are you talking about, Leo?” I asked softly, my heart racing as I picked up on the thread of his words but didn’t really understand where he was going with them. Issues? Problems? I didn’t like the sound of that, but he didn’t seem mad at all, just kinda frustrated.
“I want you to take an honesty potion with me,” he said, changing tack fast enough to give me whiplash as he grabbed a little bottle from the nightstand and shook it at me. “I don’t want any half truths or kind words to try and spare feelings. We both know what being Elysian Mates should mean, but I think we both know we aren’t good at following the boring path in life either. We both take the potion and we get the fucking words out there. Then we both know where we stand and hopefully we can move forward in the right direction.”
“I dunno, Leon,” I said hesitantly, balling my hands in my lap. “What if I say something that hurts your feelings? Or that you don’t agree with?”
“Look at my eyes, little monster,” he purred, uncorking the bottle and leaning closer to me as he raised it to my lips. “The stars say I’m perfect for you in every way and you for me, too. I’m willing to bet this will be a good thing. And even if we aren’t on the same page then I think it will help us get there.”
He pressed the bottle to my mouth and I gave in to the look in his golden eyes as I traced the silver rings surrounding them, letting him tip a mouthful between my lips.
Leon grinned, taking a swig himself before setting the bottle down on the nightstand.
“I’ll go first seeing as you’re pissed at me and I owe you some grovelling,” he teased, forcing a smirk to my lips despite my desire to cling on to my anger. “I miss the others.”
“The others?” I breathed.
“Your other boys, my little Lionesses,” he said with a grin. “I miss seeing you smile with them and I wanna know how you feel about trying to get us back to where we were before the whole mate thing with them.”
“You mean, you want...” I trailed off, afraid to ask and he smiled wider.
“I want to get the pride back together. I mean...I guess we never actually all made it work as a five in a full on way before now, but I feel like that’s where things were going. And I liked it.”
“You liked knowing I was hooking up with three other guys when you weren’t around?” I asked with a frown. I’d obviously known that he encouraged me with Dante and he’d done the same with Ryder that one time. I guessed I’d thought of that as more of the sex side of things, but he wasn’t making it sound like that now.
“Not gonna lie, little monster. Seeing you with Dante over the summer was all kinds of hot, joining in was even fucking better. I’ve even had more than one exciting dream about you with the other guys too, so you’ll get no complaints from me about that. I dunno why, but it turns me on to see you with them or think about you with them.”
“Because of me, or them...or both?” I asked with a grin and he laughed.
“I’m all about the pussy - no need for any sausage in my bun, thanks. But making a sandwich out of you, or even a short stack...”
“So I’m a pancake now?”
“Nah, little monster, we’re the pancakes, you’re the syrup, all over all of us, making us nice and sticky.”
I burst out laughing and Leon caught my hand, threading his fingers between mine and placing a kiss on the inside of my wrist which sent heat spreading through my veins.
“So how about you?” he asked. “Are you up for four pancakes?”
“Yes,” I blurted, the honesty potion refusing to even let me consider a lie and I blushed as Leon growled hungrily at my answer. “But I dunno about a stack,” I added. “The four of you at once would be...a lot. Two at a time, yeah, but more than that, I’m not so sure.”
Leon chuckled, his next kiss landing a little higher up my wrist and making my flesh burn. “We can work up to that,” he teased and the way he said it left no doubt in my mind that he actually liked the idea of it. Of me and