Chapter 20: You, To Me, Things

Since he could still see Pepin in the distance, it wasn’t that much of a feat to reach him, especially since Sebastian’s body was in top-notch condition. However, he hadn’t managed that until they entered the castle. As they reached the building, Kai slowed down and watched Pepin from a fair distance. He wasn’t running anymore, but he was walking fast. Well, he had been busy catching up with him, and now he didn’t know exactly what he wanted to say.

Well, for starters, he had to apologize. Yes, that was a good idea. As a virgin, Pepin most probably felt embarrassed by having their little adventure together talked about like that, especially by that big-mouthed Galien.

As he turned a corner, Pepin threw a look over his shoulder. Kai could swear he could see a small smile on the guy’s face, but he couldn’t be sure. “Pepin,” he called out. “Wait for me.”

But the servant broke into a sprint again, and Kai had to do the same. It looked like Pepin had just disappeared in the royal quarters, which was convenient since Kai doubted that Prince Sebastian was used to being seen apologizing in the hallways for blurting out private stuff.

Could it be that Pepin was about to break into a cleaning frenzy? There was a possibility that it was his way of dealing with stressful situations. Kai slowed down again. But what if Sebastian didn’t want Pepin upon his return, even with the fusing and all that? He hadn’t thought of that. That would break Pepin’s heart.

He stopped altogether. Going to the cavern and performing the ritual was necessary so that he could return home. Not for a moment had he thought what that would mean for the other people involved. But now that he did think about it, he couldn’t just brush it off like it wasn’t his problem.

The doors to the royal quarters flew open, and Pepin peeked from behind one of them. “Are you coming already, Your Majesty?” he asked breathlessly.

Ah, damn, he’d been caught. Kai had a mind to do a one-eighty and run in the opposite direction. However, a single look at Pepin’s flustered face made him feel flustered, too. His eyes were too blue, his lips were too soft, and he was way too beautiful. Like it should have been illegal to be so beautiful and a dude at the same time. It was totally his fault.

His steps carried him toward Pepin like he no longer had a will of his own. Pepin snickered, grabbed his hand, and pulled him inside. Well, that was unexpected. He thought the guy was pissed at him or something.

Just as equally unexpected was how Pepin pushed him with his back against the closed doors, glued himself to him, and pressed his lips hard on Kai’s mouth. For a moment, no, two, no, three, ah, who was counting anymore? Kai did nothing but let Pepin kiss him.

It was only after Pepin gave him a proper dental checkup with his tongue that Kai finally realized that he was supposed to protest to that. Using just an adequate amount of force, Kai pushed the servant away and stared him in the eyes.

Pepin was still breathing a little hard, his eyes were shiny, and his lips were moist and glistening from the kiss.

“Um,” Kai started, while trying to make some order in his messed up brain, “weren’t you supposed to be pissed at me?”

The confused look in Pepin’s eyes told him he wasn’t making himself clear enough.

“I mean upset,” he added quickly.

Pepin started laughing. “You said ‘not for long’, didn’t you?”

“What did I say?” Kai mumbled.

Pepin pushed his arms away and pressed their bodies close together again. “You said that I wouldn’t be a virgin for long.”

“Ah, right. Yeah, because we’ll go to that cavern and stuff.”

No, no, this was wrong. He needed to find a way to return home that didn’t involve hurting Pepin. Ah, damn it. And he had thought he had that quest in the bag.

Pepin ignored him and began undressing him. Clearly, his servant’s skills were going downhill because he simply tore Kai’s shirt, making small pearly buttons fly everywhere.

“Pepin!” he exclaimed as what the guy was doing finally caught up with him.

“We need the practice,” Pepin said with urgency.

“Practice?”

“Yes.” Pepin was completely un-servant-like when he pushed Kai’s pants down. “I know you prefer the other way with the others, so we must practice.”

Other way? Kai could feel his brain gears turning slowly like they had to wade through mush.

Pepin laughed and began discarding his clothes.

“Wait. Pepin! What are you doing?”

The servant threw him a playful look and hurried to the bed. He stopped, one knee resting on top of it, half-turned from Kai.

If that was a posture meant to seduce or something like that, Pepin had it down pat. From that angle, Kai could easily admire the gentle curve of his back, the tapered down tiny waist, and that awesome perfect ass that should also have been illegal on a dude. It was so nice and round that Kai couldn’t tear his eyes away. Conrad should have tried feeling up Pepin’s ass and then decide who had the roundest ass in the kingdom.

No! What the hell was he thinking now? Pepin’s ass was off-limits. Wait, why was it off-limits?

“Aren’t you coming?” Pepin asked and gave him the most beautiful smile that had ever been smiled in the history of mankind.

It didn’t matter that they were in a fantasy land. Those were just details. Kai was in a bit of a trance as he tried to walk toward the bed. Then he almost stumbled on his pants that Pepin had inconveniently left wrapped around his ankles. He puffed and huffed as he struggled out of them and his boots, succeeding only in performing a strange choreography until he reached the bed.

Pepin laughed out loud and pushed him on his back. Then he was on top, straddling him, and leaning in for another kiss.

“Pepin,” Kai warned, although he felt that his words were simply falling on deaf ears.

“No rules say that I must be a virgin when we reach the cavern. Your mother even pointed out that it would be best if we were already acquainted by the time we performed the ritual,” Pepin said.

“That’s a bad mother,” Kai retorted, flabbergasted by Sebastian’s mother’s too frank ways of dealing with the matter of who her son chose to go to bed with and why. And how.

Pepin caught his chin and moved his lips slowly against Kai’s mouth. His long eyelashes fluttered, and his cheeks were turning pink. “I’m so happy it’s me.”

The right thing to do was push Pepin aside, gently but firmly, and told him it wasn’t possible to do whatever he thought would follow next.

Ah, a light bulb lit up in his brain. Sebastian was totally gay, but it looked like he preferred to be the guy who ... Kai frowned as his mind struggled. Also, he, Kai, was absolutely not gay, and this time, he wasn’t drunk, so his little monster wouldn’t perk up, no matter how beautiful Pepin was. In the end, it would look like he wouldn’t be able to do it, so Pepin would be disappointed, but that would work out because it would seem natural and not forced –

He let out a surprised gasp as Pepin suddenly grabbed certain parts of his body. No, not parts, but a part that was a traitor of the highest rank in the history of all traitors!

“Sebastian,” Pepin breathed out as his hand moved slowly, “I’m ready. Please, I don’t want to wait anymore.”

“Wait,” Kai protested, but Pepin’s soft and tasty lips choked his words up, and his eyes were soon rolling in his head. “Hey,” he managed when Pepin let go of his mouth to lick and kiss along his jawline, “but ... it’s going to hurt!” he shouted the first thing that came to mind.

“I know. I prepared myself while you were standing in the hallway.”

“You did? What kind of virgin are you?” Kai made an attempt to sound royally pissed.

“The kind in love with you,” Pepin replied promptly. “I’m ready for you.”

“Hey, wait --”

Pepin moved, and then Kai could feel the most treacherous part of his body pushing through a velvet-like channel. The sensation was to die for. “Aaaargh!” he let out.

Above him, Pepin struggled to breathe. His beautiful skin was flushed now, and there was sweat on his upper lip while his face was scrunched up in a frown.

“Pepin,” Kai whispered, “this is ... I mean...” He couldn’t talk, not when that part of him was squeezed and teased like that, and he swore that soon there would be tears in his eyes because that was way too pleasant to be legal anywhere in the world and on all continents.

“Your Majesty, forgive me,” Pepin pleaded.

“I ... I don’t think I can,” Kai replied. His hands came around like a foreign will dictating their movements and landed on Pepin’s round ass.

“Your Majesty,” Pepin whispered again.

Kai was sure he wanted to help Pepin up so that they would disconnect their bodies, but what he actually did was completely different. He pushed Pepin’s ass down, and then he groaned in absolute pleasure. At the same time, Pepin cried out and collapsed on top of him.

Kai froze. “It hurts, doesn’t it?”

Pepin just nodded while holding him close.

“I told you so!”

“It’s all right,” Pepin murmured. “I truly want this.”

Kai had a mind to grab hold of his mushy brain and talk it down from whatever it thought it was doing to his body or the body he was in. But Pepin moved his hips slowly, and another shot of pure pleasure hit him. “Pepin,” he mumbled, “please don’t do this. I don’t think I can...”

His words end up a tangled mess, just like his mind. Pepin caught his lips gently. Kai could clearly see the tears hanging like crystal beads on the curly eyelashes, and his heart squeezed. Unfortunately, Pepin’s ass did the same, and Kai’s little monster twitched happily.

“Is this ... sex? I’m having sex!” he exclaimed. “Pepin,” he added with urgency, “you are doing ... to me ... things!”

Pepin was breathing with difficulty, and it wasn’t hard to imagine he was still in pain. Kai moved and rolled him on his back. There were sounds of protests from the other, but Kai knew that he had to do something to make it better, although what that something was eluded him completely. He caressed Pepin’s face slowly, then his neck and chest. With each touch, the other shivered, and his eyelashes fluttered.

“You’re so beautiful,” he whispered. “But I should...”

Pepin wrapped his long legs around him, keeping their bodies together. “No, don’t you dare to run,” he warned him in a breathless voice.

“But, Pepin, you ... it hurts you ... doesn’t it? My little monster ... is hurting you...”

“What?”

Oops, he had said that nickname out loud. Not that he was talking to the thing or anything, but it had to have a name, right?

“Ignore that,” Kai said quickly. He groaned as he tried to move as even something that simple triggered another bout of pleasant sensations.

“Hold me,” Pepin whispered.

That was a plea he couldn’t overlook. He carefully wrapped his arms around Pepin and held him.

“Your Majesty,” Pepin said after a while, “you can start ... moving.”

Moving? It was clear what that meant, but Kai wasn’t sure he could. Pepin’s ass was squeezing him so hard that any wrong move could detonate the bomb that his little monster was turning into.

“I’m afraid,” he admitted.

“What of?” Pepin asked.

“Of many things.” Kai allowed another groan to leave his lips as any shift in position from Pepin was making at least one part of his body act like it had a mind of its own. Of course, that was why it had its own head! Which, by the way, was brushing against something inside Pepin’s body if he did as little as breath!