Bayard[Bedtime stories 3]

by Joyee Flynn

  “I’m telling you he wouldn’t say,” Brix answered loudly. “He said it wasn’t like he was going to draw up a schedule and that it would depend on how comfortable he became with us and if we were willing to share.”

  “Obviously we can share if each of us has had him a night and it didn’t turn into jealousy,” Dromio said, sounding the only calm one.

  “But I get him tonight,” Callum announced. I heard a few growls from the others as I unlatched my stall and walked quietly to the main barn door. “What? It’s my turn!”

  “He’s not a toy to take turns with,” Dromio argued. “He was very upset when I asked about turns and made that clear that’s how he felt.”

  “I don’t think he’s a toy either!” Callum exclaimed. I poked my head out of the opening just in time to see him throw his hands in the air. “So how else do we decide if he won’t choose?”

  “I don’t know,” Dromio growled, completely exasperated. He turned to Brix then. “So he said it’s the first real meal he’s had in a long time? Do you think wherever he is during the day no one feeds him? Should I start making extras at meals for him?”

  I thumped my head on the door. I’d wanted to make them happy, help out, and ease their stress. Now it seemed I was the cause of their stress. This wasn’t good.

  “I don’t know,” Brix answered again.

  “What dowe know?” Ansel shouted. It became chaos as they all started yelling at once. I walked out of the barn and neighed loudly enough that I caughtall of their attention. I hadn’t planned on revealing myself like this. I hadn’t planned on doing it yet. But I couldn’t let them all be so upset over me… So I shifted.

  “You know I’m not human,” I whispered when I was in man form, all of them staring at me in shock.

  Callum found his voice first. “You’re our horse.”

  “Yes, but I’m more than a horse,” I replied with a sigh. This was always the hard part. “I’m a bayard. A magical horse shape-shifter.”

  “We fucked a horse,” Ansel whispered as his legs shook until he plopped down on the ground.

  “Um, noyou didn’t,” I corrected. “You fucked a man who just so happens to be able to change forms into a horse. Bigdifference.”

  “Right, right, yes, of course,” he mumbled as he brought his knees to his chest. The others sat down as well before they fell over in shock. The silence dragged out until I couldn’t handle it anymore.

  “I guess you’re done fighting over me because none of you wants me now,” I whispered and turned back toward the barn.

  “We’re not saying that, Taji,” Callum said gently. “Give us a moment to process here, okay?” He held his hand out to me and I wasn’t sure what was the right move here, so I went with my gut. I walked over to him and took his hands, yelping when he yanked me into his lap. “No wonder you were such a smart horse. Do you know who we are in that form?”

  “Yes, I’m completely sentient. I’m not just an animal when I’m in horse form. I know who I am, who you are, same hopes and dreams.”

  “What do you dream about?” Ansel asked quietly as Callum ran his hands up and down my body. He was either trying to comfort me or himself. Maybe both?

  “Of finding a home with love where I can be myself and stop being scared all the time,” I answered as I squirmed in Callum’s lap. Now he was just tickling my ribs. “To be happy.”

  “Do we make you happy?” Callum’s voice had gone deep, lust filled. He fondled my groin and I gasped at the contact, so not what I was expecting with the line of questioning.

  “Until you all started fighting about me,” I answered as I looked upat him. “I just wanted to make you smile, to know you could be wanted, and feel someone who wanted you. You were all so sad, and down. It hurt to see. I didn’t mean to causedistress.”

  “Hey, we can talk later,” Brix said quietly as he moved closer. I stared up at him with wide eyes, not sure what he was about to do when Callum was touching me like this. “You were worried that we wouldn’t want you now that we know.” He cupped my cheek and leaned forward, brushing his lips over mine. “Nothing is further from the truth.”

  “Really?” I whispered as my eyes burned with tears. They all nodded and I couldn’t hold back.I started bawling. “You can’t tell anyone what I am. People will kill you for me. Please don’t lock me in a room now that you know. I rather die than have that happen again. I need sunlight and to be able to shift when I want to.”

  “Oh, Taji,” Callum whimpered as he held me tightly.

  “And pleasedon’t sell my ass to your friends as some sort of magical lay. I can’t give them powers through sex. They’ll just get mad and beat me. If you don’t want me I’ll stay in horse form and we can pretend this never happened,just please don’t abuse me. I can’t take any more. The decade with Ester was lonely and tiresome and maybe the best of my life because everyone left me alone.”

  “What’s happening?” Ansel asked as I felt his hands rubbing my back.

  “I think he’s having a muchneeded breakdown after what he’s suffered,” Dromio said gently. “Okay, time for the tall men to go to work while us short men have some quiet time in the kitchen eating frosting and fattening treats.”

  “You’re not short,” I sniffled as he lifted me off of Callum’s lap and held me in his arms. “You’re tall enough to carry me.”

  “Everyone’s tall compared to you, short stuff,” he teased and then kissed my tearsoaked cheeks. “But compared to all the big brutes of brothers I have, I am short.”

  “I think you’re perfect and handsome, and a very tender lover,” I admitted with a blush.

  “Be careful of what you say or we won’t have a relaxing morning.” I wasn’t sure what he meant until he waggled his eyebrows at me. “You’re too tempting as is and if you start talking about loving on you I’m going to end up burying my cock in your sweet ass.”

  “That would be a welcomed distraction,” I mumbled as I buried my face against his neck, embarrassed I broke down like that. “If you’d still want me that is.”

  “Enough of that,” he chastised as he swatted my butt. I moaned and squirmed in his arms. “Well that’s something we need to file away for later.”

  “Huh? What?” I’d been so lost in the sensations of his hand on my ass I wasn’t following what he was saying.

  “Do you like to be spanked, Taji?” Dromio asked in a husky tone as we entered the kitchen and he sat me down on the table, moving between my legs.

  “I think so. That was the first time someone’s struck me when they weren’t trying to be mean.” I ducked my head as my cheeks heated up so fast I almost felt faint. “I liked it.”

  Dromio cleared his throat as he lifted my chin so I met his eyes. “We can talk about that another time but right now, I’m comforting you. I know this was hard for you to admit to all of us and you should be rewarded for trusting us. What would you like?”

  “Sex in a soft bed would be nice.” His eyes went wide and his chest heaved with lust. “Isn’t that what you meant?”

  “No, I meant if you’d like some cake and coffee or muffins. You are the biggest temptation I’ve ever met.”

  “Is that a bad thing?”

  “No, baby,” he chuckled. “But we’re not making this about sex right now. What would fill your belly and make you smile?” I opened my mouth and he clapped his hand over it. “Don’t say cum. Please don’t say cum because I won’t behave then.” I nodded and he removed his hand. I was preening at how little control he had. Maybe I really was tempting?

  But I decided to behavesince he was being so nice. “One of those delicious cinnamon rolls would be wonderful. I haven’t had coffee in many years so maybe just a small cup.”

  “Done.” He leaned in and gave me a quick kiss before moving away.

  “Dromio, what happens now?” I asked quietly as he bustled about the kitchen getting what I’d asked for.

  “What do you mean, Taji?”

  “What happens now tha
t you all know about me? Do I go back to sleeping in the barn in horse form? I liked helping Callum plow the fields and whatnot. But I do hate the barn at night. I haven’t slept in a bed in over a century. And will any of you want me still? Do I have to choose or make up a schedule? I didn’t mean to upset everyone—” I’d been so busy rambling and freaking out that I hadn’t even seen Ansel step into the kitchen until he was kissing me.

  “Would you like to sleep in a bed right now?” He growled as he nipped along my chin and neck. “We all realized if you were working as our horse and doing everything else that you have, along with spending time with us, you’ve not slept much.”

  “I have to help Callum with the fields,” I moaned as he pushed me back against the table and moved his hands between mylegs. “Will we have more foreplay if you have more time with me now?”

  “What do you mean, sweet Taji?” he asked as he lifted his head and stared into my eyes. His hand cupped my sac and toyed with my desire.

  “Since I only came out at night it was always very quick to the sex,” I answered, my face heating up again. Maybe this would just be how I lived now… Always blushing. “I saw a couple many years ago and they spent hours just teasing and making each other come without even penetrating each other. I’ve always wanted to try that.”

  “It would be our pleasure to tease you and make you come,” Callum said to my right. I turned my head to see him and Brix standing there staring at me with enough lust to make me shiver.

  “He needs to eat first, Ansel. Brix said he practically inhaled that lamb stew last night,” Dromio stated as he elbowed his brothers aside.

  “That was because it was so good,” I replied as I sat up. I had a sip of the strong coffee that made me cough a bit. Wow! That could put some hair on my smooth chest. “Callum is always really nice to me as a horse and makes sure I got more than enough food. I just liked your stew and baking much better.”

  “Well now that we know the truth you can eat with us like a member of the family.” Callum smiled as they all sat down and watched me eat from my perch on the table.

  “But if we’re family then we can’t…” I trailed off with a frown.

  “We’re not related, Taji. You’d be like our lover part of the family. Then we could have all the sex you could handle,” Ansel clarified for me. I nodded and practically stuffed the sweet roll in my face.

  I took a deep breath and asked the question that was the scariest for me. “With all of you? I like being with all of you but I don’t want to hurt anyone.” I ducked my head again and drank some more coffee. “I like all of you.”

  “I don’t think any of us have any objections to that, Taji,” Brix said as he reached out and rubbed my knee for comfort. “Let’s just take things one day at a time and see how things go, okay? I know you weren’t ready to tell us what you are so let’s just go slow and let things take their natural course.”

  I nodded and smiled as Dromio handed me another cinnamon roll. I ate it right up and finished the coffee. “Wow, that’s some good shit. I feel like I could run miles and miles and miles after drinking that.”

  “Umm, you don’t have coffee often, do you, sweetie?” Ansel asked hesitantly as he glanced at his brothers.

  “No, not in a few decades. I thought it was going to put hair on my chest.” I glanced down at my body and ran my hands over my smooth chest. “Nope. Still hairless. But that’s okay right? You guys like that I’m hairless there.” I didn’t wait for them to answer, my brain and body going faster than I could remember. And here I’d been tired earlier. “Can we get to the foreplay now? Or no, plow the field. I have to shift and plow the field.”

  “Okay, keep him away from coffee from now on,” Callum chuckled as he held his arms open to me. In a flash I was straddling his lap as I tried to rip off his shirt. I was humping my hips against him as I moaned at the contact. “I change my mind. Feed him coffee all the time.”

  “He’s like a little sexcrazed kitten,” Ansel added as he moved behind me. He knelt down and spread my ass cheeks before leaning forward and licking my hole.

  “Holy fucking shit!” I screamed and glanced over my shoulder at him. “Please do that again. I’ll do anything to feel that again. I’ll bake muffins all night long or build another stone path.”

  “I’m doing this to please you because of how good you’ve already been to us, Taji. Just enjoy it and then say thank you.” He went back to licking me and I started moving all over the place. Callum grabbed my hips and held me still as he kissed me. Then I felt a hand on my cock while lips kissed my shoulder. My body went into overload when someone started pinching my nipples and sucking up marks on my neck.

  I lifted my head enough to stop kissing Callum so I could tell what was going on. “All of you? You’re all touching me at once?”

  “Is that not okay?” Dromio asked before moving his head and biting one of my nipples. “You said you didn’t want to feel ganged up on but we thought that had changed since you told us the truth.”

  “Okay, we can try it,” I moaned, not wanting to admit that all of them would still freak me out. “No holding me down, tying me up, or restraining me when there’s more than one.”

  “Whatever you want, sweet Taji,” Callum agreed immediately.

  “Whatever I want?” I gasped as Ansel’s finger went inside of me along with his tongue. Oh, Callum shouldn’t have agreed to that when I had centuries of wicked ideas built up in my mind.

  Chapter 6

  The next few days were the best of my life. I ate with them at meals, slept in one of their beds, and they took turns worshiping my body or sometimes in teams. I’d shift into horse form and help Callum plow fields or do other workhorse tasks. Then I’d change back into a human and work as Dromio’s assistant. The baker he sold to was thrilled with all the extra goods and he was selling them so fast that he actually raised the amount of money he paid Dromio.

  And since I didn’t need as much sleep as them, I’d simply get up at night and tidy the house before crawling back into bed with someone else. It was a wondrous life that I could easily get used to.

  This morning I was the treat after breakfast.

  “Oh heavens,his ass is perfect,” Callum moaned as he thrust into me harder. I was bent over the edge of the table as he fucked me while I had Ansel’s cock in my mouth.

  “Suck me, baby. I want to blow all over your pretty face.” I whimpered at the image he described and swallowed him deeper. “Such a good lover. What did we ever do to deserve you?”

  And here I was thinking the same thing about them. Maybe after centuries of people mistreating me four wonderful men were my reward. Callum thrust into me one last time, holding my hips tightly as he came inside of me. I moaned around Ansel’s dick and I felt him go stiff. He pulled out and stoked himself to finish on my face as Callum’s large hand wrapped around my cock.

  “Come for us, love,” he demanded as he kissed my back. I cried out in pleasure as I shot all over his hand before Ansel painted my face with his seed. Callum pulled out of me and sat back in a chair, pulled me with him so I was sprawled all over him, limp and smiling.

  Dromio came racing in through the back door with a worried look on his face. “We have problems.”

  “What?” Ansel asked as he stuffed himself back in his pants and faced his brother.

  “There’s a man here that says he’s Ester’s son and wants to buy back her horse. He’s very adamant and I think he knows.”

  “Shit,” Callum swore as we all scrambled to our feet. “Is Brix talking to him?”

  “Yeah, he’s stalling. But there’s going to be lots of questions if we don’t have a horse in the barn and a naked hottie in the house.” Dromio looked worried which scared the shit out of me.

  We made sure the coast was clear and Brix kept the man at the front of the house. I darted to the back entrance to the barn and slipped inside, shifting as soon as I was back in my stall.

  “What seems to be the problem?” Ans
el asked loudly from the other side of the barn doors.

  “Ester’s son, Ethan, insists that his mother didn’t mean to sell the horse. He’s here to give back our money and take the horse,” Brix explained, much calmer than I would have been able to handle.

  “Your mother had all the horses for sale lined up. We didn’t pick from the ones she held off to the side,” Ansel said firmly. “There’s no mistake and we’re not selling back the horse. It’s a good workhorse and we need one around here.”

  “I’ll find you another one,” a strange voice offered. He must have been Ethan.

  “No. We’ve worked with this horse for almost two weeks now and he fits well at our farm. I’m not switching out horses on the promise you can find us just as good of one. I’m sorry, but that’s my final answer,” Ansel declared, obviously trying to end the conversation.

  “You know he’s a bayard, don’t you?” Ethan accused and yanked open the barn door. “I’ll pay you double what you bought him for.”

  “Bayards aren’t real,” Callum scoffed. “He’s just a normal horse.”

  “My mother admitted to having seen him in the form of a man but it freaked her out so she wasglad to get rid of the bayard. I’m more openminded and know how much a true bayard is worth.” Ethan searched Ansel’s face, having realized he was the eldest. “I’ll split what I get for the horse. He’s worth at least a thousand gold pieces.”

  “He’s just a horse and you’re nuts,” Ansel growled as he used his height to loom over the man. Ethan was about Dromio’s height so I could see that intimidating him. “We don’t have time to go searching for another horse and you’re crazy so I don’t want you choosing another horse for us. You’ll get us some lame horse saying it’s part fairy or some shit.”

  “I’ll tell people what you have here if you don’t sell it to me,” Ethan threatened.

  “You’ll tell people we have a magical, mythical horse? Yeah, and they’ll lock you up in a straightjacket for life,” Dromio drawled.