Page 19 of Breaking the Bloodstone Curse
The deep rumbling voice made her look up to see that Brax was staring down at her with a sleepy smile on his face.
“It’s not funny!” she exclaimed. “Your snake almost bit me!”
“My what?” His black brows drew low in confusion.
“Your snake—the snake that lives in your trousers.” Serenai pointed at it. “It nearly bit me.”
Brax frowned.
“You actually think I have a real, honest-to-Goddess snake in my pants?”
“Well…yes,” Serenai said defensively. “A girl in my class back at the Convent told me that all males have a snake between their legs. I didn’t believe her until I saw yours for a moment yesterday when you were showering in your cage,” she added. “Though it looked more like a hose than a snake.”
“That thing you think is a snake is actually my shaft, little one,” he corrected her and was there a hint of laughter in his voice? Serenai was afraid there was.
“Don’t laugh at me!” she exclaimed, looking up at him. “We didn’t have any males at the Convent except old Geordo the gardener. And what’s a ‘shaft’ anyway?”
“It’s the male organ of reproduction, I guess is the best way to describe it,” he explained. “Did the nuns or Sisters or whoever it was that watched you really not teach you about male anatomy?”
“They didn’t even teach us about female anatomy,” Serenai confessed. “All they told us about males was to stay away from them. Until you got married and then you had to give your husband whatever he wanted,” she added.
“Well, I’m not your husband and you don’t appear to be doing a very good job of staying away from me,” Brax rumbled, still sounding amused.
“Fine, I’ll leave then.” Serenai started to get off the bed in a huff but he drew her back gently with one hand on her arm.
“No, no—I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to poke fun at you, little one. I’ve just…never met anyone as innocent as you.” He cupped her cheek and looked into her eyes. “Of course you’re curious if you’ve never seen a male before.”
“I was just afraid it might bite me,” Serenai confessed. “I’ve, uh, never seen a trouser snake up close before, you know.”
“It’s really not a snake, baby,” he murmured. “And you don’t have to be afraid of it.”
“But it seems so big.” Serenai bit her lip. “Can I…could I see it?”
He raised his eyebrows in apparent surprise.
“You really want to?”
“Well…yes. I mean, I know it’s not proper but I’m…”
“Curious?” he finished for her.
Serenai nodded, feeling her cheeks get hot with a blush.
“Yes, I guess so.”
“All right—I’ll let you see it. That way at least you’ll know it can’t bite you.”
“Oh, good!”
And Serenai watched eagerly as he unfastened his trousers.
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BRAX
There was a drawstring at the center of his waistband. Brax loosened it and shoved the black fabric down, baring his shaft for her. He watched his Mistress’s face to see her reaction—he wasn’t exactly small. Like all Kindred or half-Kindred, he had been blessed with an extra-large endowment and right now he was achingly hard.
But though Serenai’s eyes grew wide, she didn’t draw away from him. Instead she studied his shaft for a moment and then looked up to his face.
