So when they lazed after climax and chatted to each other and him, he was dressed, removed.
His cock needed attention, but he felt safely distant even if he was but feet away.
Tedrey was so lost in his feelings of awkwardness, it took Faunus shoving his calf with a foot to get his attention.
“Are you here or am I still up your arse?” he asked.
It was a joke, and Saturn chuckled, but Tedrey saw Faunus’s face was serious.
“I can eat a cunt, and fuck it,” Faunus announced apropos of nothing. “And I like it. But it will be a man I give my marital chain.”
Tedrey felt his insides seize.
Faunus had no way of knowing his words caused this, but even if he did, Tedrey had a sense he wouldn’t have stopped sharing.
And he didn’t.
“That man will have to understand I need pussy on occasion, but he’ll understand it knowing he owns my cock.”
Tedrey had to clamp his legs together so they wouldn’t visibly shake.
“I do not know why you’re sharing this with me,” Tedrey said quietly.
Saturn made a low noise that was part amusement, part exasperation, so Tedrey looked to him.
“What?” he asked.
“A woman will take my martial chain knowing I need my arse fucked. And I’ll need arse to fuck,” he shared. “I want a Nyx,” he grinned. “But randier.”
Tedrey could not imagine a randier Nyx.
“That’s just so you know where we stand,” Saturn finished.
“All right,” Tedrey muttered.
“And still, you are completely missing it, amico,” Saturn declared.
Tedrey was confused.
“Missing what?”
Saturn shook his head and looked to Faunus.
Tedrey also looked to Faunus and he nearly recoiled at the barbarous expression on his face.
“I like looking at you and I liked fucking you and I liked watching you come,” he rumbled.
“I’m, well…glad?” Tedrey asked, like Faunus could tell him how he was feeling.
“He doesn’t ask you here because he enjoys an audience, Teddy,” Saturn put in.
Teddy?
Saturn started laughing, shaking his head again, and through both, stated, “He asks you here because he’s wanted to fuck you since he met you and because he just likes you, stupid.”
Tedrey’s gaze darted to Faunus who continued to look savage.
Or savagely annoyed.
“You like me?” he asked.
“For fuck’s sake,” Saturn muttered, still laughing.
“I’d like to get to know you, and not just the part of you that likes watching me fuck Saturn,” Faunus answered. “Though now, I know I like fucking you, so I like that part too. That said, I wouldn’t mind learning more to see if I like that.”
“I’m but a school teacher,” Tedrey reminded him.
“So?” Faunus asked. “Basil’s a Trusted and his current chosen one crafts mosaics. I suppose they’re attractive mosaics, people pay a good deal of coin for them. But he’s not a warrior or even a school teacher.”
“But he’s got a fine arse,” Saturn muttered.
Faunus looked to the ceiling and said, “Any hole, and every hole, that’s all my brother has on his mind.”
“This is true.” Saturn was still muttering.
“I am…well, this is not the way where I come from,” Tedrey said to Faunus.
Faunus dropped his chin and scowled at Tedrey. “Go’Doan?”
“Wodell,” Tedrey shared.
“And thus, after weeks of trying to win him by showing him my skill with my cock, he gives me a morsel,” Faunus grumbled. “He hails from Wodell.”
Tedrey started to smile.
“You think this funny?” Faunus asked.
“I think you feel better inside me than you look inside him,” Tedrey answered.
Saturn hooted.
It came slow, but when he was finished, Faunus smiled a smile Tedrey felt tighten his balls.
To evade that smile, Tedrey looked to Saturn. “No offense. You take cock well.”
Saturn grinned hugely at him, reaching for some almonds. “None taken, amico. But just so you know, you do too.”
“So, you escaped the dogmatic Wodell,” Faunus remarked, regaining Tedrey’s attention so he saw him reaching for the carafe of wine to fill their glasses. “And you saw the error of your ways with the Go’Doan.”
Tedrey shot him a look.
Faunus grinned at him unrepentantly, set the carafe aside, took hold of his wineglass and brought it to his lips, but instead of sipping, he asked, “What else makes you, Teddy?”
His deep voice wrapping around Tedrey’s new pet name was almost more beautiful than hearing Nyx humming in the mornings.
“I left for Go’Doan after my father found me with a farm boy who was not as good as you with his cock, but he had almost as good a body as you.”
“Trying to make me jealous?” Faunus murmured into his wineglass, but his eyes were still on Tedrey.
“Then he beat me nearly senseless and ordered me to leave and never return. And I did as he asked,” Tedrey concluded.
He knew his mistake instantly for Faunus suddenly grew so immobile, he appeared made of stone, and Tedrey was too scared to glance at Saturn, for he felt the oppressiveness of the room and he knew he was the same.
None of them moved.
None of them spoke,
Until Saturn broke it.
“Faunus,” Saturn whispered when Faunus seemed incapable of breaking the hold his emotion had on him. “Faunus,” Saturn said louder.
Faunus’s voice was a sinister whisper when he said, “If I make you mine, I will find your sire and I will make him regret this betrayal of his flesh.”
If I make you mine.
“I have forgotten him,” Tedrey assured on a lie.
“Then why do you hide your body from us?” Faunus asked.
“My marks,” Tedrey explained.
“Bullshite,” Faunus spat. “It is the mark your sire made in your head.” He leaned toward Tedrey, only slightly, but the movement still held great power. “I will erase that mark, Teddy. If I am for you, or not. If you are for me, or not. That is what I will leave you. I will erase the mark he left on you and leave you free to be.”
Tedrey found he was not breathing.
Faunus’s voice dropped low. “But mark this now, bello, if you become mine, he will pay. There is no word you can say against it that I will hear. It will be my right to claim that vengeance for you. And I will claim it, make no mistake. Before this goes further between you and I, you must understand that.”
Tedrey just stared at him.
“Nod if you understand that, Teddy,” he prompted, now speaking gently.
Tedrey nodded.
Faunus leaned back, took a sip of his wine and reached for an olive.
The spell he’d cast over Tedrey was broken, but Tedrey’s hand was shaking when he took his own sip of wine.
Faunus looked to Saturn. “When I recover, Teddy’s going to suckle me. Do you want my mouth around your cock, or yours around his?”
“Start with you, end with him,” Saturn answered.
“This works,” Faunus murmured then looked to Tedrey. “Now, Teddy, come closer, get rid of that gods-damned silk, rest your head on my chest, and tell us about the children in your class.”
At this order, the subject change and the swift shift in mood, Tedrey couldn’t help it.
He burst out laughing.
He had not done that since…
Maybe.
Ever.
He wasn’t sure if that was right.
What he was sure about…
It felt good.
Faunus rode beside him all the way back to Lorenz’s home.
He also rode with him to the back of the house.
And he dismounted when Tedrey did.
After they handed the reins to Tedrey’s hors
e to the stable boy and secured Faunus’s mount, Faunus walked Tedrey to the back door.
There, they stopped.
“We will go to an osteria tomorrow, not one in Heden. The one I like most in the city. The woman who cooks there, she is a goddess. And she will like you, but do not feel too proud. She is friendly. She likes everybody,” Faunus said.
Tedrey shook his head and crossed his arms on his chest, smiling up at him.
“Saturn will not be joining us,” he stated.
Tedrey stopped smiling and bit his lip.
Faunus lifted his large hand, slid it along Tedrey’s neck, and took hold of his hair at the back in a grip that Tedrey felt stir him, even if after their thorough play that evening, he did not think he had it in him to be stirred.
“I will warn you, Teddy,” he said after he dipped his face to Tedrey’s. “I am at the call of my captain. New Go’Doan have recently arrived in town and I’m one of a squad who is to watch them around the clock. If another cannot make their duty, I would be called to it. But if that should happen and we cannot go to that osteria tomorrow, we will the next eve. And I would like you to return to my home with me after.”
But Tedrey was no longer listening.
“New Go’Doan have arrived in town?” he asked.
“You are safe at the school, caro,” Faunus murmured. “Lorenz has seen to it.”
He was not.
Not anymore.
“What Go’Doan have arrived in town? Do you know names?”
Faunus was watching him closely.
“Yes,” he answered.
“G’Fenn?” Tedrey asked.
Faunus hesitated.
Tedrey wrapped his fingers around Faunus’s throat and demanded, “G’Fenn?”
“Why do you ask after this name?”
It was Fenn.
He was there because G’Seph failed, or he was there for Tedrey, or both.
But he was there.
Tedrey pulled away, turned and swiftly entered the house.
He felt Faunus on his heels.
They were in an informal chamber at the back, and Tedrey and Faunus were heard before they arrived.
He knew this when Nyx called out, “Did you have a good time with the men, tesoro?”
He made the doorway and saw them on the divan. Lorenz in dark yellow ante pants on his back, Nyx snuggled down his side, and it appeared they were reading from the same book propped on Lorenz’s flat stomach.
Both of their eyes came to him.
“Well, allo, Faunus,” Nyx greeted with a smile, pushing up to an arm.
But Lorenz’s gaze had come to Tedrey, it moved to Faunus, and then returned to Tedrey.
“What’s happened?” he asked.
“Is there a priest called G’Fenn at the temple?” Tedrey demanded tersely.
Lorenz looked to Faunus again and back to Tedrey.
But he said nothing.
“You don’t trust me,” Tedrey declared.
“Amico,” Lorenz murmured.
Tedrey lifted his chin and declared, “He is of The Rising. It is a secret faction of the Go’Doan that most priests don’t know about. But it is large. It is strong. Its followers are devout. And they plan to destabilize all realms, utilizing carefully positioned people who hold local power, or troops they have indoctrinated to their cause to take over and force everyone to adhere to their religion.”
Slowly, Lorenz curled up so he was sitting on the side of the divan with his feet to the ground and his wife pressed to his back.
“And I will go back to them,” Tedrey announced.
The air in the room went flat before it electrified.
“This is your lover,” Lorenz said low.
“It was. Now he is just a general in The Rising. An important one. And I have been gone for a long time. I do not know their plans after the attack on the palace was thwarted. But he will trust me. So I can find out. And when I do, I will tell you.”
Lorenz’s chin jerked back.
“That’s not going to bloody happen,” Faunus growled from beside him.
“You are known in that school as having the protection of the captain of the Trusted,” Lorenz pointed out.
“And when he seeks me out, I will share with Fenn that I fled due to the abuse of the leader he has obviously replaced. I have the proof of the extent of that abuse that he can see with his own eyes. And believe me, Fenn will not like it. That is not his way. He will think he knows why I left, for he knows my ways. And he will not be surprised I hurried back the minute I heard he was here. He will also have me back, I know it. Last, he will believe I am back, for I was foolishly infatuated with him.”
Lorenz took his wife’s hand from his shoulder, squeezed it, turned his head to kiss it, all this before removing it.
Then he stood.
“Again, you are known to have the protection of the captain of the Trusted,” he repeated. “You bloody live with me, Tedrey.”
“And thus, I will share with him information you wish me to share, as I glean from him information you will need to bring down The Rising.”
Lorenz’s brows drew up. “A two-way spy?”
“Ostensibly,” Tedrey confirmed. “Though the information from you will be false and eventually lead to a trap.”
At these words, Nyx scurried from the divan, stating, “Absolutely not. I will not allow this madness.”
Tedrey didn’t take his eyes from Lorenz.
Lorenz didn’t take his eyes from Tedrey.
“He is untrained in espionage, my captain,” Faunus put in.
Nyx rushed to her husband’s front and put a beseeching hand to his chest until his eyes dropped to her. “If he is found out, what will they do?”
“I won’t be found out,” Tedrey said.
Her long, beautiful, dark hair flew as she shot an angry look his way, hissing, “Shush!” She went back to her husband. “You saw what they did last time and he did nothing wrong then.”
“I saw it too, my brother,” Faunus growled to Lorenz.
“I’m going, I don’t need your permission.” Tedrey chose Faunus to say these words to, for he’d never speak them to Nyx.
“You are not going,” Faunus returned.
“I am,” Tedrey shot back.
Faunus got nose to nose with him. “You are not.”
Tedrey butted noses with him. “I am.”
“I won’t allow it,” Faunus rumbled.
“I gave you my arse tonight, Faunus, not my leash.”
Faunus’s dark eyes flared.
It was incredibly appealing.
But Tedrey did not back down.
“Oh, caro, you allowed Faunus to have you?” Nyx cooed. “This makes me very happy. I was so worried there was a block you could not get around.”
Tedrey took his face out of Faunus’s in order to stare at the ceiling and wonder why he shared so much with Nyx.
At the same time he knew precisely why he shared with Nyx.
Because she listened.
Because she cared.
And because he loved her.
“And by the way, you were fooling nobody, groaning into your pillow,” she finished. “Why do you think I left that oil by your bed? No one likes chafing.”
Good gods.
“You so very much wanted my cock,” Faunus murmured, and when Tedrey again looked to him, he was looking arrogant.
That was incredibly appealing too.
“And I want it again. And I want to get to know you. And I wish to go to that osteria with you. But I must right wrongs. And that is what I’m going to do, Faunus,” he vowed.
“Tedrey,” Lorenz called, and both a now-glowering Faunus and Tedrey looked to him. “You did not actually commit any wrongs, amico.”
“I treated my Go’Ella abysmally. I participated in a plot against four realms. And I was under your care, receiving your kindness, and I did not share there would be an imminent attack that occurred, and when it did, it took many lives. I commi
tted wrongs, my friend, and I must be allowed to right them.”
“Gods dammit,” Faunus bit.
“No, amore,” Nyx whispered, staring at her husband’s profile. “No, mio amore!” she cried, her voice turning frantic. “He could be hurt, and he has your protection.”
A muscle jumped in Lorenz’s jaw.
“Nyx,” Tedrey called.
She whirled on him.
“I don’t belong here,” he told her.
“You do!” she spat.
“And I won’t until I do right.”
She shut her mouth and closed her eyes tight, dropping her head.
Lorenz noted his wife’s capitulation and slid an arm around her, pulling her close to his side.
She turned into him and rested a cheek to his chest.
“Saturn will be your contact for your assignment,” Lorenz decreed.
“He will not, I will,” Faunus declared.
Lorenz shook his head. “You are too close.”
“And Saturn is not?”
“You know he isn’t, brother,” Lorenz said quietly. “Not the way you are.”
It was now Faunus’s jaw where a muscle worked, before he looked down at Tedrey.
“Are you going to fuck him?”
“Faunus,” Tedrey murmured.
“You’re going to fuck him.”
“He will expect me to do so.”
At that, Faunus took hold of his throat, pulled Tedrey to him and claimed his mouth.
It was their first true kiss.
His tongue was as assertive as the way he used his cock.
He broke the kiss and scowled into Tedrey’s face. “You take him, you think of me.”
“It would be impossible not to,” Tedrey muttered dazedly.
“It best be, for when you come back to me…when, Teddy,” he stressed, “and I have even the barest suspicion it was not, I’m binding your cock and balls and playing with you for a week with no release.”
“Well, if the kiss didn’t work, which it did,” he quickly assured at the flash in Faunus’s eyes, “that will.”
Faunus continued scowling at him until he bent, bit Tedrey’s lower lip until he tasted blood, yanked his head to the side and bit his neck so hard Tedrey knew he broke the skin (and he liked both), then he released him and prowled way.
“He calls you Teddy?” Nyx asked. “Oh, mio piccolo buco, much must have happened tonight. Come. I’ll get wine. You must share it all.”
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