He clicked on another video, one Cooper had found in the “Groups” tag on his favorite site. Now there was an entire chorus of moans filling the hole left by Cooper’s awkward silence.
“You like orgies?” Chaos asked him, cocking his head. At some point he’d shuffled closer so his bent knee was touching Cooper’s leg, his tail swishing over Cooper’s calf.
Cooper supposed there was no use giving in to the embarrassment crawling over his skin. Chaos was immune. Or maybe oblivious to it. Either way, the only thing to do was answer his questions and pretend like getting interviewed about his porn taste first thing in the morning was par for the course. “Um. I like watching them?” Cooper told him. “On video. I don’t…participate.” It seemed only polite to ask, “Doyoulike orgies?”
Chaos hummed a little tune, considering. “Youwouldn’t be in this orgy?” he clarified.
Cooper shook his head. “Not really my scene. People make me anxious, remember? I wouldn’t know what to do.”
Chaos’s lower lip pushed into a pout, like Cooper was disappointing him with his answer. “Then no.”
A strange warmth ran through Cooper at that. Chaos wanted him in his hypothetical orgy? Why was that so fucking cute?
Or maybe Cooper was just having a hot flash from the shame of Chaos displaying his saved porn in some sort of private screening.
“And what about this one?” Chaos asked, pulling up another video.
Oh yeah. Cooper knew this one well. It was a slow, sensual fuck, with lots of kissing and whispered encouragements. Cooper kind of had a thing for it in his porn. He was no virgin, but he’d only had one boyfriend in his life, and the guy hadn’t been very nice. Everyone else he’d slept with since then had been more of a casual hookup. So he liked to watch couples that seemed super into each other, even if he knew they were probably acting for the camera.
“They’re being very gentle,” Chaos said quietly, stroking a taloned finger over the screen.
“Yeah,” Cooper rasped, his throat dry. He couldn’t meet Chaos’s eyes at the moment, so he kept staring at the video. It was probably the worst place to look—arousal was pooling in his belly now, and he was willing himself not to get hard.
“Cooper?” Chaos asked.
Somewhere in the back of his mind, Cooper was vaguely aware it was Chaos’s first time using his real name. “Yeah?”
“Have you kissed someone before?”
“I have…” And again, since it seemed polite to reciprocate Chaos’s interest, he asked, “Have you?”
“I’ve mated,” Chaos told him, sounding adorably proud. “But I’ve never kissed. That’s more of a human thing. I’m not at all accustomed to…gentle mating.”
Cooper glanced up at the admission, only to find a specific sort of sly look on Chaos’s face. It was the kind of look Cooper was beginning to realize meant trouble was imminent.
“If I’m to find a human to mate with,” Chaos mused, his voice full of false innocence, even as his eyes began to sort of…glow, “Ishouldbecome accustomed, don’t you think?”
“Um…yeah?” Cooper didn’t know where was safe to focus anymore, but the screen grabbed his attention as the couple flipped over, one man riding the other. “Sure…”
“I don’t wish to hurt my future mate,” Chaos said, just barely loud enough to be heard over the moans. “To become…overzealous.”
“Right,” Cooper said absently. Now he was distracted by the thought of what an overzealous Chaos might look like. Sharp teeth and grasping hands, probably. Would the tail come into play? Or the wings?
“So you’ll help me?”
“Sure,” Cooper agreed, completely on automatic.
He froze, taking his eyes off the laptop to meet Chaos’s gaze once more. What had he just agreed to? And were thoseflamesreflecting in Chaos’s slit pupils? “Wait, what?”
Chaos moved closer with alarming speed, abandoning the laptop to crouch over Cooper’s torso. Cooper had to lean back on the bed so their heads didn’t bump.
“You’ll teach me to be gentle? A good mate for a human?”
“Oh. I’m not—” Cooper sucked in a breath, almost choking on the smell of sweet smoke. “You wouldn’t—”
“You haven’t mated before?”
“I have.” Cooper’s brow furrowed. “I’m not a virgin,” he clarified. Maybe that was a demon thing, going off for human virgins?
