The Fox’s Tale

“I think,” she gasped for breath, “that the Suite is telling us to leave. I can’t survive something like that again.”

“No.” I pulled her close to me. “I can’t either. I’m sorry I asked about the….damn, I don’t even want to say the word again. You just looked so incredible and I wanted you so fucking bad.”

Ellery’s breathing still hadn’t returned to normal. “I hope you’re satisfied.” The words came out in gasps, but there was a cheekiness to it. She burrowed into me. “I never thought I could be this sore and be this content.”

“Oh, now you’re sore?”

“Alexander, your cock is massive. If I was fully Unseelie I would have been broken by the second time we did it. I told you they have different ideas of what brings pleasure. To them, if the woman or bottom can walk normally after intercourse it wasn’t done properly.

“Seelie blood takes away the soreness so you can enjoy a sensation over and over again. It takes less to make an Unseelie feel pain, but when they do it turns them on. The Seelie can take an unbelievable amount of pain before they start to feel it.”

“And you’re somewhere in the middle I take it?”

I felt her nod against my chest, and I ran my hand down her back and caressed her bottom.

She hissed in a breath. “That’s still tender.”

“I guess that means I won’t be buying you a paddle for Yule.”

“Please don’t, your hand is strong enough.”

I laughed and kissed her temple and then winced. “My lips are going to be bruised.”

“So are mine.”

I tilted her face up. “They don’t look swollen.”

“Not these.”

I winced when I realized what she meant. “Oh, sorry, love.”

She groaned and slid a hand down to cup herself. “I’m still twitching.”

I looked around the Suite and relaxed when I didn’t see doors to exit. “Well, it looks like the Suite is giving us time to recover. Hopefully, we’ll get one last night together.”

“What do you mean one last night together?”

“Here in the Suite, to be with each other,” I explained.

She frowned at me. “Are you planning on leaving me when our time here is over?”

“I don’t want to, but won’t we have to? I mean, we are still in high school.”

She let go of herself and took my hand.

“No. As far as my family is concerned we’re married. The religious ceremonies on the solstices are just that, ceremonies. They’re an excuse to have parties for our families, friends, and the members of the court. Not that I will get to enjoy the second set much. If you mark me in December, by June I’ll be hugely pregnant.”

“That fast?”

“That fast, based on my mother and Seelie sides of the family.”

Our eyes locked for a moment and I was filled with a longing I never expected to have. I put my hand on her belly.

“Our child.” I grinned despite my aching lips.

Her cheeks flushed and she smiled. “Yes.”

“How many do you want?”

Ellery looked surprised at the question. “I don’t know. I’d never really thought about it that much. Hopefully, at least two, but I need to have at least one for the Unseelie court. What about you?”

“I never thought about it at all. Being an only child has advantages and disadvantages. I used to wish for a brother when I was younger though.”

“I know,” she said and then placed a kiss on my shoulder.

I laughed. “Of course you do. I did a number on my mother when I was born which is why I’m an only child. I was breech and a giant baby.”

Ellery covered her crotch. “How big?” she asked; worry wrinkling her brow.

“Close to ten pounds I think.”

“Fuck.”

“Hey. Ellery, look at me. How many kids I want isn’t an issue. You’re the one who’ll be doing all the heavy lifting. You get to decide. If pregnancy is easy for you then we can consider having more than one. It’s still years away.”

“I know. It’s just,” she pressed her face to my chest and breathed my scent in. “When we leave here everything in our lives is going to change and I’m starting to feel nervous.”

“Maybe you’re just feeling my nerves. After all, I have to face two dads, four uncle brothers, and one of my coaches when we leave here.”

“They don’t know what we’ve been doing.”

I snorted with laughter. “They might not know the intimate details, but they know we weren’t in here playing cards.” I bent forward to kiss her, but winced when I tried to pucker. “Damn it, what did you do to my lips?”

“I’m sorry, Alexander.” She pressed a feather light kiss to my lips that took some of the sting away. “Oh, it’s not all my fault. The Suite is keeping the pain there to encourage us to go.” She rolled her eyes. “We get the message.”

“It must really want to get rid of us. How long do you think we’ve been here?”

Ellery yawned and I pulled the sheet over us. “I don’t know. We’ll find out when we wake up.”

The Suite didn’t look any different when we woke from how it had been when we’d gone to sleep. I pulled Ellery out of the bed. “Come shower with me. No sexy stuff, I’m still too tired. Just a nice, warm shower.”

“Will you scrub my back?”

“I’ll wash and scrub whatever you want me to. I just want you with me.”

“I’m not going anywhere, Alexander. The Suite isn’t going to shove you out on the stoop.”

“Just stay with me, Elly.”

“Alright, Foxy, I will.”

I tried to make us take as long as possible in the bathroom, washing Ellery’s hair twice and brushing her hair once it dried. Ellery took my hands in hers.

“Please trust me, Alexander. You’re not going to be sent home.”

“I want to believe you, but somehow I just can’t. I can’t believe your parents are going to let me move into your bedroom.”

“We won’t be in my bedroom.”

“Oh? Just where will we be?” I asked as I followed her out of the bathroom. I bumped into her as she stopped short in front of me. “What is it?”

I looked around her and saw why she’d stopped. The bedroom was gone. Instead of looking at what I had come to view as our bed there was a large upholstered ottoman with two sets of clothes folded on it. Ellery stepped further into the room pulling me with her. The bathroom door disappeared behind us.

“That’s it then,” I sighed.

“Looks like it. Shall we get dressed?”

I ran my hand down her back. “At the risk of being electrocuted or something equally horrible I’d like to say that I’d keep you naked all the time if I could.”

“Would you? You’d have me go out in public nude?” She eyed me with suspicion.

“It’s a total caveman response. I’d prefer to never let you leave the bed.”

“Oh, so you’d go to school and play basketball, and I’d stay home alone, naked in bed. Whatever would I do with myself?” Ellery’s voice was coy and teasing as she pulled on her underclothes.

I groaned. “I know it’s ridiculous and primitive.” I pulled on a pair of boxer briefs and the dress pants I had worn the night of the game.

Ellery had been given a pair of jeans and a long sleeved tee-shirt to wear. She set them back down on the ottoman and then stood on her toes to kiss my cheek. “How about I promise to get naked with you at every opportunity?”

“That sounds like a great compromise.”

With no other option we both finished getting dressed. Ellery took my hand and the door to exit opened.

“Come on Foxy, let’s go.” We walked out of the Suite holding hands.