Total pages in book: 73
Estimated words: 70014 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 350(@200wpm)___ 280(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 70014 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 350(@200wpm)___ 280(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
“He thinks he’s too old for you.” Cocking his head, Kenzie frowned. “I don’t know why. He’s your perfect age and he’d look so cute with a bottle, but he thinks he’s old. It’s confusing.”
Kenzie looked over at Alick, who unfortunately was nodding. “Yeah, that’s what I think he meant too. You think some stupid Dom told him he was too old to be a little?”
I was never going to have any privacy unless I killed all three of the chatterboxes I was currently having lunch with.
But since we’d already been talking about Stefan, I probably couldn’t complain when they talked about me.
I could plan where to bury their bodies, though.
The whole town did not know I liked a more mature sub…and they certainly didn’t need to know that I wanted to feed the librarian a bottle.
“People are just mean sometimes.” Pouting and feeling bad for the librarian, Kenzie sighed as he turned to me. “See. You have to show him he’s attractive and you’d like to be his Daddy.”
When had I said that?
“Kenzie, I don’t think Boyd said he wanted to Daddy the librarian yet. Because if he did, I missed that part and you need to start over.”
Fuck.
The list of people I wanted to kill just kept getting longer and longer.
Lorne straightened and looked over the seat as he called out to an ancient and nosy neighbor. “You’re right. He hasn’t admitted it yet, but the librarian is just his type and they’d look so cute together.”
Lorne would have to be killed first because he was the instigator of more shenanigans than people realized.
I had to put that plan on hold when they started debating if Stefan would think my dragon was attractive and I realized that if I didn’t talk to him first, some curious moron was going to ask him about it before I could.
My timeline for explaining the more curious aspects of his patrons had shrunk considerably.
Getting up, I tossed twenty dollars down on the table and pointed at the three troublemakers who were trying to look innocent. “That’s for my portion and a tip for Nancy for being patient with us. No extra dessert or anything like that on my dime.”
I didn’t care if they were frustrated. She’d stopped their ridiculous oversharing, so she deserved a tip.
Kenzie managed to look reasonably believable when he denied everything. “Why are you so grumpy? Of course we’d leave your tip for Miss Nancy.”
He would’ve sounded more believable if Lorne hadn’t been giggling and if Alick hadn’t been looking up at the ceiling.
“Bullshit.” Heading out the door with half the town calling out encouragement and helpful suggestions about what to do with Stefan, I ignored the fact that I actually had work to do and started for the library.
The walk wasn’t long but it gave me a few minutes to calm down. Unfortunately, it still hadn’t given me a good plan about what to say to Stefan, which was why I’d gone back to work instead of to the library where I’d been headed.
I just needed to gather my thoughts before I talked to him.
The general consensus based on what Kenzie’s Daddy had said was that the librarian knew something was weird but he hadn’t seemed frightened. I’d thought he should’ve been a bit more upset about floating library patrons but that might’ve just been me. Alick’s two cents had been that Stefan’s acceptance might’ve been because of his reading habits but that didn’t seem logical in the slightest.
Unfortunately, nothing anyone did around town was logical, so it made it much more likely Alick was right.
I just wasn’t sure if that was going to end up being a good thing or not…and I had no idea how their conversational adventure was going to affect my telling the librarian that most of his patrons were dragons and mages.
And I still had to decide if talking about dragons and mages should come first or if playdates took precedence.
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“There’s no way you’re going to be able to cut that without it tumbling over.” The damned cake must’ve been at least six layers tall based on the height.
“It’s not too tall. It’s got lots of layers like my relationship with Daddy.” Kenzie was trying to sound playful, but the look on his face said he was going to sic his Daddy on me if I wasn’t more careful.
Thankfully, his Daddy had more patience than both of us at the moment and a lot more common sense because he took the cake out of Kenzie’s hands so he couldn’t smash it on my head. “Let me help you with that, cutie.”
But he was still a total Dom because he gave me a glare that was filled with a warning shot, and since he was right—I had been an ass—I did my best to push my frustration aside. “Sorry. I was just…I was just frustrated about something else and took it out on you.”