Exton

Raina fixes me with a mock-fierce glare and says, "Don't you ever knock?"

Gareth looks a little nervous, but Raina is just as cool as ice cream - and looks just as delicious. For that matter, Gareth would look pretty tasty himself if he didn't look like he's waiting for me to eat him. (Not in the good way).

I let my Southern accent come to the fore. "Howdy, partners."

Raina grins and hugs Gareth tightly. "I think this one's a keeper, Nick. Maybe we should do all our shopping in Fairyland."

Gareth still looks confused. I should do something about that.

I leave my duster on the chair and wrap my arms around both of them. "So, Gareth, you're looking awfully serious today. What's up?"

Raina answers for him. "He was worried that we invited him to join us last night because we felt sorry for him, for Conal and all. I've already told him pity had nothing to do with it; we did it because we know how he feels, having lost people, too, and we just wanted him to feel like he wasn't alone."

"Well, yeah, that's part of it." Gareth turns his eyes on me now, and I smile. "You don't get out much, do you, Gareth? Maybe being one of many in Faerie, you don't notice like us regular guys do - but you're hot. A guy with your looks could have no personality at all and still take home a different partner every night - and you have a great personality, except for that tendency to take the blame for everything that goes wrong." I grin, showing teeth. "You want to work on that."

His faces goes blank for a sec while he processes this new information. Then he smiles. "You mean, even without knowing about my past, I turned you on?"

"Oh, yeah." I smile toothily. "Why just the other night, Raina was telling me how wet you made her panties…."

She hits me with a pillow.

"Now he's exaggerating." She smiles sweetly at him. "I wasn't wearing panties that night…."

We find various ways of passing the time after that - and Gareth proves to us both that he is indeed good with his mouth....