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“Oh no, Grus, I’m not a good man at all,” he breathed. “And if I get you back to my bed tonight, you’re going to find out just how bad I am.”
“Please, Grus,” Max breathed. “I just want to be free of all that for one night. I want to get to know Geraldine. And I’m hoping you might want to get to know me, too?”
“Fuck, Grus, I have no idea why, but when you talk like an insane person it turns me on so goddamn much,” Max growled.
All I knew was that the sound of Geraldine Grus begging me to slip my shark into the dark was a million times hotter than a girl begging me to fuck her in any kind of conventional way.
“I’ve been waiting to ride this sea cucumber for a while, Maxy boy,” she warned me. “So you’d better be prepared for me to break you in like a wild filly.”
“Oh, silly boy,” Geraldine said as she looked down at me with wild eyes. “You didn’t think you’d be in charge here, did you?”
"Now I'm gonna show you what a shameless shark can do for you, Gerry," I panted
"I told you I'd rock your world, Grus," I teased as she moved to sit up beside me. "Not yet you haven't, you squeaky squid," she replied
"Calm down, Gerry, it's just a cake," Max said in my ear as he wrapped his arm around my waist. Oh my, I was not prepared for his firm touch and the way my knickers flared with the fires of the sun. I had to concentrate!
"We just got Grussed," I said with a grin. "You don't know what the fuck happened at first but once you get used to it and just go along for the ride, you'll find yourself having the time of your life."
"Sex with her is a constant series of asking yourself what the fuck just happened? What the fuck did she just say? What the fuck did she just call me? Why the fuck does that feel so goddamn good? And that's the most you'll ever find out about it because she's mine," I informed him.
"It's just, her fucking birthday. And after we saw the place they were living in the mortal world, I'm willing to bet she never had parties or presents or any of the shit we take for granted and now I can't even give her a fucking kiss. I feel like she's mine, but she isn't at all. If she was my girl, I'd give her the damn world for her birthday. And now I have to just stand back and turn up at a party I was never even meant to be invited to and question myself over the gift I got her for the millionth goddamn time because it feels like a dick move to give it to her and an even bigger dick
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"Darn straight they're not! That bearded Dragon shall not cross my threshold tonight - do you hear me? I’m tasking you with this, Maxy boy. You will make sure she cannot attend, or I shall prune my own bush forevermore and never again let you water my lawn!"
"One ice palace for a wannabe princess coming up," he said with a deadly look in his dark eyes. "No one fucks with my girl on her birthday."
"We'll find a way to fix it, brother," I promised him. "But in the meantime, let's make sure you look hot as fuck for Tory Vega tonight, yeah?"
"We're just seeing you guys tonight, aren't we?" Darcy asked. "Absolutely!" I would never willingly lie to my queens were it not for the coming surprise party which would blow their socks from their royal toes and send them spinning up into the zodiac itself.
Geraldine: Is Mildred dealt with, you tantalising terrapin? Maxy Boy: She’s all locked up, you sexy starfish.
my Grus.
"Does it make me a complete piece of shit if I fully intend to run off any and every dude who so much as looks at her, let alone strikes up the idea of a political match? Even though I know that I'll be walking down the aisle myself the moment I graduate," Darius asked. "Yeah," Seth said with a soft whimper. "It does make you a sack of shit. But I'll totally be there to watch you beat the fuck out of every single one of them."
looking just this side of don't-give-a-fuck as usual. No wonder he and Tory Vega were a match made in heaven.
"When we were at the palace for Christmas. I left the party and went to sit in it and pout over Roxy." "You're lucky she didn't find you there," I joked, shaking my head at the audacity of him. “Who the fuck just goes and sits in a throne like it doesn't mean a goddamn thing?" "Actually, I'm lucky she did find me there," he said, smirking at us and my mouth popped open at the taste of lust which escape him.
"Because I'm a hateful bitch who believed no one could ever love me for so long that I ended up making it come true."
"But if you or your little buddies say a single word about the ugly ass dresses we're wearing or anything else to piss us off, I'll make sure to tell her you've got manticrabs and you made me cry on my birthday and you'll never get near her lady bush again."
"Prove us wrong for thinking that then, Dragon boy," Tory teased. "Maybe I'll even let you dance with me."
Darius was telling her that he belonged to her and that he wanted her to belong to him in return. Even if the stars wouldn't allow that in a physical sense.
He bent low to fix it in place, putting his face close to hers and the moment he'd clasped it around her wrist, she leaned forward and brushed her lips over his.
I wanted to rewrite the stars for my brother and if that just so happened to mean I got closer to Gerry at the same time then I certainly wasn't going to be complaining about it.
"I do mind! I mind as much as a tomato minds when it is denounced as a vegetable even though it is clearly a fruit!"
"Fate is a funny friend and a heartless enemy," I told her. "I don't know what your future holds, my lady, but I am sure it is something marvellous. How could it not be?" "Thanks Geraldine," she murmured, giving me a grateful smile.
"Yeah, don't worry about me. Enjoy the party, Tor. All of you," Darcy replied earnestly as she turned to her sister. "It's not a party without you," Tory said with a frown.
"I fucking love you, Geraldine," Tory snorted, clutching her side as Seth's tiny turnip eyes wheeled towards her.
"Do you like being rough with me, Gerry?"
"Damn you, you sexy sea urchin. Why don't you button your succulent lips and show me what your sea cucumber can do."
I'd never chased any other girl before, but you could bet your ass I chased her.
Darius was standing close enough to Tory for them to be sharing body heat without quite touching each other. Instead of watching any of the fireworks, his gaze was fixed on her, this look of longing on his face that made my soul hurt.
Tory groaned softly as the image of her face faded from the sky and Darius grinned at her with enough heat to light a forest fire. It was a fucking travesty that they couldn't be together, but it made me realise that I couldn't keep letting this thing between me and Geraldine hang in this undefined limbo. I wanted her to be mine. All mine. Officially. And I was going to do what it took to confirm that.
"Big Maxy boy and little Maxy boy."
I couldn't get enough of this girl, I felt like she'd wormed her way under my skin like a splinter I never wanted to remove. I just wanted her to keep working her way deeper and deeper until she pierced my heart and stayed lodged there forever.
"Will you be mine, Gerry?"
"But I want you for more than just now. I want to keep you, tell the whole fucking world that you're mine."
"Fine, forget that, I don't give a shit about any of that right now," I snarled. "All I want is you." I leaned down and took possession of her lips, kissing her like this might be the last time
"But why take a match at all? Why not choose your own happiness?" I demanded, unable to accept this fucking travesty which was unfurling before my very eyes.
"I'm not going to stop trying to change your mind," I warned her.
I nodded once, biting my tongue on screaming about how fucked up everything she'd just said was. "So give me that time," I said. "Two years. Two years of you and me to fuck and fight and fall in love and be all the things we won't be able to be once you walk down that aisle. Give me that time to try and convince you that that life isn't what you really want. We don't ever have to talk politics, we don't even have to tell anyone if you don't want to. Just let it be me and you, at least for a little while."
I was going to convince her to say yes to my proposal. And then I was going to spend those two years making her fall for me so hard that there would be no way in hell that she could ever give me up. Either that or I was setting myself up to have my heart ripped from my chest and crushed before my eyes. But she was worth the risk. So I was going to take it.
