"So... what do you... say?" I asked, having just rolled off of him after some enjoyable exercise.
"Asking that after... sex is criminal... but fine, I'll take him and make a list of her needs," he conceded, I gave him a kiss before resting back on his chest.
"Thank you. Besides, Setil is family, so you will have to force some money on Stuart anyway... so he wouldn't have to spend his own."
He groaned into my hair. "No... he is too damn proud for that; he simply won't take it... you have to do it."
I climbed back onto him to be at eye level. "Why me? You're the Master of Emet."
"You know the guy since like... forever. Plus," he made a serious expression, his eyes shining with mischief, "...I love you."
I was too satisfied and amused to argue, so I let him have this one.
"Okay... worst-case scenario, I'll beat him up a little bit, then he takes it. Maybe some blackmail?" I suggested. I knew he was much stronger, but I can always leverage those ancient secrets he wouldn't want others to know.
Zephyr was on board with anything as long as he wasn't involved. "Sounds like a plan to me."
"You and Carlos will go right after their wedding, huh?"
He adjusted us a little and reached for the water on the nightstand. "He wants this to be done, thank God, and I'll also get to meet his parents and some friends of his. Maybe see why he has such a strained relationship with them."
"...Women friends?" I asked, narrowing my eyes and injecting a hint of mock suspicion.
"My love, I don't see gender anymore since we got married... I'm just immune to it," he sighed theatrically and shrugged while drinking from the cup.
Right. "So no one... not one of the women interests you? Other than me?"
He stopped drinking and sighed again. "I'm a man like any other and have an affinity for beauty like all... but I only love one."
It was sweet, but also... "So, you do have someone you like! Looking, at least?"
"God damn it... alright, fine." He sat up further, his back against the wall, and handed me the glass. "...I do enjoy some fantasies, which!" he put up a finger once his hands were free, "...are perfectly normal and... even healthy."
Healthy is it... Well, we will see, won't we?
"Uh huh... continue, my love."
After some final consideration, he confessed, "Sometimes, I'll enjoy the thought of you and... Cintia with Nifa... but don't lose your mind, okay?"
"Ahh... that's all?"
So what if he enjoyed some fantasies of three women tangled together begging for his... ain't that just all men? He looked genuinely relieved by my anticlimactic surprise.
"Yeah... it's nothing strange, either. Just our usual roleplaying, except now it's the four of us."
I rested back on his chest, claiming what was mine under the sheets. "Don't let this wonder. That little couple of beauties looks all too interested... hey!" I felt him get hard just from the thought.
"Com'on! That's entirely your fault... stop reading into it. That is exactly why I didn't want to tell you... you don't have these, so you don't get it."
I pulled back up. "So you were fine!?... if I imagined myself with others?"
"Yeah, yeah... good luck with the potatoes around, babe... but, sure. Fantasies are just that... but if you ever cheat on me," he smiled kindly while playing with my chin, "I will kill him, leave you... then run away with Anna, all by myself... understood?"
His words made me melt inside, and his eyes promised those words would be true in case I didn't believe them. "Like I would ever do that... you, however, who knows what I might walk into since they live in our house... you alone with them."
"Oh God, help me! My love..." his entire body rested and slumped down. "I'm very tired, and also being a living mule for the family tomorrow. Can you get angry about hypothetical infidelity tomorrow or maybe stop altogether?"
"Hmpf... fine."
Instead of letting me pout, I got pulled up onto him. How is he so easily moving me around? It looked like it cost him no effort whatsoever.
He kissed me until I forgot my nonsense thoughts, squeezed and licked me, then suddenly turned us around. "...Again? Is it because of them!?"
"Ye... No! Goodnight." His eager nod turned into a furious head shake, then an exhausted expression in the span of two seconds as he listened to the end.
He pulled himself out and got off me, turned around himself, and went silent.
"Hey... I'm sorry. I didn't mean it?" I did some of my best moves on him, running a teasing hand down his back, but it gained me nothing.
"Hey... what if you just turned back around and layed really still, while I wou... w-would... Hello!?" I shook his motionless body after he still dared to ignore my best offer.
"Go to sleep... the moment's over," he murmured and pulled the blanket over his shoulders, blocking me from both view and touch.
I rolled around a little in frustration. A maple is a tree, the snow will forever be melting from the sun, Zephyr is a beautiful young man, and his new wife is an insane woman.