One Helping of Cock for a Heat-Sick Fool

by Cavalierious

Childe is away at work, Zhongli is in heat and Ekaterina gives him the strap to ease the pain until his husband comes home. Ekaterina/Zhongli, Established Tartali. Complete.

p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina blinks. Stills slightly as she tilts her head. Zhongli answered his door with a flushed face and strangely dressed down in nothing but loose trousers and a silk robe, open at the chest. Sweat slicks his brow as if fevered. His posture is bent, unsteady, as if drunk. Warning bells went off the moment he poked his head through the door, hair mussed and askew, but it wasn't until he spoke that it became clear: something is /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"amiss./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It is always /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Miss Ekaterina./span span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Thank you, Miss Ekaterina. Good to see you, Miss Ekaterina. Please send my regards to Ajax, Miss Ekaterina./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Childe is the one who calls her Katya and while he doesn't throw it around randomly in public, he /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"does/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" call her such around Zhongli. A testament to their trust. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"But. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Mr. Zhongli," she starts, "are you alright?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I…" Zhongli flounders. "Yes. I'm okay. I am—" Tongue-tied and hoarse. Ekaterina's gaze narrows as her expression cools. Zhongli swallows thickly. "That is to say, I will be fine."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina blinks again. "I promised him I'd keep an eye on you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Miss Ekaterina—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh so /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"now/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" it's Miss Ekaterina? Not Katya?" Ekaterina is not unkind as she retorts. Her tone is pinched with concern, just like the space between her brows. "I stopped by Wanmin to pick up lunch only for Xiangling to tell me you hadn't shown up for /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"two days./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" She was concerned, and now I am."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Don't take that tone with me. I'm no fool. I know who you are but you forget that my job is to babysit a Harbinger. An old, retired Archon is no different." She huffs. "Now, what is wrong? Are you sick?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli does something she's never seen him do before—he sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. Then he shudders as if he's in pain, breath hitched. A soft whine. "It is—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""If you say nothing I will send a missive to His Lordship right now."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli's back straightens. His expression is wide-eyed and eager. A small pout quirks his mouth. "Would you?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina's gaze narrows. He knows that she has direct contact with Childe and that he can be back within a day at most—he's off doing work but he isn't so far away as to be unreachable. At first, she thought that perhaps Zhongli was merely under the weather. He often mopes when Childe must travel, but this… is very different. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Zhongli, you aren't dying are you?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli laughs at that, a barking sort of sound that nearly makes her jump. "Ah." Suddenly, he is quieter. Weary, worn-thin, and exhausted. "No, it is nothing like that. I will confess, though, Ajax's presence is the best option for a speedy recovery."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""The reason being?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli takes too long to answer. Ekaterina watches his throat bob as he stalls. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Why is he so embarrassed?/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Zhongli rubs his chin, considering exactly how to respond. "Miss Ekaterina," he finally says, "I apologize for putting this bluntly but I've gone into heat."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Every thought in her brain thuds to a halt. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He's what now?/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""With Ajax as my mate my cycle has—" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh gods, she doesn't want to hear this. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"But Ekaterina listens with supreme, morbid curiosity as Zhongli paints out the situation in horrific detail. "—I miscalculated," he then murmurs. "Or perhaps it is my age. I am not so surprised that such things are no longer… regular. Regardless, with Ajax currently working out of town, I am left sick, bereft, and with the overwhelming need to be filled and bred—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Okay, okay, that's enough," cuts in Ekaterina. "I get the picture."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So if you could kindly reach out to Ajax and request that he come home early, I would appreciate it."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A beat of silence passes between them. Ekaterina has never felt so awkward or out of her depth. "And you?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""And me?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Will you be…" She gestures vaguely./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli's resulting laughter is dry. "I do think that I can manage until he finds his way back home. It is uncomfortable but it will not kill me. I'll do my best to sleep it off."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What if I fuck you?" Ekaterina says it before she can stop herself. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Godsdamn intrusive thoughts./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" She didn't mean to say it aloud, and in a rare moment of losing her cool, she slaps a hand over her mouth. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh, Celestia above. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I… well, I just meant like… to take… the edge… off?" It gets worse the more she speaks but she's dug her grave. She may as well lay in it. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli, though, to his credit doesn't even bat an eye. Instead, he leans against the door frame, his robe slipping down his shoulder to reveal smooth, pale skin. Ekaterina's gaze drops. She can't help it. It's more of the man than she's ever seen before. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Perhaps, not the worst idea," he says./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"For the second time, Ekaterina's mind reels to a stop. "What?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli looks bemused. "You suggested it, Miss Ekaterina. And Ajax has mentioned that you've—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""He's what?" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina is not the embarrassed type, and she certainly isn't bothered by her past exploits or whatever /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"fun/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" she and Childe may have… indulged in previously. Still. She clears her throat and collects herself. "I didn't realize that he was so candid about his past… conquests."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""In sordid detail, I assure you." Zhongli's mouth twists into a smirk. "Though one could argue that it was /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"your/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" conquest instead of his. Teasing aside, I would accept your offer provided you reach out to Ajax first."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina licks her lips. She can't believe that she's considering it and she can't believe that Zhongli would entertain the idea as well. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I've fucked a god,/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" said Childe one night to her with lips loosened by Fire Water. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a religious experience. Consider me now a devout follower on my knees for Rex Lapis at all times./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Alright, then," she says, looking Zhongli square in the face. "I'll send a messenger out, telling Ajax to come home and tend to his husband, and until then, I fuck you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Pristinely stated, Miss Ekaterina. A contract then, set in stone. I'll leave the door unlocked for you—just be sure to latch it when you come back."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His eyes glow gold as their agreement settles into place and Ekaterina doesn't know if the shiver that goes down her spine is lust, or whatever power still lingers in those old bones of his./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"#/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Childe's occasional, last-minute vacations now make sense. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The room is dim aside from one candle that sits on the bedside table, flickering. It smells like sex; sharp and tangy. But something else, too; honeyed and sweet, earthy and intimate. Ekaterina didn't know she had instincts until she had Zhongli under her hands, melting into the sheets. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She drags her hands down his sides, tracing slim muscle, the lines of his ribs, the sharp jut of his hip bones. Never has a man been so desperate for her touch—not even Childe in the throes of his Abyssal insanity. Zhongli is not just another animal, he is an entire beast laid bare before her, swathed in soft silk sheets. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The bed dips underneath her weight. Zhongli watches her with a narrowed, hazy gaze. "Ajax…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh, what a beautiful sound./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Ekaterina doesn't lean close to placate him but her voice is soft as she says, "He'll be here soon. He promised me. Until then, I promised /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"him/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" that I'd take good care of you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""But—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Would you like that, Mr. Zhongli?" It is a careful boundary placed, one that all three of them will be thankful for. At the moment, Zhongli is heat sick, his brain muddled. But he nods nonetheless. "Use your words," she encourages. "I need to hear it."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yes, Katya." She smiles at that and lets it slip. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Katya/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" suits this moment better than /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Miss Ekaterina /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"anyhow. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It is perfunctory at best but she cannot help but be aroused. Zhongli is both handsome and beautiful. He sounds divine as he gasps when her hand traces his stomach, just underneath his navel. Her thumb smooths over the taut skin there, dragging in soothing circles. Then it dips down./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What's this?" she asks as if she hasn't already caught a glimpse of the slit between his thighs. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Inhuman. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Woefully/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" different from what she's used to on herself. Zhongli has no clit, no wet and glistening folds, no dick or balls—which the latter, honestly, is what she expected. Childe has mentioned before that though Zhongli can mold himself into whatever he wishes, he prefers a decidedly male form./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"This though—he is still /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli,/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" still the man she knows just bits and pieces of him are different. His arms are dark, charcoal black against a backdrop of pale sheets. He glitters with Geo, gold markings etched into his skin like latticework. She was surprised he was still soft to the touch, that his skin felt the same. Antlers crown his head, shadowy and half-formed. Claws prick her thighs as he holds her there. Fangs peek from his lips, just barely on display./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina thinks of the mark on Childe's neck. It isn't hot—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"no—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"but it warms her all the same. Childe isn't just her boss, he's her brother, almost. They are thicker than blood and as Childe's mate, Zhongli is her family too. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Affection curls in her chest. "Poor thing," she coos, settling between his thighs properly. Zhongli widens his legs and she gets a better look. His slit is slick, gleaming, dripping onto the sheets, the insides of his thighs coated. "Can I…?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Please."/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina drags her thumb across that slit. Zhongli keens, moaning softly as she pets him, her thumb just barely dipping in, testing the waters. Not as pliant as a traditional cunt. Tight and hot around her thumb as she sinks in just the first knuckle. Muscles ripple and—/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh," she murmurs, head tilting as something else slips from just underneath the top of his sheath. Ekaterina practically purrs at the sight, pulling her thumb back out. "So you /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"do/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" have a cock—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A huff. Even now, Zhongli can find humor in the strange state of his anatomy. "Dragons are—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You're level-headed enough for an anatomy lesson? Later, Mr. Zhongli. For now, just tell me what you want me to do."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli groans. "Touch me." He nearly snaps it, his tone taking on a sharp edge. And then, softer, "Please. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Katya."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She hums softly, watching as his cock slips out. Average length and girth. The spade-shaped tip, though, is a welcome change of pace. "A tight fit?" she teases, tracing the base of the cock with her fingers. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""My vent—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Vent,"/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" she repeats, tongue curling around the word. She spreads Zhongli's slit, tugging at the edges to see exactly where the bits and baubles are. "A cock here and—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"ah. There."/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli moans, long and drawn out as her fingers ghost the entrance of his cunt. His cock twitches, dripping from the tip. His legs jerk, trying to force her hand into a position where her fingers will slip right in. "Does it ache, Mr. Zhongli?" She doesn't ask to be cruel; Ekaterina is walking in blind and though she understands the base mechanics, he /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"will/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" have to guide her. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Still. It's fun to tease, and Zhongli is a needy thing who begs for her touch. Ekaterina smiles sweetly and dips closer. She is sans her mask, her auburn hair down from its bun, and hanging over her shoulder as she leans over him. "Do you feel empty?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli watches her back with glittering, golden eyes. His face is flush. He breathes hard. Claws dig into her skin just this side of painful. His gaze tips down, lingering on the cock strapped between her legs, secured by a thick and steady harness. She didn't bother to undress fully, but his eyes linger on where the leather tugs at her skin. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina reaches out and tilts his chin up, forcing his gaze back onto her face. "Shall I take care of you until Ajax gets here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ajax—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Soon," promises Ekaterina. "Until then, I can ease the pain with this, hm? Would you like that?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli whimpers, arching in the sheets. "Katya."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Use your words."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yes. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Yes—Mhmn."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina's fingers slide into his sopping heat with little resistance. Still tighter than expected; Ekaterina can feel Zhongli's cock nestled at the top of his vent, crowding the space. Underneath it, her fingers sink deep, searching around, figuring out the spots and angles that make Zhongli lose himself. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She curls her fingers upwards and he hisses. "There—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"oh, that's—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina smirks. The same spot in all consideration, just this time her fingers ghost that semi-rigid base of his dick. Strange and otherworldly. She's slick to the wrist, Zhongli's cunt flooding everything between his thighs. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I want—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What do you want, Mr. Zhongli?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I want—"/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" He chokes as her fingers stroke his insides. Ekaterina smiles sweetly, a genuine thing, lacking the teasing edge her words carry. And even then, even though she flirts with the situation, and demands to hear him say it aloud, the point of this is to help, to ease the pain long enough that Zhongli doesn't go mad with it. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina traces the length of his cock with the tip of her finger. She fucks him with her other hand, three fingers nestled into his cunt. Even this is not enough. Zhongli writhes on the bed sheets. "Ajax," he murmurs, pained. "I—he needs to breed me. He needs to—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What a dear thing you are," she says softly. "A good mate for him, yes? He'll be here soon to do just that."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli's hips twitch, rising to meet her hand, driving her fingers deeper. "Katya, please, /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"breed me—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'll fuck you," she says, pulling her fingers from his cunt. His slit is swollen. Slick drips from it, inviting and delicious, and she'd be lying if she said she didn't want to taste. Even his cock twitches, hard against his belly, making a mess. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"What a sight./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Truly divine. "Easy does it. I know it aches." Ekaterina pulls Zhongli closer by the hips./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He whines as her cock rubs against his cunt, hissing softly at the cold material. Meticulously crafted Cor Lapis. Ekaterina showed up with her own dildo and its harness, but Zhongli requested this one be used instead and she's seen Childe's dick enough to know it's a perfect replica. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina smiles as she bucks her hips, sliding the length over him until it rests against Zhongli's cock. "Did you make this?" She curls a hand around both of them. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No need to be embarrassed. It's sweet. No doubt our dear Ajax likes it."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli whines as she thrusts into her hand. His cock is hard and purple at the strange tip. She thumbs over it, delighting in the groan she pulls from his throat. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Fuck me, Katya." Zhongli's eyes are sharp, despite his heat. He rolls his hips, forcing more friction against his cock. "Isn't that why you're here? To breed me until my mate comes home? It /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"hurts./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" You offered this, you—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Not where you want it." Ekaterina lets go of their cocks, her hand slipping back to the opening of his vent. She drags her thumb over the slit, just barely dipping into the wetness there. "I'll leave such things to Ajax. Here, however—" Her hand drops lower and nudges between his asscheeks. Her fingers brush against his hole, finding it already loose and slick. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"That's a thought, isn't it?/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Zhongli fucking his fingers at the thought of being bred. Heat curls in her gut as she imagines it. Ekaterina's cunt tingles and she presses the palm of her free hand against the front of the harness, grinding it against her clit./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"They meet gazes. Zhongli blinks back at her with a half-lidded and ruddy gaze. "I am capable of compromise," he tells her. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh? Is that what you older folk call it? /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Compromising?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""My mate is gone and I'm in heat. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Fuck me,/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Katya."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina's mouth curls into a smirk. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh, she could get used to hearing that./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" "Listen to you, Mr. Zhongli. I never thought you'd beg /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"me,/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" of all people—" Zhongli snorts, mildly affronted, but it melts into a drawn-out moan as she drags her knuckles over the slit of his cunt. His slick is incredibly viscous, thicker than expected, and would make for good lube. What luck. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I won't ask for you to assume the position," she teases./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I could."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She blinks. "Do you want to? Or would you rather save that for Ajax?" Zhongli's mouth parts as he thinks, prompting her to continue. "Imagine it," she says, her thumb dropping to his ass again. "Him, walking in on me fucking you, but I'm not the one you present yourself for."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya," Zhongli murmurs, almost sluggish. His lashes brush his cheeks as he arches at the press of her thumb. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'd pull out and you'd roll over, spreading yourself, and then Ajax would breed you properly. Sounds nice, right?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli almost trills at her words, a strange sort of purring as he melts into the bed. This is the moment, she supposes. Zhongli is lost in his haze, drunk on the thoughts of his husband instead. She presses the tip of his chosen cock to his hole and sinks in slowly. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His ass gives way so easily. Zhongli moans, hips rising to meet the slow rolls of her hips, and Ekaterina means to keep it gentle and simple, but he will have none of it. Zhongli curls a leg around her waist and pulls her closer with the strength of—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"well—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina forgets she is in the bed of a once archon./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Look at how well you take me," she says, watching her cock sink right into the root. "Is that better, Mr. Zhongli?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It must be. He moans, wriggling his hips, begging for more. And who is she to deny him? Ekaterina promised to help. She slides her hands down the length of his thighs, relishing in the ripple of his taut muscles and the way he jerks at the touch./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""More," he gasps. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Please. Please—" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He lets out a strangled cry of her name when she pulls out to the tip of her cock and slams back in./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina fucks him earnestly. The bed squeaks underneath them, bumping against the wall. The wet slap of their skin sings through the air, but she thinks that nothing quite compares to the sounds that tumble from Zhongli's mouth. She is caught as she watches him, lax in the bed, cock twitching against his stomach, the slit of his vent swollen and pink. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His ass swallows her cock greedily. She fucks him hard, with sharp, punctuated thrusts, and Zhongli's claws just dig into her waist as he keens for more. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Geo swallows the room. That grip that he has on his form slips and Zhongli unwittingly shows off more than he means. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A religious experience,/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" said Childe once about fucking Zhongli. Ekaterina sees what he meant. Zhongli is handsome, beautiful, pretty—everything at once underneath her. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya," he moans, clinging to her, forcing her thrusts deeper. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She leans forward and the angle changes. She grinds into him, deeply, rubbing herself against the front of the harness. A soft groan. The throb of her own cunt. Even Ekaterina isn't wholly unaffected. There's something to be said about bringing powerful men to their knees and fucking them, and though Childe is a Harbinger, Zhongli is a /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"god/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Such a good boy for me," she says then, her words saccharine sweet. "Just like Ajax." Another lazy thrust into his ass. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli's head tips back leaving his throat bared. Old, bruising marks line his neck and collarbone. His throat bobs as a half-sob flits from his lips. Ekaterina has set boundaries; she won't press her face into his neck, or kiss, or leave her own marks—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"but she can dream./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Shush." Ekaterina drags a hand down his front, pinching a nipple. "Just let go. Take my cock like the good boy you are and /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"let go."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She fucks him languidly, now, sweeping thrusts that strike deep and slide in and out with little rhythm. There is little doubt that Zhongli is still frustrated—his slit is swollen and drenched, and his cock is so hard it looks painful. Combined with his nagging need to be filled and bred, she can imagine that this isn't enough. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ajax," he mutters, eyes fluttering closed and thinking of his mate instead./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""There you go," she soothes. "Think of him. He loves you, but you know that. You're so good for him—" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli cries out as her cock nails his prostate. "There, /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"there—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina holds the angle. She fucks into him, one hand curled around his hip, yanking Zhongli onto her cock. Her other hand sweeps across his body before taking hold of his weeping cock. A choking sound. Zhongli's eyes are tightly shut, face tilted to the side, mouth parted. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A curse—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh, she's never heard him curse in such a way before. Not like this. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Fuck,"/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" he hisses. Those damn claws prick her skin, a delicious pain that settles as heat in her gut. "Gods, /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"fuck, Katya—"/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" And then softer: /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ajax."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina wonders what his need feels like. Is it tight and white-hot? Is it more akin to cramping, low in his core, a deep-seated desperation to fill the emptiness in his gut, that instinctual need to be fucked full and bred until it takes? Her hand presses against the taut muscles of his stomach, just under his navel. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Would it take?" she muses. Her fingers move to nudge at his slit next, fingers slipping into that sopping, wet heat. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Can/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Ajax breed you properly? Would you want that?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Her cock drives deep and Zhongli sobs. At first, Ekaterina thinks it is the heavy grind of her movements but then he says, "Yes. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Yes, I want a clutch. I want—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh, this is—/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Darling boy," she murmurs. She fucks him on her cock and fingers, watching his rim spread wide around the thick girth of the cock. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli is a babbling mess, tears leaking from his eyes, hair mussed and wild. His legs lock around her waist. He meets every thrust, driving her cock deeper. "Are you going to come?" she asks. His cunt squeezes her fingers in response. He's loose-limbed in the sheets, face hidden in the crook of his elbow. So close to his end. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Delicious. Heavenly, even. Zhongli barely holds onto his form, the air in the room thick and earthen. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina wonders if Childe knows. Zhongli is heat sick and lost in his passion, but there is no denying the effect his confession had on him. Instinctual or not, he wants a clutch. She curls her fingers inside him again. Thumbs along the base of his cock, where it sits in his slit. Punctuated thrusts that leave her thighs burning, her cunt dripping, and Zhongli sliding across the sheets./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli comes first, Childe's name on his lips. Unsurprisingly. But then— "Katya," he hisses. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya, Katya—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Her thrusts come to a grinding halt. One hand slips into her harness to pet her clit. Ekaterina sighs, sparks zinging up her spine as she rubs herself. She hadn't expected to get off but Zhongli is too sweet, too beautiful speared on her cock, a wet and ruddy mess. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""The sight of you," she says. "Just as divine as Ajax said. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Gods./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Tell me, Mr. Zhongli, do you want more? Are you done? Do you want me to keep fucking you until you can't think?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""More," he rasps. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""More—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina presses back his hips and resumes fucking him again. Zhongli jerks in overstimulation. Ekaterina sweeps her fingers through the come on his stomach, palm pressed to the flat space there, teasing. And he knows it, what she's thinking, what Childe would think if he saw him like this. Zhongli, swollen with a clutch, cunt shining and wet./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She comes grinding against the harness, white-hot and sharp. She can feel the tang of his power on her tongue. Zhongli glows in the bed, his antlers orange-tipped like the sunset. She fucks him through her orgasm, through his, fucks him until he's a blob in the bed, heavy-limbed and sore. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"When they're done, she tosses the harness to the side, uncaring of the mess. Ekaterina kisses the inside of his thigh, Zhongli's spent and sloppy cunt, and even the tip of his flagging cock before it settles back inside its sheath. And that is it. Nothing more. She lays beside him and pets his hair, combing back his bangs as his heat settles for the time being. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I didn't know you could sweat," she teases. Zhongli grunts in reply, leaving her to chuckle softly. "Such a sweet boy."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Like Ajax," he mutters./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina's gaze sharpens at that. "We should share a drink another time. You can tell me exactly what it is he's told you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli manages a small, tired smile. "You'd like that, wouldn't you? There are some things better undiscussed."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I was there for it," she counters. "It's not as though I don't already know."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yes, but—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""But I've seen your…" She gestures between them./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli sniffs. "Hopefully for the last time." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Yes, actually. Hopefully for the last time. As fun as this was Ekaterina is now wracked with post-nut-clarity and the absurd horror that she's fucked her boss's husband. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Rest," she says. "I'll clean up. Ajax told me he'd hurry home so I can't imagine he'll be much longer."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Just as Ekaterina is about to slip from the bed, Zhongli grabs her wrist. "Katya," he mutters, his voice nearly lost in the pillows. "Thank you. I know that you don't quite understand but please be aware that I don't let just anyone into my nest like this. I—well—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Your trust in me is noted." Ekaterina taps his nose. "Not that I was concerned. Now rest."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Zhongli makes a sound as if to protest, but Ekaterina pulls away. She picks up their mess and bathes quickly using the wash basin. Zhongli is dozing when she slips back into the covers. He mutters Childe's name as he settles against her, tired and sleepy, and Ekaterina sighs as she combs through his hair./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Later, the door opens quietly and Childe's head pokes through the door. His gaze is frantic, half-wild the moment he feels the charged air. Something about being /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"mated,/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" she assumes. Zhongli still rests, cheek pressed against her breast. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Childe's gaze softens at the sight of them. "How is he?" he asks as he kicks off his shoes and pads across the room./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Beat. I didn't—" Ekaterina sighs softly as she begins to extricate herself from Zhongli's clinging grasp. "It's slowed but it hasn't abated, I suppose. I didn't fuck his…" She makes a crude gesture, unable to say the word. "Though he wanted me to. I talked him into waiting for you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Childe looks exhausted but begins to peel off his clothing. "Words cannot describe my thanks, Katya. He talks a big game but when he's like this…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh, I saw. Needy thing, isn't he?" Childe rubs his chin and cracks a grin. "Well then, with you here, I'll take my leave. I cleaned the equipment he chose and left it in the bathroom to dry."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""He /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"chose?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina gives him a sly smile. "Bold choice to make a cock designed after /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"yours./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Also, speaking of—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Katya—"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I would appreciate it if you kept our past exploits private."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Childe winces. "It was bedroom talk! And it was…" He swallows. "You know what? /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"No./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" I won't apologize."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Ekaterina expects as much and just chuckles softly. Zhongli stirs in the bed, a soft whimper bubbling from his throat. Ekaterina shoots Childe a look. "And that's my cue."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Childe hooks his fingers around her elbow for one last pause. "Really, Katya. Thank you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Her gaze shifts into something cool and she smirks. "Intrusive as the thought was, did you think I would say no? No, it was truly a divine experience, as you so eloquently once described. That being said—never again. Now tend to your husband and give him that clutch he's been begging for."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Overlock,cursive; color: #202124; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She barely registers his flabbergasted face before slipping through the bedroom door and shutting it behind her. And, as Zhongli earlier requested, she remembers to latch the front on her way out./spanspan id="docs-internal-guid-47dfae7e-7fff-0034-4d12-22658a95d95e"br /span/p