“Why not now, Reia?”
Okay, so maybe she shouldn’t have told him since he now was very set on the idea. She hadn’t expected him to be so wanting of a child.
What would it even look like?
The Witch Owl had said she should be careful if she didn’t want to birth darkness, so would it be like Orpheus? A Duskwalker? She couldn’t even begin to imagine what he would have looked like as a child that wouldn’t have had a skull. She knew all the fur, fins, and flesh on him came from what he ate.
She was worried what strange thing she’d give birth to.
“Because I would like to be alone with you.” He lifted his face to her and gave an inquisitive tilt of his head. “A child would take my attention away from you.”
“Could I also be involved in the child’s attention?”
Shit. She thought that would work to deter him.
She narrowed her eyes to give him a stern expression.
“Orpheus, I’m saying no.”
“No?”
He started tapping at his snout once more, and it was only something she’d seen him do when he was very deep in thought.
“And I would like you to figure out the spell the Witch Owl told me you can do to stop it from happening.”
“But I don’t know how to do that.”
She pursed her lips.
I have to give him a reason to want to learn the spell.
Folding her arms across her chest, she lifted her chin while turning her head to the side.
“Well, I won’t be having sex with you until you figure it out.”
She saw in her peripheral that his eyes turned white once more. He came forward, reaching up so he could place his hand on the side of her face.
“But I don’t know how to do a spell like that,” he repeated a little more hastily. “And I want to be close to you.”
“Then figure it out.”
She stepped away and gave him her squinted, narrowed stare once more.
“I won’t come inside of you until I learn it,” he offered, his tone telling her he was becoming distressed about this possibility.
The idea of being coated in that hot liquid sent a shiver of delight through her system.
She wondered who would be more upset about this considering Reia didn’t actually want to forgo having Orpheus’ cock inside her. She enjoyed their times of passion together. She wanted to falter since she knew being intimate was more than just about pleasure to him.
Instead, she snorted a laugh.
“That won’t work!” she exclaimed. “You’re like a bloody fountain, Orpheus, and even your pre-come can get me pregnant. Once you learn it, we will continue. Until then, we can still touch, but just not in that way.”
He gave a whining groan. “As long as you will be happy, I will do as you have asked.”
Reia softened her expression and smiled for him as she reached out to pet his face.
“Thank you. I have made you a new bell. Would you like me to put both on you now?”
His eyes turned bright pink, and he nodded, making her heart swell for him. Silly bonehead. You’ve loved me for a long while.
Orpheus roamed the surface in which the humans lived, hunting for his female that wanted meat to eat with her vegetables.
Now that he was no longer hungry, he knew this task would be much easier as he wouldn’t lose himself to a frenzy. Unfortunately, something seemed to have the herd of deer he was following on high alert, and he was unable to get close without spooking them.
The chase still made him excited. He’d ended up viciously slaughtering the one he’d recently managed to catch, rendering it unable to be taken through the Veil.
He’d attempted to catch a rabbit, but it was quick, and he’d ended up squishing it by accident when he slammed his hand down on it. He’d never tried to catch a rabbit before, but Reia said they made good meat for stews, and he’d been curious to know how’d she’d be able to teach him how to cook it.
It was the first time he’d left her in two weeks for an extended period of time and he was very keen to get back to her. A day had already passed, and he longed to see her, hold her, smell her, and listen to her hum since she’d started doing that lately.
He hoped it was because she was content with him.
It’d only taken him a week to figure out the spell that stopped her from bearing his child. He hadn’t liked not being able to connect with her, and his urgency for it pushed him to learn. It was only after the first time they had sex again that she started humming to herself.
Orpheus walked while crouching on his feet and hands, moving slowly as not to jostle his bells too much. He was starting to think perhaps the tiny noise they made were what the deer were being startled by, and he considered placing them in his pocket of his pants for now.