It had. A very good week. Astraeya had dropped my car off on the street in front of Sunny's house on Sunday. We'd driven it back to my apartment and christened my bed before packing me a bag of clothes and walking hand in hand back to Sunny's. I'd finished the installation of a vintage lamp over Sunny's dining table on Monday. On Wednesday, I'd mitered the corners for the shelves Sunny wanted in the bathroom. On Thursday, we'd put a shelf up in the kitchen window for potted herbs.

To be fair though, we'd had more sex than productive projects.

"Do you want to take a break?" I asked. Sunny stiffened and I growled, unable to resist dipping down and kissing her firmly. "A break from fucking, mate. Or a night where I go to my apartment? So it feels…normal."

Human normal, I thought. We were absolutely normal for newly mated orcs.

"I…" Sunny trailed off, and her hands stroked down my back and then back up again. She didn't mind my weight on her, I was confident of that now. And I was fairly confident that even if she did want to slow down for a moment, it wouldn't last long. Sunny was as aggressively eager as I was.

Her brow furrowed as she stared up at me, her thighs tightening around my hips as if in objection to the question.

"I…" She huffed and shook her head. "Jesus, what am I talking about? I don't want normal. Come here, beast."

I leaned back out of reach, chuckling at Sunny's resulting pout. "No normal for my pretty petal?"

"Don't tease me, I'm still adjusting to being a deviant."

"Maybe you need to be reminded what kind of deviant you are, petal," I purred.

Sunny's cheeks flushed. "What do you mean?"

I withdrew from her slowly, reveling in her soft whine of protest. "You're my pretty little pet. Mine to fuck, to fill, to use as often as I like."

"Then why are you moving so far away?" Sunny said, lips twitching, proud of herself for talking back.

I was proud of her too. She hadn't played the brat much in our time at the cottage. It would be fun to toy with her when she was like this.

"Because you're misbehaving."

"I'm not!" Sunny cried, sitting up on her elbows as I stepped off the bed. I snatched her ankles up in one hand, her hip in the other, and flipped her over onto her belly. "Oh! Khell!"

With a quick spread of her legs, I was climbing back on the bed, plunging home into Sunny's wet cunt. She was on her elbows again, about to turn to snap at me, when I thrust in. She arched up, shouting, and I reached for her hair, taking a fistful and twisting it in my grip.

"Fuck!"

"Yes," I snarled in agreement, rearing back before snapping forward again, my force knocking Sunny flat onto her belly with a howl.