, and I take the opportunity to do a little exploring myself. My hands drift down from his horns to trail light fingers over the long point of his ears, brushing against the dangling chains and spinning studs. The sensation is apparently too much for Kai to focus any longer, his tail abandons my pussy to coil around my thigh and hold tight. His lips break our kiss, as he breathes heavily and presses his forehead to mine.

“Easy there, Blossom. Keep that up and I won’t be as gentlemanly and will take you right here in the grass.”

As tempting as that sounds there’s no way I’m going to have sex, for the first time, somewhere Sage could easily see us. Doing it outside in the grass doesn’t bother me one bit. Fearing my brother or his mate could walk up on us at any moment, does.

I drop my hands from his ears and grip his shoulders instead.

“I should head home. Don’t want to embarrass myself.”

I look up at him and furrow a brow. What is he talking about?

“If you keep touching me, I’m very likely to come in my pants at this point.”

Oooooh. Looking down between us I get a decent view of his straining jeans. He’s practically fully extended towards me, at least as much as the material will allow. I can’t help but bite my lip at the sight, desperately wanting to see the source of that bulge.

“That doesn’t help either.”

I chuckle and look up at him through my lashes. “Sorry.”

“No, you’re not, and I welcome your teasing, just not tonight. I desperately want you Daisy, but I want to do this right. I don’t want to rush it. When it’s the right time, I’ll have you, and you’ll consume me.”

With a tender touch, Kai brushes my hair back from my shoulder and ear, stroking the flowers around my temple and smiling.

“Tell me something, Blossom. Do these flowers change based on your mood?”

Even without saying so, he’s figured out my flowers. I suppose when they change so frequently around him, he had to figure it out at some point.

“Yes.”

“Are you going to tell me what any of them mean?”

“No.”

He snickers at my flat-out refusal, not at all deterred.