She bucked her hips back, meeting his thrusts with abandon as her fingers tangled into the grass. It was almost embarrassing how close she was to coming so quickly, but against the double threat of his mouth nipping at her shoulder and his movements, she was spiraling toward the finish line in record time.

His teeth worked at her shoulders, giving her little nips and bites, but never breaking the skin. She wrapped her hand around the back of his head, pressing his face to her neck. His free hand snaked around her body and circled between her thighs.

The sudden spike of pleasure had her falling back against him, but he never stopped moving, never stopped touching. The thread of tension tugging through her snapped and she was screaming her release so loud that people in town probably heard it. She slammed her hands on the ground, the flowers growing larger and more vibrant in a large circle around them, the grass stretching and swelling like an ocean wave, and rippling outward.

Zed bit down lightly on her shoulder as his movements became more frantic. She was a limp weight, sagging against him. But he clutched her to him as he filled the condom, and they collapsed down on the fragrant green bed, sweaty and speechless.

For a second, Dani thought she’d fallen asleep. They were so quiet, laying in the grass, that she lost track of time. She felt Zed stroke his hand down the length of her thighs and then tried to subtly remove the condom without her noticing him tie it off and shove it and the wrapper in a plastic bag from his Mary Poppins backpack.

“Classy.”

“I give a hoot. I don’t pollute,” he said solemnly.

Dani snickered into the grass.

“So, you are very comfortable in your own skin. That’s sexy as hell.”

“I come from a long line of very sturdy Northern European women. My bones are heavy and my shoulders are broad,” she told him. “I’m never going to be tiny.”

He held up his hands. “I like it. I like snuggling with someone that I don’t feel like I’m going to break.”

“Well, we can’t snuggle here forever, you know. Your brain is going to scramble. And I probably just got pregnant with some weirdo bear-demon baby.”

Zed cackled. “Nope, I have those League-made supernatural strength condoms. No weird bear-demon babies until you’re ready for one.”

Dani shook her head. “Thanks, I’m good.”

A flash of hesitation showed across Zed’s face, but he shrugged into his pants with a grin. “Did I hallucinate it, or did you just make all the flowers grow like a magic sexy green thumb?”

“Yeah, that’s a new one. I’m not sure how I’m going to fit that into a progress report to Jillian.”